The gale., 1888-03-17
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
SHORT NEWSY PARAGRAPHS FOR
HURRIED READERS.
Dispatches Boiled Down-The
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World Mt Large.
Charles Cecil John Manners, duke OF
Rutland, is dead. He was 70 years old.
A. Bronson Alcott, the wcll-known
author, died in Boston, Mass, aged 81
years.
Judge Gilderslecve, of New York, has
decided that Dynamiter Mooney must 60
to the Utica insane asylum.
Admiral Sir Ashley Cooper Key, dis
tinguished officer of the British navy is
dead He was born in 1891.
An avalanche in the valley of Morobia,
Switzerland, has killed ten persons and
many cattle and destroyed large number
of houses.
Five shares of the New York San Pub
fishing company, par value 81, 900 each,
were sold at the New York real estate ex-
change for $3, $50 each.
Frank, Ash Yeo, member of parliament
for the Cover division of Glamargan-
shire, Wales, is dead. He was an adj
vanced liberal and advocate of home rule.
The hamlet of Trasqucra, at the foot of
Simplon mountain, and another hamlet
in Bini valley, have been destroyed by
avalanches, and several people were
killed.
The roof of a nearly completed hotel
at Kansas City collapsed aud crushed
through eight stories to the ground. One
workman was killed and about q dozen
injured.
There is terrible row going on in
Chicago, ILL.,. between all the consuls of
foreign nations and the judge of Cook
county, on account of the importation of
foreign paupers.
The Democratic National Convention
having been called for the same date upon
which the National Prohibition Conven-
ton is to assemble at Indianapolis it is
probable that the date of the latter will
be changed to a week earlier.
The Venezuelans are expecting an
armed expedition of the British to the
gold fields of the Yu4ari, and that they
are preparing to resist the invasion of
their territory. The richness of the gold
mines in the disputed territory is almost
Premier Crispi of Italy, has sent tele-
gram to Count Menalerea Italian ambas-
iador at Part instructing him to demand
,f the Fr9ch government punishment of
he fiftee0French soldiers who stopped
some Italian railway officials at Modena,
md by threatening them with bayonets,
forced them to kneel before them.
NJ Wilson, son-in-law of ex-President
Hrevy, of France, who has been on trial
for completely in the legion of honor
decoration scandals, has been convicted.
He was sentenced to two years imprison-
ment, to pay fine of 5000 francs, and
to be deprived of his civil rights for five
years. The sentence is generally ap-
proved in France.
A Southern Pacific fast train, running
at a high speed, struck the bridge over
the Condo creek, in Medina county,
eighty miles west of San Antonio, Texas.
The structure was apparently all right,
but as the engine reached the further end
the timbers gave way, and the remainder
of the train, consisting of heavy loaded
freight car and the caboose, went down,
into the creek. The cars fell
fully fifty feet before they struck bottom,
and were shivered into splinters. G. F.
well-known stock man,
was instantly killed, 9 as we'll
as George Hardestey, brakeman, tho
latter being mashed to pulp. Conduc-
tor George Davidson and Brakeman L.
Hall, had their legs broken.