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Day
19
Month
March
Year
1897
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benator Hanna s daughter is engagea to be married to Mr. Beery, a successíul young bridge builder of Toledo, O. This year's graduating class in the United States Indian industrial school. Carióle, Pa., numbered twenty-six, and represents many tribes. The Leadville miners' strike bas been declared off. General Frederick Colomon, late of the United States voluntt -r army, died in Salt Lake City. G. B. Neveu, of Chl.-ago, died at his home without medical attendance. He was 84 years old. Ex-Senator Dolph, whose leg was amputated at Portland, Or., is dead. Emperor William of Germany has been ordered by his physicians to take more out-of-door exercise. The emperor ! is growing' stout and his blood is bad. Expert diamond nippers who are probably en route from the east to Carson to relieve the sports of their jewels during' the big flght, remained at Los Angeles long enough to accumulate $2,000 worth of gems. Friday, March 13. Comptroller Eckels has issued a cali for a statement of the condition of the national banks at the close of business Tuesday, March 9. Professor Henry Drummond, the author of "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," is dead at London. He was born at Sterling in 1851. John MacDonald, a veteran pressman, formerly employed on The Times and other Chicago papers, feil down stairs at Dubuque, Ia., and broke his neck. General alarm has been caused among the rural population in theneighborhood of Salsak bay, near Foo Chow, China, by the extraordinary boldness of tigers prowling about night and day. Two men have been carried off by the animáis. The Bullion-Beck mine, Utah, has declared a monthly dividend of $50,000 and the Mercur Mining company has declared its regular monthly dividend of $25,000. Saturday, Marcb 13. The losses in Kentucky and Ohio by the recent flood aggregate over $6,000,000. Captain Day has arrested about a dozen intruders on the Uncompahre I dian reservation and will take them to Fort Duchesne. No resistance was ; fered. The agency officials destroyed all the monuments and locations. Fire broke out in the Chicago House at Buffalo and two men were suffocated ] in their 'oeds. They were Teddy O'Donnell and William Hanrahan, boarders. The snow of Thursday night in the Dakotas and Minnesota did more actual damage than any other of this winter, especially to railways. The fact has just been made public at Pittsburg that the Hoop Iron association has been dissolved. K. H. Wade, general manager of the Southern California Railway company, was found dead in the bathtub in his apartments at the Hollenbeck hotel. Los Angeles. Apoplexy. Oregon and Colorado delegates seceded from the Sovereign Camp of Modern Woodmen of the World at St. Louis and are now organizing a separate body. Monday, March 15. The Marquis of Bute has celebrated his silver wedding by giving L1,000 to the town council of Cardiff, the Income to be given to poor girls to assist them to marry. Godfrey Hunter has been nominated for United States senator in the Kentucky Republican legislative caucus. The India famine f und in England has now reached L425,000 ($2,125,000). During last week the queen added L500 ($2,500) to the original and similar sum which she had contributed. The upper house of the Arizona legislature has passed a bilí making legislative sessions hereafter to be at tenyear intervals. The first official celebration in connection with the queen's jubilee waa held in Dublin Saturday night. The lord lieutenant gave a brilliant state banquet. Johnson, the wheelman, is out of his sick bed. He has lost twenty-eight pounds and will go home for rest and recuperation. Tuesday, March 16. A robbery of 5,000 sovereigns was committed on board the steamship Oceanic, by which the last shipment of gold to the United States from Australia was made. Developments indícate that the Sabbath association will put a municipal ticket in the field at Oshkosh, Wis., this spring. Crook & Perham, Wholesale coal dealers at New York, have assigned to Elihu E. Frost without preference. The amount is reported to be over $100,000. Captain J. C. Dobbins, lighthouse keeper at Moose Beaeh, Me., has received a gold watch and chain from H. L. Davies, Canadian minister oí marine and flsheries, in appreciatlon of nis eiïorts in rescuing the crew oí the schooner Ashton J. Wright, of Digby, N. S. Secretary W. G. Pruett, of the board of Montana stook commissioners, says the stock on the ranges has had a remarkably hard time the whole winter. The Paris Academy of Science has a standing offer of a prize of $20,000 for the discovery of a remedy for cholera. Wednesday, March 17. Mary Anderson De Navarro has sold for about $44,000 her house at 31 West Thirty-eight street, New York, a fourstory brownstone dwelling. Judge Colt in the United States circuit court at Boston ordered the public sale of the Atlas Tack Corporation, known as the tack trust, which is in the hands of a receiver. Three negroes, Jim George, Jim Miley and Otis Miller, were taken from the shreifC at Tallahassee, Pla., by fifty armed men, strung up to trees and their bodies riddled with bullets. The attorneys for Mrs. Craven, who claims to be the "contract widow" of ex-Senator James G. Fair, has flled in the San Francisco superior court the original pencil deeds to property valued at $2,000,000 conveyed by Fair to Mrs. Craven. Specials from Bismarck and other western North Dakota pointa state that he snow is rapidly melting under chinook winds. The Princess Chimay will make her i debut at Berlin April 1 in a variety performance at the Winter garden.

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