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27
Month
May
Year
1891
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The Mississippi commercial congross convcned at Uenver, Col., with over 1,000 delegates present. The object is to unite the people of the states and territorios west of the Mississippi viver ior the promotion of their commercial interests. Fouu Newark (N. J.) mechanics, Tlarry and James Uasser, brothers, 30 years oíd, Joseph Voss and Jacob Hautenbeck, were irowned by the upsetting of a boat while lishing. All leave families. Thk wiie and little child of William Cleveland, of Arkansas City, Kan., were kilk-d by lightninff. The people of Delaware defeated the proposition to hold a constitutional convention. Febdinan DeLong died in Metztown, l'a., f rom the effects of eating 140 raw oysters in two minutes and three Beconds. The Connellsville (Pa.) coke strikers have received a blow in the defection of a Polish leader, who will take hundreds of his country men back. The village of Amherst, Wis., was destroyed by a f orest fire. The losses by fire in the Jersey pine forests this spring are estimated at 8200,000. The marriages of many prominent couples in Allegheny, Pa., have been prevented by the carpenters' strike, suitable houses being unobtainable. Sixtken ske'.etons supposed to hare been those of mound builders were unearthed at Springfield, O. Comi'LAINt was made at the navy department that only twenty-six congressmen had nominated candidates for the naval academy. i The Morgan steamer El Sol has broken the record from New Orleans to New York, making the run m tour üays, twenty-three liours and íifteen minutes. Secretary Rusk, of the department of agriculture, has ordered that all sheep and swine imported throug-h Canada from Europe should bc subjeetedto fiiteen days' quavantine. Elevkn Italiuns were buried by the caving of a se.wer at I'rovidenee, 11. 1., and four were killed. A CTOliONE did great daraaje to rrowing crops in Franklin county, Tex. Several buildings were blown down in Mount Vernon, the county seat. A train of cars loaded with dynamite was blown up near Tarrytown, N.Y., killing eighteen men and tcrribly injurinfj íifteen ot!ers. The national conference of charities and correetions in session at lndianapolis elected Myron W. liecd, of Denver, president. Mus. David Lemon, of Amboy, Ind., was stricken sudlenly blind on the 19th. af ter which she become a raving maniac and at uight died. The Davis Shoe Company of Boston, one of the most extcnsive manufacturing concerns of the kind in the state, has failed íor 81,000.000. Tin: national conference of representatives of the various Farmers' alli anees and industrial organizations me' in Cinemnati on the löth, tvventy-seven states and three territorios being represented by 1.3:54 delegates. SmoKB from forest fires made the streets of Wiliiamsport, I'a., so dark that the electric lights had to be kept going all day. Severai, families at lleno. O., ate poisoned chesse, and eight puople were lying seriously ill i'rom the effects. Hknby Six, of Noblesville, Ind., was said to be black, and had be come almost the color of a negro. E. P. Pkrbv, of Utah, was elected president of the trans-M ississippi com mercial congress in session at Denver A cycloxk swept through Audrain county, Mo., devastating a section 12 miles long and 1 mile broad. A dozen persons were killed and over 100 in jured. Buiïreli. Parkisii (colored), 45 year old, was hanged at Vicksburg, Miss. for the murder of a 16-year-old negro boy in December, 1S90, in a quarrel ove twenty-five cents. A patent suit at Springfield, O., has unearthed the son of an Irish lord, who poes by the name of Blackkam. H was disowned for makinga misalliance A ci.oud-burst destroyedthe home o: Joseph Sherman, some miles from Pro tection, Kan., and drowned three of hl children. The Northern Pacific Express Com pany has been robbed of 510,000 t $12,000 on the line between Chippew Falls and Abbotsford. Wis. Rbv. J. H. IIamilton, of Homestead Pa., a delégate to the Baptist conven tion at Cincinnati, was killed by a ston which feil from a new building whic he was passing. Fire destroyed the milis of the Na tional Linseed Oil Company at Sioux City, Ia., eausmg a loss of 8150,000. John Goff and his brother Edward were killed by an explosión in a coa mine near New Philadelphia, O. A CTCIONB passed from west to eas about 4 miles south of Crestón, la., un roofing houses and barns and destroy ing shade trees and fenees. The insurance firm of Satterlee Bostwick & Martin, of New York, ha íailed f or $100,000. The Cherokees have decided to pu 5,000 of their own cattle in the strip i Indian territory and fight tbe govern ment in the supreme court. A cyci.on'K one-half mile wide passec a mile north of Centralia, Mo., anc twenty dwellings were destroyed anc many persons were injured, some fatal ly. Large numbers of stock wer killed. Busxku, & SCBANTON, bankers a' New Haven, Conn., have failed fo $300,000. A HAiL and windstorm passed ove Benton, 111., doing daraage to crops i that place and in Frápklin eounty t the exteut of 8800000, President Hakriso.v luis issued proclamation opening up to settler 1,600,000 icres of land in the Fort Berthold ludían agency in North Daketa. Tin-: one hundred and tliird annua meeting of the Presbyterian genera assembly convenett at Detroit od th aist. Tino stables of the LoLE,nsport (Ind. Street Car Company were burned to th round wlth neariy all of the contents. )f forty-three mules only fifteen were Copioi B rains were reported all over owa, the flrst for many weeks. 