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15
Month
April
Year
1891
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The work of inelosing and securing the givive of Gen. Sherman ;it. St. Louis has been completed and tlie military guard about the toinb would be withdrawn. Yai.e and Harvard have completed arrangement for :■. series of annual athletic contests, fchisyear's meeting to be at Xi-.v Haven, Conn., May L6. Latsb developments prove that Alexandcr Snyder, an bid citizen of (oshen, Ind., thought to have been murdered by tramps. was attacked in his sleep by rats. Tuk steamer Earle Kinsley, from Hiawa, arrived at San Francisco and reported that in northern China there had been a severo flood and that over 10,000 people had been drowned. Two y ou n' ft women at White Oaks. N. M., committed suicide by shooting themselves with the same revolver. They belonged to wealthy families and left a note saying: "Deaih is sweet, and we prefer it to life. " Two childuen at l'lattsville, Col., were fatally burned by the explosión of a can of kerosene which they were using to start a fire. QSOBGE Babbis, who cut his wife's throat and did the vork suecessfully, was Besteneed at Caldwell, O., to a lifa term in the state penitentiary. By an explosión in a Hungarian boarding-lious' ;it Braddock, Pa., eleven men were barned, four fatally. I'iill.Al)Ki,riilA's new mayor gives the pólice departmenl ten days to get out oí polities or Out f the city's employ. Tuk Xcw YorU Methodist conference has deeided dverwhelmingly that women shall not be admitted to tlie general conference. Tuk Stpckbr! Ige savings bank at 6tockbridffe, Mass.. lias ijone into ceiver's.hamls. Depositen'; would lose 25 per cent. Dozexs of cattle, horses and hogs tvere dying of hydrophobia in Jiritt. Ia. A mad dog run arauck in that vicinity eeveral weeks ago. IIknuv M. Siam.kVs Lecture 1mir in the United States is over. He said in New York that the total number of niik's lic ba ' traveled in all his exploration of África was '25,000, and that he had beaten that record by over 2,000 miles on his lecture journey. lKVriB BuOKEB, ne of the most prominent business men in Richmond, Va., was arrested, eharged with misappropriating 8100,000 of lidueiary funds. TooF, McGowAN & Co., grocers and ootton factors at Memphis, Tenn., have failed for 8126,728. The most valuable cargo of coffee ver brought to this country arnved at Baltimore. iteonsisted of iS.Sviö bag-s, wortb 8060,313. The townof Tobias, Neb., was neariped out by fire. David DaVI8, a detective employee! in hunting out illicit stills. was found murdered near Elkhorn. Va. 'i 'iikkk of the Hungarians who were in ;!ie labor riot at Braddock, Pa., last N' v Year's day, in which Michael Quinn was killed, were convicted o) morder and genteneed to he hanged. Tub eelebration of the lOOth mniver. of the establishment of the American patentsystem was begun in Washington, a large numher of invontors partieipating. N. ByBBS X-, Co., lumber dealers al Lancaster, Pa., have l'ailed for itOO.OOJ. Michigan snit manufacturera have formeel a new organizatioci to control the price of their product. Two dnknown men were seen to capsize in a boat on the MissUsippi river at Davenport. fa. ChaBT-ES E. Kixcaid, the newspaper correspondent on trial in Washington for the shooting of ex-Representative "l'aulbee, of Kentucky, in February, 1800. was acquitted. The championship season of the American association of baseball clubs ■opened on the Sth Tuk loss to the oyster beds near New Orleans caused by the crevasse at A mes' plantation will reach Jf.500,000. The United States treasurer has paid "the governor of Tennessee the direct 1ax claims of the state, amouating to 392,000. Tuk directors of the Washington national bank ol New York have decided to close up the institution. A TERRIBLE cyclone visited Nevada, Mo., and houses were unroofed, wires prostrated and havoc played in all directions. One person was killed. Two society women at Albuquerque, ü M., became insane f