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3
Month
May
Year
1888
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Eight luches of snow feil at Cadillac, Jlich., Tuesday. An earthquake shock was feit Monday at Glens Falls, N. Y. The town of Keithsburg, 111., suffercd a loss of $50,000 from a flre ïuesday. The city of New Haven, Conn., celebrated its L'.ïOih anniversary on Saturday. P. Link !t Co. , wine merchante of New York, iailtd Katurday for $'250,000. Milwaukoe awoke Tuesday inorning to fhid six inches of snow' on the ground. Mrs. Philena Johnson, of Aurora, 111., colebratcd her lOiSd birthday Tuesday. Twenty houses were burned Tuesday at Trenton, Ky. The insurance foots up $25,000. Three men were drowned on Sunday in the river near Detroit by the upsetting of a boat. Jim Harris (colored), who assaulted Mrs. Simmons at Vk-ksburg, Miss., was lynched on Tuesday. Several laborers workinsr on the Trans Andive railroad in Chili, were frozcn to death recently. Burglars broke into a jewelry store in Munich, Germany, and carried away goods valued at $135,000. Mrs. Rosalie Beebe, widow of Judgo Beebe, died Monday at Elkhart, Ind., aged 99 years and 6 months. Near Alliance, O., Peter Whitefeathcr, a retired farmer, aged 65 years, was killed by a horse's kick on Tuesday. M. Habert, who killed M. Dupuis in a duel at Paris on Sunday, together with the four seconds, has been arrested. A 9-year-old child near Des Moines, la., was attacked by a feroeious dog on Saturday and literally devoured alive. A son of Mrs. Charles Snyder hanged himself on Saturday near Grove City, P&, because his mother whipped him. The animal regatta oí the Mississippi Valley Amateur Rowing Association wili be heïd at Pullman, 111., July 13 and 14. Burt Iíeeves, an oíd citizen of Monroe County, Iud , aecidentally íell into a heap of burning brush on Friday and was suffoeated. Seth Thomas, the well-known manufacturer of docks, died at his home in Thomas. on, Conn., on Saturday, aged 71 years. Tin has taken a tumble in Lotidon, wliere the Frencb eyndicate has left the market, and the price has dropped from L165 to L105 per ton. Governor Luce, of Michigan, Monday appojited Prof. M. E. Wahvortli, director of the Michigan Mining School at Houghton, State Geologist. Two giris naraed Stokes md Williams were drowned Sunday in a pond near Tilson, I1L They were wading and walked into a deep pool. The authorities at Melbourne, Australia, refused to allow '208 Chinese immigrants to land there. declining to rocognlze their naturalization papers. At Waverly, Ia., on Friday M. E. Billings was sentenced to the penitentiary at Anamosa for life, the extreme limit of the law, for killing Kinsley. Seventy-three saloon-keepers who violated the Sunday-closing law in Cincinnati were anested on Monday and each gave bonds in the sum of $100. Dr. Charles E. Simmons. who attended the late Samuel Tilden during his illness, has brought suit in New York for $140,000 for professional services. The bricklayers and inasons of Fall Kiver, Mass., have struck because of tha refusal of contractors to accede to their demand of a day of nine hours. By the explosión of a kerosene lamp at New York Sunday night Mrs. Faist, her twosonsand her daughter were severely burned, the boys dyingbefore morning. Henry Pope (eolored), sentenced to deatb at Summerville, Ga., for an outrageous assaut, was hanged by a mob on Tuesday because the Governor granted him a respite. The pólice had a fight Sunday with a number of escaped prisoners at Damanhour. Fifteon oí the convicts were killed and two woundcd. The pólice lost fouf men. The boes coopers at Clncinnati Monday dcclared a lock-out against all employés who have sustained the Coopers' Union in i1s boycott of beer made innon-unionbreweries. William J. Findlay, of Toledo, the millionaire brewer, one of whose deeds of public spirit was the erection ol' a statue to General Jamos B. Stecdman, died Tuesday evening. At Alton, 111., Tuesday the Rlght Rev. James Ryan was consecrated Catholio Bishop of Alton. Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, and Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, were present. General Joseph E. Johnston, the highest oL rank among living ex-ofticers of the Confedérate arniy, bas been oleoted an nonorary member of a Grand Ariny post in rhiladelphia. Alexamlor Adams Btewart, ui' Columbus, O., one of the most prominent Prohibition leaders in the State, died Sunday night at the residenoe of his brother, Hon. Gideon T. Btewart, in Norwalk, aged ' years. ïhr affairs of the Knights of Labor in Canada will be managed by Canadians. Dissatisfaction was oreatcd by American orators travchni; offlcialiy and makintr peeche opposed to Canadian labor interests. W. A. Hedberg, a non-union ftreman on the Burlmgton road at Galesburpr, UI, was attacked Saturday by Hub Newell and George T. Cable, striking engineers. He öred at tbem, killing Newell and seriously woundin Cable.

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