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24
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May
Year
1893
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The Bank of the Carolinas, with home office at Florence, S. C, suspended. It has branches at Kingstree, Conway, Williston and Varnville, S. C, and at several towns in North Carolina. FotJJB THOUSANi) chickens and several hundred dozen eggs were burned at HainmomVs hatchery in Lima, O. Fiusk L. Ar.MV was hanged at Concord, N. II., for the brutal murder at Hanover on July 17, 1891, of Christie Warden. Heim.kh. a Crawford covinty (Kan.) villag-e with a population of 800, was destroyed by a fire said to have been started by the "Land League," an organization formed to protect its members against the usurpation of land by the railroads and new settlcrs. O. F. Day, Son & Co. 's harness and trunk faetory at Baltimore was burned, causing a loss of $150,000. Erasïus Wimax. a New York specu lator failed for $000,000. A WBECK oceurred on the I'an-IIandle road at Frazeeburg, O., and five tramps who were stealing a ride were killed. By the capsizing of a sailboat in the river at Louisville, Ky., Warner Brisco and Frederick Stein, wealthy young whisky dealers, were drowned. Fiki.d.s Huns., extensivo importers of horses at Cedar Falls, Ia., made an assignment with liabilities of $200,000. Patbick Kyan was fined $50 in St. Louis for disturbing the peace of Miss Clara Ainaek. He said he was predestined to marry Miss Amack and had received such a command f rom God. The First national bank at Cedar Falls, Ia., suspended, with liabilities of $100,000. The lake steamer Peliean, loaded with ore, sprang a leak and foundered near Ashtabula, O., and the mate and two sailors were drowned. The local directora of the World's Columbian exposition decided to abrógate their contract with congress by which they bound themselves to close the fair on Sunday by returning the money and to throw open the entire exhibition on the Lord's day with or without the sanction of the national commission. P. A. Mabcei.lius, a well-known resident of Socorro, N. M., entered a plea of guilty to twenty-seven indictments for violation of the United States pension laws and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment The greatest seizureof "green goods" ever made in this country oceurred at Bridgeport, Conn., officers securing 24,000 circulars, three in each envelope, addressed to 8,000 individuals all over the country. James Fales, of Barrington, E. I., state senator elect, had his tongue amputated on account of a cáncer. The ninth annual convention of the National Editorial association commenced in Chicago with delegates present from every state in the union. The president has appointed A. C. Baker, of Arizona, to be chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of Arizona; Edward L. Hall, of New Mex ico, to be marshal of the United States for the territory of New Mexico, and Benjamin P. Moore, of New York, to be collector of customs for the district of Alas ia. Albe kt CiHRiER, John Johnson, Nicholas Servas and Chester Simons, members of the life-saving crew at Cleveland, O., were drowned by the capsizing of their boat while attempting to rescue two drowning men. Wtt.t.tam Morris shot his wife at Keytesville, Mo., andthen took hisown life. Jealousy was the cause. The Citizens' bank of Minneapolis, with a capital of $250,000, closed its doors, and the Bank of Zumbrota, at Zumbrota, Minn., suspended payment. The tug Continental and scow were washed out into the lake from Conneaut, O., and foundered and sevejimen and two women who were on board were drowned. A box containing $10,000 was unearthed at Des Are, Ark., by Dr. George E. Petty under a house formerly owned by the late S. P. Catlin, a miserly old bachelor. The old Schenck farm in Flatlands, L. L, purchased originally for a jug of whisky, was sold at auction for $77,986. The property consists of 115 acres and has been in the Schenck family for nearly 300 vears. The immense factory of the Charles Pope Glucose company at Geneva, 111., blew up, wrecking the building and killing seven workmen and terribly injuring four other men. The property loss was $150,000. John Daggett, of California, has been appointed superintendent of the mint of the United States at San Francisco. Wii.l Neai. (colored) was lynched by negroes near Williamsville, Miss., for assaulting the 6-year-old daughter of Jackson Conly, also colored. Chaki.ks II. Gkiner, a timber buyer, was waylaid and robbed of $1,200 while on his way from Smyra, Mich., to Bowling Green, O. It cost John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, $1,200 to settle for his assault on Lawyer M. L. Lizette at Biddlefonl. Me. A PLOOI at Brie, l'a., eaused by heavy rains. did damage estimated at $1,000,000. Mauy houses were swept eutirejv away and loo families were rendered homeless.. At Tltusville, Oil City, Beaver Palla, New Castle and other Pennsylvania towns great losses were also reportcd from high water. Mns. Angelo, agedabout 90 years, residing at l'ort Eads, La., was killed and partially eaten by an alligator. Tuk will of the late Bufus Hatch, of New Yorlv. leaves most of his property to his children, and in the wil] he warns thera not touse tobaeeo in any shaiv or form, nor to touch, taste or use wiae or liquor in any way and to refrain froin 'j'amblins'. ÖKVKHTBKN business houses ana resldences