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9
Month
December
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Three men wore buried alivo in the quarry near Hummeltown. Pa., the otber day. IJr. Middleton Goldsmith, the mot eminent physician in Vermont, is dead. Dur ing the war he was a medical director in the ariny hospital at Louisville, Ky., and wlnle thero invented a treatment for gan greuo v;hich relieves the disease of half its horrors umi is in general use in this country and Europe. He was a man of great intellectual vigor and had written muuy valuable treatises on obscure and difllcult diseases. Only last year he gave '$5,003 to the New York pathological instituto to found a loctureship on the pathology of peripheral neurótica, an obscure disease of the extremities of the nerves about which little is known. The total cash in the treasury, as sbown by the treasurer's general account, is $504, 660,165. The public debt showed an ineroase of $1,4110,350 during November; since June 80 the debt has been decreased $39,345,0 4. Jcob Sharp, the New York boodier, has been adraitled to bailin thesumof $40,0 H). Sharp is now at home for the first tima in many montht. Young Lee, the would-be assassin of hi step-father, Banker Rawson of Chicago has been ho;d for trial in default of $lu.00 ï bail. The Garfield statue In Cincinnati was unveileil with imposing ceremonies on the lst inst. Two men and flve horses were killed in Dodgeville, Wis., the other day by the premature explosión of a blaat. Misj Francés E. Willard deliverad a eulogy of the late John B. Finch, at a public" meeting in Chicago the other night. A gigantic scheme of the Standard oil company has been just made public. It Is to lay a Grand Trunk pipe line from Chicago to Now York. by way of the Pennsylvnuia and Ohio oil fields. The line willbe 1,000 miles long and wil] cost at lenst $5,000, 00. A statement prepared at the treasury ' department shows that there is a marked ncrease in thu circulation in silver cer? titioatos, gold coin, standard silver dollars and subsidary silver in the order named. Zenas C. Priest, superintendent of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, dieet at nis home in Little Falls, N. Y., rocently. He was nearly S2 years old and was in the Bervice of the Central railroad upwards of 5'2 years. Mexico exported to the United States in the last 11 months 4.4T6 tons of silver ore. The New York World recently printed interviews with prominent financiers and politirnl leaders on the subject of governmenttelegraph. Ex-Postmaster General James, Chauncy Depew and others, three to one, oppose the scheme of the government entering into the business. The Chicago job printers, beaten intbeii strike, ennnot return to work unless they sign an agreement to quit the union. They refuse to sign, and now the employés continue the strike as a lockout. The man who claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne is uow keeping a hotel in New York city. He says he will go to England in March and get his case in shapo for reopening in the probate court. He says he will then prove himself Roger Tichbone ii nd get possession ot the pronerty distributed by a will which he claims was hi own. A derrick 80 feet high in the "coa' dump" of the Reading railroad company t Port Richmond, Pa., feil the other afternoon, mstantly killing three workmen. ïwo otbers were teriously injured Slotber Mary Francis Clark, superior general of a I ranch of the sisters of char;ty of America, died at Dubuque, Ia., rei ently.

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