Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-06-21
THE N: ..E:!!.ws.
General.

ern portion of Cuba Saturday.
The cab drivers Of Paris have struck.
There are no cabs on the streets.
The total of contributions for the flood
sufferers by citizens of Washington
reaches $4,000
The striking dock laborers along the
Clyde show signs of weakening. Now
there are 5000 out.
The June floods have worked disaster to
the farmers of southern Indiana, who have
crops in the bottom lands. The end is not
yet.
AT O'Clock Friday morning the works
of the Canada Powder company, two miles
east of Brockville, Ont, were blown up
with terrific force. No one was killed.
VIM. SEMPLE, a millionaire dry goods
merchant of Allegheny City, and promi-
nently identified with the various railroad
interests in that section, died Friday morn
ing.
GEORGE and Chas. Sherwood, aged re-
spectively IA and II years, sons Of a con-
ductor on the Northwestern railroad, were
drowned in the Calumet river Friday after
noon.
TIE Standard Sugar refinery has effect
ed what is believed the largest purchase of
sugar ever made, having secured $4,000
tons in Cuba at five cents, calling for some
$2.5OO,OOO
AT Kirkville, Mo-, Frank Propst, an
ex-school commissioner, was shot dead by
his brother, Joseph Propst, who then put a
bullet through his own heart. No cause
can be assigned but insanity.
FRIDAY at Marion junction, Dallas
county, Alabama, j. p. Stevens, section
man, shot and killed H. G. Segner, con-
ductor on the Mobile s. Birmingham rail-
way. The trouble was about a woman.
CHARLES Young, boy 12 years old,
while reaching over the driving belt of
Johns0n's tile factory at Oakwood, ILL.,,
Wednesday, was caught up and carried
around the circuit. His brains sprinkled
the floor.
DURING a thunder shower at Cincinnati
= Friday, two children of Lawrence, a
prominent carriage manufacturer of this
city, residing at College hill, were struck
by lightning. One of them is supposed to
be fatally injured.
A HANDSOME granite and bronze mem
orial erected at the grave of the late Pres;-
dent Chester A. Arthur in the cemetery at
Albany, N. Y, by some of his personal
admirers, was unveiled to-day without
ceremony by the donors who inspected it..
JUNE 1.-Fairfax court house, 1851; Seven
Pines and Fair Oaks, Va, 1862; Stras-
burg and Staunton Rood, va, 1852:
Rocheport, Mo-, 1855; Cold Harbor, Va,
(1st to 12th) 1854.
JUNE 2.-Strausburg and Stanton Road,
Va, (Jackson's retreat), 1852; Bermuda
Hundred, Va, and at Gaines Mill, Salem
Church and Hawes' Shop, Va, 1852.
JUNE 3.-Phillippi, W. ", 1861; Legare's
Point, s. c., 1862; Searcy Ark, Panther
Gap. w. ", Ackworth, Ca, I'D and 4th)
1864.
JUNE 4.-Fort Pillow, Jasper, Sweden's
Cave, Tenn, Blackland, Miss, 1862; Clin-
ton, La, Mechanicsburg and Sarloria,
Miss, Frying Pan, Va, Franklin, Tenn,
Blutfton, s. c., 1858; Piedmont, Va, 1854.
JUNE 5-Franter's Creek, N. c., 1852;
Franklin's Crossing, Rappahanock river,
Va, 1868; Piedmont, Va, 1864.
JUNE 6-Stony Creek, Upper Canada (war
with Great Britain 1873 memphis, Tenn,
Harrisonburg, Va, 1862; Murfreesboro,
Shelbyville Pike, Tenn, Shawneetown,
Kas., Berryville, Va, Miliken's Bend,
La, Is to 81 1868; Buffalo Gap, W. Va,
Lake Chicot, Ark, Greenland Gap Road,
near Moorefeld, w. Va, 1864.
JUNE RIPLEY, Miss, 1854.
JUNE s-Cross Keys, Va, 1862; Miliken's
Berd 10th and Sth) 1853
JUNE 9-Micanopy, g. Fla, 1886; Baldwin;
Miss, Port Republic, Va, 1862; Month
cello and Rocky Gap, KY, Beverly Ford
and Brandy Station. Va, Trune, Tenn,
1868; Point of Rocks, Ind, Kenesaw
Mountains, Ga. 10th to 3Oth), Mount
Sterling, KY, Lafayette, Tenn, 1854.
JUNE 1O-Great Bethel. Va, 1861; James
Island, $. c., 1852; Lake Provid ence,
La, 1868; Frankfort, KY. Lexington, w.
Va. (10th to l1th), Cove Greek, Ala,
Lexington, KY, Princeton, KY, Peters
burg, Va, Brice's Cross Roads. near
Guntown, Miss, Corinth, Miss, Cynthi-
ana, KY, Kellar's Bridge, Licking River,
Ky.,Old Church, Va. Cloth and 1lth) 1854.
JUNE 11-National Bridge (Mexican war;,
1847; Romney, Va, 1861; Monterey,
Owens county, KY, 1852; State Creek,
near Mount Sterling, Ky., Fort Hudson,
La, Seneca, Nd, Middleton, Va, 1868;
Wilson's landing, Va, Cynthiana, Ky.
Ripley, Miss, Trevillian Station, Cent.
Ry., Va. 9th to 12th), 1854.
JUNE l2-Waddelrs Farm, near Village
Creek, Ark, 1852; Berryville, Va, 1853;
McAfee's Cross Roads, Ca, Kingsville,
Mo-, 1854.
JUNE 1s-Hampton, Va, (war with Great
Britan) 1918; Old Church. Va. James
Island, s. c., 1852; Winchester, Va, (1Sth
to 15th) Wilson's Greek. Ky 1868: White