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28
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September
Year
1892
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MrS. Simón H. Wessler and her only daughter Kate, aged 19, were struck by au engine while driving across the track at Blairstown, N. J., and both were killed. J. B. Ruckep., editor of the Reporter at Somerset, Ky., was assassinated in his office by members of a gang that he had been denouncing in his paper. In a race war in Calhoun county, Ark., caused by the nevv election law, nine negroes and two white men were killed and severa! persons on each side wounded. On account of domestic troubles Robert Forrester, a farmer, 65 years old, residing near Delavan, Wis., burned his house, barn and grain stacks and then hanged himself. A large pólice forcé is required to keep visitors from despoiling the poet Whittier's grave at Aniesbury, Mass., so great is the desire to procure mementoes. 1t was reported that "Judge" Short, leader of the notorious band of cattle thieves with headqviarters in the North Dakota Bad Lands, had been captured and lynched by ranchmen. JonN S. Johnson made a mil e on a bicycle at Independence, Ia., in 2:04%, beating all previous records and also the mile made by Nancy Hanks, the great trotter, by half a second. Fivb mining companies at Creede, Col., have Consolidated with a capital of $10,000,000. E. P. Sakoent was reelected grand master of the locomotive firemen at the annual convention in Cincinnati. Five freight cars on the Philadelphia & Reading road were blown to atoms near New Hartford, Conn., by an explosión of dynamite with which one of the cars was loaded. The business portion of the little city of M arengo, 111., was ahnost entirely wiped out by fire. Rockaway Beach, a famous Long Island slimmer resort, was almost totally destroyed by fire. Over 100 buildings including twenty large hotels were burned, involving a loss of $500,000. Mrs. Robert Phillips was burned to death. In the Grand Army of. the Repviblic parade in Washington it was estimated that 50,000 veterans marched on Pennsylvan ia avenue. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in session. at Portland, Ore., elected the following officers: Grand sire, C. F. Campbell, London, Ont. ; deputy grand sire, J. W. Stebbens, Rochester, N. Y. ; grand secretary, Theodore A. Ross, Columbus, O. ; grand treasurer, Isaac A. Sheppard, Philadelphia. Rattlesnakes wei'e numero lis in the southwestern portion of North Carolina and they had bitten and killed four persons and scores of horses, mules and cattle, as ell as great numbers of dogs. The national convention of the Boys' and liirls' National Employment association met at Des Moines, Ia. The health officers announce that the re is no cholera in New York city. William Stmons, Sk., and J. R. Leavitt were killed in the Cariotta mine near San Francisco, Cal. Momolu Massaquai, a young negro who has spent four years at the Central Tennessee college in Nashville, has been called to a throne in África. The Union Veteran's union, which has 30,000 members, took me asures at their reunión in Washington for the establishment of an industrial home for sons of veterans. At the business meeting in Washington of the Grand Army of the Republic Indianapolis was selected as the place of meeting of the encampment next year. The adjutant general's report showed that there were 7,568 grand army posts in the country with a total membership of 407,781. During the year the deaths numbered 6,440; total expenditures for the relief of uufortunate comrades, soldiers' widows and orphans, $2,321,704. The eastbound night express on the Santa Fe road was wrecked by train robbers 3 miles west of Osage City, Kan., and five persons were killed and thirty-five injured, severa] fatally. Mrs. S. O. Stilt-man and Mrs. Jesse Crooks were thrown from abuggy by a runaway horse at Galena, 111., and fatally injured. Every one of the Homestead (Pa.) strikers knovsn to have had a part in the deadly riot of July 6 had a true bill found against them by the grand jury. In all there are 167 defendants. John J. Shotweu.., manager of the Colorado Iiammertrick Company at Denver, has left for parts unknown, leaving a deficit of 810,000 in lüs accounts. Gov. Hogq, of Texas, has issued a proclaraation quarantining against New York and other places where cholera prevails. At the session in Providence, R. I., of the supreme council of the Thirtythird Degree Masons it was voted to nold the next convention at Chicago on the third Tuesday in September, 1693. J. L. Hart, a San Antonio (Tex.) gambler, killed his wife and then took his own life. No cause was known. By a collision between a freight train and a passenger train on the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne railroadnear Shreve, O., twelve persons were killed and cremated and nine others were injured. At the session in Po.Hland, Ore., of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows the headquarters of the order were changed from Columbus, O., to Baltiraore, Md. Six business houses, including the post office and the Register oiBce, were destroyed by fire at Mason City, Ia. All the telegraph operators on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids fc Northern railroad struek for higher wages. A large section northwest of Miller, S. D., was