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2
Month
April
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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Sorne vandal h-a descrated the tomb of General Grant at New York by chipping off a piece of one of the grainte bloeks intenaed to support the sarcophagus. The eighth anr.ual session of the Supreme Association of the Patrons of Industry is being held at Cleveland, O. Twenty-five delegates representlng a total membership of 250,000 are in attendance. The president has signed house resolution 33, .making available appropriations for session employés, and the house resolution 32 of a similar nature, relating to mileage and stationery. Ambassador Hay has arranged to leave for England by steamer from New York on Wednesday, April 14. William Hanlon's play "Superba" was attarhed at Cleveland on a clam of $10,000 for damages to an employé named Willian Coleman. Sixteen apprentice boys have deserted from the United States gunboat Adams at San Diego. Cal., in two days. The Carnegie Steel company has opened branch offices in London and Liverpool. Friday, March 38. Wallace Mann, aged 70 years, while pushing a mail truck across the track at the Northwestern station at Sterling, Hls., was killed by a freight engine. The steamer Ontario has taken into Boston twenty-seven men, composing the crew of the British shlp Androsa, which was abandoned at sea March 8. The Androsa was disabled in a storm, sprung a leak and became unmanageable. William R. Grace, his wife, Lillius G. Gracc, and his son, Joseph P. Grace, of New York, have jointly set aside $200,000 for the founding of a manual training school for young women and girls. The Massachusetts house of representatives has defeated a resolution to erect a mounment to General B. F. Butler in the state house yard. After a bitter debate and many stormy scènes, the Manitoba legislature ratified the settlement of the Roman Catholic parochial school auestion. Natural gas is a crude mineral and exempt from duty under paragraph 651 of the tarlff act of 1890. So the New York eourts have deoided. Saturday, March 27. One hundred and fifty veterans of Columbia post, 706, G. A. E., of Chicago, who went south on business about thirty years ago, are to again invade, the land of battlefields. They wil] go in response to an invitation requesting them to attend the Tennessee centenmal. Fire destroyed the Buchannan at üeaver, Pa. Loss, $50,000. Elizabeth Paulson, 16 years old, died at Chicago as the result of a fright received some weeks ago. She awoke suddenly one night and seeing a coat hanging on the wal] mistook it for a man. Hysteria followed, with fatal results. The Greater New York bilí has passed both houses of the New York legislature. The Massachusetts house of representatives has adopted a resolution providing for state representation at the Tennessee centennial by the governor, six members of his staff and three special commissioners. The expense is limited to $500. Momlay, Marcli 29. Registration at Fort Scott, Kan., for the coming city election closed with over 2,000 women enrolled. A strike of 10,000 coat tailors is threatened to take place at New York after the Hebrew holidays. AVilliam Ewart Gladstone rides a bicycle, notwithstanding hts great age, and has joined the ranVs of London wheelmen. A private telegram from Algiers says that the condition of the czarovitch, the czar's brother, is hopeless. John Ramsey, a laborer, sick and out of work. climbed into a box car at Memphis, Tenn., intending to steal a ride to St. Louis. The train was delayed by higb water, and Ramsey was in the car fot three days without food or water. He will probably recover. The famous Charter Oak park, Hartford, Conn., has been sold to Andrew J. welsh and Orlando A. Jones, of New York, for $25,000. Tuesday, March 30. Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, the wellknown writer of southern war poetry, died at Baltimore. Colonel A. C. Taylor's magnificent residence, "The Elma," at New London, Conn., was burned Sunday. Loss $300 - 000. There was all the appearance of gambling in the pulpit of the Paulina Street Methodist church, Chicago. Evangelist John P. Quinn, once a professional gambler, used decks of cards, a faro box, roulette wheel and a card press to show in a practical way what would happen i f Chicago was "wide open." John E. Hawley, one of the oldest and best-known traveling salesmen in the United States, died at Chicago. Years ago Hawley gained the name of ■Happy Jack among his numerous associates. News comes from Cuba that thereport of the death of President Cisneros of the Cuban repliblic is untrue. Miss Elizabeth Evans, who for twenty-seven years had been a teacher in the Chicago public schools, died Saturday in that city, aged 57. Wednesday, March 31. Hon. George L. Converse, ex-member of congress, died at Columbus, O., yesterday. H; was ill sev'en months, was in his 70th year, and died in the councy of his birth. The United States treasury department has decided that all retailers who keep bottles of cocktails on their shelves for sale must pay a rectifler's license. Hunter had but 60 votes on the ballot for United States senator in the Kentucky legislature. Four attempts were made Monday night to burn Altoona, Pa., and $100,000 worth of property was destroyed. A half interest in the Great Mahoning iron mine on the western Mesaba has been bought by the Cambria Iron company, of Pennsylvania. Charles F. Houghton, principal owner of the Corning Glass company and reputed to be worth $1.000,000, shot and killed himself at Geneva, N. Y. George Morgan, 21 years old, was instantly killed at Calamus, la., while trying to board a moving train.

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