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15
Month
January
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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MKHouiAi ' fices over th . l, insot the late Congresman Kelley, of l't'nnsylvaniu, wee held in tho hall of the House of Representativos at Washington on thci 1 1 1 li with the mertbers of botU houses in attendance. A stoh.m on the 18th at Sardis, Miss., wrockod two churches and several stores and resldences. ,. . ., ,,,, ..... , in Canada on tho llth ranged from 30 degreos to 68 degrees bolow zero, and railway travel was delayed by snow. Mrs. L. E. 1'aok, the wifo of a wollknown citizen of Ingersoll, Tex., on tho llth gave birth to four girl babies, and the quartcltc were strong and healthy. A fihe on the llth in the stables of Macoy Brothers, at Versailles, Ky., dostroyed thirty-fivc out of thirty-cight horses, araong them one recontly sold at auction for $51,000. The entire loss wa3 350,000. Flamks destroyed a business block in Muncie, Ind., on tho llth. Loss, $100,000. Wir.T.iAM Black, a colored youth of Barnwell County, N. C, who was charged with steallog, was tied to a tree by a white man named David Ilcady on the llth and shot to doath. A sevehe bllzzard raged on tho 12th in Kansas, Missouri aml Nobraska, doing much damago and blookading all railways. Wesi.ey Er-KIN'S, the twelve-year-old boy vvho a weok ago murdered his father and mother in Bik townsliip, Ia., and mado a complete confession of the crime, was on tho llth sentenoed to lifo imprisonment. Neiibmiaii Gukkh, ex-(!overnor of Kansas, diod at Stanliattan, Kan., on tho 12th. A cYci.oNK struck tho southwestern section of St. louis on tbc 12th and swept on through to the northern limits, wrecking dozens of dweiling and stores, killing four persons and injuring many others. Tiie Monarch distillery at Peoría 111., was damagoil by firo on tho 12th to tho extent of $161,500. Tiie grip was moderating throughout Eu ropo on the llth, Drunkenness had groatly increasod at Paris because physicians prescrlbed alcoliolic drink as a preventivo. The town of Greenwood, Ind., was partly destroyed by fïre on the llth. The number of deaths in Boston and Now York were greater during tho wook ended on tho llth than ever beforo and, in fact, tho mortality throughout the East was uncxampled, a fact ascribed chieflf to tho terrors of influenza.

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