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19
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August
Year
1891
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A WINDSTOBM swept over Decatiir coxinty, la., unrooiing many buildings and eausing other dainage. Nink Italian laborers were injured, three fatally. in a railway accident near liradford, Conn. Thk new two dollar silver certificates soon to be issued will boar a vignette of the late Secretary Windom. The two children oí David Schwenk, living near Detroit, Mioh., were burned to death while trying to start a flre with kerosene during the absence of their parents. A CI0UDBUK8T at Redlands, Cal., flooded all the business houses and 'washed away many srnall buildings. Thk total as.scs.icd vahie of Illinois property for 1S91 is $737,810,405, against $727,425,707 in 1890. A YAcii t was struck by a squall off Presque Isle, Mich., and eapsized, and three young ladies were drowned. THESE were ÏOO cases of prostration in New York city on the llth from the intense heat. The Chippewa Indian village near Sawyer, Minn. , was destroyed by a hurricane. It was reported that 40,000 negroes were to colonize in California with the assistance of Senator Stanford. As attachment for 8101,774 closed the Ozal Lumber Company of Little Rock. Ark. Ai,l the property, rights and rfranchises of the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway Company have been deeded to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company for 825,222,000. Jealousy caused a woman to attempt with dynamite the destruction of the family and residence oí Dr. R. M. Juvenal in Kansas City, Kan. No serious damage was done. A YACiiT capsized in the bay at Toledo, O., and Miss Sulhvan, Mr. Oberly and Mr. Fitzgerald were drowned. An express train on the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway ran into a freight at Briant, Ind. , and Engineer Dick and FireiiKin Brown were killed. A. (i. Moffett", a prominent Cleveland (O. I physician, was drowned at ühautauqua, X. Y. R. 1!. Guiïley, of the San Francisco Examiner, dropped dead in a Minneapolis street. Flames in the wool houses of George Oberne and Ilosiek & Co. in Chicago caused a loss of 8200,000. An effort to produce rain by the firing of dynamite in balloons sent up for that purpose was successful at Midland, Tex. Boys while smoking cigarettes set iire to the barn of Sanford Moss at AndtTson. Ind., and three horses and alarga amount of hay. grain and farming implemento were destroyed. A i party oL seven persons capsized on Kice lake, near Bowmanville, ünt., and Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins and Miss May I!ee were drowned. Tiiikty persons died in New York city from the effects of heat and eight met a like f ate in Philadelphia. Gov. Page, of Vermont, has cailed a special session of the legislatura to convene August ■!'. Tuk total value of the exports of breadstuil's from thü United States for the inontii of July v. ..291.. Lndianatolis has tu apon as the location of the national Farmers' Alliance cönveation, to be hoM November 17. Mi:s. James 1!. Robertson and her daughter, Miss Belle Robertson, were found murdered in their house at St. Martinsville. La. The two children of L. L. Horton, living near Ohio Pyle, Pa., were fatally burned by the explosión of an oil can. W. E. Schmertz, boot andshoe dealer at Pittsburgh, Pa., has failed for $850,000. Invkstigation of the National Capital Savings, Building and Loan association's books in Chicago shows that over 3,100 victims were swindled out of surns aggregating #90,000. Wii.liam A. LEVEBIN6, a lumber merchant of Philadelphia, has failed for 150,000. The census office has issued a bulletin showing the population of West Virginia to be 762,794, an inerease of 144,337 o eer 1890. A hukkicane at Landenburg, Del., demolished several buildings, killed two persons and many cattle and ruined crops. A haii.sti.ru near Melrose, "Minn., leveled thousands oí' aeres of wheat. many farmers losiny all their ci'ops, even cra-n and potatoes. Sixtf.ex persons were killed and twenty others injured at Cold Spring, L. I., hy the deck of an excursión barge falling upon them. ís answer to inquirios made by foreign consuls the state offieers of Iowa deny the presenee of any contagious disease among the cattle of the state. Thomas L. Davis, a farmer near Crothersville, Ind., in boring for water struck a heavy flow of petroleum. Wolfgang Ballestkom, a Germán tramp staying at Santa Cruz, Cal., has tnherited a fortune of $500,000 and the title of count by the death of his father near Berlín. The village of Ellsworth. Minn., was almost entirely swept away by a tor, nado. li. Y. Smith, a prominent resident of Brownsburg, Ind., was smothered to death in a grain shute in his elevator. The exhibits of the Columbian exposition in Chicago are to be insured for something like 8300,000,000. The state department at Washington received a dispatch from Lord Salisbury expressing the sorrow and regret of Queen Victoria at the death of Mr. James Kussell Lowo.lL i'HE taulory ui the Henry i. Hart Ifanufactm-ing Company in Detroit was burned, eausing a loss ol $120,000 A. W. Wn.cox, a well-to-do faiiner aged 70 years, living near Gaylord, Mich., killed his 