, 1889-05-10
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Senator Stanford has realized ST., $40
from the sale of his trotters.
Samuel G. Wright of Nevada has been
appointed superintendent Of the mint at
Carson City.
The score of leaders in the walk at IL
a. ~: Herty $50, Cartright $40, Hughes
1875, Noremac 800.
Yesterdays temperature-New York
Ga, Chicago 6S0, st. Paul Sc, Winnipeg
400, New Orleans 6So.
The president has appointed Frank G..
Loveland pension agent at New York
City, vice Franz Sigel resigned.
Gen. VIM. Harvey, the oldest officer of
the United States army, being born in
1900. died ct Orlando, Fla, yesterday.
The house committee on elections has
prepared the papers in sixteen contest
cases. all but three being from southern
states.
Del Studer has sold his black ~trotting
stallion Durango to A. c. Danforth for
$4,000. Durango is twelve years old and
has a record of 2.23f.
Lightning struck a barn in Madison,
Iowa, yesterday, killing two men and
badly iniuring two others, who barely es-
capped from the burning building.
The comptroller of the currency has
paid out 1921, 4l0, being 65 per cent on
the claims proved against the California
National Bank of San Francisco, which
tailed in December last.
A large crowd filled the Chicago opera
house last evening to listen to a discussion
on Secularism and Christianity between
Charles Watts, of London, and Rev. DR..
Rives, of Portland, Ore.
The business part of the village of
Danville, VT. was wiped out by fire in
one hour yesterday. Twenty-three build
lngs were burned and twenty-seven fami-
lies are homeless. Loss, $50, 000.
Great suffering is reported among the
people of Northern Michigan resulting
from forest fires. Many sought shelter in
swamps, burying themselves in the mud,
and thus managing to survive the heat
and smoke.
O'Connor, Lee. Gaudaur. Hamm and
Peterson will row a three mile single skull
race on Salt Lake June ID for a purse of
81, 800. A San Francisco sport offers a
$3.50 purse to the man who will break
the worlds record.
The terrible prairie fires are still raging
in Michigan. The village of Norway is
surrounded by flames. Bruce crossing
and MatchwoOd have been destroyed. the
refugees sought safety in swamps, bitches
and cellars; many are miss ing.
In Chicago the past three DAYS have
been the hottest since the signal service
has been established. Yesterday the
government thermometer touched SO, and
outside thermometers reached 81. There
was one case of fatal s~unstroke.
Mr. Simmonson. wife of a prominent
merchant of Washington Territory, en-
route to New York with her daughter,
five years of age, became insane before
she reached Rochester. and had to be
sent to an asylum when she reached that
city.
The boiler in the basement of the
Spooner Manufacturing company, New
York, exploded yesterday. Daniel Klup-
ka, engineer, was killed. The explosion
caused a panic among the 300 girls on the
upper floor, but they soon quoted and
further trouble was averted.
The Democratic vention of Ken
lucky nominated S. g. Sharp. present in
cumbent, for state treasurer, to succeed
the fugitive Tate. The election will be
held in August. The platform endorses
the national platform of "a and 'SS,
special reference being made to the stand
taken on the tariff.