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22
Month
July
Year
1891
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A statement issued by the bureau of statistics shows that the total value of the exports of breadstuffs f or the month of June was 813,199,494. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 13th was: Wheat, 11,805,887 bushels; corn, 3,904,467 bushels; oats, 4,503,310. Sam Gilespie, a negro desperado who had boen terrorizing the jpeople in the vicinity of Love's Station, Miss., was lynched by a mob. A CYOLONB struck the neighborhood of Zwingle, Ia., and a nuraber of barns were demolished and dwellings unroofed. Omver P. Ktuckey, a farmer living near South Bend, Ind., was plowing when he with his two horses were killed by lightning. No rain was falling. The count of money in the vaults of the treaeury on the transfer of the office of treasurer f rom Mr. lluston to Mr. Nebecker was concluded. It began April 27 and involved the actual handling and counting piece by piece of 8614,511,582.3:2. Every cent called for by the books was accounted for. The seventh annual meeting of the National Editorial association eonvened at St. Paul with over 500 journalists in attendance. Richard Nagel, a mili operative at East Dedham, Mass., went home in a rage and chopped his wife to pieces with an ax. ISent unos.' carriage works and five stores were burned at Pittsfield, Mass., the loss being 3100,000. John Dillard and his wife were struck by lightning and killed near Sedalia, Ho., and every partiële of clothing was stripped frorn both. In a saloon at Tacoma, Wash., i Thomas Hinckley, while drunk, shot ! and killed William Brannon and George ! Martin. Thomas Vachon, aged 26 years, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Nora Landry at Gardiner, Me., and then committed suicide. Policeman Ryerson fatally shot William Brennan and his wife in their home in Jersey City, N. J., in self-defense. The large gas tank of the Municipal Gas Company in Rochester, N. Y., holding 800, 000 cubic f eet of gas, exploded, causing two deaths and great havoc. At Winona, Minn., the appraisal of the estáte of the late Secretai-y Windom was filed. The estáte was valued at $200.000. A box of dynamite cartridges in the hold of the steamship G. R. Booth exploded at Brooklyn, killing two men and fatally injuring four others. The total value of exports of beef and hog products from the United States during the month of June was 0,944,783. The big Leary raft of logs, fourfifths of a mile long, containing 3,500,000 f eet -of lumber, and which left St. John, N. B., June 28, has arrived at New York. Forest fire's destroyed the hamlet of Whitney, Mich. Fire destroyed the principal business portió"n of Mount Vernon, Wash. Mrs. Lrcy Piatt, a young widow of San Francisco, sold a strip of skin from her body 9x8 inelus for $100. The skin was grafted upon the leg of a patiënt in a hospital. The three children of George Newberry, of Joshua, Tex., and his aged mother were murdered by robbers, who plundered the house and secured S500. Fourtekx paiients have been discharged from the Ko-.:h hospital at Denver as cured of consumptiou. The national convention oí the AfroAmerican league of tli ■ United States met at Rushville, Tenn. At Richmond, Va . Lewis Booker, guardián for llanna Winchell, who embezzled 9100,000, pleaded guilty and was genteneed to three years in the ponitentiary. BooUer was rector of St. Paui's ehuroh and :i prominent man. Saltón lake oíl the California desert continúes risiiig, until now the overflow reaches 2.000 square miles. The lake will bc permanent and will cbange dim ate and topography of the Burrounding eonntrv. Raii.wav posta clerlvi met at Cincinnati and formt'd ;í uationaJ organization with C. A (íuthrie, of Chicago, as president. At Saratoga, Wyo. , a rich body of gold ore was struck in the Grand Encampment mine. At the Round Lake meeting of the New York Christian Alliance .Miss Louise shepard. u converted society belle, offerjid the inrs from her fingers to aid in mission worii. Her example was followud by the o mgregation until the collection . v0. Spoonkk iï. ilnv, :;i.:. , Co., lamber dealers in Oh cago and other cities, have failed with Habilites of $2,000,000. The tentli national temperanee convention met at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., with about 200 delegates present. The Chicago city directory for 1819 contains over 500,000 names and indicates a total population of 1,250,000. ROBKBT Wu.maiis was hanged at Pine Bhift". Ark., for the murder of Albert Haye.s in November, 1890. Tuk pulp mili owned by the Shawmut Fiber Company at Shawmut, Me., was burned, causing a loss of 8250,000. JüDÖE J. A. WaRDEB, who was under indictment for the murder of his son-in-law. committed suicide at Chattanooga. Tenn. A freight train crashed into a chaircar of the Missouri Pacific passenger train near Fort Scott, Kan. , and ten persons were badly injured. Thk citizens of Bicknell, Ind, gathered around the depot and rolled il. over on its side. They then notified the railroad company that they would have a a " one O" none at all The Farmers' and Drovers' bank at Battle Creek, Neb., closed its doors. At a meeting in Pittsburgh ii' tableglasswar; manufacturers of l'ennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia the plants were Consolidated. During a storm a thunderbolt struck