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fell on him. He was burned TO death.
The cigarmakers' strike at Key West, !
Florida, is still on, aud the paralysis of |
general business on account of the strike is |
seriously affecting the interests of the |
place.
Secretary Rusk has revoked the order to
transportation companies regarding the |
shipment of Texas and other southern cat
tie, believing there is now no danger from
! fever.
Twenty passengers were injured by 8
wreck on the Santa Re railroad at Brown.
wood, Tex, the othor morning and some
will, die
BY the breaking of stack OF molten |
| iron in the Colebrook furnace in Lebanon,
Pa, the othermorning five men were burn
ed TO death.
a Key West, Florida fire few days ago
consumed 100, 900 cigars and large guam
tity of Havana tobacco. Loss, $l2O,OOO;
insurance, $4,000,
Among the marriage licenses issued in
| St Louis the other day was one 10 Jesse
| Fovell, 40 years Old, of Calhoun county, ILL.,,
and Mamie lsbell, - years old, of St
Louis.
Three cow boys were frozen to death in
the terrible blizzard which swept over
eastern Colorado and northern New Mex
| leo last week.
John F.. JONES' who ran the elevators in
the suffolk and fremont mill No. 2, at
Lowell, Mass, fell down the elevator well
| and was instantly killed Nov. D. He leaves
a widow and children.
PelSin, China, is to be lit by electric
lights. The Westinghouse company of
| Pittsburg has secured contract for
large electric light plant for Pekin The
machinery has been shipped.
Assistant Attorney General Shields
| holds that the Cherokee nation can relin-
quish its claim of title to the lands known
as the Cherokee outlet without violating
the constitution OF the Cherokces.
While Mary Dormegan, pantry girl at the
Grand hotel in Cincinnati was handling
bunch of bananas "a tarantula concealed in
the bunch sprang out aid fas ;ened itself on
her arm. The bite will prove fatal.
S. Thomas Fortune has issued call to
the colored citizens Of the United States to
meet at Nashville, Tenn, Wednesday, Jan.
Il, 1870, for the purpose OF organizing a
national Afro American league, the object
of which is to secure rights denied the
race.
The great national marine exhibition was
formally opened in Boston Nov. D.
IL covers seven acres. There is
complete duplicate OF the Burgess yacht
guickstep its mast penetrating the roof,
AID on its deck the New York seventh reg
iment band discourses music.
The President has amended the civil ser
vice rules so as 10 provide for filling va
cancies in the Railway Mail Service by
certifying tor each vacancy the names OF
three persons having the highest standing
on examination resident in the counties on
the line OF road on which service is 10 be
rendered,
Jeremiah and Mary Dennis, aged respec-
lively three and five years, OF Havcrhill,
J Mass. were found buried in sand bank
near their home. The children, who had
been in the HABIT OF paying near the sand
bank, were missed, and search began and
continued until their bodies were discover
ed in the sand.
Another big real estate fraud has been
unearthed in Minnesota. subvision 10
Gated nine miles from Duluth, where land
is worth $40 per acre, was plated under
the same name held by II valuable subdi-
vision in the city of Duluth and over $3.50,
, OOJ worth of the land was sold at very high
prices before the fraud was discovered.
Contractor Smath charged the state OF
New York for 51,17l days work, ,7O5 bar
rels of cement, 100000 feet Of lumber, SO
SO pieces of cut spruce, 800 tons of iron,
and 3.5l4 bolts in fixing the ceiling OF the
assembly room at Albany, 97xS6 feet in
size. And then when the ceiling was in
spected il was found TO be composed paper
mache.
The President has plrdoned John A.
Kimbdll, convicted OF violating the postal
r. laws anu sentenced in May, 1889, to i'm
2 prisoument at hard labor for two years.
( Kimball is son Of Gen. Nathan Kimball
postmaster at Ogden, u. T., and although
convicted and sentenced niue years ago, he
has never been imprisoned for the reason
that the execution Of his sentence was sus-
b. pended.
The state canvassng board Of Montana
have counted the votes as canvaSSed by the
Silver Bow county anyassing board, an1
have given all the Offices to the republicans
D except governor. The Tunnel precinct votes
have not yet been decided by the count,
and if the decision is in favor of the demo.
Gratis there Will be two sets OF mem bers
from Silver Bow county and a long contest
10 will be the result
Henry Miller, Is years old, slate roofer
J. | while working on the new school house in
COrryville near Cincinnati, fell from the
, roof and was instantly killed. He was
climbing the ladder which led from the
caves to the ridge OF the roof when he lost
his hold and fell to the street below, dis.
! lance OF early 20 feet. He was horribly
mangled, his neck, both arms and both legs
3 being broken and his chest crushed.
: Department Commander Hurst is deter.
mined to make Grand Army matters inter-
estng throughout Ohio this winter.
4 Every Grand Army man will be given some
I, thing to do toward recruiting. The Woman
Relief Corps and Sons OF Veterans are being
n stirred up and it looks as though depart
\ | ment headquarters want TO keep in the
lead of the order. II is intended to hold
100 campfres in the state and bring the
!. | membership up to 20, 00O
The supreme court of Rhode Island has
awarded Miss Carrie h. Barnes, a school
u teacher, $4,000 damages in her suit against
e the New York & New England railroad.
la 1856 Miss Barnes was a passenger on
the train from the state fair to the city,
. and when near the depot, the engineer
was unable to check the speed Of the tram
owing TO defect in the airbrake appar-
. atus and the locomotive struck the plat
form The shock OF the collision was so
severe to Miss Barnes that "a spinal dffi-
. Guilty was sustained.
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