Sharp County record., 1886-12-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

said to be well along toward completion,
the principal portion being now in type,
A MOTION, largely reducing military
pensions, has been adopted by the French
Chamber of Deputies.
THE body of William Gaul, of Indian
apclis, Ind, who was lost in the woods
near Ashland, Wis, on the Dist, was found
on the 25th.
JUDGE TURNER of the Federal Court at
San Antonio, Tex, held court on the 2jth
Thanksgiving Day. and excited much
criticism thereby.
SOME New Orleans people are making
fight on Consul General Porch at the City
of Mexico, the apparent object being to
get in a man of their own.
IT develops that Iowa opposition to Col
onel James o. Broadhead is at the bottom
of the fight against the bill creating the
new Federal circuit of Missouri and Min
nesota.
THE Governor of Aleppo, in Asiatic
| Turkey, recently disarmed and arrested
an Armenian who attempted to assassin
ate him.
| HARRY BURKsHAw, a fireman, was
killed in a collision on the Cleveland 81
Pittsburgh road, twenty-four miles from
Pittsburgh, on the 25th, several other per-
sons being injured at the same time.
THE heirs of the late Baron RothSchild,
of Frankfort, will construct public mu-
scum in which will be exhibited the
| Rothschild art collection, the richest in
the world.
JUDGE NOAH DAVIS, sitting in the Court
of Oyer and Terminer in. New York on the
25th, discharged the jury in the case of
John Lehman, who is charged with hav-
ing killed his wife by throwing her out of
of window, the jurors being unable to
agree. At the last ballot they stood II to
l in favor of acquittal.
The sugar experiments conducted by
the Department of Agriculture at Fort
Scott, Kas., have resulted in great dis
appointment to the advocates OF the car
bonatation theory.
COLONEL HUSTON, cha ,rman of the In
diana Republican State central commit
tee, in an interview at Dallas, claimed
the Legislature of his State for his party,
and said that Harrison would be the Sena-
| tor.
THERE were 1S9 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
Goth.
JOHN CAvANAUGH, of Jersey City, N.
j., has been held for trial for the nurder
| of Patrick Hayden.
DUBLIN is agitated with the widest ru-
mors relating to the Governments inten-
| tions.
A RUN on the German Savings Bank at
Davenport, Ia, on the 26th caused some
excitement in that city, but it was coun-
teracted by heavy deposits by its friends.
LAWRENCE BETHUNE, of Amargo, N.
NJ, has been sent to the penitentiary for
robbing the mails.
INVESTIGATION shows that the Conti-
mental Hotel fire at Chicago, on the 2jth,
was the work of incendiaries. The build
ing was fired in six places.
JOHN MALLORY, Missouri Pacific Sec
tion foreman, was killed at Leavenworth,
Kas., on the 25th, by walking off trestle-
work.
AN agreement has been entered into be-
companies Whereby emigrants' rates VIII
be advanced
ST. LOUIS ranks seventh among the
cities of the country in special letter de-
| livery business for the past year.
A WEALTHY citizen of Birmingham,
Mich. was lately the recipient Of letter
from the Cuban sharpers who swindled
the Philadelphians.
THE inside history of the packers strike,
as published at Chicago, places Master
Workman Butler in the unenviable posi-
ton of having worked the strike for po-
| litcal advancement.
A NUMBER of German Socialists who
took part in a public demonstration have
been sentenced at Berlin to various terms
of Imprisonment at hard labor
A SYSTEM of weather service similar to
that of the Government is to be estab-
Iished by the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany all along it's lines.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
| for the celebration of the sixty-fiith an
niversary of the independence of the 18th
mus of Panama.
| HERMAN BLICKENDoRFER whose home
was at Lebanon, Mo-, while out with
surveying party in Oregon, on the 25th,
was killed by the accidental discharge of
pistol.
PROCEEDINGS have been commenced
against John Dillon, NJ. p, for his utter
ances on the rent question in speech de.
livered at Woodford, Ireland, on October
| IS.
IT is reported that the Poe family, who
we're thought to have been burned to
death in Knox County, KY, month ago,
were in reality murdered by neighbor
and his wife. The crime was witnessed
by their young son, who has tol all
about it.
IT is intimated that Secretary Manning,
in his report, will recommend two per
cent refunding bond for the benefit of
National banks wishing TO continue their
circulation.
ALICE GRIDLEY, aged four years, fell
| upon stove during the absence OF her
mother at Akron, o., on the Goth, and was
so severely burned that death ensued
shortly.
ROBERT HILL shot and killed his bro
ther, Tony, at Atlanta, Ca, on the 26th,
and then, placing the pistol to his own
temple, killed himself. The trouble was