the residence of S. S. Kelly at Union City, Pa., and Mr. Kelly and his son Willis, asred 20 vears. were killed. TTot a (iliild hi.s been JHorn in ine White ilills (Comí.) scnool district in nine years. Tba population of the district is 500. Pbksident Habbison has issuedan order enlarging the boundaries oí the Judith land district in Montana 3,348 square miles. Local world's fair assoeiations have been formed in seventy of the 106 eounties in Kansas. DritiMi a wind.storra at West Superior, Wis., a new building1 was blown down and five persons were killed and some twenty others injured. Tuk statement that English capitalists have secursd control of all the glucose factories of the United States is denied. At the national tempe ranee convention in Saratoya Springs, N. Y. , F. H. Clapp, of Massachusetts, was elected president. The chain works at St. Mary's, O., werc struck by lightning, and seventy of tlie employés were knocked speechless by the shock and soine were seriously stunned. Fivk persons living in the same housa at Braddock, l'a. , were injured in dif ferent ways so serionsly that all died. The mother of Jennie Cramer, wha was so mysteriously murdered at New Haven, Conn., ten y earg ajfp, eommitted suicide at her home by hangihg. Two SISTE B8. K'ate and Mary Mc Gowan, aged 18 and 30 years respectlvely, were drowned in the Susquehanna river at Pittston, l'a. The census oiïice has issued a bul letin on the subject of paupers in almshouses in 1890 which shows a total of 73,045, as against 68,308 in 1880. The First national bank of Wyandotte, Kan., suspended business with liabilities of 9100,000; assets. 00,000. An incendiary fire at Eldon, Ia., destroyed the business portion of the town. A storm swept over the northeastern : portion of Pulaski countj', Ark., doing I great damage to the growing crops. In thetownshipof Luxemburg, Minn., the grain in the path of a storm for a distance of 5 miles was destroyed. Firk in the carpet milis of John W. Priestly in I'hiladelphia caused a losa of 9250,000. In a bieyele race at Detroit, Mich., ] N. H. Van Sicklen, of Chicago, made 25 miles in 1 hour, 25 minutes and 11 seconds. In the Unitel States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 17th numbered 274, against 247 the preceding week an 207 lor the corresponding week last year. During an electric storm at Clintonville, Wis., the house of Ileury Pantzloff was struck by lightnmg and both he and his wife were killed. Frank Rossimus, a negro, was lynched at Middleborough, Ky., for shooting at a constable who was trying to arrest him. W. S. CAPKi.r.ER. of Mansfield, O., was elected president of the National Editorial association in session at St. Paul. The First national bank of Palatka, Fla. , suspended payment, with jiabilities of $200,000. Fiftv unknown men entered the jail at Spencer, Ind., and lynched Frank Dice, awaiting trial for the murder oi Chaney. They hanged him to the cell door. The Mille Lae [ndians in Minnesota declare they will kill the first wliite man who attempts to ent an acre oi grass on the reservation. Ebv. Sam S.mai.i., the evangelist, is to be managing editor of the new Evening Ilerald of Atlanta, (a. Tne paper will be a pronounced prohi bition advocate. Josurn LrüVENMABK is the champion high diver of the world. At Washington park, near Kansas City. Mo. , he dived from a platform 88 feet 'A% inches high into the lake. One man was killed and a dozen houses wrecked by a nitro-glycerine explosión, at Washington, Pa. Geokge W. and Joseph P. Reed, oi Pittsburgh, Pa., have sold their stock in the Commercial Guzette to John Dunlap for :-00,000. Thirty-one pauper immigrants were on the 17th lefused admission to the United States at New York and twenty-eig-ht at Boston. Fire destroyed Ward's bank and the post office building at MoCune, Kan. Wili.iam Mixioit. a justice of the peace at Saline City. Ind. was fatally shot by Thornton Jackson, whose sou had been liiu-cl by Miner for disturbing the peace. A ïieat train on the Chicago & Erie road collided with a work train at liepburn. O., killing nine laborers and injurinfc many othera Juntn: lï. A. üii.i.. f .lackson, for twemy-evi-ii years judgeoj the United States cotirts ol Mi sissippi, sent in his resignutimi to the ]■■■■■■ dent. Mum. .. II OVKKHKiMKtt. of Muncie, !■ '■ avp I Irth to Inplots. '1 1kv u-ere all boys in puriect he: Ith. A iiKAvv hailstorm n-nr l-'ort Collins, Ckl.. greatly damagvd grain over a Iract 0 miles long and '■' wille. Twhi.VE houses were wrecked and three women badly injured at Waresville, Pa., by the caving-in of a coal mine. The mine was damaged to the extent of SIDO. 000. Gustav Kuthkee and his two little boys were probabiy fatally injured near Glencoe, Minn., by being run over by a mowing machine. Two of the finest business blocks at Lynn, Mass., were burned, the loss being L300,000. Bonnell & Co., manufacturers of printers' ink at New York, failed for $400,000. A census bulletin shows that the production of bullion during the year 1889 was: Gold, $32,886,744; silver, SÖÖ,396,988. In gold this is nearly 98 per cent. of the world's product and in sil ver 41 per cent. Tui xports of ivheat from coasts of the United States (ineluding flour as uheat) d uring the seven days ended on the 17th amounted to 2,220,000 bushels, against 2,000,000 bushels the previous seven days.

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