History Of A Week

Hon. John C. Welty has announced that he will be a candidate for the Democratie nomir.ation for governor of Ohio. While trying to arrest three burglars at Omaha, Pólice Officers Tiedmann and Glover were shot, the former perhapa fatally. Glover's wounds are not thought to be serious. The burglars eseaped. Dr. John Lewis Smith is the patriarch of Methodism in Indiana, and he wrote, in his 82nd year, a book of 450 pages, containir.g aneedotes of pioneer preachers and their charges in the west. Vienna detectives have caught the thief who has been robbing picture collections in Vierina, Buda Pesth, Madrid and other places, while trying to sell an old master recently taken from a private collection. He is a Buda Pesth doctor of medicine named Bela Lenke. A man who declared that he is Francia Schlatter, the healer, who waa reported to have. starved to death in Mexico, arrived in Cleveland Tuesday. Friday, -) aae 11. Ed Benz, engineer, and Jim Northcut, a train hand, were fatally hurt in a railway collision at Bradford, Tenn. ■As John Crowell, wife and 4-yearold son were returning to their home at Berry La.ke, a mile from Whiting, Ind., they were struck by a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern passenger train and father and son were instantly killed and the woman seriously injured. Charles Rankin, engineer, and A. C. Young and Albert Chandler, brakemen, all of Portland, Me., were killed in a freight wreek on the Boston and Maine railway near Exeter. N. H. President McKinley has decided to appoint his unele, Ben F. McKinley, deputy postmaster at San Francisco. In towns along the Conneclicut river much damage is being done by ñood. Octagon won hte Brooklyn Derby, in 2:10%; Buddha, second; Don de Oro, i third. The czarina has been delivered of another daughter at the Peterhofï, St. Petersburg. Saturday, Juue 13. Charles N. Cunningham was found guilty at Cleveland of forging the name of Judge E. T. Hamilton to a check for $75,000. Efforts were made to prove he was insane at the time he eommitted the crime. By a vote of the people 11,000 inhabitants have been added to the population of Oakland, Cal., and $7,000,000 to its assesped valuation. Policeman Josoph Smith, of the Thirteenth precinct, second división, wears the gold medaj oftered by the Chicago Record for the best pistol shot on the pólice forcé. James M. Gordy was hanged at Georgetown, Dela., for the murder of his wife. He protested hi9 innocence to the last. The New Haven (Conn.) Chair company, manufacturers of bicycles and rolling chairs, is in the hands of receivers. Isaac N. Dana, president of the company, and E. C. Merrick were appointed. Liabilities are about $S5,000. It is denied at the navy department that the cruiser New York sailed away from Boston Thursday under sealed orders. She has only gone. to Newport News. Mondaj-, June 14, 'The strike of the iron moiders at the General Electric company's Riverworks, Lynn, Mass., that has been effective since Oct. 16, 1895, has been declared off by the unión. Archbishcp Francis Janssens, of the Roman Catholic diocese of New Orleans, died of heart failure Thursday on the steamer Creóle while bound for New York. , The czar's baby is to receive a singular name, Tatiana. The New York Herald has started a fund for Mark Tvvain, the celebrated American humorist, opening the list with a subscription of $1,000. Louis Yura, Charles Fenton, Patrick Nicholas and Ira Evans have been arrested on a charge of murdering Isaac Hill at Farminston, O. Hill was shot through the heart in his home by masked men. The strike of the tailors at New York entered upon its fifth week yesterday and there seems little hope that the end wiü be reached for at least ten days more. Tuesday, June 15. Editor Otto, of The Artist, a weekly paper publlshed at Duesseldorf, has been convicted of libeling Lona Barrison, of the notorious Barrison sisters, The paper Bpoke of her as an indecent person. A cyclone atruck St. Vincent island, of the Windward group, seriously damaging- some of the public buildings, injuring- a number of persons at Georgetown, eapsizing a sloop and drowning three of the crew. According to a New York Herald correspondent more than a thousand persons die very day in Cuba as a result of famine and diseaso, due to Weyler's "reconcentration" of pacíficos. Obituary: At Milwaukee, Andrevv Lanigan, 60. At Syracuse, N. Y.. Artemus H. Manwaring, of Cleveland. Mts. Edith L. Bruno feil from a balloon into the Tennessee river at Chattanooga and was drowned. On the announcement of a 10 per cent. general reduction of wages at the Worcester cycle shops in Middletown, Conn., 100 men went on strike. Wednesday, June 10. D. Hixenbaugh, a farmer, was iound dead in his room at the Palace hotel, Danville, Il!s. An empty vial of laudanum was beslde him. Italy's exports for the flrst four months of 1897 were 385,953,370 francs, while her importswere 379,794,130 francs. This is the flrst time In twenty-six years that the exports exceed the lmports. An Olivet, Mich., man has contracted with Buffalo and New York hotels to supply them wlth mud turtles for the summer. Four persons came near drownlng In the lake off Evanston (Chicago suburb), but prompt action by the crew of the Evanston Boat club saved thelr lives. All the Confedérate offieers who reached the full rank of general are dead. The number, includlng Lee, was eight. There were nineteen lieutenantgenerals in the Confedérate army, of whom six survive - Long?treet, Buckner, Gordon, Hampton, S. D. Lee and Wheeler. "Messiah" Schweinfurth is said to be arranging to establis-h a "heaven" In Buena Vista county, Ia.