The Monmouth inquirer., 1889-10-24
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Weeks Threshing.
Professor Waldemar K Grosman, of Al
lentown, Pa, who was supposed to have
taken refuge in Canada two years ago, after
embezzling S25, coo from his employers, now
claims that he has been in Allentown during
the entire past two years with his family.
Prosecution is now barred by the statute of
limitation.
Mrs. S. L. M. Barlow died Monday morn
ing at ''Elsinore," her residence at Glen
Cove, L. l. Her death follows close upon
that of her husband, famous figure in New
York, who departed this life on July 10 last.
The jury at Easton, Pa, in the case of
William H. Bartholomew, charged with the
murder of Aaron w. billiard, returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree.
DR.. Philippe Ricord, the cssehru5ed French
surgeon, known in Paris for many years as
the great American DOCTOR" is dead. He
was born in Baltimore on Dec 10, 1900.
1t is claimed that Dovey, the balloonist,
descended with the aid of parachute from
height of 14,000 feet and landed in safety
at Wolverhampton England
The following fourth class postmasters in
New York state have been appointed E. G.
Swick, East Steamburg, and James M. Shedd,
Willsborough.
The eastern synod of the Reformed church,
at Allentown, Pa, has adjourned to meet at
Reading next year.
The striking miners at La Salle ILL.,. have
returned to work after six months of idle
ness. A compromise was effected between
miners and operators.
Surgeon General Hamilton has been noti-
fed of another case of yellow fever at Key
West. The patient is E. Ellinger, who was
on his way from Havana to New York.
Gen. Butler has been elected president of
the San Miguel Mining company, new con-
Germ which controls nine hundred acres of
gold bearing gravel bars near Placerville,
Colo.
Dr. Thomas Green Chattle, of Long
Branch, n j., ex-state senator, has been
stricken with paralysis.
The Prince of Wales is said to be suffering
from Bright's disease, and can scarcely be
expected to survive the next year.
George Otto, farmer residing near Car
Isle, Pa, has been arrested for attempting
to wreck train on the Harrisburg and Po-
tomac railroad, and held in $4,000 bail.
Governor Hill has granted Murderer Glib
lin an additional respite of thirty days.
The well known inventor of Ipswich, Mass,
James Peatfield whose name is closely asso-
ciated with the early lace and wool manu-
featuring Of this country, is dead.
Seventy-six jurors of the panel of 100
made up for Part III of the supreme court
in New York failed to appear. Judge lngra-
ham fined each delinquent $3.50.
The Hohenstein Manufacturing company,
of Newark, N. j., manufacturers of steam
launches, have failed for 100000. Thomas
r. Bowies is the president and the largest
stockholder.
Frederick L. Bray, grand secretary of the
Independent Order of Good Tenplars, died
at Bridgeport, Conn, of pleurisy, after an
illness of several weeks.
The grand jury has indicted James j.
West, late editor of The Chicago Times, and
Charles E. Graham, his secretary, for fraudu-
lently over issuing stock of The Chicago
Times company.
The Zanzibar agent of the London Mission
ary society reports that the natives have
driven out the Jesuits from Unjamjembe
and destroyed their mission stations.
George Bush, the California pugilist in
dicted at Boston for prize fighting, has been
sentenced to thirty days imprisonment and
to pay costs.
Frank J. Bowman, the well known lawyer,
who has figured in SO many matrimonial
troubles in st. Louis and Chicago, was shot
and instantly killed by B. M. Chambers at
Ferguson, Mo.
Hon. Isaac G. Lewis, the well known Uni
versalist philanthropist of Meriden, Conn,
has decided his new block in that city, just
completed at an expense of $4,000, to the
City Mission, a charitable organization
The meeting of the international anti-slave
trade conference at Brussels has been de-
ferred until Nov. Is.
Professor Mather, of Amherst college, is
critically i'll.
The secretary of the treasury has decided
to dispense altogether with the services OF
the inspectors of foreign vessels at Philadel-
phia, New Orleans and San Francisco.
Secretary Window has directed that James
Hepburn be returned to Scotland and Emil
Dietze to Germany Both came to this coun-
try under contract, the former landing at
Port Huron, Mich, and the latter at New
York
The cholera is still making frightful ravages
in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates
There have been 1900 deaths within the past
three months, and there are as yet no signs
Of abatement Of the scourge.
Archduke John Salvador, of the Austrian
imperial house of Habsburg, has publicly ex-
pressed the desire to resign all his titles and
appointments and hereafter live the life of
an ordinary private citizen.
The czar and his family have donated
400, 900 rubles for the sufferers by the famine
in Montenegro.
The president has appointed Nicholas Smith,
of New York, to be consul of the United States
at Three Rivers, P. @.
The grand jury at New Orleans has found
six indictments three against Maj. E. A
Burke and Maurice Hart jointly for publish
ing forged bonds as true, and two for forgery
and one for embezzlement against ex-Treas-
urer Burke.
The senior class at Harvard college has
elected Clement G. Morgan, colored man,
class orator.
The Newark Tan Bark works have burned.
Loss 100000
Sheriff Flack, of New York, has appealed
from Judge Bookstaver's order annulling
his alleged fraudulent divorce.
It is said that S2,5OO, 600 worth of interior