1'lamks in the iron works at Knoxille. Tenn., caused a loss of 8100,000. Tuk Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd fellows iii session at Indianapolis dopted resolutions to forever exelude rom the order anyone engaged in any inanner with the manufacture or sale f intoxicating liquors. Rain ha:; put out the forest fires in Jambria caunty, Pa. While working Ín a tobáceo patch at Centerville, Ky., five men were struck jy lightning. The Ilills Shot ('ompanyof Memphis, 'enn., lias asgigned with liabilitiea oí 00,000 andassets 1800,000. 'I'hf. Pennsylvania legislatura has appropriatedíílO.000,000 to schools. Ir is now known that between thirty and forty people were killed by the eyclone that swept over some parts of vlissouri. ïhe property loss was about 500,000. Tino lumber stock of J. W. Day & Co., at Minneapolis, consistinff of 19, 00,000 feet, was destroyed by fire. Loss, 8228,000. Waltkr Marki.ey and his sister have' been arrested at Eureka Spring-s, Ark., or holding up a stage and robbing the mail of 82,000. A firf. at Galveston, Tex., destroyed ive blocks of lumber yards, six blocks of residences and St. Patrick's church, causing a total loss of 8300,000. A CO.MI'ANV has been orfranized at Portland, Ind., to build a railroad from Union City, Ind., to Huntingdon, Pa. A colored man named Jennings was lynched near Evansville. Ind., for asbaulting a little white girl, 13yearsold, the daughter of George Bowles. Mayor SIosby, of Cincinnati, has notifie.d the managers of the baseball park that games advertised for Sunday will be prevented by the arrest of the players if necessary. City Tbkasijbbr Kardsi.ey, of Philadelphia, was said to have embezzled 8930,000. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 22d numbered 254, against 237 the preceding week and 222 for the corresponding week last year. Frank Tubke, a shoemaker at Englewood. N. J., murdered his wife and then killed himself. They had only been married two weeks. A 6TATKMK.NT issued by the census bureau shows the mimber of members of the Mornion church in the United States to be 144,852, of which 117,629 are in Utah. 14,80") in Idaho, 1,312 in Wyoinhig, l.29 in Colorado and the remainder seattcred through nearly twenty states. During April 85,001 immigrants arrived in this country, against 54,212 in April, 1SÜÜ. Of this number Germany furnished 22,755; Italy, 13,128; Ireland 9,802; England and Wales, 5,513; Austria-Hungary, 8,r.u'.i: Sweden and Norway, 3,502, and Russia, 4,272. The pacer Silver Tail made a mil e in 2:l.'814' at the Point Breeze track in l'hiladelphia. IH Pickens couaty, Ala., there has been disoovered a vein oí galena ore containing silver in very large quantities. It was reported that five persons lost their lives in a storm at St. Slary's, O. A party was ont boating on the reservoir when their boat capsi.ed. Three sheepherders were killed in a fight at Ojo Le. N. M. Tennis Hampton (colored) charged with the murder of E. II. Webber, in 1889, was lynched bj' a mob at Beardsley, La. At the Pratt mines in Alabama an explosión of gas killed ten negro convicts and one free miner. The merchandise exports during April were valuedat70,931,549, against $63,523,315 in April, 1890. Imports during April were valued at 881,209,686, against 871,902,140 in April, 1890. George Mabbitt, a farmer living near Frankfort, Ind., was killed by a stroke of lightning while driving on the road. An attempt was made to wreek the Chicago express on the Monon line near Frankfort, Ind. The enffinee saw the obstruction in time to avoit disaster. Mus. McDermott, wife of a Chey enne man, informed the authorities that her husband committed murder in Montana many years ago. He was arrested. A 8EVEHK wind and hailstorm passec over Muneie, Ind., doing thousands ol dollars' worth of damage. Albkbt IIavenstine was hanged a Broken l!ow, Neb., for the murder o: William Ashley and Hiram Roten lliram Sheridan (colored), who killec ])r. Felix Vurnado in 1SS8, was exe cuted at Magnolia, Miss., and Walte Johnson was hanged at Petersburg Va., for assault on Elizabeth Majors. At Wabash, Ind., Neil Jones, while drunk, bit off the entire upper lip o David Boblett, a friend. A heavy storm caused great damage in Clermont, Adams and lirown counties, O. One soldier was killed and four others were fatally injured by a wrec) on the Southern Pacific road nea Columbus, Tex. A heavï windstorm passed over a section of country 25 miles north o: Arkansas City, Kan., wrecking house and barns and devastating fruit orchards. Miss Luct McKeeoan, of St. Louis Mo., died f rom typhoid fever and wan of medical attendance, her parents having resorted to the Christian science treatment to restore her to health. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Tu i; ÏCentucky prohibition state convention met at Loüisville and norainated ;i tul] ticket with Josiah Harria, OÍ Paducah, ! t ;;i.