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stroyed everything in tts course. The house
Of . Mrs. Boomer N1nwn down. bury.
ing Dor In the ruins
TIE Ohio Coal E1l ~ decided TO
import Swedes and Hungsrisns to take the
place Of three thousand miners now on the
lookout in the Hooking Valley; also to
start mining machines
TEE Union Pacific Railroad has made
arrangements to run . fast freight train
from Kansas City to Denver. The train
will leave Kansas City at Z o'clock in the
evening and arrive in Denver at l O'Clock
p. n. OF the day but one after, thus saving
six hours by the new schedule.
LEWIS MARKS, a Polish Jew boy, seven.
teen years old, while riding q horse in the
river at Des Moines, was drowned. The
horse stepped suddenly into deep water
and began plunging, throwing the boy from
his back.
CHARLES WALKER, q prominent citizen
Of Goshen, Ind, died recently from the
effect Of morphine taken with suicidal in.
tent. His wife was to have made applica-
ton for a divorce. He was well known on
the Board of Trade at Chicago.
THOMAS ]. NAvIN, the Ascending Mayor
OF Adrian, Michigan, has mailed from a
Cuban town q letter opening negotiations
for q compromise with the estate Of E. s.
Clark, which he robbed of 500, 900.
In the Circuit Court at Milwaukee, the
owner Of two houses in the Twelfth Ward
has applied for an injunction to restrain
the tongue of. a neighbor named Louise
Troegel, whose scolding kept the adjoining
residences vacant.
The City Council of Rockford, ILL.,, man.
imously sustained Mayor Taggart in his
recent action in removing School Inspec.
tors Perry and Bronson. The latter deliv-
cred a lengthy protest against removal.
AT Toledo recently a fire was discovered
in the lumber yard of the Mitchell & Row.
land Lumber Company. The flames COM
municated with the lumber yard OF Mel.
son, Holland & Co, and thence to hat Of
J. B. Kelly's. In four hours twelve acres
containing eO.0O0, 600 feet of lumber burned.
The losses were as follows: Mitchell &
Rowland Lumber Company, S2so,OOO, in
sured for $2b5 900; Nelson, Holland & Co.'s
loss was $4,000. fully insured; Kelly, $15.-
600, fully insured.
AT Baraboo, Wis, recently q disastrous
fire broke out in Bender's large brewery
near the headquarters Of the Chicago &
/ Northwestern Railway. The brewery and
its contents were destroyed, along with
three dwelling houses belonging to J. H.
Halstead and one owned by William
Hoxie.
LILLY j., q trotting mare with q record
| Of 1888 and valued at 5000, was burned
at Columbus, o., in her stall at the fair
grounds the other night. She was owned
| by G. Stewart of Chillicothe. The loss on
| the stables was not over 5000. The fire
would not interfere with the State fair.
A RABID canine attacked q number of
swine at Rockford, ILL.,, recently, and a
large number died. A hog bitten by the
mad dog would exhibit the same symp.
toms as the dog itself.
BY the explosion Of a boiler in VOLTS
saw mill, four miles west Of Jacksonville,
O., Barrock Wolf, aged thirty-four, was
instantly killed, Eugene Wolf seriously
hurt, Hawley Howard badly scalded and
Roy Blackburn seriously wounded.
In exercising MaudS s. at Cleveland the
other afternoon she trotted a mile in 2:IsH.
The settlement of the difficulties an
| nounced between the whites and Southern
Ute Indians, in Eastern Utah, will be left
| to the Seventh Infantry, stationed at Fort
| Lewis.
GREAT floods of rain fell over parts of
Illinois recently. Much property vas dam
| aged, crops.being beaten into the ground.
WHILE John Baker, who lived four miles
north of Glenwood, Ind, was driving a
wagon loaded with a self-binder, recently,
the horses became frightened and ran of a
bridge, upsetting the wagon and machine,
the latter falling on Mr.. Baker, killing him
almost instantly.
WILLIAM HART was at Cincinnati &C.
| quilted of the charge of arson. He was the
| only person indicted for burning the court
house during the late riot.
SCHUKAN & TEAGLE's oil works at Cleve.
land burned the other day. The loss was
$4,000.
j. n. SMITH & Co., wholesale canned
| good dealers of st. Paul, failed recently.
THREE men were hanged at Fort Smith,
| Ark, on the 18th. They were Thomas L.
| Thompson, a white man, John Davis, a
Choctaw Indian, and Jack Womankiller, a
| Cherokee. All three were guilty Of brutal
murders. {.
AT the Chicago Driving Park races, on
the 18th, Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile in
2:11I. 1t was a special yace to beat the
record of Maud S.-2:10R.
WILLIAM and Charles Hamilton were
hanged at Warrensburg, No., for the muir.
der Of Carl Steidle, whose body they placed
on the railroad track, where it was mangled.
The motive was robbery. The real names
of the murderers were Ed Aultman (Wil.
liam) and Charles Malsky (Charles), AMI
they were not related.
THE other evening as the four-oared shell
Of the Modoc Club, st. Louis, was passing
up the river opposite the foot of Spruce
street it attempted to cross the bows of the
ferry-boat n. Mulliken, and was run down.
One of the crew went down with the shell,
and the other four sprang to the bow of the
ferry-boat and chung to her guards, but be-
fore assistance could reach them two lost
their hold, fell back into the river and were
drowned. The names Of the lost wereVincent
Angelo, q somewhat noted amateur spriu.
ter; J. c. Rose, an insurance agent, and
Harry Jasper, late Of Quincy, Ill. The two
saved were w. B. Hazeltine, Jr., and
Cockswain j. ]. Miller.
The Collector Of Customs of the District
of Arizona notified the Treasury Depart.
ment recently that the Mexican Govern.
ment had entered into an agreement with
q steamship company to give a bonus of
sixty dollars for Chinese laborers to
be landed at Guaymas, Mexico, under
labor contracts.
THE SOUTH.
INFORMATION received from Coleman |
City, Tex, reports the revival of
fouco c,,tt;uS IN Callahan Co,,p<- ,-ho.o 4