19-year-old granddaughter with an ax and then simt himself dead. . George Wikman, a farmer of St. Clair county, 111., was held up by three A BOii.EU oí a tnrashing machine exploded at Iliawatha, Kan., killing the engineer and injuring two other men. Job HA88, a wealthy eoal dealer at Mount Airey, a suburbof Philadelphia, was found murdered in his office. At Harrisburg, Pa., Charles F. Wolf, who had just been elected executive officer of the world's íair commission from Pennsylvanla, dropped dead on his way to his home. 1t has been decided by Acting Postmaster General Whitfield that postal cards the edges of which have been cut and the Bhape of the card materially changed for advertising purposes cannot be sent through the mails. Indiana bankers have decided to fight the proposed effort of the state board of tax eommissioners to compel them to exposé the accounts of the depositors. Mr. and Mr. Eugene Bonnick, of Denver, Col., committed suicide by taking morphine. Domestic infelicity was the cause. A windstobm at Keokuk, Ia., blew down over one-half of the shade trees in the city and wrecked several buildings. The St. John & Marsh Lumber Company of Chicago failed for .S14G.000. Jacob FbaNZBBB, ex-secretary of the Camp Washington Building association of Cincinnati, was charged with embezzling .13,000. The National Association of Fire Engineers in session at Springfield, Mass., elected as president A. I'. Lesmere, of that city. IM the United States the business failurcs during the seven days ended on the 14th numbered 2:i7. against 281 the preCeding un-k and 197 for the corresponding week last year. At Columbia, S. C, David Jacobs and Mrs. Mary Johnson, sentenced to be hanged for murder, were placed on the seaftold and the nooses adjusted about their necks, u-hen a respite arrived from the governor. Andukw Jexnings died at Farley, la., while drinking whisky on a wager. A NTTMBEB of representative farmera of Indiana met at Indianapolis and established a state farmer's reading circle. CoMMANDER-IN-CiriKK l'AI.MEK appointed Col. Frederick Phisterer, oi New York, adjutant general of the Grand Army of the Eepublic. A SAW.MII.L and yard containing 1, - 000,000 feet of lumber were burned at Lindonville, Vt. An express train on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad eollided with a freight at Eg-g Harbor, N. J., injuring nine persons. Over 1,000 members of the New York eloakmakers' union went on a strike to forcé a recognition of their organization by employers. Three men were killed and seven injured by the explosión of a powder mili near Iluntington, W. Va. The village of Campo, Cal., was destroyed by a cloudburst. No lives were lost. Col. John Coyle, a prominent citlzen of Winston county, Ala., was tortured by burglars until he gave up $000. The office of the Daily Bulletin at Anderson, Ind. , was destroyed by fire. At liowling Green, Ky-, Clyde Ragland, the l'J-year-old daughter of Squire J. P. Ragland, feil from a horse she was and was dragged to death. Chbistian Beneckjc, aged 92 years, living near Fort Wayne, Ind., was burned to death while trying to extinguish a fire that was burning hisfence. The two daug-hters of li. King, oi Nashville, Ind., "were fatally lmrt in a runaway accident. PERSONAL AND POLITiCAL. Mrs. a.nisk Sharp Robebts celebrated her centennial anniversary in Watseka, 111. She was born near Bridguport, Conn., August 10, 1791. Richard Cottb Sixno., of New York, has been appointed minister to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and San Salvador by President Harrison. Fredkrick Dougi.ass has tendered his resignation as minister to Hayti. Mrs. Lelia Roblnson Sawteli.e, the first woman to bc admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, died at Amherst, N. II. Iiisnop Jabez P. Campbell, of the African Methodist Episcopal church, died in Philadelphia, aged CS. He was ordained a bishop in 1868. James Russki. i. I.owir.i., the great American poet and diplomat, died at 2:10 o'clock on the tnorning of the 12th at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was born February 22, 1819, at Elmwood, near Cambridge. His death was caused by an affection of the liver. Wii.i.iam Armstbon, sai.l to have been the oldest living odd fellow in the United .t:itv s. ilii il at Salem, Ore., aged 89 years. The people's partv was sáid to be arranging for a state political camp meeting tobe held in Lansing, Mieh., from Sopt 14 to 24 inclusive. .M K-i. Asi.naih Milleb, of Chicago, celebrated her 104th birthday on the 12th. She was in good health. MBS. .Mary Duüand, 75. years old, reputed to own an estáte in Franee worth 85,000,000, died from starvation at her home in Effg ETarbor City, N. .1. Gbobqe .Ionis. editor and proprietor of the New Vork Times, diedatPoland Springs, Me., on the 12th, aged 80 years. The New York drmoerats will hold their state convention at Saratoga Springs on September 15. Anthony C. Manning, aged 77, and Mrs. Amelia Thompson, aged 79, of Elkhart, Ind., were married The people's party of Illinois was organized at Springfield and :t state central committee chosen. Hon. John E." Gamble, congressmanelect from South Dakota, died suddenly at his home in Yankton of neuralgia of the heart, aged 43 years. KKY. I' VKÖAJÜ SHt!UAl)X, tlia