were destroyedby an incendiary fire at Mout fort, Wis. Loss, $100,000. The Evanston (UI.) national bank-, with a capital of ?100,000, closed its doors. At the t wenty-seventh annual meeting in New Vork of the national board of underw riters I). W. ('. Skelton, of Hartford, Conn., ivas reelected president. One iiundked feet of levee in Chicot eounty, Ark., near Grand Lake, collapsed. fiooding raany plantations and causinji immense loss. The ehief of the bureau of statistics, in his monthly statement says tbat the total value of the exports of merchandise from the United States during the twelve months ended April 30, 1893, were $848,594.427, and the corresponding period of the preceding year 1,011,843,178, a decrease of 1162,748,746. The values of Importa during the WB( periods were (926,151,93 and ■883,146,371 respectively, an increase of $94,006,617. Secüktaky Grksham has appointed Clinton Furbish, of Chicago, to sueceed William E. Curtís as director of the bureau of American republies. Flames in Chicago in the building occupied by the Dr. Price Üaking Powdei company oaused a damage of il 15.000. James Roy and Elmer Arbo, of Bartlett, and Alexander Alearow attempteil to snoot therapidsat Sewall's Falle Me., in a boat. but the boat capsized and th men were drowned. Those best inforraed on the .subject estímate the amount the povernmeni will have to rebate to the importers under the recent decisión of the supreme court in the so-called "hat trimmings'' case at about $6,000,000. Isaac Rosenweig and Harria Mank were hanged at Tunkhannock, Pa. They were both Russian peddlers anc each 27 years of age. They murderec Jacob Marks, a peddler, on Duteh mountain, Wyoming county, March 18 1899. a fbeight train was wreckea near Dubois, Pa., the cars took fire and three trainmen were burned to death. The Illinois building on the world's fair grounds was dedicated. A wixdstorm which swept over Colorado did great damage. At Telluride and Brighton many houses and other buildings were wrecked. John Wii.son. of Mulberry, Ark., eloped with his niece, Mabel Summers. Her father followed them and shot anc killed Wilson. Thk representative negroes of South Carolina met in Columbia and adoptec resolutions in which lynching was condemned and an appeal made to the humane people of the state to aid them in suppressing any atternpt to viólate the law by lvnching. The Oglethorpe national bank anc the Brunswick national bank, both of Brunswiek, Ga., suspended, and M. Uilman, president of the flrst-named bank, committed suicide. Over 1,000.000 logs were swept down the river at Fairfield, Me., by the recent heavy freshet. and the loss will be very heavy. A SLioiiT earthquake shock was feit in San Francisco The floods throughout northern Idaho and thi western part of Washington had reached the highest point known to the oldest residents and the damage would amount to many hundreds oi thousands of dollars. Thk Spanish steamer Maria Christina, having on board the Spanish Infanta Eulalie, the official representative in this country of Queen-Regent Chrisina. arrived in ííew York. Thk chiefs of pólice of many cities met in Chicago and organized a national union with W. S. Seavey, of Omaha, as president. MUS. MlCHAEL BlERGE, wife of 8 wealthy farmer residing near Barnard, Mo., suddenly became insane and killed her 5-montiis old babe and cut her own throat, dying instantly. After standing fourteen years the will of Bishop Ames, of the Methodist church, was broken at lialtimore, and the estáte, valued at between Í150,000 and $200,000, will now be divided according to law. The president has named the following to be consuls of the United States: M. M. Duffie, of Arkansas, at vvinnipeg; George Horton, of Illinois, at Athens, Greece; Frank H. Brooks, of Illinois, at Trieste. 1 U-ring the week nded on the 19th the leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to tl, 221, 547,406, against $1,370,604,109 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 5.2. Thk establishment of the King Iron Hridge company at Cleveland, O., was damaged to the extent of $150,000 by fire. Thehe were 247 business failures reported in the United States during the seven davs ended on the 9th. In the week preeeding there were 257, and during the corresponding time in 1S92 the number was 269. Levvis Ta vlor {colored) was hanged in the jail yard at Lake Charles, La., for assaulting a negro woman some months ago. C'iiahi.ks S. Rogeks, president of the Northwestern cordage works and a millionaire, in a moment of frenzy leaped from the high bridge in St. Paul nul was killed. At a meeting of the cabinet it was decided that the president could not execute the Geary Chinese exclusión law and the measure will not be put into operation until congress provides the means therefor. Kers Cbaige, of North Carolina, has been appointed third assistant postmaster general vice A. D. Hazen, resigned. The international oonvention of press eluba in session in St. Paul elected John A. Cookerell, OÍ New Vori;, as ]ri'sIdent. It was decided to establish a borne tor aged and intirm journalista 1'i.amks in the Arbuckle Brothers coffee mili in Brooklyn, N. V.. cansed a loss of t250,000. 