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29
Month
December
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Mr. Gladstone Ieft London on Monday for ueveral months sojourn in Italy. Captain Wlliiam J. Halnes, of St Louis, oelebrated his lOOth blrthday on Sunday. The year's product of flour at MinneapolU is reportad at 0,616,700 bárrela An earthquake Rhock was feit at New Bedford, Mass., and vicinity early Friday morning. Ten persons were frozen to death In Carson County, Tex., during the recent cold ■pea Twenty-eight horses were burned to death a fire In Daniel J. Corkery's stable in Chlcaga The Union Labor Party of Indiana will hold a State convention at Jndianapolia Staren 7. Over $20,000 was found secreted in th& bed of a dead miser by a deputy coroner at Minneapolis Friday. George Williams (colored) was hanged on Friday at Birmingham, Ala, for the murder of Cash Moseley (colored). John H. Swift, of Hartford, Conn., found (Tuilty of wife murder, has been sentenced to be hanged April 5 next Newton & Leopold, of Chicago, wholesalo paper-dealers, have failed. Asseta about $35,000; liabilities $85,000. King John, of Abyssinia, has not only ref used to make peace, but is rapidly marching on Masöowah with a large forcé. Hoa Seth C. MofTatt, Congressman from the Eleventh Michigan district, died in Washington Thursday mornlng, aged 46. As the result of a Christmas debauch woman and her daughter, five yeara old, were burned to death near Wilkesbarre, Pa.' The Western New York Pennsylvania railroad house at Oil City was destroyed by fire Friday, the loss amountiu" to about $35,000. The Newman-AUen building and City Bank block, at Holton, Kan. , burned Friday mornlng, with a loss of $70,000; Insurance $35,000. The Mississippi river at St. Louis and points south was closed to steamboat nayigation on Tuesday by the unusually low stage of water. Daniel Fulton, of Corunna, Mich., found gullty of murdering his wife, was on Friday sentenced to spend his life in prison in solltary oonfinement The annual meeting of the Western Commercial Travelers' Association commenced at St Louis on Tuesday. The associatloo ñas i,9iu members. Friday, at Coldwater, Mich., John Maynard, aged 20, was genteneed to five years In the penitentiary for attempting to assault a young woraan. ín a quarrel at Jackeon, Mes., Sunday, McWUlie llitchel and Bob Whiteside wounded each other fatully, both dyinjr Boon after the affray. Whilegoing home wlth Christmas presenta Mrs. Ellen O'Neill, a widow, and two of her ohildren were killed by a locomotiva near Ehlnebeck, N. Y. Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the youngEngllshman under sentence of death at St Louls for murdering Arthur Preller, has embraced the Catholic faltb. A total of 3,534 miles of new raüroad has been built In the Northwest during 1H87. besldes about 500 miles of road-bed made ready for the iron next year. W. W. Corooran, of Washing-on, has given $1,000 to the Confedérate Home at Charleston, a C, as a Christraas present A scholarship will be endowed. Quadella, a small port of Porto Rico, suff ered f rom a husre wave. Fif ty-three honses were swept away. Eleven Dodies were washed out to sea and destxnvpd The new members of the Manitoba Cabinet were sworn in at Wranipeg Monday night Premier Norquay vacates at once but wlll remain in the Legislature. John Brant, a negro who had bees expelled from a dance at a sister's of "Bud" Cain (colored), got even by and kUling Cain Monday at Louisville, Ky. Itissaidthat in New York City there ara over 100,000 idle persone, 20,000 of them women, and starvation menaced many who wantad work but could not getit A fire in the State prison at Michigan City, Ind., destroyed the en tire plant of Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, of Chicago, uíed in the manufacture of boots and shoes. Loss, $100,000. Miss Annie Cane, of Dallas, Tex., set flre to her clothes on Satnrday and was burned to death, and at Soath Boardman, Mich., two children of Mr. and Mrs. Hart Hental perished in the üamea. At Brookfield, O., Friday night Mr. W. M. Lakin, his wife and two children were Bitting- by a center-table when a hangin-lamp feil down between them. All were seriously burned, one of the children dying within six hours. The South Carolina Legislature has passed a law making it a misdemeanor for tradesmen to facilítate the trade of goods ;by offering purchasers an inducement to buy in the way of prizes or gift to accompany the articles sold. The investigaron in the passenger department of the Pittsburgh t Lake Erio road has discovered no irregularities yet An ofBcer of the road says it is only a scherae to get rid of the offlcers and introduce the Lake Shore system and men.

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