History Of A Week

William Johnson and a man named Schafïer were instantly killed andothers seriously injured by the explosión of a boiler in a sawmill at Glenhazel, Elk county, Pa. Obituary: At Owensboro, Ky., Dr. F. J. Kimbley, late surgeon general cf Kentucky. At Mobile, Ala., Mrs. Janle Graham Eossell. At London, Baron Monk-Bretton, 72. James McNaspy, once a prosperous broker of Berington, Kan., and prominent in state politics, has been sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary for forgery. He is sald to have realized $10,000 on forged notes. The body of John Hoover, a missing sheep herder, was found about twomilea from a ranch near Milea City, Mont., with two bullet holes through his body, and his dog was killed by his side, both being killed by Indians. The seven-story warehouse belonging to the Johnson Chair company, at Chicago, burned. Loss, $55,000; Insurance, $40,000. Friday, May 28. A French cyclist named Garaud, a plumber by trade, recently rode around the coping of a house in course of construction for a wager. The coping stone was barely two feet wide, and was about fiCty feet from the ground. The St. Onge and O'NeiU Dry Goocts company, of Providence, R. I., has assigned. The paid-in capital stock is about $20,000, while the liabilities may reach $70,000. Trainers of prize fighters can not look to the California courts to assist them in the collection of training fees. Judge Seawell, of San Francisco, so decided in the suit of J. J. Rauer against Thomas Sharkey. Marquis Ito says Japan would not "have Hawaii if it could be had for the asking." Saturday, May 29. William T. Powers and John Lattimore, both colored, were hanged In the county jail at Chicago. They were both found guilty of murder, their victims being men. Obituary: At Calumet, Mich., Rev. W. A. Haunsberger, 73. At Glencoe, Hls., Miss Laura A. Newbury. At Terre Haute, Ind., John H. Williams. AtCharlotte, Mich., Benjamin Stewart, 89. A hundred thousand dollar set of emeralds will be Queen Victoria's present from the czar and czarina. James G. Blaine, son of the late secretavy of state, is being treated at the Keeley institute at West Plains, N: Y. Mrs. Margaret Kelly.of Carroll,Ia.,celebrated the 107th anniversary of her birthday. Momlay, May 31. Elisha Spconer, of Orland, Ind., was killed by the cars at Sterling, O., where he had gone to make a visit. He was hard of hearing and drove in front oL an approaching train. Herman Hohr, aged 24, stoppped his team while harrowing corn near Daver.port, Ia., and cut his throat. He was discouraged because hia corn was not sprouting well. He leavea a young widow. Governor Tanner has pardoned Thomas Brown, of Springfield, out of the state reformatory at Pontiac, where he was confined for petty larceny. In a railroad collision in North Carolina a 4-year-old child at an open car window was thrown out of the window by the shock, but epcaped injury. George Green (Young Corbett) has signed articles of agreement for a fight with Danny Needham to take place before Brady's new Eastern club some time in July. Tuesday, Juna 1. Owing to the financial crisis, the government oí Brazil will reduce all official salaries, beginning with the president and ministers of state. Official reports state that over 200 cases of black plague broke out In two of the largest towns in Formosa during the first week in May. Prench paupers are provided for by the funds arising from a 10 per cent tax on theater tickets. This tax averages 10,000,000 francs a year. At a depth of about twenty feet, welldiggers on the Arthur Leadbetter farm, a mile and a half from Palmyra, Wis., in a spur of the Klttle Moraine, found several pieoes of pure copper. The ballots used by votera of Baltimore in 1896 were destroyed recently. It took four big furnaces an hour and a quarter to burn the 107.9S1 tickets. The blds for supplying photographlc maps, plats, etc, for the general land office during the next fiscal year have been rejected and new blds have been called for to be submitted June 15. Wadnesdüfr, Jane 8. The oM revenue cutter Andy Johnson was sold by the govamment to the naval reserve of Cleveland. O., for $2,250. Chicago's flre dapartment dedicated a monument to the mamory of the men who perlshed m th fira at the ColdStorage building at the world's fair in July, 1893. Llbby prlson at Chicago will soon be closed. The Appomattox table, the flrst vil portrait of Grant, and aH the other pictures, documenta, cannon, riflea, 6hot and shell forming the collection of American war relies, probably will flnd a restlngr place In Washington. Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld, of Illinois, Is ona of the latest converts to wheellng. Perley Lowe, of Chicago, has purchased the season's cut of the Peshtigo (Wis.) lumber company, 6,000,000 feet. The lumber will be plled, planed and shipped from Peshtigo. The consideration was about $300,000. Griswold & Gillet, bankera and brokers at New York, have made an assignment. The capital of the concern waa from $200,000 to $300,000.