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2
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December
Year
1887
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A school eleetion was held in St. Louis tbe other duy in which the (uostiou at íssuj was: Shall tha Germán language anJ other orDainental branches of study be taught in tbe primnry and grammar schools. The victory was won by the op" poneuts of "ornamental branches of study." Second Cotnptroller Butler has decided that f u:ns not exceeding Í10, paid to colored recruitü by.Gens. Butler and Gilmore of the department of thesouth during the rcbelliou, were not bounties withiit the meaning of the bounty law, and are not to be deducted from bounties which such soldiers uiay be entitled to. Uhe aunuai report of the superintendent of foreign mails í-hows a niarked increase lor the past year. Miunesotu prouibitionists liave raised a largo fuud with which to go through the next campuign. August, ihit.ka. a brute of Chicago, is uuder m-rest tor beatiug to death his 11 yuarold step-.-.on. J,udge VF allace of the L'nited States circuit court in Ne York bus decided on appeal that L. H. Kogers, bondsman ior Üingnal Service Oliicer Henry W. How. gate, who abscoiided f rum Washington in )S(i with ïf 138,000, must make good the amoiint of the bund, $12,000. A uogus dynamite boinb was found in Gov. ÜKlesby'H yard in Springfield, 111., the other day. State Attorney G.rinnell is turning his Btteation to tbe bucket shops of Chicago. Judge baker, is charging a new grand jury tu investígate every spiecies of wrong-doing, no matter how wealthy and influcutial the violatormay be. Mr. Grinnell wili undertnke to extermínate tbe bucket shop-, A little daughter of Alary Lockwood was f rozen to death at Mariou, Ind., duriug a büz.ard tbe otber night. Lieut. Kii-bard A. Aruoid has brought suit tor í.jO.UOU damages tor Uable against Maj. Samuel 11. Walker, both formerly of the pólice torce uí Washington, for sendiug to the district commissioners and securing the publication of a letter charging the plaintiff with circulating false statements that the major of pólice had ordered au espioiiage to be placed on congressnien who visiteddisreputuble houses. it is said that the trial will bring forth some deveiopments of a stnsatioual nature. Assistent Postniaster General Knott says the goverumunt wpl establish postal telegrapby within turee years. Henry George's paper, the Standard hinis that the George party wül have no presiden. ial ticket in tbd tie'.d next year, tut wii make a BCruggle to elect some cinigrojMiit i in the hope of securing a balance of power in the house by the aid of those interested in tax reform. The steamer Charles P. Choteau, cotton laden, was burned at Green ville, Miss., Thanksgiving day. ïwo men were burned to death, and the vessel and cargo are a total loss. Official returns from the election in Dakota thus tar received snowa tnajority for divisiüii in tue territory of about ;i,wX). As iüc oilicial returns come iú lúe estimuWd luajority for división deereasos and tbu majonty for prohibition iucreases. Tuero is a possibility that the bniaü majority for división will be entireiy wiped out by the returns yet to be receivod, as tue majority of the eounties to be heard from aro in north Dakota. "lilinky" Morgan has been seuteuced to be hanged at the penitentiary iu (Joluinbus, Uhio, March 1(5, 1SSS. The case will be carried to a highor court. Six Negroes were kiüud and five wounded at Thibodeaux, La., the other day, by citi.eus who were doing guard duty Lor tue protectiou of the town against striking Negroes. A plot of ground containing ;i,GJÜ square feet, has been selected iu Waldheim cernelery for the tin al resting place of the exccuted anarchist-. Brevet Brig-Gen. Rudolph " B. Marcy died at Urange, N. J., recently. He was T6 years of age and his death is ascribed to general debility. He was in a feeble condition long before fears were ascertained of the death of his son-in-law. Gen. George B. ftlcClellan. Gen. Mercy was brevetted Brigadier-general on March 13, likiö, for gallaut and mentorious services in the lield during the rebulliou and was retired at his own request on Jan. 2, lSal, aiter over 40 years of service. A large deposit of roofing slace has been found near DeadwooJ, Dakota. Kdward Chadwick of South Lyons, Coun., bas been postmaster tor fortyeight consecutivo years, and has geen postage reduced from 25 cents to '2 cents. The reiuains of the late Henry Ward Beecher have been transferred from their first resting place in Greenwoodto a more suitable one iu the same general enclosure. About 2(X) employees in the Manitoba ïailway shops at Baiuesville Minn., quit work the other day because their wages for tbe past month had not been paid. Mrs. Logan has returued to Washington, where öhe will speud the winter. ISenator llitehell is going to work hard this winter to secure anavy yard at Puget Sound. Mrs. Saltof Lawreuce, Ks., fasted four weeks and died Nov. 2ii. The schooner Wb te Cross, witb 600 tons of coal from Oswego for Detroit, went down about 12 mi;e