The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-05-03
ago. an increase of 225. Goo.

Kansas City. 233.OOO 19O.OM
SIIt.lu;. l23.0W l3l,OOO
81. Louis. 10000 1900
indianapolis ...... 52.WW $1,000
Cincinnati. ......... $4,000 4O.COD
Milwaukee,. A.OuO 1900
CleVeland.. /. $4,000 23.OUO
Sioux City ......... $1,000 3l,OvO
Surgeon General Hamilton. of tho ma
rine hospital service. has been informed
by the president of the board of health of
sanford. Fla. TINT a ease of yellow fever
existed in that city. DIR. Hamilton says
every precaution has been taken to pre-
won't the spread of the disease. and no
danger is apprehcnded.
War veterans entitled to communication
for tho loss of their limbs by disease or in-
jury, are now filing their claims with the
pension department in vast numbers. No
tfce is given that all such claims can be
settled by letter to tho surgeon general of
the army without mourning any expense TO
claimant.
AT Brickley's Mills. Va. IN election on
the liquor license question was occasion
for trouble. Three men were mortally
and two seriously hurt. Re-
v~olvcrs.
" IltS NOtSu 10 Ie.
code from Its former vote and concur with
tho senate in submitting to tho people n
prohibition amendment.
Information has been received at New
York that William Riley Foster. jr.. is in
Mexico. whence he cannot be extraditcd.
Foster fled on September 9th last, after
defrauding the gratuity fund of S1Gs. 600 by
means OF fictitious mortgages. His father
has since paid $4,000. tho amount which
would have gone to his son under his will.
Fosters property ut Bayport will make up
$4,000 to $4,000 more of tho shortage.
Five men in cofflns and a maniac in
irons were carried north from this infant
city yesterday. says an Oklahoma City dis
patch. The dead men had died natural
deaths. that is to say. nature had given
way under tho h%ardships encountered. Tho
madman. John Evans. left his family in
Eldorado. Kan, and came Il Oklahoma
City on tho first train. found the city in
possession of United States deputy mar
shals and bushmen. and was unable to
realize his expectations. A claim which
he finally secured was jumped by profess
SIGNALS and IL revolver was fl%ourishcd in
his face. Evans vas taken to Winfield and
placed in q hospital for the insane. An
other man went crazy tho previous night
and was placci on a north bound train. A
Kansan named Stevens was shot and
killed in the presence OF his wife and four
little children by two mon. The murdcrers
fled and the Unfortunate widow walked TO
Alfred with tho news.
The large fve-story building Of tho
Lowell Manufacturing company in Low jill.
Mass. known ms the carpet mill. has ben
partially burned. causing n loss of S2NssOO.
From 500 to 700 hunds nrc thrown ,,>t of
employment.
Postmaster Wanamaker has issued the
following order: Ordered. tina hereafter
tho postoflcc department be closed Sun
day to clerks and all employees thereof. OK
cept the required watchmen. engineers
and flremen. Clerks and employees shall
without exception be denied admittance
on that day to the main building and to the
several rented buildings. and watchmcn on
duty shall strictly enforce the provisions
of this order.
andrew W. Bogart, real estate dealer.
New York. committed suicide on the 25th
by shooting himself through tho head. ILL.,
ness and financial losses are thought to
have been the causes.
Since May l tho railway mail service
has become subject. to the civil service
law. rules aud regulations. and all appoint
ments to positions. other than those ex-
cepted by law. will hereafter be made only
upon certincation from the civil service
commission. An effort had been madet to
induce the president to again extend the
time at which thelaw bringing the railway
mail service under the civil service law and
rules would become operative. but he de-
cided against further postponement.
Henry d. Howren. Of Charleston. s. c.,
who has been doing reporters work on
most of tho city papers for tho last three OF
four years. but who has been compelled to
change papers owing to his addiction to
drink. has been converted. He secured the
use Of tho Grand opera house for Sunday
last and made his debut as an evangelist.
Howren is a Floridan by birth. and is a
talented writer. He has. however. been
addicted to drinking for years. and has
only lately come out Of the hospital. His
debut has created quito a sensation in tho
community.