ï.;nioi'. Tuk national union conference in Bession ;it ( incinnati decided on the 2üth to fonn a third political party, to be known as "the People's Party of tlse United ytates." The platform adopted demanda the abolition of national banks, free coinage of silver, prohibition of alien ownership of land, a graduated income tax, jrovcrnment ownership of railways, the election of president and United States senators by a dired rote of the eople, universal suffrage and an eight ïour work rl:iv. II. E. Taubeneck, of linois, was elected chairman of the átlonal eommittee. It was decided mt a national con vent ion be held not atertban June 1, 18'J-.', for the purpose f nominating candidates for president nd vice president. The republlcans of Kentucky in conention ;ii Lexington noininated A. T. Vood for governor. Judge Jonathan Colbobs, aged !)3 ears, the oldest resident of Ilamiton ounty, Ind,. (iii'il of old apre. Aabon Xküoí.s. of (iow, X. H., celbrated his lOOth birt'nday. Alphonso 'I'aft, who %vas attorney enera! ii' the Umted States under 'resident' Grant, died at Los Angeles, al., ajyed si years. Mis. ChablOTTE Smith celebrated er LOlst birthday at the house of her Tanddanghter, Mr:-. E. .T. 11. Stecher, n Brooklyn, X. V. There vvere five 'enerations represented at thedotnestio jathering. Ex-Cihkf Justicx OROBOE G. McViiahtki: died at his home in Milton, la. FOREIGN. A tkasant who was on the way to he market at Krenzwald, Franco, with lis son and daugbter w ja surprised by i storm and all three were Uilled by ightning. A platform thronged with children collapsed near Che.storfield, Eng., and wo boys were crushed to death and ,hirty injured. Sik Charles Evan Smith, the new iritish minister to Morocco, says a slave trade in boys and girls from the negro regions is in full blast in Morocco. öenhor I'rimentai, has forraed a new ministry in Portugal and subnr.itted the names to the king. The reports of a revolution in that country were said to )e untrue. A cow cansed the derailment of a rain Churchville, Ont., and the engineer uud a farmer were killed and ,wo brakemen fatally injured. Englaxd is becoming alarmed at the exodus of destitute Ilebrews from Jussia, as large numbers of them are seeking refuge in Great Kritain. Eüssia has 5,000 prisoners awaiting ;ransportation to Siberia. They will ae voluntarily accompanied by their wives and families, numbering 10,000 persons. A banker killed himself at Monta Cario af ter losing 950,000 francs. Kijïg Chari.es, of Roumania, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of lis accession to the throne. The town of Rowno. l'oland, was devastated by fire, an,l 700 persons were made homeless. Joskph Letai, a farmer living1 near Eradony, Ilungary, killed his three children by crushing their skulls with a spade and then killed himselt lie was insane. JxMRS Kant: was executed at Belleville, Ont., ior the um -ler of bis wife Elizabeth. Ten men ivore kille i by an accident in a colliery near Cardiff, Wales. Paiüs was visited by a terrific wind and rainstorm which inilicted great diimag'e to property but no loss of Ufe. LATER NEWS. Tni!i:i'. vouag men uamed Hofmeier, Bhsdorf and Bldridfje, from Uamilton, O., were crushed to deatb in a freig-ht car at Watseka, 111., by lumber falling upon them. Five men were drowned near Sandstone, Minn., by being carried over the falls in the Kettle river. At AllerhenyCity, Pa., seven ministers cf the Reformed Presbyterian church have been suspended for voting at a political election. It was reported that the Chilian insurgents had formed a congress, and also that they had bombarded the town of Caldera, killing 100 citizens. A FIRE which broke out at James E. Davis' wholesale drug house in Detroit, Mich., destroyed that and other business property valued at 215, 000. Mrs. I'bux Lawlek and her two children were fatally burned in a dwelling house fire at Minneapolis, Minn. Over 3,000 immigrants arrived in New York on the 24th f rom Europe. A i'henomk.von which probably has no parallel occured at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 23d, when a storm of shot from the clouds feil for over an hour. A firk in the state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., eaused a loss of 8170,000. The funeral of Margaret Mullaney, who weighed 750 pounds, took place in New York. In a fight between prominent farmers at Calera, Ala., Fred Ingram, Ilenry Alexandcr, .Toe Allen and Bob Allen were fatally wounded. Alexander IJeal was drowned in the ïennessee river at Knoxville with a 12-year-old boy named Payne, whom he was trying to save. A FIKK in a block of warehouses at Montreal caused a loss of 8100,000. An onyx deposit of very fine quality has been discovered in Jefferson county, Mo. Lord Romili.y and two of his servants were suffocated by flaines in his home in London. The Immanuel Baptist church edifice in Chicago vvas partially destroyed by fire. Thk percentages of the baseball clubs In the National league for the week ended on the 23d were: Chicago, .092; Pittsburgh, 560; Cleveland, .535; Philadelphia, .518; Boston, .481; New York. .401; Brooklyn, .384; Cincinnati, .370. The percentages of clubs in the American a8sociation rere: Boston, .722; Baltimore. .698; St. Louis, .552; Athletic, .484; Louisville, .435; Cincinnati. .435; Columbus, .405; Washington, 2'M.

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