rom the use of cosmetica on their faces FBED Iündi-ky, 18 years of age, was senteneed tofourteen years in the penitentiary at Huron, S. D., for sliooting his father over a quarrel in putting down a carpet last summer. Jamks Cowaiu) and his mother quarreled in Jeffersonville, Ind. She struck him with a stone, when he shot and killed her. The Central hotel at New London, Conn., was burned, and Michael Daley, father of the proprietors, was suffocatd in his room. Fire in the village of Cheviot, O., dstroyed property eovering nearly an acre of ground. Thb Indiana supme court bas decided that where candidates for public office receive an equal number of votes the election may be determined by the drawing of lots. Mrs. Asdbkw Doll, of Herman, Neb., while insane killed her two chillren and committed suicide by taking a dose of concentrated lye. Ruf, Westervii.i.e, of Windfall, Ind., vlio disappeared twenty-two years ago, has returned home, having made a fort une in business in a western town. The second annual election of the Columbian exposition was hele in Chicago and a ticket composed o: thirty-one old and sixteen new directorb w;is elected. In a wreek on the Wiseonsin Centra railroad near Vernon, Wis., an engi neer, flreman and brakeman were pin ioned onder the engine ancl fatall; caldcd. Mits. John Or.ivnii, of Martinsville Ind., committed suicide by hanging her scif because her gTanddaughter hac áisgTaced the family, Bots smoking set fire to the stoel yards near ( Lncinnati and propert; vaJued at s;"iU.üoi) was destroyed. Capt. Loak and thirteen r hls depuics who sho1 and killed the striking okemakers at the Morewood mines in 'ennsylvania have been arrested for murdei-. The cotton sheds at Memphls were rarned, with $325,000 worth of cotton. 'I'uk city oí Spokane Fallfi.Wash., has changed ita name to Spokane. Jnn.i: Johnston, oí Valparaíso, Ind., lecidedthe law prohlbiting the pumpng of natura) gas froni the state unons itutional. Steps were taken at Philadelphia for the formation if :i „opper trust that in eztent and tmportance promises to eclipse the sufrar trust. Oveb KO00 immigrante arrived at S'%v Vi.rl; from !. ra ■ m thc'.ith. [jj the I aitel Mates the business "ailures during the seven days eniled on the lüth numbere 1 248, against 243 the preceding and 09 for the corresponding week lastyear. Chkibtian Preise, aged 75years, and ïis wife. aged ' years, were found murdered in thcir lionie at Wankesha, Wis. ürCLONES, hail and rainstorms were reportt'd throughout western Missouri and Kansas. Wii. mam BOLES, who killed a policeman ut Kenton. ()., on March SI, was taken froin the jail at that plu.ee by a mob and hanged. Tukkk was eurrent in Washington a rumor which orijfinated in Rome that Premier Rudini liad made a demand on the United States for a eoncession not heretofore gTanted. the demand being Bupplemented with a notice 'luit if it was not complied with at once Italy would sever all diplomatic relations with this 'Ui e rumor was generally discredilecl. Mil. BoBERT Houston was drowned at Bathftate, N. I)., in an attempt to save hcryonng son, who had fallen into lh,3 river. The strikers in the Connellsville (Pa.) coke reglón held a convention and passeel resolutions to íijíht to the end. HOBA.CE CLABK, of -Mattoon, 111., was elected at Decatur commander of the Grand Army of the Kepublic for thedepartment of Illinois. C'knthy UüTLERand ilampton Nelson were banged at Sumter? S. C, ior the murder of Capt John Maxey in January last. A naïional association of inventors was organized at Washington, vvith Dr. Gatling as president. Ai'iüi. returns to tho department of agricultura show that the condition of the growing wheat orop throughout the entire country is the best since 1SS2. A caix has been issued for a national temperance congress to be held August 18 and 1!) in the auditorium of the National l'rohibition park at Staten Island. X. V. The New York Tribune was fifty years old on the lOth and the e vent was fitting-ly celebrated by a jubilee at the Metropolitan