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12
Month
August
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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The Berkeley land syndicate at Denver, Col., f ailed f or 400,000. At Jonesville, Ind. , white caps took a man by the name of Mark Perry from a saloon, bound him to a telegraph pole and admonished tvventyfive lashes because he would not stop drinking and g-o to work. From a statement by the treasury department it appears that the commerce of the United States has inereaseddurinff this fiscal year 882,191,803. The total commerce of the past fiscal year ! aggregates 81,720,330,890. The total value of imports for the year was $844,995,491, and of imports, $884,425,405. A circular has been issued by officers of the Knights of Labor urging political action in the future as an aid in the accomplishment of the purposes of the order. At Columbus, O., W. J. Elliott, former editor of the Sunday Capital, was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of Albert C. Osborn and W. Hughes. A 1IOB broke into the jail at Dixon, Ky., and took out Jim and Bill VVoods, wife beaters, with the intention of lynching them, but the men escaped and were not to be found. The republican editors of Wisconsin held a meeting at Madison and formed a state organization with W. F. Street, of the Superior ínter Ocean, as president. The crops in twenty counties of Ohio along the Indiana line were being eaten by grasshoppers. ■ It was reported that 875,000 had been stolen from the express office at Kountze, Tex. Forest fires were doing great damage in the vicinity of Sonora, Cal. Flames at Taberg, N. Y., destroyed man y business housea The republican editors of Illinois met with the republican state central committee in Chicago and formed the Republican Editorial association of Illinois. M. W. Matthews, of the Urbana Herald, was elected president. A cloudburst at Council Bluffs, Ia., flooded over 200 dwellings, doing great damage. At Austin, Nev., the city railway was torn from its bed by a cloudburst, awnings were torn down, water mains wefe uprooted from 3 feet under ground, and the majority of the business houses were filled with mud to a depth of 3 or 4 feet. A statement from the bureau of statistiesof the treasury dspartment shows i that the total number of immigrants ' arriving in this country the last fiscal year was 555.46(5, against 451,219 ! in 1S90, showing an inerease during the last fiscal year of 104,277. The inerease was largely from the following countries: Italy, 23,354; Austria-Hungary, 14,861; üermany, 21,112; Eussia, Poland, 28,245. Ed Caldwell, and John Tumason took refuge under a tree during a rainstorm at Warren, O., when lightningstruck the tree and killed both men. The exports of gold and sil ver from the United States the last fiscal year were 8108,729,288, and the imports were $86,212,884, an excess of exports of $72,516,954. The exports of g-old were $80,303,622 and the imports 18,117,110, the larg-est exeess of exports of gold in any vear of eoramerco. Wmi.i-: preaching to a large audience at 11 onston, Tex., soine people on the outside turned out the lihts and rotten-eg-g-ed Kev. Kara .Iones and his audience, most of wliran were ladies. The liulds adjóining the Indiana and Ohio bowndary line were alive with RTasshoppers, whioh were doing an inestimable amount of damage to the crops. James Gordos üevnktt, proprietor of the New York IFevall. was indicted for publishing1 an iCBOuat of the Sing Siü;; eU-t r Krutiims, A - ek ■ V 'liiis. living near Phillipsburg-, Pa., fatally injnred Mrs. Joseph VVilson with a baseball bat and then shot himself. White caps Dear Raleig-h, N. C, took Mrs. Mary Creen Allen from her cottag-e and beat iier immercifully. No canse was assigned tor the action. Tan refusal of m workman toinstruct a boy in the boot and slioe factory of John E, Drake at Quincy, Mass., regulted in the of tftat establishment and the out of omployment of 2.000 li.-inds. MlOHAET. Mannino, li. Corkhill and Georgfe Lemon were killed at Pittabutg-li, i'a.. !:v the collapse of the new puddling mül of the Pittsburgh Oil Wi-11 Supnlv Company. AT Cevoiand Hal Pointer paced the three fastesi beats iu a race on record -2:10%, -i-A l . ;i:o'i. The Balt more Consolidated Oil Company lost f8,0U0 barrels of oil ii-ora the two tanks at Canten, Md., by fire. Loss, 824:3,000. The census bureau estiinates that 2,250,000 families in the United States occupy and own ineumbei-ed farms and homes. A REcrpRociTY treaty between the United States and San Domingo has been sig-ned. At the fourteenth annual in Baratoga, N. Y., of the American Paper Slanufiicturers' association, W. A. llusscll, of Lawrenee, Mass., was elected president The Peconic bank at Sag Ilarbor. L. I.. was robbed of 83,500 by asneakthief. Georgb Kbatz, a business man of Defiance, ().. was instantly killed by Harry Willey, a real estáte agent. The tragedy wsthe result of a quarrel over a hors i . Dr. .1. Egk. of Ret:dinc. Pa., has snec'. r in graiting a mustache on the' lip ■ -Miss I,. s. St. Clair, a yonng Wi : : n oí New York city, by taking r.f tv in her irjnnitK. 