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The News In Brief

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5
Month
March
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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At Taberville, St. Claire county, Mo., a barn 60x100 feet has been built, 36,000 feet of timber and 70,000 shingles being used in putting it up. It. is the largest in the country. Charles Pinkerton, in jail at South Bend, Ind., accused of the murder of nis nephew, cut his throat with a tin cup handle. He is weak, but wlll recover. J. M. Landbreth of Jacksonville, Hls., arose before the family, put a rope around his neck and across the top of a door, and drew up his knees far enough to choke himself. Frederick Goltz was given a verdict at Joliet, Hls., of $7,000 against the Chicago and Alton railroad for permanent injuries. Brainard Sprouse dropped dead of apoplexy on his way to bed at his home at Rockville, Ind. The Italian government gives an annual prize for the best tragedy prepared for the stage. M'hile attempting to ford Sexton creek near Lexington, Ky., Henry Holcomb was washed from his horse and drowned. His brother James got out of the stream by swimming. Emile Richebourg, the Frech novelist, is said to have amassed $400,000 in twenty years by writing sensational serial stories for Le Petit Journal. W. S. Alley has announced his suspension on the New York stock exchange. The failure did not affect the market. The Big Four department store at Wabash, Ind., has passed into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are about $25,000 and the estimated assets $40,000. The pope has been smitten with the curfew bell idea, and when the bell rings every priest in Rome must hie him to his 'bed. Obediah G. Taylor was found dead in his bed near Crown Point, Ind. He had been aprominentflgure in the county for sixty-one years. From ripened cornstaiks are now obtained cellulose, culluloid, smokeless gunpowder, lacquer, roofing cloth and a substance equal to paper mache. A Laconia, N. H., merchant deposited 25,950 pennies in the local bank in one day. Comorn, Va., and vicinity is revelHnEr in wild turkeys, which are more plentiful than ever before. Mrs. George Ann Ellis was killed at Dayton, O., by William Warren, aged 19. Warren claims that the shooting was accidental. John Hanlon, engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, stopped his train near Olney, Hls., to mend something1 under the engine and failed to put on his air brakes. The train started backward and he was killed. He lived at Washington, Ind. Three daughters of Mr. and Mrs James Dye of Mexico, Mo., played with flre. One is dead, the others will recover. The January blizzard fllled every icehouse in Kansas. In the northwest even churches were used. Harry Weidie was killed, by a train at Dayton, O. Two boys with him in the wagon were not hurt. The Boston Transcript says that Secretary Olney has declined the invitation of President Eliot of Harvard to beeome professor of international law, and will so inform him in a few days. Edward F. Fries tried to slide down a rope at Dayton, O., and feil seven stories. He is dead. Insurance companies in Wyoming must hereafter pay a tax of 2Y2 per cent upon their gross premiums. m It is said that a new steel plant, costing $1,000,000, will be built at Buffalo. The body of George Hartman was found under the grand stand at the fair grounds at Portland, Ind. Suicide. Joliet's oldest resident, David Nichols, is dead, aged 92 years. Thomas Garwood of Colon, Mich., formerly of Clinton, Ills., committed suicide. The closest contest in any of the states at the recent election Is believed to have been that for the state treasurership in South Dakota, where the Republican candidate won by a majority of tvvo votes in a total of more than 90,000 votes. Colonel "Sam" Meeks of Guthrie, O. T.. one of the original Oklahoma boomers, married Mrs. "Bill" Doolin, wldow of the outlaw. The use of petroleum for fuel for marine boilers is increasing in France. The present population of Canada 13 estimated by the department of agriculture at 5,125,436. The question oft a century celebration of the death of Edmund Burke is being mooted in Ireland. Senator Tillman provoked a turbulent scène in the senate when he chargeri that the armor plate manufacturers ha3 their paid agents in that body who were robbing the government. In the case of Israel C. Kollock, the supreme court has sustained the constitutionality of the oleomargarine law of 1886. The Riverside Steel works at Benwood, W. Va., has resumed work. Fif:een hundred men went to work after an extended idleness. Pressmen and transfer men employed at the Milwaukee Lithographing and Engraving worksare on a strike against a reduction in wages. Andrew Carnegie is reported seriousy ill at Greenwich, Conn., from an attack of pleurlsy, though the physicians; do not think his condition alarming. Just Between Citlea. "Perhaps you are not aware, " said he placid geutleman with the white io, "that Philadelphia erected more jnildings last year than Chicago?" "Dormitories?" asked the fat geutleman with the large diamond and the oft hat. - Indiauapolis Journal. Hem It Began. ' ' Yes, ' ' said Blueboam 111 explanaion, ' 'it became a sort of habit. The ïrst one, though. got it because of a n'opensity she had for making puüs in onnection with tlie color of r.iy whiskers and the wind." - Cincinnati Knquirer. The bank failures in the northwest and the consequent going to pieces of varioua business enterprises depeadent on theru are not altogether an evil. If he banks and the business firms were so shaky that they could uot stand, it was better that they shonlrt tumble all at once and the gronnd be oleared of the ruins. It is healthier for financial conlitions that tliere should be fewer banks and business firms and those entirely ound and stroug than that there should be a greatnuinberof unsubstantialones.

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