opera house. I'. II. ROT. a prominent citizen, was burned to death in San Francisco in the destruction of the Occidental hotel. Si:vi; persons were injured in a collision on the Chicago, lioek Island & Pacific railroaii near MeJunkin, Ia. FrVK TiïtH's.vNrt brotherhooJ earpenters In the Pittsbtir}rh district have deeided to gtrike for eigrht hours day on May 1. The firm of I'.auragardner, Ebennan & Co., eoal and lumber dealers at Lancaster, Pa., failed for $400,000. ■loiix 11 Kinclk. admitted to the bar at SavannaU. Ga., is the flrst uLio allowed to practice in that state. A b.vg containing Sl.ooú in silver was stolen from an expresa wagon at the Water streef station in Louisville Ann Baker (eolored). of Jacksoo, Miss., has eonfessed to mnrdering her husbantl beoanse lie nidde lier cook breakfast too early. Anna Dickinson's sister and friends indignantlv denied the published story that the distinguished woman had been sent to the insane asylum through jealousy and that she was not insana. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Go Daniel G Fowle. of North Carolina, died suddenly at hii liome iu Raleigh of heart füilure. Miss Julia Hrvant, one of Jndiana's early settleis, died at Goshen at au advanced age. She was a skilled nurse in the union armv during the war. Gen. LuCIUS J. GARTRELL died at Atlanta, Ga. He 'is at one time a member of the United States eongress and Uso of the confedérate eongress. 1'hinkas T. BarNUM, the : rreat showman, died at his home in Uridgeport, Conn., at (:-J2 on the evening of the 7th, af ter an illness of twenty-one weeks, aped 81 years. He lelt aa estáte valued at 810,000,000. The eighth general assembly of Colorado has adjourned sine die. Senator George F. Ed.munds, of Vermont, has resigned from the United States senate after a serviee of twentyfive years. In VVisconsin S. U. Pinney was eleeted justice of the supreme court He was the independent candidate nominated by lawyers. In the election in Michigan the republicans carried the state by about 5,000 majority, electing the justiee of the supreme court and two regeuts of the state university. Ex-Rkpresentative Crounz, of Nebraska, has aceepted the position of assistant secretary of the treasury to succeed Gen. Batcheller, of New York. The Florida Legislature convened at Tallahassee. William C. BiiooKS, a pioneer of Seymour, Ind., now past 80 years of age and very hearty, has cut almost an entire new set of teeth within the last few weeks. GtLBKBT WlOKS, a well-known Iowti farmer, died suddenly at Davenport while in a lawyer's office giving instructions reffarding' his will. Pathick 15RENNAN, agea 10'J years, died at his home in Hurley, 'is. Hu leaves 104 descendants, and has the record of voting for the last twenty . presidcuts. A. J. Morris, the last survivor of the Fort Mirus massacre near Mobile, Ala., in 1813, died at the age of 100 years. Rüsskli, ErRET, who took an active part in the formation of tbc republican partj and Berved three terms in died :ü his home in l'ittstrargh, Pa.,aged Tl years. At a luto hoair on the 8th it was elaimed by_J;hp_demqcrats that a_U the returns oí the Chicago election "nafl teen received and that the vote for mayor stood: Cregier (dem.), 46,988; HempBtead Washburne (rep.), hí,700; Cregier's plurality, 286. The republicans, on theother hand, strongly maintained that Hempstead Washburne liad been elected, and only the official eount would decide whicli was mayor. Wii.i.iam Waixace, postmaster of Indianapolis, [nd., lied at the age oí 86 years. He was a son oí the late (iov. David Wallace, brother of (Jen. Lew Wallace, and was President Harrison's first law partner. Slnce the death of P. T. Barnum, James Andersou, of Peru, Ind., is the oldest showman in this country. EKV. Lütheb II. (ri.M'K, for nearly forty years a missionary In foreign lands, died at Springfield, Mas:,. John Lindsay, editor of the Laboi Bulletin and prominent in the laboi and P. M. 1!. A. party, died at Decatur, 111. The funeral oí P. T. Barnum took place