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Day
3
Month
November
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Seoietaiy Whitney le quite ill, and unflt for work. An earthquake shock wa3 feit at Quebeo on Saturday. Tlic villaje of Cadiz, Spain, has been detroj-ed by flre. The Galatea, Lieutenant Henn's cntter, has arrived at Queenstown. The James L. Regan Prlntíng Company of Chicago has failed for $123,000. J. H. Fag-ler was elected president of the Cotton Oil Trust at New York Thursday. Four negroes who nurdered a man in Aiabama were senteuced to be hanged Saturday. Hoagliuid won the six-day walking-match at Kansas City on Sunday, making 480 miles. A cotton mili at Exeter, N. H., was damaged by lire Monday to the extent of $100.000. The loss by the recent floods in the Rome district in Cuba is estimated at over $1,000.000. Colonel Charles B. Flood, a veteran journalist, died Tlmrsday night at Cohimbus, O., aged 77. Mr. Chamberlain stirted on Saturday for America to represent England in the lishery negotiations. Larabec's bakery and nine other buildings at Albany, N. Y., were burned on Sunday. Loss, $200,000. During the last year $1,035,570 bas been expended by the Government in the education of Indian chilclren. Seven young widowa have been arrested at Bingula and Pesth, Hungary, charged with murdcring their liusbands. The nineteenth annual meeting of the American Women's Soffrage Association commenced on Monday in Püiladelphia. Jay Gould sailed for Europe Saturday, and in connection it was reported that the threats of the Anarehiists had hastened his trip. A fire at Los Angeles, Cal., destroyed the Central railway lreight depot and many cars, causing a loas of $200,000. No inBurance. In a sculling race on Lako Maranacook, Me., Friday, Teemer easily outrowed Gaudaur, making the three mües in 'JO minutes 283g seconds. Rev. Andrew Lnos, ]iastor of the Presbyterian Church at La Gro, Ind, had a stroke of apoplexy Sunday evening, and feil dead in his pulpit During three day s emigratiou papers were issued by the American Consul at Ottawa to nfty persons who propose to come to this country to settle. Incendiaries fired a trestle-work on the St Paul railroad near Homer, Minn., on Saturday, and a passenger train was barely saved froni wreek. The body of a murdered man was discovered on Friday at the Peimsylvania depot in Chicago in a carriage that had been shipped from New York. The receipts of the Government for October amounted to $31,803, 172, and the expenditures to $12,474,652, being an excess of receipts of $19,328,520. Mr. D. K. Pearsons and wife Saturday divided $100,000 worth of real estáte equally between the Congregational and Presbyterian Theo'ogical seminaries in Chicago.' The treasurer of the Irish National League at Dublin was notified by eable on Saturday that $10,000 had been placed to his credit by home-rule sympathizers in this countrj7. i An against the Government oí Guatemala has been suppressed, and the leader of the movement and four of his followers who were captured have been shot The statement that Father McGlynn, of Brooklyn, has repented of his rebellious conduct, and that he will be taken back into the church, is pronounciAl uut-rue by Mr. McGlynn. The manapreinent of the Western Union Telegraph Coinpany in Chicago announce that after November 1 no rate between offices east of the Mississipri will be more than sixty cents. Mrs. Schnaubelt, mother-in-law of Anarchist Schwab and mother of Rudolph Schnaubelt, the supposed bomb-thrower, reached Chicago Saturday. She carne alone from Germany. Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, who was ïormerly a Tory, was on Thursday sentenced in Dublin to two months' imprisonment for speaking at a proclaimed meeting in violation of the Irish Crimes act The census of Buffalo, N. Y. , juet eompleted, shows a population of about 230,000. The last preceding census was taken in June, 1885, and showed a total population of 202,218. Malietoa, the deposed King of the Samoan Islands, attributes his mist' ortunes to the bad advice of the British and American Consuls, whom he acenses of deserting nim in the hour of need. The old Northwestern Car Coinpany's plant at Stillwater, Mimi. , was purchased at auction Thursday by Harry D. Hyde, who represented the interests of Senator D. M. Sabin. The price bid was $1,105,000.75. Gold and silver coins bearing the date oí 1530 were unearthed in Kentucky, recently, by laborera on the Maysville and Big Sandy railway. The gold coins have the iigure of a fish upon them and the word Bolivar. Several members of the Chamber of Depu. ties in Paris resolved Saturday to petition Governor Oglesby for the lives of the seven Anarchists. Knights of Labor in New York Saturday night passed resolutions of a similar purport An audacious thief stole $3,200 from the office of the park commissioners in Buffalo Monday, during the temporary absence of the official in charge, and made good his escape, though the theft was committed in broad daylight.

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