from Leanington, Ont. Tue vesel and cargo are a total wreek. Tbe captain and one sailor were compelled to cling to the ligging for 19 hours before being rescued. A colusión of freight trains occurred on the B. & O. road about 15 miles from Fittsburg, Pa., the other day. Three of th train meu were instantly killed, and several others seriously mjured. Mrs. Kate VV. Howé has been arrested in Bridgeton, N. Y., for wearing a badge of the Grand Army. Mrs. Ho we claims TTRCfciie earned the rijht to the badge by servinjï in the army as a man until a wouud'&KDOsed her sex. General lÏROth of tbe saivation army, bas decided tosgnd squads of soldiers to Zululand and iSoulH America. Some of bis f orces have alreaclF reacbed Jerusalem, and the streets ofthK.Holy City resound with the jingle of thir tambourines. A lir broke out iu the suburbs i Sun Francisco the other day, aud destroyil two blocks of dwe ling houses, andrenderiDg 4 ' .amilies bomelesa. The proper officials have been notiOed that the river and harbor appropriations ara wanted us early as possible. A bal -witted boy named Charley Baker of Perida. Ala., recently witnessed the killiDg of some hogs. A few days subsequently he weut from the house with his brother an.l .-ister, aged respeitfully 4 and 6 yoais. He carne back alone, bis clothes covered with blood, and told his inother he had killed them. In the woods near the ■laughter-pen tbe mother found uer younger son and daughter with tbeir throats ont. The girl was dead and the I oy burely alive. Shortly after Charley disappeared again, aud he was found a few steps from the samo spot dead, with his jugular vein severed. Cari llonikel's house in Wansau, Wis., was üestroyed by flre at au early hour the other morniiig. üonikot and his five children woru burned to death. Mrs. Ilonikel'ü lifo was spare 1. but she is now a raving maniac. Ex-County Treasurar W. J. Burke of Galveston, Texas, who, while in otli e, defrauded the county out of 8K6.000 In bonds ami money, au 1 thrce months ago return d trom Australia and surrendereJ Uimself to the S;in Francisco authorities, has been acquitto I. Policemnn Han en of Chicago, who was wounded at the time of the Uaymarket riot, ha9 become ins ne. A. U". Hendrieke, a cousiu of the late vioe president, was iound dead in bed in I'hilailolphia the other night, by his wife. lie was 63 years of age, and a prominent lawyer. it was just two years ago Nov. 5 that the vice-president was found dead in the same way by his wife. Both deaths were due to heart disease. Three Sioux Indians couflned in the jail at Gleudive, Montana, for horse stoaling, mortittiy wounded two white prisoners, their weapons being table knívea and a pair of 6cissors. Aftor inflicting the wounda on the white prisoners, the Tn' diuns hanged thsniseive in thoir cells with their bunk straps. Florida leaf tobáceo is said to be equa' to that grown In Cuba and Sumatra. JVIuch of the year's erop -oid at frora 20 te .0 cents a pound. A New York syndicate bas purchased 10,000 acres of land in (ads den and Columbia counties and will plant over 1,000 acre of tobáceo during the coming year. Kxper monts made with the inoaudescent electric lights at the Newport torpedo station demónstrate that the little lamp wül prove of great value in nava! warfare. A ICO-eandie power light twenty feet below the surface illuminates the water so that objects are plainly ilistiu guishable within a radius of 10J feet, A boiler used for heating water, and situated immediutelv behind the kitchen in the Kirby house in Milwaukee, Wis. exploded the other morning. Ten girliwere tcrribly injuréd. and one vroman was intantly killed. Chicago clergyman (Iemand the eessa tion oï Sunday work and the enforcement of the blue lawé. C. K. and C. K. Oarrison, nephews ol the late Commodore Garrison of New York, were killed in a mine at YVebb City, Mo., the other day. From the annual report of the superintendent of the life-saving service it is learned that of the 0,!fcT lives endanger%d the past year, only 55 were lost. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Irish national league of Ameri ca, heid in St. Louis, Mo., recently, reso lutionswere adopted which nppealed to the liberty-loving i'éople of England, iSeotlaud and Wales, and also to the peo. pie of Irish birth and extraction in Amer ica, for moral and material aid in behalf of iruland lli her struggles for home rule, tender syuipathy to all uow sull'ering ie prison for their devotion to the cause oj Irish lll.erty, denounce the coercive meas ures of the British government. extol the power and advantages of organizatiou and cali upon every friend in America te join the national league and work for the good of jreland; thank the American press and peopla for their generous sup. port of the Irish canse and eulogize Mr. Uladstone and his colleagues and the Brit ish democraey for their efïorts in behall of Ireland. About fl,U(:O was contributed to the fund and resolutions denouncing the Salisbury governmeut and otherwise appropriate to the occasion were adopted.

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