swept by fire and hundreds of tons of hay burned, and several farmers were completely burned out. The Union Veterans' Union in session at Washington reelected Gen. S. S. Yoder comm ander in chief and decided to hold its next encampment in Boston. John S. Johnson the boy bicyclist of Minneapolis, broke all records at pendence. Ia., on the kite-shaped track, going a mile in the remarkable time of 1:56 3-5. At the session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Portland, Ore., it was decided to hold the next anmial in Milwaukee. II. C. Fbick and other officials of the Carnegie Company vvere arrested, eharged with riot and conspiracy, the complainant being Burgess Luekie, of Homestead. All gave bail and were released. At the session in Des Moines. Ia., of the Boys andGirls' Natioruil Home Eraployment association, Col. Aiexander Hogeland was reelected president. The Grand Arrny of the Republie closed its twenty-sixth annual encampment in Washington. Gapt. A. G. Weissert, of VVisconsin, was elected as eommander in ehief; Comrade R. H. Warfield, of San Francisco, senior vice eommander in ehief, and Peter B. Ayers, of Delaware, junior viee eommander in ehief. Twenty houses, comprising the inhabited part of St. Petersburg, Pa., a relie of oil boom days, were destroyed by fire while most of the inhabitants were away. The National Colored Men's association convened at Indianapolis. Their object is principally to secure better treatment for the negro in the south. W. F. Walters and wife, of Westerville, O., were killed at the state fair gi-ound crossing in Columbus by a Big Four express train. The world's pacing record for a hall mile track was broken at Lima, 0., by Wisconsin King, who made a mile in 2:14. Henry Watson (colored) was riddled with bullets by citizens at Durant, Miss., for trying to incite a race riot. lx a wreek on the Burlington road near Sibley, Ia.,three immigrants were killed. The Union school furniture building and an entire block of adjoining buildings at Battle Creek, Mich. , were burned, the total loss being $100,000. The world's record for doublé team (2:13) was lowered at Providence, R. I., to 2:12 % by the famous trotters Belle Hamlin and Honest George. There were 211 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 23d, against 182 the previous seven days and 244 for the corresponding time last year. The alarm about cholera has vanished, and trade in every direction sliows all the improvement that was expected. lx the United States the leading clearing houses reported exchanges of Sl,101,409,182 during the seven days ended on the 23d, against $1, 111,313,12o the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1S91 the deerease was 10. S. It is estimated that the output of coal in this country this year will be 42,000,000 tons. Oveií forty persons in Cincinnati were poisoned by drinking milk, and twentythree of them were in a serious cond tion. Fouk wonien were trampled to death and a dozen other persons injured, several of them probably fatally, by a senseless fire panic in a Jewish synagogue in New York city. The Richmond savings bank of Richmoud, Me., has suspended because of large withdrawals of deposits caused by the bank passing the July dividend. Adam Leger and William Leach, convicts in a cell in the prison at Knoxville, Tenn., fought and killed each other. The new Iron Hall was organized at Baltimore and Mr. Somerby was elected ehief ofïicer. The financial plan of the new order is to pay 81,000 in seven years for about $450, or S500 in seven years for about 8225. J. II. Wickes, a well-known New York millionaire, feil from a window in a disreputable house in Detroit and was killed. Lieut. Peaby and his party arrived in Philadelphia from their trip to the north pole. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Judoe Geobge T. Werts, who was nominated by the democrats of New Jersey for governor, has deeided not to make the run. The republicans in the Second district of Louisiana nominated for congress Judge Morris Marks, of New Orleans. Rev. J. Harkison Jones, aged 79, chaplain of the Forty-third Ohio volimteer infantry, Garfield's old regiment, was married at Alliance, O., to Miss Huida Way, aged 65 years. Maj. Gen. Daniel Uli.man, who first organized colored troops in the late rebellion and took the first colored brigade south, died in Nyack, N. Y., aged 82 years. The republicans have nominated Theodore Osten for congress in the Fourth Wisconsin district and David Mercer in the Second district of Nebraska. ' Mrs. Pbesident Harrison was removed from Loon Lake to Washington, and she stood the journey remarkably well. David A. Wade, living near Enterprise, Ky., was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Garvin at Wellston, O. The groom is 100 years old and the bride S2 years of age. In the democratie state convention at Columbia, S. C, the Tillman or alliance faction of the party nominated Benjamin R. Tillman for governor. The democrats have nominated Moses T. Stevens for congress in the Eighth Massachusetts district and G. F. Williams in the Ninth. A natioxal convention of woman sufi'ragists was heldin Washington and Victoria Woodhull-Martin, of New York and London, was nominated for president of the United States. Mrs. Mary L. Stow, of California, was named for vice president. The republicans of the Sixth district of