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Day
24
Month
May
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Fiíty fishing boats wers lost in a receñí gale off the Irish coast. Rains throughout Dakota give promiseof abundant wheat crops. Theeightn biennial musical festival at Cincinnati began Tuesday evening. John Ruddan, whose neck was fractured u.n 7 in x.w Vnvk. it is thought wül re cover. The National ProMbition camp-mecting will be held at Decatur, 111., July 13 -21, inclusive. Thrce steamships landed 2,007 immiprants at Casde Garden, New York, on SundavColonel A. W. Morris, Auditor-General of Fennsylvania, dicd in Philadelphia on Monday. The Wisconsin Unitarian conference opencd its scmi-annual session at Janesvüle Tuesday. Mr and Mrs. N. Showerman, of Lyons, Ia., oelebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday. A cornet is said to have been first seen at Roehester, N. Y., Sunday night, in the northwest sky. The New York Central Labor Lmon ñas voted not to have any dealings with tne Knights of Labor. Edward Cassell, a druggist of Fairmount, Ind., was drowned in Lake Galatia Monday night while out fishing. The statue of Garibaldi, the gift of Italian resident of New York, is to be unvailed in Washington square June 4. The works of the Belmont Iron Company, at Philadelphia, were burned on ïuesday, rausinea loss of $100,000. Georgc Franeis Train is once more a resident of New York City, having become disgusted with Nova Scotia. Homesteaders are pouring into the Michigan woods included in the recent favorable legislation in Washington. The court-house at Sidney, Ia,, was set on fire Wcdnesday night and burned with all the records. Loss, $75,000. Denham's livery stable at Harrisonville, Mo., was burned on Saturday, and six horses perished in the flames. Committees have been appointed in New York to solic-it subscriptions for the erection of a monument to Horace Grecley. An address in favor oí home-rule signed by twelve hundred Quakers was presented to Mr. Gladstone in London on Monday. The third annual convention of the Butohers1 National Proteotive Association assembled in Philadelphia on Tuesday. The "Q" strikers at Lincoln, Neb., Monday night passed rcsolutions to allow the men to scek employmest on other roads. Eugene Chalfant, who was bitten some weeks apo by a spitz dog, died of hydrophobia at New Albany, Ind., on Tuesday. Airs Weidier, the fasting mmate ol tne county hospital of Lancaster. Pa., tookfood Thursday. the flrst time in fifty-four days. The thirtieth annual meeting oí the Illinois State Sunday-School convention was opened at Rockford "VVednesday afternoon. The African Methodist conference at In dianapolis Saturday elected as Bishops Messrs. Arnett. Gaines, Tanner and Grant. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Indians, cowboys, animáis, tente and paraphernalia arr'ived iu New York Sunday irom Europe. Fire at Hisville, Ky., Monday mormng destroyed the post-oftice and half a dozen i other buildings. Loss, í'20,000; partly in sured. Two dwellings and two large stables were set on fire at Anderson, N. C, on Mon day, in a delibérate attempt to burn the town. In a ten-mile bicyele race at North Shields, Eng., Monday, Temple, the American, defeated Wood in 30 minutes 1 2-5 seconds. The annual conclave of the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania began at Pittsburgh Tuesday. In the parade '2,500 knights tooi part. Rev. William Ferdinand Morgan, D.D., for over thirty years rector of Bt Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Chureh in New York, died Saturday. At the sossion of the American Baptist Missionary Union at Washington Tuesday Hon. C. A. Pilisbury, of Minneapolis, was elected president. Charlie Luber was shot and killed on Saturday at Mayfleld. Ky., by hit little brother.'who was playin? with apistolsupI posed to be unloaded. George Thomas, a Cincinnati peddler,shot I and killed Maggie Wise, a divorced woman, I on Mondav and them killed himself. ousy was the c-ause. JIrs. Sawyer, wife of the senior Senator from Wisconsin, died at the family home in Washington on Monday of paralysis. Bhe was 64 years of age. Kev. Edwin Thompson, a veteran temperance advocate and reformer, died on Tuesday at his home in East Walpole, I Mass., agcd 79 years. Peter J. Quinn, book-keeper for Dixon & Co., contractors of Pittsburgh, is missing and is supposed to be in Canada. His acI counts are short $15,000. The National Association of Labor Statisticians in session on Tuesday at Indianapolis. Ind., re elected Carroll D. Wright, of Massachusetts. president. General P. Adams. farmer, living near Anderson. Ind.. was killed Sunday evening by Qeorge Melrose and Charles Conway. The murderere were arrested. The law closing the liquor-saloons on Sunday was generally oheyed in St. Louis ! on Suñday. aud it was the first " dry" Sunaay that city ever experienced. William Gcorge, who murdered James Scott, a defenseless old man, in Muskingum County, O., about a year ago, was I hanged at Columbus Thursday. Tobias Coons was caught in a pulley in a paper mili at Lima, O., Saturday, and drawn into the machinery, his body being I crushed into an uurecognizable mass. Three hundred slate pieken ut the Henry I ('lay mine. noar Shamokin. Pa., Btructt I Monday lor the disi'harge of their foreI man. As u result 3,000 men were idle. The cut-worm is said to bc making a clean sweep of eora and certain kinds of parden vegetables over & large portion of Fike, Dubois, Daviess and Spencer I ties, Ind. By a decisión just rendercd by Judge in the United States District Court I i a( Macon, (Ja., it is settled tiiat when a I honest postal clerk opens a deooy letter he breaks no law and is not araenable to punishment. Mr. McCarty suflered a horrible death I in New York Saturday. Her clothing I eaught fire from the explosión of a eoal-oil I can, when she rushed to the window and I jumped out, falling on the stone walk flfty I feet below.

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