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16
Month
February
Year
1888
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The annual winter mardi gras at iew Orleans commenced on Tuesday. Moody and Sankey closed their work in Louis ville, Ky., Sunday evening. A disease resemblinfí diphtberia is epidemie ainonpr horses in New York. The English Parliament met on Thursday and the Queen's speech was read. One hundred towns in Indiana will hereafter have daily weatherpredieUons. Heavy 6now-storms have occurrcd in the west of Enjfland, Scotland and Wales. Missionariea in Persia report a calumitous familie in the western part of that country. Williain I. Negiis & Co., New York hardware dealcis, failed on Tueadayfor $100,000. Frank Grenn, son of Bear-Admiral Green, was killed by a train Tuesday near New Orleans. The Swedish Parliament has passed an act laying an import duty on grain, corn, peas and beans. The business portion of Anffosla, a small town in Carioll Oounty, O., was destroyed by fire on Monday. P. H. Rock died in Oshkosh, Wis., day at the age of 102 years. He waa a native of Ireland. David W. Lyon, one of the carly Rettlers of Fulton County, Ind., died suddenly Sunday of heart disease. Mra Sarah Cnffle, danghter of Adain Poe, the Indian tighter, died at Wooster, O., o Tuesday, aged 97 years. The Louisville Drivinfr Park Association decided Tnesday to hold a tour days' spring trotting meeting May 8-11. At Indianapolis Tuesday the Supreme Court sustained a decisión fiuing a saloonkeeper for selling liquor on Sunday, the sale not beiag a direct one. AVhile being examined for a $1,000 Ufe insurance policy in a New Yorli office Monday Charles E. Thickstein feil to tüe floor and expired in iive minutes. A paralytic and an ageil woman were, burned to death Monflay moruing in a fire In the St Albans (Vt) Hospital. The tweuty-seventh annual enoainpment of the Illinois Department, G. A. 11., commenced at Springtield on Tueuday. At Indianapolis on Thursday William VL Singerly was elected president of tbe State Sewspaper Tublishers' Association. General Harney on Monday, at Paes Christian, Miss., celebrated the seventieth anniversary of his appointmeut to the army. Hon. Benjunin Eggleston, a prominent politician, and twice a Conressinan, died Thursday at Cincinnati, O., aged 72 yeara Mis. Sarah J. Kobinson, the alleged Wholesale poisoner, was coiiTicted of murder in the lirst degrce at Boston on Saturday. ín a sculling race Monday for the championship of Englaud, on the Thames, Wallace Koss defeated George Babear by two lengths. The office of County Treasurer Hill, of Tañóla CountT, Tex., ras robbed by burglars on Saturday of $U,000, and Mr. HUI was murdered. Seven negroes and bíx whites, convicted of petty larcenies, were whipjed with from live to ten lashes each on Saturday at New Castle, Del. Samuel Clay, a prominent Kentucky farmer, who owned land valued at $1,000,000, died Tuesday morning at nis home Bear Paila Au association of women oL Allegheny City, Pa., has been iormed to boycott all stores which keep open later than (5 o'clock in the evening. John Clark, wife and five children died neur Leavenworth, Kan., f rom drinking water from a well near which hogs dying of cholera were buried. John Ii. Bensley & Bro., grain coramission merchants, and for thirty yeara raembers of the Chicago Board of Trade, failed on Thnrsday for $150,000. A tire on Sunday in the business center of Ironton, O., destroyed the opera-house, post-oftice, Merchants' block and six stores, causing a loss of $100,000. C. G. Corners, son of President J. Corners, of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Cadillac railroad, was küled at Cadillac Tuesday by falling under a locomotiva At Altoona, Pa., on Tuesday Chester Evey, aged 40 years, shot and killed his daughter, 17 years old, and then killed himself. Whisky was the cause. Daniel E Somes, formerly a niember of Congress trom Maine, died in Washington on Tuesday. He was one of the original organizers oL the Republican party. Two gas explosión oceurred Tuesday at the Wyoming colliery, at Port Bowkley, Pa., badly buiing five men. lt is feared that two ol the victime will not recover. Stephen Swift, 92 yar.rs of age, and at ene tine a piominent business inan of Lexiugton, Ky., feil down a flightof statrs at hii reideuce on Monday and was killed. Advioeg from Yienna say that enormous fcvalanches along the line of the Arlberg railway had resulted in serious loss of Ufe, and trafile on the road had been stopped. The State convention of the Ancient Order of United Workmen met at St. Louis on Tuesday. The reporte showed that the organizatienhad ÜO,OOO membera in Missourt Brack Comett, a noted desperado, ant leader of the notorions Texas truin-robbers, was 6hot and killed on Msnday near Pear. sall, Tex , by Sheriff Albe, while reslsting arrest □ Alonzo llolly (oolored), imirisoned at Pinekneyville, 111, on a charge ei assaulting a white woraan, was taken from jail early ïuesday morning ly aix men and hanged to a tree. The Kinga Couuty Democratie Club held a banquet in Krooklyn on Thursday evening in commemoration of Samuel J. Tilden'B birthday. Speeches were made and a letter from the President was rend. One of the witnesses in the tally-sheet cases at Colmnbus testified Saturday that Isac ]t. Hill, one of the Assistant Serpeants-at-Arms of Conprress, had offered him $;i,000 if he wouU throw out the tnimaing jnecincta.

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