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22
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November
Year
1893
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For the ten months ended October 31 last the reduction in the value of exports of breadstuffs and provisions, compared with the sarae period in 1892, was respectively 842,487,957 and $21,457,493. Ambrose and Joseph Smith were killed near Mount Piucon, Ala , while resistiría arrest on the charg-e of trespassing1. As thk result of a quarrel Herman Kchank, of Milwaukee, shot and killed his wife Lizzie and then killed himself. Mrs. Lydia Yoings died at her home at Stillman Valley, 111., aged 93. She had resided on the same farm fiftyfive years and never saw a train of cars. John Connors, for seven years custodian of stolen pvoperty for the pólice department of Chicag-o and with au office in the city hall, is a self-confessed embezzler of the funds intrusted to his charg'e. Seveual lives were believed to have been lost in a conllagration in Memphis, Tenn., which caused 1500,000 damaees. Three men attempted to hold up a train near Lincoln, 111. They were driven off after shooting1 Brakeman Trott. JdSTICK Bla.TCHFOBD'8 memory was hooored hy the supreme court in VVauhngton. Justice Kuiler and Attorney General Olney pronounced euloffies. llio.NHY Jïooos, a negro charged with murder at Lake City, Fla., was captured by a mob, his eyes gouffed out and pieces of flesh cut from his body, aíter which he was shot to death. Thk new United States cruiser Cohnnbiaarrived in Hoston harbor from üelaware breakwater, her run at sea beinff the quickest ever made by a war vessel ui uiis country, Deining me iew lorks time over two hours. The congress of the Salvation Army convened at Carnefj-ie music hall in New York. Cominaiicler Booth, who presided, spoke about the work of the array during1 the past year and said that over 15,000,000 persons had attended the meetings. The seventeenth annual convention of the Knights of Labor met at Industrial hall in Philadelphia. W. A. Beank, proprietor and editor of the Goshen (Ind. ) Democrat, dropped dead on the street from heart disease while on his way to nis office. The schoolhouse at Coopersvifle. N. Y., was destroyed by fire, and Miss May Porter, the teacher, and Willard JohllSOtl. il litt.lfi hov vvrf hnrnprï tr deatb. The Coal and Iron bank, the last bank in Middleboro, Ky., closed its doors. Job Kikksky, Will Weiss and Bob McKinney ere killed by an explosión in a lumber mili near lieaumont, Tex., and three Other nion uere fatally injured. ClIA.MI'lo.v JAMAS J. COKBETT and "Charley" MitcheU have agreed tofight beiore the Uuvul Athletic eluü in Jac-ksonvillc, I'la.. January :;:. In an unoffieial trial off Hoston the new cruiser Columbia made the unprecedented speed of 22.87 knots an hour. 'J'iik women wliite caps at Osceola, Neb., who flopged several girls three weeks ag'o, were fined for unlawful assembly. The Thurber-Whyland corapany, wholesale grocers in New York city, failed for $800,000. John Johnson (colored) was electrocuted at Auburn, N. Y., for the unproToked murder of two fellow convicts. At Fittsburg-h, I'a., the convention oí the Xational Reform association began a four days' session. By guessing within sixty-nine of the total attendance at the world's fair F. M. Cowan, of Flushing, O., won a gold-plated gun. Mabked men took D. T. Nelson, a negro murderer, f rom the Varner (Ark.) jail, riddled him with bullets and burned his body. Cincinnati wants to spread out and has a plan to annex 75 square miles of territory. Hekman and Otto Habeck, of Wein, Wis., admit that they killed their drunken father at the instanee of their raother. The "Little Ked House" at Lenox, Mass., in which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "Tanglewood Tales, ''The House of Seven Gables," and other stories, is to be restored. It was destroved by fire some time apo. Wkiss & Goldstein, of Greenville, Miss. , shoe dealers, f ailed for t300,000 John W. Hoog, chief clerk of the navy department, dropped aead at his home in Roekville, Md. The executive board of the Knisrhts of Labor, in session at Philadelpbia, is accused of misapplying $30,000 b.y Secretary-Treasurer Hayes. Ernest Lacore was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Nellie Byron near Joliet, 111., in August last. Sumner I. Kimball, general buperintendent of the life saving service, in his annual report states that the number of disasters within the field of operations of the service during the year was 427; 3,042 persons were haved and 23 lost. The property imperiled was valued at $8,098,075, and of this amount $1.055,570 was lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 88. The Kentucky Malting company at Louisville made anassignment with liabilities of $150,000. John Auams Dhake, treasurer of the Indiana, Illinois & lowa railroad, was knocked down in his office in Chicago by burglars and pay envelopes 191,996 were stolen. The plant of the Paga flouring milis at Fergus Falls, Minn. , was destroyed by flre, the loss being $100,000. Amki,ia DABiiy was senteneed at Ottumwa. Ia., to iifteen years' hard labor íor participation in the Thomas Lloyd murder. Edward Biirke, guiltv oí several forgeries at St. .loseph, Mo., swallovved strychnine and died in his mother's anus. " Pkactically all of the booin town of Kanawha, V. Va., is to be sold for taxes. Dkrbkrger and Miss lowered the bicycle records for 100 yards at Nashville, Tenn.