The banner-enterprise., 1884-01-26
uyWs SUMMARY.

Michael Welsh, age 40, was killed
fhpfsday afternoon BY falling from q
t~fsjkldcveF Jones Falls, Baltimore, to
tt - bsIoW. He was carrying Q heavy
pieesof timher, and Dennis O'Connell.
Who was assisting him, also fell and was
sefipully injured.
Tia business failures throughout this
country and Canada for the past seven
days aggregated 425, an interest Of go
Own III proceeding seven days, the larg-
ct aumbeg reported for that time since
1873 They are mainly, however, Of q
snail class Of traders.
A little son Of Morgan Rensly. ofIowa
FAlh, Iowa, had q lively day oft recently.
fftHs morning be fell out OF q chair and
brske IL collar bone. At noen he drank
An CO. AZ utagoric, which nearly killed
hin, n tie evening hogs got intothe
houss snd tried to eat him out.
Emil Voegtlin, who, though he comes
Of respectable parentage, has adopted the
pfoie1licn Of . boarding house thief and
Who has victimized many Of the resi-.
dents Of these places, was convicted re.
Gently and was sentenced to the New
York State prison for six years.
The Paris police have lately spotted an
enormous svstem Of fraud in cigars by
which Belgian three centime cigars have
been sold Is Havanas at seventy five CEN
times. Twenty thousand boxes were seiz-
cd, and eight depots for sale were found.
Theaeshe has been played for some
There was . fatal case of yellow fever
in New York on Sunday last. Mr.. Rob-
ert M. Boyd, a tobacconist, had been to
Havana and upon returning home died.
There is not q day in the year that it is
safe to Wait Cuba as there is never a
time when yellow fever does not prevail
to some extent.
Joseph Arnold, to perpetuate his men,
DRY, his made q peculiar bequest to: the
town Of Birmingham. Conn. it being
thirty shares Of a bank Of which he is
pessident and cashier, now worth about
As5g00 to remain at interest until il is
worth IS, 100000, a period of nearly $50
yesrs. when the income shall be applied
to general municipal expenses.
The dead body Of Amelia Olsen, aged
II, was discovered on the open prairie,
near the northwestern outskirts of Chica-
%, Wednesday morning. She was en-
ployed as Q domestic, and met her death
while returning home after nightfall from
her place Of work. There was evidences
that she met with violence, and died
from the Effects of her rough usage.
A tramp who had been given a hearty
meal in Nathan 1aylor's house in one Of
the deep cuts at Turkey Hill. Pa, hur-
RED back breathless half an hour later
and gave the family warning of terrible
snow slide that was moving down the hill
behind their home. A few valuables
were taken out just before the avalanche,
with . mighty roar, swept over the
house.
ALI is not serene in the German court.
There Is Q big scandal afoat. The Em.
psror's nephew. Prince Frederick Charles,
= man of military talent as was shown in
the war with France, is married and his
wife has left him because of his very ex-
ceSsive attentions to o certain woman.
The princess threatens q divorce, but the
Ksiser says mo divorce" but they may
live separate, the Prince in the mean.
time carrying on his open indiscretions.
Such is high lite at the German court.
A horrible affair occurred at Monterey,
Highland county, Va. Mr. Ruckman,
county superintendent of public schools,
questioned the accuracy of a quotation
from Shakespeare that a Mr.. Atchison, a
Northern man. had given, This ineens-
ed the latter to such a degree that he
plunged Q knife into Ruckman several
times. Atchison was jailed, whence he
WIS taken by a mob and hanged. Ruck-
man is not dead, and the lynching is re-
garded as most atrocious, and rightly
30.
On the strength Of story told by Capt.
G. M. Jackson a first cousin of Gov. Crit
tenden's wlte, steps are being taken by
members of the st. Louis Law and Order
League 10 have quo warranto proceedings
begun against the governor, who is char
ged with violating the constitution of
Missouri by riding on q free pass furnish
ed BY the Missouri Pacific railroad Capt.
jackson, who is a prominent politician,
says that the Governor rides on a pass
made out to Mrs. Crittenden and family,
which he passes to the conductor with the
remark that he is one of the family.
Small cavalcade of soldiers have re-
Gently arrived at st. Petersburg after
elsven days ride from Mini Novgorod.
The party consisted of four oficera and
fifteen men Of the Genburg C.ssacks,
With their horses and three pack horses.
In Moscow they were detained for a day
by the,kindness ofthe Grand Duke Nicho-
10 and his friends. Another day was
through the inclemency OF the wealth
D, and It may therefore be said that the
1~istance OF nearly 1000 miles was made
nine days: On their arrival. the con-
iition of both men and horses was found
10 be highly satisfactory.
The expression, the taste, the reading
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