The Monmouth inquirer., 1889-08-29
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worlds News Winnowed from Whole
Weeks Threshing.
Mr. Balfour has announced that it will be
impossible to pass the Irish Sunday closing
| bill the present session of the commons.
Rev. Henry Wall, S. T. D., aged 72, died
at Chestertown, Md.
| The lumber yard of b. & ]. Godkin, near
Tonawanda, N. Y, was burned and S,O0O,OOU
feet of lumber destroyed The loss will be
$4,000
The postoffice department at Washington
has ordered the free delivery service to be
established at Mount Vernon, Niagara Falls
and Johnstown, N. Y.
! Alfred Porter, aged 10, of Dover, student
at Dartmouth college, was instantly killed
near Hanover, N. H., by Herbert E. Towle.
Towle was cleaning a revolver, which he
thought was not loaded
The South Fork Fishing club will rebuild
the fatal dam near Johnstown, Pa, on a
! lower level.
Henry Willard has begun suit against ex-
Judge Noah Davis for $125, 900, commissions
on a stock transaction which took place sew
eral years ago. The defense is that the stock,
which Judge Davis bought is an investment
for an estate of which he was trustee, was
not as valuable as represented, and that the
commissions were not earned.
Mr.. Parnell will not go abroad after the
adjournment of parliament as was his orig
inal intention, but will spend the recess in
Avondale in Scotland
An influential German company has been
organized with capital of 3Q000,000 marks
to complete the Simpson tunnel between
Italy and Switzerland.
The United States war ship has seized two
none Canadian sealers for alleged piratical
seal fishing in Behring sea.
DR.. Robert Lowry, a son of Governor
Lowry, of Mississippi, eloped with Miss Mary
j. Foote, a California GIRL and married her
at jackson, Miss.
Jacob Mott, of Bridgeport, Conn, aged
76, went to Methodist camp meeting at
Canaan, and when walking home on the
railroad track he was run over by an engine
and instantly killed.
All union shoemakers of Cincinnati are on
strike because three of their number were
unjustly discharged.
Chief Postoffice Inspector Rathbone, of
Washington, is informed of the arrest of
Samuel Smith at Denver, Cola, for vio-
lating the postal laws.
The Scripps league expedition of American
workingmen were entertained at a banquet
in the Hotel de Vile by the Paris municipal
council, and were the guests of Hon. White
law Reid, American minister, at a breakfast
at the United States legation.
Alexander Currie, retired farmer OF
Franklinville, n Y, was cheated out OF
81 500 in a three-card monte game by couple
of swindlers travelling with Robbins circus.
James Harper, aged 35 years, fell through
the air shaft from the fourth floor to the
basement at his residence, 1873 West Sixty
second street, New York and was Instantly
killed
Frank Norris John He'll, James O'Brien
and Brodie Norris miners, of Charleston
W. Va, were caught beneath fall of slate
in the mines of the Connellton Coal company
in Fayette county and killed. Several other
men were injured.
Lieut. s. L. Graham has been ordered to
Pittsburg as inspector of steel for the new
cruisers.
William T. Higgins, Republican politi-
clan, widely known on the Pacific coast, is
dead at San Francisco.
Truman Kenerson, aged rs, of Barre, VT,
was struck by an engine and killed.
Horace Seaver, editor of The Boston In
vestigator for the past fifty-one years, is
dead, aged 70 years. Mr. Seaver was widely
known as writer on free thought He was
close friend of Phillips Pillsbury and
Garrison.
While speaking in a session of the grand
lodge, /. D. o. F.. at Rome, Ga, Col. Adolph
Brandt, of Atlanta, fell dead of apoplexy.
DIR. E. Parsons, said to be the Oldest prac-
tising dentist in the United States, died at
/ Go Ia ho111 in hat mn
ton, Mass, in 1906. He invented a number
of instruments widely used by dentists
Mile Zela, a famous Old World operatic
songstress, will renounce the stage and marry
Edgar O. Achorn, a Boston attorney.
Numerous severe hail storms are reported
from different points in Austria. Many peo-
pie have been killed and much damage has
been done to property
The Wauregan cotton mills at Providence,
R. l., have failed. The failure was caused
by the assignments of Brown, Steese &
| Clarke and Lewis Bros. The liabilities are
| 100000; nominal assets $2,000,000.
A. D. Millers oil refinery at Allegheny
City, Pa, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
S1S7 900; insurance, $4,000 Thornton Mil.
Ter, the engineer, was killed.
! An epidemic of diphtherla has broken out
| dO uuOoCOWt w., q piclSO VI WV AiihNDtoe.ho oo
Forty cases have been reported.
Fire at Colfax, Ills,, in the Colfax Lumber
yard, caused loss of S75,000.
The Pennsylvania railroads tracks dam
aged by the food at Johnstown have just
been relaid.
A California state expert claims to have
discovered that certain combinations of fat
and oils with sulphur compounds when used
for tanning, have the effect Of rendering
leather impervious to water and so pliable a
to render it almost indestructible.
Reports from all parts of the country indi
cate fair yield of leaf tobacco.
Engineer Andrew Wallace, who was SO
verely injured in the Big Flats On. ~ wreck
is dead Fireman Charles Kimball is in 8
critical condition.
Mrs Jennie Ford, living near Cuba, N.
T., took dose of Rough on Rats and dice
in great agony. Her life had been unhappy
Ex-City Sergt. J. G. Smith, prominent
Republican, and the Malone candidate fol
the postmastership Of Richmond, Va, shot
and killed negro who had broken into hi
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