1HE slcïiers' home for union veterans near Louisville, Ky., has been opened. Cashiioiï Kiijhy, whoembezzled $100,000 frora a Marshall (Mich.) bank, was arrested at Sedalia, Mo. POBTIOMB of the town of Williamsport, Pa., were flooded by a heavy rainfall, and the wind carried thirty-five houses oiï their foundations. An unusually sharp shock of earthquake, lasting severalseconds, was feit thronghout San Diego, Cal. During the year ended June 30 last over 114,000 entries for public lands were made in the United States. THE Suffolk Suspendere Manufacturing Company of Boston has failed for S'250,000. Dn. Wii.liam H. Harper, president of the Chicago university, has accepted the principalship of the Chautauqua system of study. In the United States the business failures during the seven days endedon the Sist uit. numbered 247, against :'JA the pteceding1 ' week and 189 for the corresponding week last year. Rohert Tankersley, aged 12 years, who was bitten by a mad dog about two montlis ago, died in horrible agony at Wichita, Kan. Isom VVhitk (colored) was hang-ed at Helena, Ark., for the murder of J'rince Malloy. The Continental Land and Seeurity Company, with a capital stock of SI, - 000, OÜU, and whose offices are located at Boston, New York and Denver, made an assigament for the benefit of its creditors. Stati8TIC8 covering the export lumber trade of the Pacific coast for the six months of the present year show a shortage of 5,000,0'JO feet as coinpared with the same period last year, but an excess of 11,000,000 feet when compared with the same period in 1889. At Birminghain, Ala., fifty kegs of powder exploded in the Alabama Great Southern depot, wrecking the building and injuring several people. An organization was completed at a mass meeting in Johnstown, Pa., to sue the South Fork club for losses sustained by flood. At Seattle, Wash., George Williams, a butcher, was cremated and a negro cook and his wife sustained fatal injuries in a fire. William Kepke, afarmer residing at Melke, Mich., confessed that seventeen years ago he, with other citizens of Presque Isle county, formed an oathbound compact to assassinate Albert Moliter, who was murdered at that time. His clerk, named Sullivan, was also slain. A FI6HT at Pylie, Tex., over an attempt to evict tenants, resulted in the killing of Will Holman and the fatal wotwding of Eli Gilcrearc. Holman"s landlord. A PASSENGER train on the Bellaire, Zanesville fe Cincinnati Narrow-guage railroad left the track near Bellaire, O., and two cars filled with passengers overturned and dragged some distance, injuring fourteen persons, one fatally. Eepokts from Hillsboro, 111., are to the effect that cattle ia that vicinity are suffering from a fatal disease. The mouth g-ets sore, the leg-s become swollen and stifï, and the animáis die of starvation. Tuk 5-year-old son of Mrs. George Whitner, living at Crestón, O., caught his foot in a cattle-guard while walking on the track, and his mother, while attempting to rescue him, was run down by an express train and instan tly killed. It was said that John E. Baall, a real-estate expert, testified before the Rock Creek Park commissioners at Washington that ex-President Clevelnad bought his "Red Top" property for ?2K, 000 and sold it for $140,000, realizing S114.000 profit. Frank L. Phatt, a somnambulist of Fort Smith, Ark., sat down on the railway track while asleep and was killed by a freight train. Wii.i.iam ('Ai.nwEix (colored) was hanged at Houston. Tex., for the murder of Dr. J. M. Shambleu. But 322 miles of railroad have been built since January 1, a heavy decrease from the figures of last year. EEAVY rains throughout Arkansas have swollen the streams to such an extent that thousands of acres of coro and cotton land were inundated. THE president has issued his proclamation announcing the completion of a reciprocity treaty with Spain as to certain producís of Cuba and Porto Rico and the United States. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Palt, Dii.i.ixgham, governor of Vermont in 1S(5, and a member of congress in 1844, died at his home in Waterbury, aged 92 years. E. C. ALLEN, a well-known publisher, of Augusta, Me., died at Boston, aged 42 years. Dr. Henby T. IIei.mboid, of New York, who was said to have made 810,000.000 by the sale of patent medicines, was placed in au insane asylum for the fourth timo in twenty years. Fredeeick C. Havkmkykii, who with his cousin, William F. Havemeyer, founded tlie sugar refining business in Brooklyn, N. Y.. died in his Siith year. Swmki. Sanos, the oldest living printer, died at Baltimore, aged 92 years. Thjí prohibitionists of Maryland held their state eonvention at Clydon Camp and nominatñd Edwin Higgins, of Baltimore, for governor. Onts of the original founders of the Church of the Disciples, Mrs. Ann Milner Woods, died at Cynthiana, Ky., "1 98 years. At a meeting in Washington of the execiitive cominittee of the republican national cominittee Matthew S. Quny resig-ned as chairman of the national cominittee and W. W. Dudley resigned as treasurer. J. S. Clarkson. of Iovva, was chosen as chairman until the meeting of the committee in November. David B. Fisk, thehead of one of the most extensive wholesale mülinery estalilisliments in the world, died at hi hoine in Chicago, aged 74 years.

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