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7
Month
October
Year
1891
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A hkavy wind at St. Louis blew down several buildings and many f en ces. Tiik checker championship pames, twenty-flve in all, played in Chicago by Charles F. liarker, of Boston, and J. P. Reed, of Chicago, resulted as follows: Karker, 5; Reed, 0; drawn, 21. Miss. Henisy Kkssi.kk, wifeof a leading business man at Erie, l'a., was burned to death by the explosión of a gasoline stover. Mr. Kessler in trying to save his wife's liie was disfigured and crippied for life and his aged mother was badLy burned. The total number of immigrants arriving in the United States frorn foreign countries during the month ended August 31, 1891, was 45,172, ajfainst 37,881 in August of last year. A MARiiLE statue of Pope Leo XIII. was unveiled at Washington. Tiik iorest n'res in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas have been checked by rain. The losses are enormous and hundreds of families are homeless and penniless. It was estimated that the output of sorghum sugar in Kansas and beet i gar in Nebraska, Utah and California would reach fully 27,000,000 pounds the I present season. Jn the nine months of the year 1891 the failures nutnbered 8,838, with liabilities of $1:50,000,000, as compared with 7,851 failures and 8100,000,000 of liabilities for the same period of 1890. FOBBST fires in Eldorado county, Cal., destroyed farm houses and barns, and left over forty families homeless. F. B. Wallace & Co., New York brokers, failed for iaj90,000; assets, 8623,535. The steamer Teutonic, of the White Star line, reduced the eastward record by making the trip from New York to Queenstown in 5 days 21 hours and 22 minutes. The John Seiler Brewing Company of Covington, Ky., has failed for $100,000. During a heavy gale the tug Bertha Endress w,ent down near Point i quois, Mich., with six men on board, and all perishcd. Frank Swebnby was elected grand master of the Switchman's Mutual Benefit association at the annual meeting in I'hiladelphia. Masy persons were reported killed at the opening of the new land in Oklahoma. The biggestoil well ever struck in the United States was opened near Pittsburgh, Pa. lts product was estimated at 10.000 barrels a day. John Aitm:man, of Btickhorn, Pa., was swindled out of $3,500 by two ! strangers with "gold brieks." Ed Powel,i.i and James Lepar were hanged at Gatesville, Tex. , for the murder of Jolin T. IWathiason. At Lebanon, Pa., Mis. Thomas Bomberger and her little boy were killed by the cara The Kentucky savings bank at Louisville closed its doors. Depositors would be paid in full. R. A. Wilsow's atables at Woodlake, Ky. , were burnöd, together with ten valuable trottin;: horses. S.i.m Jones and Saín Small, the noted revivalists, have been summoned j fore a graO-é jury at Rome, Ga., for saying in one of their meetings that "Rome was a hotbed of cussedness and corruption." William Allen, aged 80 years, who spent a small fortune and fifty years of his life in efïorts to ameliorate the condition of working-men, has been sent to the county poor-house at Columbus, O. Gf.org e Wili.iam Curtís was reelected president of the National Civil Service Reform League at the convention at Butïalo, N. Y. An American express car was robbed by two masked men between Little Falls and Utica, N. Y. A package containing $5, 000 was overlooked. The First national bank of Houtzdale, Pa., suspended payment on account of the embezzlement of $45,000 by the teller. A Texas judg-e refused to naturalize an applicaut for American citizenship who is a socialist. The judg-e said the principies of socialism were not in harmony with the constitution of the United States. At Murfreesboro, Tenn., J. II. Allen's livery stable and eleven fine horses and a residence were burned by an ineendiary fire. Two men were struck and instantly killed by an express train on the Pan Pandle road near Nobletown, Pa. A waterspout near Elizabeth, Ark., rnined the corn and cotton crops and did other damage. Large numbers of hogs in South Dakota were dying of cholera. The First national bank of Clearfield, Pa., elosed its doors on account of a run amounting to nearly 540,000. The receipts of the government since September 1 amount to $27,385,000, being an excess of 84,287,000 over ordinary expenses during the same time. The net cash balance in the treasury on the 30th uit was $42,000,000. McCartney's exchange bank at Fort Howard, Wis., was robbed of 840,000 in cash and bonds. Bird & WELLS' sawmill and lumber yard at Wausaukee, Wis., were burned, the loss beiny L100,000. Advices f rom Fort Yates, N. D., no the Missouri river, say that a scope of country 300 miles long and 200 miles wide had been burned over, destroying íarmhouses, stock ranches and many herds of horses and cattle. Four persons were killed and thirty injured by a collision on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio near Kent, 0. Heavy r;üns have fallen in Texas and the government rammakers were likely to move to dryer regrions. lli; Aiioi.I'H [)A81U IF. living on their uil-in near Oali Uien, a sumirb oi' Chicago, were assaulted by William Maute, a farm band, ;md would both probably die f rom the injuries received. Nanct Haxks trotted a mile at Eichmond, Ind., in 3:09. The miblic debt statement issued on the lst showed the totnj debtío be 534,142,251; cash in the treasury, $741,668,209; debt less cash in the treasury, 8702,474,042. Decrease during September, $15,886,426. Ten thÓusand railroad coal miners in the Pitteburg'h district struck for increased wages. The Irish national league convention met in Chicago with 300 delegates present from all portions of the country. Wili.iam DixoN and his wife were burned to death in their home near Koxboro, N. C. Tuf; Leiand Stanford, Jr., university at Palo Alto, Cal., which has an endowment of 120,000,000, was formally opened with an enrollment of 440 students. Thebb was said to be a great shortage in the tobáceo erop this year, the principal doficiency being in that grade used for cigar wrappers. George J. Bai,dwi. and his son John were murdered at Fontanelle, Neb., by James Anderson, a son of Baldwin. The killing was the result of an ! old feud. Nine negro strikers of Lee county, Ark., were hanged to a tree by an armed mob as they were being conveyed by sheriffs from Cat Island to Marriana. Two of the same gang were shot earlier in the day. Edgab EL Keli.ogg, until recently the Chicago agent of the Home Life Iusurance Company of Brooklyn, N. Y., was said to be short $30,000 ia his accounts. The fishing smack Ada, of Pensacola, Fia., with a crew of six men, was given up as lost. The Ilarper Manufacturing Company's woolen milis at Oxford, Me., were burned, causing a loss of $100,000 Within the last ten days pricesin the Connecticut tobáceo market have advanced from 3 to 8 cents per pound. Frank Rudy, a wealthy citizen of Lima, O., was hypnotized and fleeced out of 8600 by confidence men. Andrew Quinlin. aged 80, and the oldest railway conductor in the United States, was killed by a train near Avon, N. J. During the month of September the coinage at the United States mints was 11,437,246 pieces of the value of 3,702,671. James Johnson, city marshal of Antwerp, O., while arresting two burglars in the railroad yards at that place was thrown by them under a freight train and fatally injured. The corner stone of the Ohio cottage of the National Woman's Relief Corps Home was laid at Madison, O. A train ran down a hand car near Carrollton, O., killing Iwo men and wonnding seven, three of whom would die. At Davenport, Ia., the water in the Mississippi river was lower than it had been for years. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 2d numbered 230, against 210 the preceding week and 297 for the corresponding week last year. The schooner Frank Perew was lost in a gale on Lake Superior off Vermillion Point and the captain and five of the crew were downed. Tükner & Bro., Boston bankers, have failed for 300,000. The census office issued a bulletin vrhich showed that the real estáte mortgage debt in foree in Illinois January 1, 1890, was 8384,299,260. The city marshal of Baltimore gave ! notice that the sale of cigars, candy, soda or mineral water, in fact everything except milk or ice, would not be permitted on Sunday hereafter. The Ivish National League of America in session in Chicago eleeted M. V. Gannon, of Omaha, as president. The report of the secretary scored Parnell and the pariiamentary party, and declared that Parnell and his followers were more anxious for American dol lars than anytbing else. The great huckleberry marsh west of Walkerton, Ind., eaught flre and was totally destroyed, eutailing a loss of many thousands of dollars. John Bkown (eolored) and a well-todo farmer at Childersburg, Ala., was lynched to prevent his testifying against two white men in a barn-burning case. Joskph Hobe attempted to kill hil wife at Fremont, O., and failing, took his own life. The Minnesota supreme court has declared that contracta in futures are not valid and therefore persons who get caught on the boards of trade may repudíate their contraots unless they buy and sell real grain. Wili,iam Houser and Spencer Cameron, farmers Hving near Kenton, O., fought a duel and both received fatal wounds. An explosión of giant powder in a mine at Butte, Mont., wrecked fifty houses and injured several persons, three fatally. At Red Lodge, Mont., and other places the snow was 3 feet deep on the level. The five states of Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri produce fully one-half of the corn erop of the United States. It was re ported that great fields of grain in North Uakota would be ruined through the inability of farmers to secure thrashing machines and help. The call-board warehouses of California contain 228,000 tons of wheat, against 15(3,000 tons on September 1. FttBTHEB reports from the scène of the labor riot in Lee county, Ark., show that fifteen negroes were killet! by the mob. Of the fifty young women in Mil ford, Mass., who thirty years ago ; formeel an old maids' club, only fifteen attentled the annual dinner recently, all the others having married. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mus. Mabgarkt CJmstead died at La Porte, Ind., aged 102 j'ears. Shii was ! bom in slavery in North Carolina. The republicana of Colorado met in state convention at Glenwood Springs and renominated Joseph C. Helm for chicf justice of the supreme court. The Colorado democrats in session at Denver nominated Luther M. Uoddard, of Leadville, for chief justice of the Bupreme court. J. II. Büoady, recently nominated by the democrats of Nebraska for associate justice of the supreme court, declines to be a eandidate. ]jis uvi i TT8 (icii"n'i-:jis held thcir convention at Worcester and renominated William E. Russell for governor. A resolution was adopted opposing the free coinage of silver. John L. Jolxey has been nominated for congress by the repiiblicans of South Dakota to sucoeed the late John K. Gamble. J. M. Wood, of Rapid City, has been nominated for congress by the South Dakota democrats. Majob William McKbe Dunn, who was (!en. (írant's personal aid de camp during the war, died at Cushings Island, Me. The independents of South Dakota in convention at Huron nominatcl W. II. Smith, of Minnehaha oounty, for congress. Aftf.r fort3r years service and at his own request Capt. Ueorge ÍI. Perkins has been placed on the retired list of the navy. Harvky'AYatteiíson died at Louisville, Ky., aged 80 years. He was tho sole survivor of the Twenty-sixth congress, having been the youngest member of that body. Charles H. Coleman, aged 17, and Maggie Egan, aged 13, were married at Shelbyville, Ind. Maggie is tho youngest American wife on record. FOREIGN. The schooner Maurice Wilson was wrecked off the Cape Breton coast and five of her crew were drowned. At llaldu, China, pirales had two engagements witti the civil gnards, in which forty-seven piratea were killed and the reinaindisr driven back into the mountaius. An uprising against President Barillas was reported from Guatemala. Fighting in the capital continued for three days. during which time 500 citizens and sol dier 8 were slain. It was said tboufianda of Jewlsh refugees from Ilussia were to be shipped to Canada. The Örst session of the seventh parliament of the dominion of Canada convened at Ottawa. Gen. BoTJLAWGER, the French political intriguer, committed suicide ia Brussels. It was reported that an attempt was made to assassinate Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria. Eight miners were killed in a colliery accident in Wales. The American sealing schooner J Hamilton L.ewls was seized by Kussians for poaching on Copper island. Advices say that the Island of Tanna, New Hebrides, has been devastated by a civil war. It veas announced that the Canadian government would prosecute the officials found by the recent parliamentary investigation to have been systematically defrauding the government. Three fishing vessels returning to St. John's, N. F., from Labrador were wrecked in a gale and sixteen men were drowned. A FinE at Ilalifax, f. S., destroyed business property valued at 8400, 000. An American contractor is to build a railroad from the Ainazon to the Madeiria, connecting Brazil with Bolivia. Fourtkkn houses were burned and a family of six persons perished in a fire at Puylanrens, 'ranee. LAÏtR NEWS. Thb Katiouul league baseball season oíos; with ljObton in the lead, the percentage ot that club being .607. The ociier clubs stood: Chicago, .630; New York. .588; Philadelphia, .495; Cleveland, .408; Brooklyn, .445; Cincinnati, 409; Pittsburgh, .4U7. Two freiöht cars were run off a transfer steamer at Memphis, Tenn. , and four men were drowned. Mrs. Frank Leslie, the well-known publisher of New York, and Mr. William C. K. Wilda, of London, Eng., were married. Theodoke Van Duynbrook and Peter Rauch were asphyxiated by gas at Portland, Ore. The canning works of the Van Camp Packing Companyat Indianapolis were destroyed by fire, the loss being 200,000. An English company with $3,000,000 capital has been formed to work the alleged ruby mines of Montana. Jacob Tukney, ex-congressman from the Twenty-first Pennsylvania district, died at his home in Greensburg, aged 6(5 years. An explosión of gas in the Richardson colliery at Glen Carbon, Pa., killed twelve men. At Walla Walla, Wash. , Fritz Forn, an old soldier, shot and killed his wife, mortally wounded his mother-in-law and then shot himself. The Ulster county savings institution at Kingston, N. Y., was robbed by its treasurcr and assistant treasurer of $463,000. Horace Hamlin, a prominent business man, drowned himself and his tv.-Qö. ehildren at Corpus ChrLsti, Tir

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