Wisconsin have nomiuated Emil. Baeneh for congress, and G. R. Richardson is the democratie nominee in the Fifth Michigan district. Mrs. Elizabeth Staxton died at her home in Patton township, Center county, Pa., aged 117 years. Her naaiden name was Elizabeth Jamison and she was born in the spring of 1775 in Lancaster county. Pa. Her age is beyond question. The repiiblicans of the Fifth district of Michigan have renominated Charles K. Belknap for congress Maj. Gex. John Pope died in Sandusky at the Ohio soldiers' home in the household of Gen. M. F. Force, the commandant of the home. He was 00 y e ars of age. The Delaware prohibition state converition chose presidential electors by acclamation and nominated Lewis M. Price as representative in congress. Gex. Weavkk, the people's party candidate for president, issued au address to the people saying he could not continue his tour through the south. on account of the treatment he received. FOREIGN. The Spanish government lias declared October 12 a perpetual national holiday in commemoration of the discovery of America. FlKK destroyed 100 houses in Ollcusz, Russia, and fourteen persons were burned to death and eight others probably would die of tneir injuries. Foub thousaxd Dahomeyans attacked the French troops near Oboa and one-third were killed, with slight French loss. The Hst of Eritish exhibitors in the industrial section of the world's fair in Chicago already numbers fully 5,000. The steamer Corinthian, valued at 8100,000, running between Montreal and Toronto, was burned to the water's edge while on her way down the St. Lawrence. All the passengers were saved. Capt. Andrews in his 16-foot dory, which sailed from Atlantic City, Ñ. J., July 20, has arrived at Lisbon. Five THOU3AND houses were wrecked by a typhoon on the Riukiu islands in Japan. Sixty junks were sunk and ! many sailors drowned and crops were detroyed. According to a medieval Russian law a woman who poisoned her husband, a college professor, has been sentenced by the court of appeals to be beheaded, her body burned and one hand ent off. Fraxce celebrated the centennial of her existence as a republic in the usually brilliant style. The railway station at Nancy, France, was partially burned, the loss 200,000 francs. At Buctouche, N. B., fifty-seven buildings, houses and stores, were burned to the ground, the loss being over Y100,000. The seceders from the Salvation in general conference at Toronto organized under the name of the United Christian Workers. C. C. Hogue, au American merchant at Monterey, Mexico, has been expelled from the republic for crit.ieising ,the administration of President Diaz. At Jung Rentzlau, near Prague, an officer of the garrison killed his nancee and himself with a pistol because the girl's parents objected to their being married. News was received of an outbreak of the Apache Indians in the Sierra Madra mountains in Mexico and the murder of a family of settlers. The legislative eouncil of New Zealand has passed the woman's franchise bilí with a proviso that female voters may be registered without personal attendance at the polls. LATER. Gex. James W. Ri.-ted died at his residence in New York, aaed 59 years. Ile was a prominent republiean, had held many public offices, and had the longe.st legislative service of any man in the history of his state - nearly eiííhteen years. lx a railway wreek on the Daisy line at Parkland, Ky. , ten persons were injured. Hugh O'Doxxeix was refused bail on the charge of complicity in the murder of Detective Kline at Homestead, Pa., during the riots. and he will remam in jail until the trial begins. Tuk cliolera was said to be decreasing rapidly in Hamburg and confidence had been restored. The people's party of Connecticut held a convention at New Haven and nominated a full state ticket with E. M. Ripley, of Unionville, for governor. A gamislixg house was burned at Thompson, N. D. , and two gamblers peiished in the flames. Chairmxx Craxe of the territorial committee of Utah says there has been no Mormon polygamous marriages in Utah since September, 1S90. Mhs. Anna Chaffeb celebrated her lOOth birthday at her home in Adrián, Mich. Thrke highwaymen rode into the coal miningtownof Roslyn, Wash., entered Benjamin E. Snipe's bank, oovered the cashier and bookkeeper with revolvers and made away with $10,000. Two freight trains collided at New Hampton, Ia., and eight persons were killed and others were injured. The People's bank at Hope, Ark., closed its doors with only forty-five cents in the safe. Depositors would lose 15,000. Maj. Stewart, who was on Grant's staff during the war, died suddenly in Washington. J. P. Kelley, a gambler, shot and killed his wife at Denver and then killed himself. Jealousy was the cause. Patrick S. Gilmore, of New York, the great band leader, died at the Lindell hotel in St. Louis after only a few hours illness, aged 03 years. Fon? men feil 200 feet down a shaft in the Eureka mine in Bessemer township, Mich., and were killed. In the second series of the National league the percentages of the baseball clubs ior the week ended on the 19th were: Cleveland, .717; Boston, .010; Brooklyn, .557; NewYork, .525; Pittsburgh, .525; Cincinnati, .509; Philadelphia, .500; Chicago, .483; Louisville, 424; Baltimore, .411; St. Louis. .350; Washington, .339

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