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October
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1894
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Jim Allen, a full-blooded Chootavv ludían, was shot for murder at the Pushmahata court grounds in lndian territory. Geobge Hamlin, an employé in the salt works at Lyons. Kan., was buried beneath a great quantity of fine salt and smothered bef ore he could be rescued. Chables P. Wilson will be electrocuted at the Auburn (N. Y.) state prison during the week beginning November 6 for participation in the murder of Detective James Harvey. At Harrisburg, Pa., Judge McPherson ruled that raffles were gambling and illegal. The Western league baseball season closed, Sioux City securing the pennant. The clubs stood as follows: Sioux City, .587 per cent.; Toledo, .553; Kansas City, .540; Minneapolis, .500; Grand Rapids, .492; Indianapolis, .472; Detroit, .448; Milwaukee, .898. Louis Yotjng arrived at Tacoma, Wash., havingridden onabieycle f rom Piltsburgh, Pa. He was six months making the trip. Fkedekick Brown, well known as the maker of Brown's Jamaica ginger, died at his home in Burlington, N. J., aged 57 years. Foub men were killed and four injured by the blowing up of the boiler of a thrashing engine near Crystal, N. D. F. T. Dat, president of the failed Plankinton bank of Milwaukee, was arrested on the charge of receiving deposits knowing the concern to be inBolvent. Two hotels, eight stores, the post office and the telegraph office at Cape Vincent, N. Y., were burned, causing a loss of 8150,000. Bbazil has given notice of the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty with the United States. Pbesident Havemeyeb, of the American Sugar Kefining eompany, issued orders for the closing down of one-half of the refiueries under its control, throwing 10,000 persons out of work. An unknown man entered the office of County Treasurer Scott at Sherman, Tex., knocked him senseless and robbed the safe of more than $1,000. James P. Caven, general freight and passenger agent of the Valley road, was found murdered in Cleveland, presumably by robbers. Senator Hoab, the new president, addressed the national Unitarian conference at Saratoga, N. Y., which adopted resolutious in memory of George William Curtis. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in session at Indianapolis eleoted Charles Owens, of New York, president. Gen. William W. Duffielb was appointed superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey to succeed Prof. Mendenhall. On her trial trip the new battleship Maine, which was built by the govern ment, made 17.55 kuots per hour. Cbawfobd ííedges, a wealthy bachelor, was fatally injured in an en counter with burglars at Circleville, O' Thibty persons were injured by the collapse of the grand staud at the fair grounds a.t Worthington, Minn. James U. Öhebidan, who was considered without a peer as a race track starter, died in New York from apoplexy. The whaling steamslnp Falcon reached Philadelphia with most of the members of the Peary arctic expedition on board. An association was formed in St. Paul Minu., for the purpose of building a monument over the grave of John Brown in Essex county, N. Y. Commissioneb Lamobeaux, of the general land office, has decided to embody in his annual report a recommendation that congress should immediately take action for the relief of the settlers on homesteads in the burned districts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. In a battle between cowboys and Indians near Hennessey, O. T., two of the whites and two of the latter were killed. The international convention of carpenters and joiners in session at Indianapolis, Ind., elected Charles Owens, of New York, for president. An immense crowd saw Directum win the 815,000 stallion stake at Mystic Park, Mass. Arion was second in each heat, Nelson third. Taking effect immediately, the time system will replace piece work in the government printing office. D. K. Caldwell, a Frankfort (Ind.) lumber dealer, has been arrested, charged with being in league with counterfeiters. Bandits held up a Santa Fe train near Temple, Tex., but were frightened away before they secured anything of value. The strike commission appointed by President Cleveand closed its public hearings and began consideration of its report in secret session. Fibks, elevators and the employment of minors in tobáceo factories were diseussed by the factory inspectors at Philadelphia. Dave Scott, a cattle dealer, was robbed while drunk at Van Buren, Ark., of 81,054 in cash and S3,500 in exchange. W alter Wellman, whose "dash to the pole" failed of its object because of the severity of the arctic winter, has arrived in New York. Saloonkeepers in Indianapolis and Terre Haute signed contracts for slot machines which now prove to be promissory notes for $250 each. The schooner William Home sprang a leak in the gale on Lake Michigan and her crew took to the yawl, which was capsized and all but ooe of the six drowned. D. Jl Hübbabd, an attorney of Dorchester, Mass., who went to Chicago to eéek a