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5
Month
December
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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The ccurt-house al Gümor, Tu::., was urne] ty an incendtary flre on the'ittth. Aiivk r.H of tlie r.'fitli saj Ui ut thu rocent torm in the East had resulted in grout ossof Mie. The fUblng sehooner Edward iewton went to piecoj on the Massachuetts coast and nttreii ot ucr crew wcre rowncil Al varlous points snow foll to considerable dcptli. serlou1! interfering vith ruilrOHil travol. Thirtccu coal-barges were Blink n New York bay. but no live vore lost as far as known. I'ivc seamen wcre drowned off Naataakot Beach, Mass. At Long Eram-h, N. J., many cottages vere carricd out to sca. I a dranken affray on tho 2(ith at Vian, nd. T., four Chcrokeo Indiana were killed nd anothcr was shot through the hand. TwotUü rere killed and threo injurod n a collision ou the 2tith bctwoea passenger rains near Hustcd, Col., and thrco cars were burnftd. Tuk bootblaoks of Indianapolis inauguated u strike on the 26th to put tho prioe of a shine up to ten cents. "Dock" Haggertt wasunloadingglycerne at Plcasantvillo, 1'., on tho 26tn when t explodcd by some ïneans und Haggerty ws blown to atoms. Parts of liis two iorses wcro found in ncighborint; trees, and a picee of tho wagon was fouud half a ïnile away. At Centerville, Pa., on tho 2tth threo men wcre killed and one badly injured by a boiler explosión. Near Brazil, Ind., on tho 26th Tom Warron and John It. Berry, miners, wero killed oy fallinp slate. A keo of powder cxplodod iu Goorsro Falmers store at SciulTtown, Pa., on the Oth, fatallj' him, killing a tenvear-old daughter and wounding three othor persons. A cotton mili with a capac'.ty of ten thousand yards a day, and employing two Dundred men, was started at Des Moines, Ia., on the 2ith, and ns it was tho first in tho State the event was colebrated by speeches and other ceremonies. REroirrs on the 2öth from Rochester and Albany, N. Y., and bt. John, N. B., say that vèasels had been f rozen in and navigation was closed up. TnE St. Louis, Quincy, Omaha & Sloux City railroad was incorporated on the 2Cth, with a capital stock of $12,000,000. Twenty miles west of Chattanooga, Tenn., a deposit of rich lubricating oil was found on the 26th at a depth of ono thousand feet. Tne store of the Cantón (O.) Co operativo Clothtng Company was closed on the 3Cth on executions aggregating Í26.000. The liabilities were 150.000. The corner stono of the new court-house at EvansTille, Ind., to cost $500,000, was laid on the ZTth with masonic ceremonies.. The true source of the Mississippi river has, it was alleged on the 27th, been discovered by persons living at Sauk Center, Minn., who say the Father of Waters flows from two small creek-fed lakes whoso waters are emptied into Lake Glazier, recently discoTered by Captain Willard Glazier. " Jons Woods, aged sixty-flve years, and his bed-ridden sister Mary, aged sixty-one years, were burned to death in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 27th by the destruction of their house by flre. A statement preparod at the Pension Bureau in Washington on the 27th showed that of the 15,000 estimated cases under the act of June 7, 1SSS, allowing widows arrears of pension from the date of their husbands' death, 14,50-J had been allowed and settled. The new church of tho Fir3t Congrcgational Society at Northampton, Mass., was ruined by flre on the 27th. It cost 175,000. Advices of the 27th say that the steamer Allentown went to pieces in the recent storm on the coastnear Cohassetts, Mass., and eighteen lives were lost. Tho losses caused by the storm at Atlantic City, N. J., were greater than had been experienced since the incorporation of that city. Frank Tiiavis, a bar-tender, committed suicide on the 27th at Sholbyillc, Ind., because he had been discharsted for drunkenness. At Morrelton, Ark., on the 27th City Marshal BenUey wag accidontally shot and killed by his brother, Sheriff Kontley, who was examining a pistol The City Council of Readinp, Pa., on the 7Ui uuascd aa ordinanoe making it unlawful Tor contraciors Cu l-iuidj airj but citizons of the Uuitod States on municipal work. For the first time in one hundred and twelve days there were no new cases of yellow fever reported at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 27th. Towns all around were raising the quarantino and trains were again running. Jewkt Daroentos, proprletor of a boarding house at Amesbury, Mass., shot his wife on the 27th and thon killed himsnlf. Jcalousy prompted the act. In the trial in Chicago on the 27th o Hronek, the Anarchist, inf ormer Chleboun tetified that Uronek confessed to him that ho trled to throw a bomb under Presi dent Cleveland's carriago in the procession last year and that he threw the Haymarke bomb. Charles E. Stanlst, treasurer of th Cleveland Gas Company, was on the 27th charged with defalcations amounting t over $20,000. Bankeks at Milwaukee on tho 27th re ported counterfeit five-dollar silvercertif cates in circulation. They are of th series of 1886, and bear a blurred pictur of Grant, whicb is the principal defect o: the bill, aside from the paper not having silk fiber. A boiler explosión os the 27th at Ral ston's saw-mill at Adams Corners, Pa. killed three men. The canning house of McGaw Bros., nea Spesutra Island, Md., was destroyed b Ure on the Ü7th. Loss, $100,000. The salo to a New England syndicate o thirty-8ix thousand acres of miuing land i Alabama was announced on the 2Hh. Th price obtained was nearly $1,000.000. Albert L. Wallace, of Sandusky, O. accidentally dropped two sticks of dyna mue in nis ónice on me yin uiu, aeraoilshing tho building and cuuaing his own deatb. business housos at Durant, Miss., were burned on the 29th uit. The Woodsdale (Kan. ) State Bank suspended payment on the 28th. At Spikerville, Ind., Elias Jackson on the29thult. mortally shot Curtís Jellison, a wldower, owing to his alleged intimacy with Mrt. Jackson. Durino the twenty-four hours ended on the 29th uit. thore were 7 nuw cases of yellow fevor at Jacksonville, Fia., and no deatbs from the disease. Total cases to date, 4,684: total deaths, 408. Aboct three-score Democratie Grand Army of the Republic veterans met in Xndianapolis on the 28th and effected an orpanization to be known as the Democratie Boldiers and Sailors' Veteran Association of Indiana. This organization is the result of what has been termed the revolt againtt the G, A. R.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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