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member OF the Chicago Board OF Trade, conf
mitted suicide with chloroform. Cause not
known.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS, on the 2Sth cele-
brated the 25Oth anniversary of its settle
ment. Among those who took an active part
in the ceremonies were President Eliot, Of
Harvard, DR.. Holmes, Longfellow, and Col.
Higginson.
Mrs. BERTHA GRoTE was fatally
burned at Cleveland while filing lighted
lamp with kerosene. -
DURING family quarrel, Mrs. Dorcas
Burchfeld, a widow, shot and fatally
wounded her brother-in-law, Thomas
Burchfed. The parties reside near Prince
ton, Ind. Er, rs--- --.t
A CASH subscription of 100000 has
been raised in PhiIadelphia for General
Grant.
THE business portion of WILDER, Sa-
line County, Neb., was destroyed by fire on
the 9th. Loss, SIS, 900; insurance, $4,000.
REV. D. Z. H. CHAPLIN, the well
known Universalist clergyman, died in New
York ON the Goth, after an illness of two
years, aged sixty-six.
AN explosion of fire-damp in a coal
mine at St Etlenne, France, caused the
death of twelve or more miners.
A DISPATCH from Mentor says Cen
eral Garfield has invited prominent Repub-
lican leaders to visit him at his home during
the coming month, to consult with him re-
garding the formation of his Cabinet.
THE steamer Garnet, of Dundee,
Scotland, was wrecked in the North Sea,
and all on board, twelve in number, per-
ished.
The Beers were repulsed in an at
tempt to capture the British fort at Potch-
efstroon, losing seven killed and many
wounded. They will now attempt to starye
out the garrison, which is occupied by 300
men. --H.
THE boiler of shingle-mill at Vesta-
burgh, Mich, exploded with such force as to
tear the structure to pieces, instantly killing
Frank Filkins, the engineer, and Frank
Ainsley, the night watch. The main part of
the boiler was thrown forty-five rods, caus-
ing the death Of C. Conkey and fatally injur-
ing George Wilcox and NJ. Turk.
A YOUNG daughter of George Blake,
at Brazil, Ind, was burned to death by her
clothes taking fire from the stove.
THE French iron-clad frigate Richie
lieu, lying in Toulon harbor, took fire and
finally sank. Several of the crew were in
jured.
The Dutch Government, it is said,
will issue an appeal to farmers Of the Brit
ish Nation in favor Of the independence of
Transvaal. 81.
THE Florida orange cropi badly in
jured by the recent cold weather. At Jack
sonville the mercury went down to 10 deg.
j. W. MILNE, clerk in the Pocas-
set (NIass.) National Bank, is a defaulter to
the amount of IS, 600 and has absconded.
JOHN SHAW, while standing at the
window of his residence in Glenn's Falls, n.
Y, was shot dead by an unknown assassin.
ANTHONY DEITERs, who fought under
Napoleon at Leipsic, BOrodino, Austerlitz,
and Waterloo, and witnessed the burning
of Moscow, died at Wheeling, w. Va, on
the 18th, aged 90. ,...... 81.
JACOB FORIsON, farmer near Dun
kirk, o. was found in his orchard the other
morning, frozen'tO death. He had been in
I
i'll -health for some months, and it is sup
posed while walking he fell, and being una
bic to rise, persisted with the cold.
Mrs. WILLIAM HULL, of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, while walking on one Of the
streets of that city slipped and fell, dislocat-
ing her spine. She died few hours after.
A similar fatal accident occurred at Des
Moines, Iowa, the victim being the widow
of the late Rev. T. S. Berry, President of the
Simpson Centenary College at Indianola.
THERE are reports from the winter
wheat districts of Michigan and Wisconsin
that the roots of the grain have been frozen
out oftbe gDound. 30 1904 Iis.-.
/. JOSEPH BRUENs was killed at Mem,
phis by the explosion of a beer cask which
be was coating with brewers pitch. Two
Others were injured.
AT New Albany, Ind, twin babes Of
William and Fannie johnson were frozen to
death. The father went away to obtain en-
ployment, leaving his family without fuel.
The outbreak at Socorro, New Mexi-
co, has not ended. Troops have arrived
there tOguaTd the depot and Post-ofiice. Jose
NJ Boca, one of the prisoners held by the
citizens, was killed by guard, and the re-
naming four were liberated on bail by Judge
Parks,