reconciliation with his wife, found her walking with Frank Garsuch and shot both of them. Louis Mii.ler, ol Cincinnati, murdered his wife and tlien killed himself. He was drunk and jealous, and their two daughters . witnessed the doublé trage ly. John Blackburn, who was working in the Four shops at Delaware, O., was fatally injured b}' a fall. The affair rendered his wife icsane. The sehooner Ironton and the steamer Ohio collided on Lake Huron and both went to the bottorn. Five of the crew of the Ironton were drovvned. líov. Stone has commenced a crusade against gambling in Missouri by closing all of the houses in St. Joseph. In the team race at Columbus, 0., Rose Leaf and Sally Simmons won, reducing- the record íor a mile trot to 2:15JiGerónimo Vakdeze, of Conejos, Col., was shot and killed by Sheriff Garcia in the county jail. Jaspkr Layman, an Alabama negro, was arranging for the exodus of 500 negroes f rom the neighborhood of Mobile, Ala., to Liberia. Rkpresentatives of trust companies of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg and organized a state association. Capt. Henby Howgate, formerly chief of the weather bureau in Washington, was arre&ted in New York for a forgery committed in 1879. The labor commission investigating the strike at Cliicago have agreed upon a report to be submitted to the president. Sheriff Bubns, of San Pete county, Utah, was shot and killed by two men he was to arrest. Andeew J. Johnson, of Chicago, and C. Dewitt Goodnew, of Brooklyn, students at Cornell university, were drowned in Cayuga lake, New York. President Cleveland has issued pardons for all Mormon potygamists who have complied with the laws. Fobkst fires devastated the southern and eastern nortions of Crow Wing county, Minn., destroying much farm propertj'. Speaking at the Unitarian conference at. Saratoga, Father Connerty, a Catholic, urged union of all churches on temperance. Methodists of Indiana, after agitating the subject for eighteen years, have decided to abolish the line dividing them. Louis E. Mathews, ex-deputy county clerk of Milwaukee, took his life. He is said to have lost heavily in speculation. Foub sons in the family of Albert Thomas, of Martinsville. Ind., have bied . to death, being afnicted with hemophilia. The Soctety of Friends, in annual session at Richmond, Ind., declared themselves opposed to secret societies. Benjamin Thobnton (colored) secured a mandamus against a school superintendent who forbade his child to attend a certain school. The whaling schooner Nicoline Í reached San Francisco from Fox Island, Alaska, bringing nearly 15,000 pounds of whalebone, bear and otter skins and 800 pounds of ivory. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 29th aggregated L825,401,483, against 8900.287,045 ' the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 7.9. Tom Moore and Eugene Fulkes Í (white) were executed at Paris, Tex. , for mnrders committed in the Indian ter ri tor y. ïhere were 235 business iailures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 29th, against 212 the week previous and 334 in the corresponding time in 1893. Conductor James Fitzgebald and Daniel Thompson, a colored brakeman, were killed and four other niembers of a train crew seriously injured in a freight wreek on the Mobile & Ohio, near Columbus, Miss. Two minebs and two laborers were killed by a fall of rock in the Northwest colliery at Scranton, Pa. The long fight between the miners and coal operators at Massillon, O., was settled by both parties agreeing to submit their diiïerences to arbitration under the state law. The jury in the case of the state of Indiana against John W. Paris, on trial for alleged complicity in the wrecking of the Greentown bank, failed to agree. According to the trade reviews, business is gaining in activity, though prices of grain, cotton, iron, sugar and coffee are lower. In a speech at Denver Gen. James S. Clarksoa declared that 70 per cent. of the people of the United States favored free silver. Christian Endf.avorites will hold their convention in 1895 at Boston instead of San Francisco, because of inability to secure special rates. A Mexican named Modericos died at Ingram, Tex., who, his relatives assert most positively, was 150 years old. He had been married five times, marrying his first wife 109 years ago. He had three grown sons in the war of 1812. Six men were arrested at Terre Haute, Ind., for ciusing the wreek on the Big Four at Fontanet during the strike. The Lucania again broke the westbound ocean record, making the run from Queenstown in 5 days 7 hours and 48 minutes. At a mass meeting of uudergraduates of Princeton college it was voted to abolish hazing in all its forms. The wagon wheel manufacturers of the west formed a distributing company in which each will hold stock according to the value of his plant. Louis Dickey and James Powell were fatally injured and two other men were seriously hurt by an accidental explosión of a dynamite blast at Atchison, Kan. Paced by three tandem teams, John S. Johnson rode a mile on a bieyele at Waltham, Mass., in 1:50 3-5, a new world's record. The report f the third auditor of the treasury shows the pension dis bursements for the year ended Juut 30 were $137,686. 