first high caste Brahmin ever con verted to the Christian faith.died at sea while enroute from New York to Europe. The oflicial figures on the reeent congressional election in Tennessee are: Houk (rep.), 1,285; Woodruff (dem.), 6,057. Ilouk's majority, 9,228. Tuk funeral service of James Russell Lowell were held at Cambridge, Mass., on the 14th. The widow of James K. Polk, the eleventh president of the United States, died at her home in Nashville, Tenn. She was in her 88th vear. JOBEPH P. IÍ'.iwk. a member of the Eighteenth and Nincteenth congresses, died in San Francisco, aged 80 years. Miss Anna Dickixsox lectured at (oshen, N. Y., on '"Joan of Are," and showed no sgns of insanity. Tue funeral oí the late George O. Jones, editor of the New York Times, took place on the 14th. FOREIGN. Tuk populatiou of Mexico according to official statistics is stated to be 11,638,8-24. Duhi.no the six months of the fiscal year 1890-91 there were received and distributed in Mexico 25,498,238 letters, an increase of 1,879,031 over the half year preoeding. By a boiler explosión at Chaumont, France, six persons were killed and four were fatally injured. Theuk were fears of a faraine in many districts in Kussia on account of the failure of the crops. At Lima, Peru, the vaultin the cathedral in which the remains of Francisco Pizarro were placed in 1451 was opened and the remains moved to the chapel of the viccroys. The body was found well preserved. An eruption of the volcano of Colima covered the city by that name in Mexico with ashes. Sir EÜSCTOB Langevin, minister of public works in the dominion government, has resigned, owing to wholesale corruption haviug bren unearthed in his depari ment. Xeak Yokohama two steamera that were racinir oollided and 260 persons lost theii' lives. JOHN ('w.i.aiiax, an employé of a street rail way company in Hamilton, Ont., confessed that he ba 1 in the last six yeare i.000. At Craig-y-Nos, Wales, Adelina Patti threw open her ncw theater to the ■■■ld on thfi 1 Herb Ebner, formerly Burgomaster of Steinbach, I!:i len, who was convictel df the murder of Uis wife, bas been guillotined. A tornado leveled farm buildings near Potsdam, Germany, and over a dozen persons were killed. The twelfth conference of the Young Men's Christian a:-soeiations of all lands eonvened a1 Amsterdam, Holland, with delegates present from nearly every country in the world. Immense tracts of timber in France were being consumed by forest fires. At Manipur, India, two of the leaders of the massin-iv f British officials in Maren hanged. American enterprise has eonstructed waterworks for the cit3T of Tegucigia. Honduras. The report óf the finance minister of Brazil !80 shows that the total public debt of Brazil is $586, (508,805. llipi.vni Gonzalks, Fermín Pérez and Bonifacio Vaides, who had been convicted of kicinaping, were executed at Havan; It was estimated that the wheat erop of France would fall 8,20ü,00U bushels short of supplying its own needs. The pólice of Moscow received orders that would result in expelling all Jews from that city within two months. IATEÍJ NEWS. In at; :i üng a parachute úrscent from a l-aüoón near Cincinnati Miss Aun: .. was killed, and Prof. Parker met a like fate at Tacoma, Wash. In Severns county, Ga., the three sons of Wallace Williams, all preachers, were fatally struck by lightning. Ljeonard Wkavek and John Schuster were overeóme by fras and drowned while cleaning a cesspool at Pittsburgh, Pa. Fi.amks in the of the Norfolk (Va.) storage company caused a loss of 3250,000. 1'iük almost completely destroyed the machinery in the mine of the New Pitteburgh Goal & Coke Company at Alum Cave, Pa. Loss, 8100.000. John B. Tolman, the oldest printer in Lynn. ?.lass., died at the age of 84 years. The funeral of Mrs. James K. Polk took place at Nashville, Teun. . on the 16th. At Independence, la., Xelson trotted a mile in 2:10, thus beating the world's stallion record, At Somerset, Ind., Lincoln Cochran and a youny lady were thrown from a wagon during a runaway and killed. Thbee persons died in Milwaukee from drinking impure water from a well and several others were dangerously ill. GbeAT damage was done to property by a cj'elone near Eddyville, 111. Hakhv Coi bsiw, 20 years of age. and his 18-year-old sister, were drowned near McKeesport, Pa., while bathjng. Fivio bouses at Eliza botlitown. Ind., ■were struck by lightning and Ezra Siseo, Charles McCully and Dr. Thompson were killed. The rope and twine firm of John Bonte Sons' Company at Cincinnati failed for 100,000. E. B. Prkston, a lumber merchantof North Ottawa. Kau., shot and killed his wife and then fatally shot himself. Domestic trouble was the cause. Jamks BuCKINGHAM, an aeronaut, i made a descent into the lake at : cuse, N. Y., and was drowned. In the National league the , ages of the baseball clubs for I the week ended on the 15th were: Chicago, .589; Boston, .583; New York, .581; Philadelphia. .."27; Brooklyn, .484; Cleveland. .4ö3; Cincinnati, .404. Pittsburgh, .;i(5: The percentages in clubs of the American association were: Boston. .084; St. Louis, .(37; Baltimore, .5S5; Athletic, .520; Columbus, ,48ü; Cincinnati, .4i:4; Louisville, 337, Washinsrton, .319. ifc

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