at Bridgeport, f'onn., cu the lOth. Business in that city was gvrierally suspended. President Harbisom has appointed ex-Congressman Alouzo Crounse, of Nebraska, third assistant secretary of the treasury. FOREIGN. Tüer:: was ground to believe that many nativo ehieftaina in India were organizinjí for a concerted effort to throw off the yoke of Brftish dominion. The latest reports froin the Chillian insurrection indicated that the revolutionists were rapidly fi-aininff ground. The Balmaceda army was being recruited froin the prisons. Bradley's nitro-glycerine works at Petrolia, Ont., blew up.and three workmt'ii were blown to fragments. One of the richest gold mines ever found in the dominion has been diseovered at Mannosa, Ont. Thk flrm of riu-i Brothers, dealers in oriental warus in Loudon, has failed for $42S. ) io. Mr. PabotlIi has personally denied the report of his alleged marriage to Miss O'Shea. Rich gold mines have been diseovered in Honduras. Tiieri: were four elections of membere of the legislature of l'rince Edward's Island, and in every case the liberáis were Buccessful. The council of the Irish National League of America in session at Cincinnati adopted resolutions urging harmony bet ween tlie factions in Ireland, and suggesting Parnell's presence at a convention to be held in Baltimore, Md., not later than September next. The powderinagazme adjoining the sultan's palace at Zanzíbar ezploded and thirteen persons were killed and twonty wounded. The inhabitants of 'he island of .Inmaica, a dependency of Cireat Jiritain are calling on their government to give tliem reeiprocity with the United States. A.N' enormous r(scrv. ir of water has been found at a.depth oí 120 feet in the Sahara desert near 101 Colee. It gives füity gallons of pure water per minute. LATER NtWS. Fi.amks which Btarted in a dime musov.n on West MadisOD street in Chicago causee! a loss of over L800,000. One life was lost and several persons were injured. A Tiisi'A ren from King's Cove. N. S., says that '00 families were in a condition of actual starvation. Maby and William Johnson, two children, were chased into the Arkansas river by u vicious cow near I'onca, I. T.. and both were drowned. FOBTY masked men broke into the jail at Sealand, Wash., and shot to death John Kose and John Edwards, who were convicted of the murder of Hans Frederiekson and his wife about a year ago. At Orange, Mass., four Italians were boat-riding at Miller's when they were swept over the dam and drowned. The report was eontirmed that the Italian government would immediately Biispend all diplomatic relations with this country unless a satisfactory reply to the last eommunication of the government was immediately made by Secretary lilaine. Two MES were fatally shot and ono killed in a timber camp near Reno, Ark., during a quarrel. Ai.kx FoiiTK, a negro who murdered J. J. Hfeadows at Bluefield, V. Va., was taken ïiom the jail by amobof masked men and lynched. Thbeb boys at Washington, Pa.,sons of Thomas Muneo. found an empty glycerino can an.l begon throwini stone at it, The can exploded, blowingthe boj's to pieces. Mb. and Mrs. Chbistias Pbbüss, ag-ed T8 and 71 years respectively, were suffocated by coal gas at their liome in Waukesha, Wis. A band of arnied robbers attacked a wagon carrying express matter near Lerdo, Mes., killing two of the three men in charge. Thirtekn women. members of a law class in Xew York. were given certificates auihorizing them to practico law. Jamks HlTCHCOCK, of Mason, Mich., convicted in 18.VÍ of murder and sentenced to life imprisoninent, has been found innocent by the deathbed confession of a witness at the trial. Hahox Fava, the recalled Italian minister, departed from New York for Italy. Thk percentages of the clubs in the American baseball association for the week ended on the llth were: Louisville, .CüO; St. Louis, .668; Haltimore, .500; Boston, .500; Athletie, .500; Washington, .500: Cinyinnati, .833; Coluuibus, ,888.

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