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Day
2
Month
August
Year
1888
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The Indiana in Arizona are makinj trouble again. The Uoverument of Hayti is at war witi a biind oí conspirators. Two children of Adolph Holden, of Kan sas City, were killed by the heat. The steamer Edward J. Gray burned a Newürleans. Loss, Ï40.000: insured. Reports froin Western Kansas say tha' hot winds had greatiy damaged the con erop. The Ack.cv House, at Waterloo, Ia., was destroyed by íire, entailing a loss o) 17,000. ' The President returned to Wushingtor on Tuesday from his fishing tour off Sandj Hook. James Guest, a wholesale wine mer chant of Montreal, Can., failed on Fridai for t200,000. A. H. Shipman, the inventor of the Snip man oü engine, died at tieneva, N. Y., o: consumption. Thomas 11. Cornwell, superintendent o: the Chicago Stock Yards, died on Monday aged 4',) years. While wrostling on Sunday at Cincinnat: Luke Muldoon threw Patnuk Flaherty anc broke his neck. There were nine cases of sunstroke ii Chicago on Tuesday, and iour persons wer struck by lightning. George Townseud was shot by hii brother at Horicon, Wis., because h( abused their mother. During a squall in the harbor at Halif ax N. S., Garrett Roach and his son anc nephew were drowned. A. Klespor, living at Fernadale, Cal.. killed his wife on Friday mnd then endec his own lifc with poison. The large paper-mill of John De Va rennes, at East Lee, Mass , was burned on Sunday. Loss, 00,000. At Trenton, N. J., the Supreme Couri afflrmed the constitutionaüty of the Local Option High Lácense law. P. K. Dederiek, of Albany, N. Y., was robbed of 110,000 mortgage bonds which he was carrying in his bug"gy. Two brothers, Fred and Aden Rohrig, were drowned while bathing in the rivei at Abilene, Kan., on Monday. BSix thousacd coal miners in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pa., struck on Tuesday against a reduction in wages. Bruce Younger (colored) was lynched on Friday near Meadsville, Va., for a crimina) aesault upon Mrs. Robert Dodge. Eli Bryant (colored) was hanged on Friday b a mob near StarkvUlc, La., for criminally assaulting a white woman. A dyumite bomb was found on Monday in the basement of tho new Commercial Bank building at St Joseph, Mo., 8ix of a gang of nine thieves, who had been robbing Vigo County (Ind. ) farmers, were arrested at Terre Haute on Friday. The Western Union Telegraph and th Commercial Cable companies have advaneed cable rates to twenty-five cents per word. Christopher Meyer, millionairo and leading rubber manufacturer of the United States, died in New York on Tuesday aged 70 years. Nineteen emigration agents have been arrested at Cracow, Austria, for inciting the nativos oí that district to emigrate to America. The Cincinnati National Bank, Frank Alter, president, went into voluntary liquidation on Friday because of dullnes of business Two negro women fought on the way home from a revival meeting in South Carolina on Saturda.. and one cut the other's throat. A cablegram says the French crops have been greatly damaged by the bad weathe, and the yield will orobably be 1,000,000 bushels short A flre on Tuesday at Mansfleld," O., burned out the building oí P. Bessman & Co., Wholesale grooers. Loss, $120,000; insurance, $75,000. George Newman, a prosperous farmer of Floyd County, Ia. , quarreled with hls wif e Monday, and Tuesday hls body was found hanging to a tree. At Pittsburgh, Pa., Joseph Welsh, who robbed women in broad daylight on the Street, was on Friday sent to the penitentiary for twenty-flve years. The governments of Europe have been notifled that Italy has taken possession of the port of Massowah on the Red Sea and adjacent territory in Abyssinia. Governor Hill, of New York, on Friday commuted the sentence of Ciara Cignarale, the condemned murderess, just as she was about to be taken to the gallows. The famous trottiDg stallion Bell Boy was sold on Tuesday near Lexington, Kj'.. to C. C. Seaman for $50,000, the highest price ever paid íor a horse at auction. A. G. Rdcliffe, of New York, a wellknown mounter of glaziers' diamonds, disappeared on Tuesday, taking wlth hlm diamonds belonging to customers valued at 130,000. Richard Larkins, a blacksmith, and John Phillips, a butcher, were shot dead on Sunday by August Diedlouf for oreating a disturbante at a Folish wedding in Chicago. Reporta of further outrages committed by the White Caps in the northern part of Perry Coonty, Ind., were received Saturday, and the farmers were organizing a defen party. Citizens oí Wahpeton, D. T., on Friday lynched Deputy Sheriff Elmer, who shot Mollie Korbet, a domestic in the f amily of the sheriff, because she would not marrjr him. During a thunder-storm at Paw-Faw, 111. , George Eaton wa9 struck by Ughtning. A hole was burned in his pocket-book, and few pieces of money wcro melted. He sustained no injuries aside f rom a íew blistere. Carnie O'Brien,aged 17.and Warren Muf phy, agcd 15, are under arrest near Osagc, Ia., on the charge of murder. They administered a beatíng to Henry Btocum írom whigh he died. There are threats oí lynching the prisoners.

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