'l'm: world's fair directory adopted a rule that for the future all children ander 13 and over 6 years oí age wil] be admitted te the fair for twenty-five cents. KTHKLINDA MATHTJ nas DrOUgUl sul for divorce against Oliver Mayhue, a IJellaire (O.) grocer. They were married April 20, lis."4, and have fourteen children. Cruelty was the charge. Samiki. li. ( 'Ai.r.owAY, of Cleveland, has been appointed receiver of the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City railuav, known as the "Clover Leaf" line. Thk government will pay all bilis presented for the entertainment of tha duke of Veragua while in this country 1'ive tiiousand miners in the southeastern Kansas coal flelds struck for ■iigher wages. Santos Ma mía, the Peni vían giant, tvho was to lavo been exhibited at the (Torld's fa;r. riied at Bellevue hospital in New York. Wili.am PAiTBrcsoN, a wealthy fartner living near Westen, O., was worked by thi' fanniíig-inill racket to the tune uf $.-),000. .iiahv Hamukck, a child apea a .years, was blown by the wind into a well 70 f eet deep at Omaha, Neb., and killed. TwE.NTY-FiVK horses belonging tothe People's Outtitting cornpany wero burned to death in a fire in Chicago. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Ai.bkkt W. Nickerson, the millionaire railroad operator, died of peritonitis at his residence at Riverdale Mass. Hos. Frf.derick C. SCHEKCK, f or seventeen years counsul to Iiacelona, Spain, beginning in Hayes' administrar tion, died at Lafayette, Ind., aged 53 years. James E. Murdoch, the famous tragedian. aged 83 years, died at his suburban home near Cincinnati of variou ailments oombined with oíd age. FOREIGN. The central part of the Episcopal palace at Bishop' court, near Douglas, Isleof Man, was burned, and books and documents of priceless value were consumed in the flames. Advices from the oriënt say that two disastrous fires, resulting altogether in the destruction of 4,400 ■ native houses, oceurred at Manila. At a fire at Trondhjem, Norway, four persons were killed while jumping from a burning building and three women and two children were burned to death. At the reeeption of the prince of Wales at the Imperial institute in London Mr. Gladstone was hooted at and hissed by political opponents. Mok. Gonnindabd, archbishop of Rennes, France, dropped dead in the courtvard of the railway station at Rennes. The prince of Salm-Salm, one of the first nobles of the kingdom of Prussia, died suddenly in Vienna of apoplexy while pronouncing a blessing over a bridal couple. M. Lardeux, a French journalist, proposes to walk from Paris to Chicago via Siberia, crossing Behring straits on the ice. The extensive wine vaults of the Eschenauers at Bordeaux, France, were destroyed by fire, the loss being 2,000,000 francs. Prof. Wiggins, of Ottawa, Ont., the weather prophet, has retired and will venture no more opinions as to prospective earthquakes, floods or cyclones. Whilb Mr. Gladstone was traveling from London to Chester a heavy missile was tlirown at his compartment as the train approached Wülesden, but the missile struek the window of the next compartment. A New ukase has been issued expelling the Jews from the Asiatic provinces of the Russian empire. The British government has prohibj ited sealing in the Behring sea unlil May 1, 1894. LATER. A fire that broke out in the mili property of Sample & Cump in Sagiaaw, Mich., burned a district a mile in length and four or five blocks wide, destroying 27") buildings and other property, the total loss being $900,000; insurance, ÍU00.000. Robert Turner, aged 89, lost his life, and several other persons were in j ured. .Ioiin Downf.y's cottage in Buffalo, N. Y.. was burned and three children perished in the flames. A Fiui-: destroyed Meed's sawmill, planing mili, boarding house and thirty or fort.y residences in the south part of Antigo. Wis., the loss being 8100.000. PlTTSBUBGH, Pa., and vicinity was visited by a violent hailstorm that did damage estimated at $500.000. At the meeting of the yational Editorial association in Chicago Walter Williams, of Columbia, Mo., was elected president for the ensuingyear. In an interview Attorney General Olney said that the WOrid'a fair could not be opened on Sunday, and that if the local directory should decide to pen il the United States courts would Luterfere immediately by injunction. Fokkbt fires raging in Michigan reac'ned Louis Sand's lumber camp near Lake City and resulted in burning to death eleven men. ÜB Woman's World's Fair Auxiliary congress came to an end with a concert of sacred music. No less than twentysix nations and 110 women's organizations were represented in the congress and every line of woman's work, from household eeonomy to woman in ntitional politics was discussed., Tuk cruiser New York developed the remarkable speed of nearlj' 2 knots an hour upon her trial trip oiï Cape Ann. The town of Iiryant. Wis., "as wiped out by a forest fire, not a single hoise of any description being lelt to mark the town site. Xo lives were lost. The stable of the Crum Liveiy oompany in St. Louis was destroyed by fire and 150 horses were burned to death and Eddie Quinn, a 7-year-old boy, lost his life in the flames. The total los was Ï2OO,OOO. Fire dostroyed the American Tubing and Webbing oompany's worke at I'rovidence, R. I., the loss being 8250.000. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for tho week endea on the Bist were as follows: Cleveland. .780; St. Lo l'hiladelphia, .688: Iirooklyn, .5SS; l'ittsburgh, .588; Boston. .588; Cincinnati, .47ii; Washington, .474: Baltimore, 421; New York, .421; Chicago, .2(58; Louisville. .lGü.

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