Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-10-15
THE EAST.

CHARLES PoLLIN BRAINERD, the Boston
lawyer who mysteriously disappeared
nearly year ago, and who was believed
to have committed suicide, returned home
the other day. He was stricken with
recovered his reason he found himself in
the City of Mexico.
A FIRE broke out the other night in Tay-
lor's machine shop at Jersey City, N. j.,
and communicated to N. and S. E. O'Don-
nell & Co.'s cooperage warehouse, Gookey's
dry dock and Jones & Whitmore's dry
dock. The loss reached 500, 200.
An important suit between Colonel II. B.
Evers, of London, England, and Thomas
Watson, of Chicago, involving the owner
ship of large body of land, was finally
Court at Oxford, Mass, by the decree OF
Judge Hill, in which all the lands are
awarded to Colonel Evers and associates.
Mrs. DRUSE, who murdered her husband
with the aid of her son, daughter and
nephew, in Warren, Herkimer County, N.
Y, last December, and cut up and burned
the remains, was sentenced by Judge Will
liams to be executed.
THE New York Daily Commercial Bulle-
tin estimates the fire loss of the United
States and Canada for September at
$6,525 900, which is less by $3,5OO,OOO than
in September, 1884.
A LARGE meeting of Irish American
Nationalist was held in New York re-
Gently, and appointed representatives to
aid Parnell in the pending elections in the
United Kingdom.
SEVEN HUNDRED glass blowers, of Phila-
delphia, Pa, went on a strike on the 9th.
CARDINAL MCCLosKY was reported Sc
riously sick at New York on the 9th.
A TRAIN on the Pennsylvania Railroad
was robbed by four men near Allegheny
Furnace recently. After robbing the pas
sengers they assaulted the conductor and
jumped off, escaping to the woods.
A DISPATCH from Woods Run, Pa, saws:
Work was resumed to-day in five coal
mines in the third pool at the advance de-
manded by the strikers. Several other
pits are preparing to start up in few
days.
EX-GOVERNOR TALBOT, of Massachusetts,,
died at his home in Lowell on the 5th.
EX-GOVERNOR JAMES E. ENGLISH, of
Connecticut, was married recently to Miss
A. r. Morris, of Brooklyn. He is seventy
three and she a bright brunette of about
thirty years.
The manufacturers of flint glass in
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, New Bed
ford, Meriden and New York met recently
and unanimously determined to refuse the
demands made by employees for increased
wages and decreased output.
F. o. PRINCE, of Boston, was nominated
for Governor by the Massachusetts, Demo-
Gratis recently. The other nominations
were: Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Gil.
more, of Cambridge; Secretary of State.
Jeremiah Crowley, of Lowell; Attorney
General, Henry n. Braley, of Fall River:
Treasurer and Receiver General, Henry NJ.
Gross, of Newburyport; Auditor, James E.
Delaney, of Holy'see.
JAY GOULD. Russell Sage, George ].
Gould, A. L. Hopkins and Captain Shack
ford left New York on the Sth for a trip
over the Missouri Pacific and other South
western railways with which they are
identified. The object of the trip was to
inspect the Southwestern systesa.
Two cases of smallpox were discovered
at Newport, Il. l., On the sth. Stringent
measures Were being taken to prevent the
disease from spreading.