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Newsy Condensations

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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A evere cold wave sweptoversouthwestern Idaho. and three inches of snow feil at Soda Springs. The atearaer Dauntless has asrain eluded the U. 8. authorities at Tarapa, Fia., and sailed for Cuba with a big load of supplies. ' The reports of th state feologist and natural gas supervisor of Indiana show that the supply of gas and oil is slowly but surely deereasing-. V. .1. Calhoun, the special eominissioner wlio retorned recently from Cuba has beeu called to Washington for furlhcr consultation with the President. Col. L. P. Stone has asked permission flora Sheriff Plunkett, at Deadwood, S. D., to adjust the noose and springthe trap at the execution of Charles Hrown, the murderer of Stone's wife. The sheriff has granted the request. Prof. Fanciuin, leader of the ü. S. Marine banv'ho refused to ])laj' certain tnarchei on Decoration day. wlion ordertd to do so by Lieut Uraper, lias been found guilty of disobedienre of by roiirt-raartial, and lisraissed trom the service. South Dakota officials are haviny' v iiard fitrht against grasshoppers, wliich ire ck"r.i ting all crops in Edinunds and Hrown counties. Thcre are millions of thcm and thev travel over a field ke a huge gray blanket. A bushei of the pestiferous things can be gathered up in 20 minutes. Phil Arinour says he will g-o out of ;he butterine business July 1 as a vesult of the aet signed by Gov. Tanner. Tlie industry represen ts a capital of about $1,000,000 and 1,200 men will be thrown out. T!ie annual jroduet of buttcrino in Chicago is ibout 30,000,000 pounds. Threc desperate characters of Salem. 11., attempted to wreek a B. & O. train betwcen that place and Odin for the Mirpose of robbery. They werediscovred piling ties on the tracks and tried to escape, but Abc Tweed was shot lead and Thos. Schumacher captured after being winged. The third villain escaped. Tne engagement is announced of Miss Francés Alger, daughter of Sec■etary of War Alger, and Charles B. 'ike, a lawyer of the firm of Peck & iroivn, with offices in the First tional liank building, Chicago. The groom-to-be is prominent in society and is a Harvard man, graduating in the clara of '93. Henry G. Bryant has arrived at Yuakutat at the base of Mt. St. Elias in Alaska with a party of five who will , scale the mountain. Bryant is a Phildelpliian and headcd a party of exlorers in Labrador in 1891. He was Isii 11 member of the Peary relief exicdition in 1894. Ho will plant the tars and Stripes on the snmmit of the lountain. Washington: Information received I t the state departiiuii t frora t'onstannople states that the sultan has suod an Irada announcing the aceeptnc; of IJr. Angelí as minister from the United States. The aotion of the porte is very welcome at the state department und was communicated at onco to Dr. Angel! at liis home n Ann Arbor. Itis tuuionnccd on the authority of the most. intímate friends that (rover Clevrlaiid will nol aain eng-age actively in the practice of law, and that he will not directly oonneet himself willi lii.-huv tirras, as has been reported. Tlie c.v-pivsident luis retired pormanently from an active careo r aiul vill horcafter be heard of only through the ineditiin of addresses on public occasions. Wliile services wero beinf held in Calvary chnrch, Now Vork City, an unknown woiiiíin vvallied into the vestibule and killed lierself by firing a bullet into hor riglit temple. Much excilemcnt ensned, and Lhe services we re sloppciJ. Some of the women fainted. The suicide was apparenUy about 50 yoars of age, tb white hair and a dcliealu, rullned face.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register