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Epitome Of The Week

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Day
1
Month
January
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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Tur boom in thi Iron trado contlnuod on tho '::d, and it iras said tho furnaces cotild not üll tho orders they were receiving. Tuk candlc-works of Thomas Emery's Sons at Ivorydale, O., wcre destroyed by flro on tho 88d. Loss, 5100,000. Tuk übited Status grand jury at IIolena, Ark., retiirnod ten indietments on the 2Sd for election frauds alleged to have taken place at tho last Congressional election in the First district. By an accidont in a mine on the 23d at San Andreas, Cal., sixteen men were killed outright and thirty iniured. NXAB Austin, Tex., on the 23d J. R. Kevan, a woalthy Englishman from Liverpool, committed suicido becauso a young ornan refused tomarry liim. : The jury in the case of John Sago at Marión, Ind., for murder, disagreed on the 23d after being out oighty hours. Tiih Commeroial TeJograph Company was sold at New York on tho 24th to Edward C. Pratt and John W. Mackay for $155,000. Steei. mili and blast employos of the Lackawana (Pa.) Iron & Coal Company wero notifled on the 24th that on the lst of January their wages would be incroased ten per cent. Tiirkk sailors were drowned on the 24th at Yaquina City, Ore., by boing washed overboard from the tug Resoluto, and four men met a liko fato in the harbor at Vallejo, Cal. At Baltimoro, Áld., John A. Wehner, a groceryman, discovered his wife in the company of her lovor on the 24th and cut off her noso with a razor. At Washington more patonts have been issued from the Patent Office this year than ever before. The total number up to the 24th was 23,360, against io,68s last year. Joski'h Woobwabd, mailing clork in tho Denver (Col.) post-offtco, was arrosted on tho 24th for robbing letters of $1,200. DiriniiEitiA was raming on the 24th in Eureka, S. D., and over thirty deaths had occurred. Thk corn erop of Kansas this year is enormous, and corn is so choap in consequenco that thousands of bushels were being burned on the 24th for fuel in place of coal. In a quarrel in a saloon at Stinesvülo, Ind., on the 25 th Ooorge Buskirk shot and killed George Easton and John Douglas. Advices of the 25th announce the death at Archer, Pla.. of a colored man namod Unka Santa Quanta, who was one hundred and twenty-three years old. J. D. IIkvki.i-, his wifo and baby wero instantly killed at Wilmette, a Chicago suburb, on the 24th by an oxpress train on the Northwestern railroad. lx a quarrel on the 24th at L'Ango Gardien, Ont., W. H. Ford killed nis wife and then took his own life. While crossing tho railroad tracks on the 24th at Kinzers, Pa., Mr9. Annio Mcllvaney and her eleven-nonths'-old child were struck by a train and killed. lx a fit of jealousy on the 24th Dr. Munroe, of Larchwood, Ia., shot and killed his wifo and then took his own lifo. Anvicra of tho 24th say that Mike Marker, Jamos Ihirdie and Tug Wilson perishod in tho snowon the Klue mounttains in Oregon. James Hickebson and wifo woro assassinated in theirhonic near St. Albans, W. Va., on tho 24th, by unknown partles. Ox tho 24th 630 immigrante landed at Castle Garden, New York. At Baltimore, Md., on the 24th Carroll S. MacGill finished his task of eating thirty quails in thirty days. He said hereafter quails and himself would be strangors. Prof. Brooks, director of Smith Observatory at Genera, N. Y., discoverod a new comot on the ÍÍSth. Winr.i; rettfrntltg from aChristmaseve dance on tho morning of the 25th Miss Mamie Campbell and her escort, Benjamin Lovett, both of Wilkinsburg, Pa., were struck by a train and killed. Tuk stock 1-- - ' i-1-" - Cleveland, O., was barned on the 25th, and thirteen head of valuablo Holstein cattle wero suffocated. Miss Mahy Milus, of Marión, Ind., while curling her hair on the 25th touched one of her eyes with the hot iron, soaring tho iris and destroying the sight of hor oye. Ovek flvo thousand coal miners in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa., were thrown out of work on the 25th by tho shutting down of mines. Anxa C. JoNES, the seventeen-yearold daughter of Rev. Sam Jones, tho noted evangelist, eloped from Cartersville, Ga., on the 25th with William M. Graham, a stenographer, and the couple were married at Chattanooga. lx a race riot on tho 25th at Jesup, Ga., two white men and sovon negroes were killed; at Clarksvillc, Tenn., two colored men were killed whilo resisting. arrest; at Augusta, Ga., two more negroes wero killed for assaulting pólice officers, and in a riot at liarnesville, Ga., three negroes were killed. Ciiiustmas Dat was gonorally observed throughout the country on the 25th, and spring's etherial mildness was reported prevalent all over the United States. An unsuccessful attompt was made in a Kansas City (Kan.) gambling-houso on the 25th to murier Bob Ford, the Blayer of Jesse James. The business portion of Europa, Miss., was destroyod by fire on the 26th. Dltjxo November 29,097 immigrante came to this country, against 25,419 in November, 1S88. Germany furnished 6,782, England and Wales 3,783, Italy 3,147, Austria 3,1GO, Hungary 2,201, EusSia 2,319, Swoden and Norway 1,968 and Ireland 1,909. Sarah Dkmkiíktt, agod cighty years, and Charlotte Thompson, aged seventy years, were sufTocated by coal gas on the 20th at Dcwitt, N. Y.

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