- flying-start, 0:05; stundingRt.H.rt n-as.4-5. The Bostons were formally declared the baseball champions by the league magnates, who were in secret session in New York. V. Rochon, of Norway, Mich., was called away on a false telegram and his safe robbed of $5,700 in his absence. Cükt Davidson killed Miss Birdie Baugh near Alliance, O., and cut his own throat. He was alive and lynching ivas threatened. A balance of trade of $5,000,000 in favor of the United States is shown by the October report. A FiiiK at Chanute, Kan., destroyed ten brick business houses, together with their contents. Loss, $100,000. The business portion of Brooklyn, Wis., was destroyed by flre. In a dispute over land at Greenville, N. C, Abner Slaughter and Dore Smith were shot and killed. Thk National Plate Glass company at Piltaburgh, Pa., with a capital of $10,000,000 and one of the most formidable trusts in the country, has gone to pieces. At Deadwood, S. D., Joseph Thas killed his wife, who had left him, and two other persons, and then took his own life. Mayor Swikt has been aroused by the earnival of crime in Chicago and says tt.e standard of the pólice department must be raised. SeCBETABY (Ihesham received artvices from Minister Willis tliat the Hawaüan foverament would resist its overthrow. It is believert the history of the world's fair will make twenty-five volumes. I!y the shuiting down of the iron mines in the üogebic rang-e in Michigan 20,000 persons have been reduced to starvation. The main buildings on the world's iair grounds will be allowed to stand next year. No admission will be charged to the park. Foijr brothers named Selph were arrested for wrecking trains near Houston, Tex. They were tracked by bloodhounds. Vina Soloman, an insane domestic who wanted to kill Rev. P. S. Henson, pastor of the First Baptist church in Chicago, was arrested after an exciting cliast". The governor of Florida says the Corbett-Mitchell prize n'ght cannottake place in that state. Thomas DiyvKR was burned to death and three other passenjrers fatally injured in an accident on the East Alabara a road. The marriage of Lillian Russell, the actress, to Edward Solamon has been annulled in New York. Mus. Anie Johnson (colored), 103 years old. was fatally burned at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa., her clotbing taking1 fire. At Brenham, Tex., Ephriam Sledge, on a watfer, drank a qnart of whisky and a schooner of beer. An inquest followed. Tkoops have been ordered to the Mexican border to protect the property and lives of Americana from the revolutionists. Edgevrood female seminary, a Catholic school near Madiaon, Wis., was burned, and Maggie Stack and Margie cc wort' suifooated in bed. The exchang-es at the leading clearing liouses in the United .States during the weekended on the 17th aggregated 1,010,417.801, against WS8,858,717 the previous week. The decrease, compared witta the eorresponding week in 1892, was 9. 0. 1 "hik destroyed the Chesapeake, Ohio A Southwestern freight depot at Uwensboro, Ky., the loss being 8150,000. The Fidelity storage warehouse in Chicago was burned by a supposed cendiary fire, the loss being $1(50.000. A big gold strike was reported in Dona Anna county, N. M. Thkhe were 824 business failures in the Lnited States in the seven days ended on the 17th, against 361 the week previous and 205 in the correspondinff time in 1S92. Don Carlos Díaz, consul for Spain in Baltiinore, committed suicide by jumping1 from the fourth-storv window of his residenee. Wii.liam Stombaugh, of Decatur, Mich., who has married three wives in four years, was senteuced to seven years in the Jackson prison. Extra taritfon the Keystone limitea tram Denveen JNew York and Chicago has been reduced f rom 13 to t'i. Twei.ve illicit stills in Randolph county, Ala., and two moonshiners were eaptured by United States marshals after a fight in which one man was killed and two fatally injured. Tuk annual report of (ov. William C. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, estimates the total population of the territory at 151,304, and that of the Cherokee strip at 100,000. Thk en tire business portion of Grand Ridfre, 111., wasdestroyed by flre. John Ruthkkfor was hanped at Trenton, Ga. He was among the convicts who killed two gnards in trying1 to escape prisoa at Coal City in 1891. The chemical works at Newark, N. J., failed for $318,000. The test of electricity as a motivo power for canal boats was made at Brijfhton, N. Y., ana proved a success. The post office and general store at Labin, Wis., was burned, inoluding the mails. Out of 597 bank suspensions withiu ten months '26 per cent. were national, 37 per cent. state and 32 per cent. private banks. Fifty per cent. of suspended national banks have reopened. 2b per cent. of the state and 17 per cent. of the private banks. Alfkkd McDonald (colored), 81 years old, was hang-ed at lluntsville, Tex. , for the murder of his parents. Owisg to the increase of crime in Chicag-o every person found in the streets 'between 1 and 5 o'clock a. m. is to be stopped by officers in citizens' ilot.hi. Unk man was mortally hurt and hal' a dozen seriously injured by an explosión of powder at Coalfleld, la. Jüdge Habdi-, of Boston, decided in the case of Simon Levy against Siinon Miller that a man cannotlawfully marry his half niece in Massachusetts. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Rev. William Black wood, D. D., LL. D., oneof the oldest Presbyterian ministers in the country, died at Jïaltimore, Md., aged 92 years. Wilmam II. Heers, ex-Dresident of the New York Life Insurance company, died in New York. He was 70 years old. WiT.T.Tiu ]}. Green, a veteran of the Black Hawk war, died at the home of his son-in-law in Chicago, aged 87 years. Gen. Thkodore Garría itn Hint died in New Orleans, aged 80 years. He served a terra in congress before the war. Tuk complete election returns in Iowa show Jackson (rep.), received 207,159: Boies (dem.), 174,793; Joaephs (pop.), 23,511; and Mitchell (pro.), 10,107. Jackson's plurality, 82,800. The house will stand: Republican, 79 to 21; and the senate republican 34 to 16. Ai.kxa.vdf.r Andeüso.n (colored) died at Racine, Wis., aged 100 years. John M. Wasiihihxe, treasurer of the Old Colony road for nearly halt a century, died at his home in Boston. James Lynks died the day after his wife at Columbia, Mo. They lived to-. gether sixty years and were buried in one grave. The official returns give the vote in Ohio at the recent election as follows: Mek'inley (rep.), 4:,33ï; Neal (dein.), 352,329; Mackin (pro.), 1958fi; Bracken (pop), 15,259. McKinley's plurality, 81,001. The official returns froin the recent election in Utah show that the legislature is republican on joint ballot by six votes. FOREIGN. A HURBICANE blew over the FrisuheHafï, an extensive bay in East Prussia, and many fishing boats were lost and eighteen persons veere drowned. The banking house of Glembicki in Warsaw, Poland, failed with liabilities amounting1 to 506.000 rubíes. A FiRE in the Old Bailey building in London caused a loss of $500,000. The Mexican revolutionists captured the towns of Ascensión and Coraalitas and ordered all American to leave. In opening the richstag Emperor William said that Germany continued in the closest friendship with the allied powers and concluded by expressing the hope that with God's aid the blessing of peace would be in future preserved to Germany. Sir Robebt B. D. Mobier, British ambassador to Russia, died at Montreux, Switzerland. He was tío years of age. The population of Toronto, Ont., as fixed by the pólice census, is 188,914 - a gain of 22,000 over that of two years A CIGAR box containing $00,000 was stolen from a clerk of the Isational bank in the City of Mexico. Robert Urant, L'nitert States consul to Desterro, was arrested by lirazüian revolutionists and imprisonedon a warship. The in Mexico lias assumed such serious proportions that unless lily Btamped out it will endanger President Diaz' governiuent. Admikai. Mello hoisted the imperial flaff and declared for Count d'Eu's son a i'inoeror of Brazil. After fourmonths" suSerin the coul miners in England decided to resume work at the oíd wages. LATER. Thb employés of the Lehig-h Valley road went on a strike, efltorta for adjustment of differences having been unsuecessful, and all freight traffio was suspended. Live twin babies were found pa.cked in a valise by a d.epot policeman at East St. Louis, 111. Harrv C. Reeb, who disappeared f rom Columbus, O., four years ago, has returned and will marry bis dirorced wife. On her official trip near Boston the cruiser Columbia aTeraged 22.81 knots an hour, surprising allprevious records. Durino a terrific storm throughout the British islands over 300 persons were drowned, many vessels were wrecked and a large number of houses destroyed. The íour-story brick building of th Western Storag'e coinpany at Kansa City was destroyed by fire, the loss being- $500,000. Br the wrecking1 of the steame Fraser near Toronto, Ont, sixteenlive were lost Sixtekn persons were killed anc twenty injured by the explosión oí the boiler of a silk mili at Czernowitz, Russia. U Official anuouncement was made a San Francisco that all Chinese were ready to register in compliance with the law. Om the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road the United States Express office at Troy, O., was robbed of $25,000. uAMca líi, a. minier ui rouniaii Green, 111., has fallen heir to over $1,000,000 worth of property in the heart of Boston. A gano of couuterfeiters that had flooded St. Jo&eph, Mo., with excellent specimens of counterfeit half dollars and dollars were captured. The Knig-hts of Labor annual meeting in Philadelphia ended in a row, during which Grand Mastpr Powderly was accused of beinp a thief and a foreer. Advices from Hawaii say that the queen had not been restored to her throne. Minister Willis had been reieived by the provisional ífovernment. W. O. Whittaker. his wife and young daughter were killed by a passeng-er train at Coal Valley, Ia. Furthkk particulars of the reeent flood in the Okayama district of Japan show that 644 persons were drowned, 3,207 houses wa-ihed awajr, 6,842 houses nearly or quite destroyed, 47,429 buildings partly wrecked and 7,519 acres oí land more or less inundated.

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