9S1. In a race against time at San José, Cal., Abdell lowered the yearling trotting record to 2:23, a cut of threefourths of a second. Fifty indictments were voted against Chicago gamblers by a grand jury. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Montana demoerats in session at j Helena nominated L. A. Luce for associate justice of the supreme court. The resolutions favor tariff reform, the eleetion of senators by popular vote and the unconditional free eoinage of silver. Nominations for congress were mado j,s follovvs: Kentucky, Seventh district, George Denny, Jr. Minnesota, Third district, 0. M. Hall (dem.). Wis-' consin, Fífth district, F. C. Runge (pop.). Demockats in state convention at Omaha, Neb., nominated a full state ticket headed by Judge Holcomb for governor. The anti-Tillman convention at Columbia, S. C. , adjourned without making nominations after passing resolutions on various subjects. Congrbssional nominations were made as follows: First district ühio, Charles P. Taft (rep.); Second, Jacob H. Bromwell (rep.). Washington, B. F. Ilouston (dern. ); Henry Druium (dem.). Third district Kansas, Rev. J. D. Iíotkin (pop.); Fifth, Col. R. T. Vari Horn (rep.). Second district Virginia, T. R Borland (rep.). second district New York, Dr. W. R. Ilosie (dem. J. First district Michigan, Levi T. Griffin (dem.); Fourth, Dr. Milton Chase (pro.); Sixth, E. R. Wilcox (dem.). Launt Thompson, tV.e American sculptor, died at the state hospital in Mlddletown, N. Y. Dkmociíatic bolters in the Omaha convention succeeded in having their ticket accepted by the secretary of state. F. W. Porteb, auditor for the Chicago, Rock lsland & Pacific road for a number of years, died of apoplexy while in Cincinnati. Rev. S. B. Newjian, an Austin (111.) pastor who is 82 years oíd, secured a lieense to wed Annie Ohman, who is but 20. FOREIGN. A watebspout in the village of Súchil, in the mountains of Durango, Mexico, carried away a woodchoppers' camp of ten families and all wera drowned. A second Japanese army, numbering 80,000 men, sailed from Hirashima, and it was believed an invasión of China was contemplated. CONGKESSMAN W. L. WlLSON, OÍ West Virginia, was given a dinner by the chamber of oconimerce of London and spoke on the tarifE. Frank Holman, an American living near the City of Mexico, while drunk killed his wife and two children. Several, building-, including two hotels, burned at Nanaimo, B. C., with a loss of 8100,000. Two men were burned to death and two others and a little girl were badly injured. Austria's ministers to the United States and Brazil will exchange places, in accordance with an order of the government. Juají Udarez, a City of Mexico banker, committed suicide by hanging himself from a balcony. LATER. Through the careless driving of j Louis Scharf while drunk his wife and five children and Mary Roskus, his sister-in-law, were drowned in the Minnesota river at Chaska. Mr3. Catherine Clubich died at Muscatine, la., aged 108 years. Advices from Pittsburgh, Pa., say that all the tin-plate plants in the country were closed down, owing to a wide difference between the ! turers and the workers on the subject j of wages. It was reported that Judge Gaynor j had declined the nomination for judge ! of the court of appeals offered him by I the New l'ork democratie convention. The grand jury completed its investigation of gambling in Chicago and returned many indictments, including thirty property owners. It was sald that the independent democracy of New York had resolved to put up an anti-Hill ticket in the field. Four miners who were entombed fifty-five hours without food by a caveIn at Carbondale, Pa., were rescued. The Crown Point color printing works at Leeds, England, were dei 6troyed by fire, causing a loss of 85, 000,000. Several of the leaders of the exí queen's cause in Hawaii have taken ! the oath of allegianee to the republic Gen. A. M. West, candidate for vice president of the United States in 1884 on the greeuback-labor ticket with Gen. B. F. Butler, died at Holly Springs, Miss., aged 76 years. Five tramps were killed and two inI jured by a wreek on the Chicago & Northwestern roadnear Woodstock,lll. An English syndicate has been given options on all the paper and pulp milis in the Fox rlver valley in Wisconsin. They are valued at 810,000,000. Adoi.ph Burgas and John Barrett, lnmates of the Ohio soldlers' home, were killed by highwaymen near Dayton for their money. At Chülicothe, O., Flying Jib low! ered the world's mile pacing record from 2:01% to 1:59}, with a running mate. Heavy rains in California damaged the raisin erop 1100,000. At the close of the nineteenth seaBon of the National Baseball league the clubs stood in the following order: Baltimore, .605 percent.; New York, .667; Boston, .620; Philadelphia, .559' Brooklyn, .534; Cleveland, .527; Plttsburgh, .500; Chicago 432; St. Louis, .424; Cincinnati, .419; Washington, .8411 Louisville, .280.

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