The morning news., 1889-05-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A COMPANY Of Boston stock brokers recently
dined on two Holsters weighing twenty-eight
pounds caugat at sullivan, ne-
SIX ELoPING COUPLES were married at Jeffer-
sonvire. Ind, in one day recently. One justice
married them all bis fees amounted TO SEA
TIE EXCITEMENT over the gold find in Douglas
county, Nevada, has died out. a local paper says
that 1T is intimated the claims were salted."
A STREET in the city Of Tacoma. in the new
state Of Washington. has been named Whittier.
The nearest street TO It bears the name OF
Langtry
ADAM PHuEs, the Cincnnstisp who was bitten
by dog ard went abroad to be treated by Pas,
teur. is reported dead In a cabiegram from Ger
ma y received by his wife
Two Oh CITY PoLIcEMEN and divers other
persons shot stray dog the other evening, and
the next morning the dog was able TO eat
pound and naf Of beefsLeak.
TIE CYCLONE lifted the frame OF new house
| on Long Island aud carried it through the air
200 feet. It dropped into the ocean, and later
the debris was washed ashore.
a COMPANY Of Chiramen, styled the Imperial
Chinese Dramatic Company Of San Francisco,
| is playing at Chicago theater Tue play pro.
duced is said TO be 5000 years old
THEATER is to be erected on the Champ
formances are to be participated in by actors
from nearly all quarters Of the globe.
WOMAN living near Freehold, y. j., nearly
50 years old. claims sic has travelled but once
on the cars. never saw steamboat ard was
never more than twenty miles from home
THE ILLINOIS ASSEMBLY has shown Itself 10 be
possessed of truly Western sense of humor by
appoint ng gentle an named Partridge to the
charmanship Of the committee on game avs
A BEAR came upon the premises Of Charles
Vogle rof Moltke, Presque county, Michigan, re-
Gently, and lugged of calf aud sheep while
Mrs. Vogler looked on in considerable astenish
ment.
A D. THOMPSON, of Oswego. N. Y, is said to
be the oldest railroad conductor in the United
States. He began railroading in 1874 or tram.
way from Ithaca to oswego He is about 70
years old.
THE COD BANKs recently discovered 100 miles
of the coast of San Diego. Cal by the fish com
mission steamer Albatross are to be investi-
gated with view 10 immediate development, It
is reported
SEVERAL WOMEN in Houston, Tex, who were
sitting near where the unfortunate aeronart, St.
Clair, fell, asserts that they heard him mutte7
to himself in his rapid descent: Nearer the
end, nearer the end"
TIE rector of church at Oriskany Falls, n.
Y, eloped with the belle of the town and got
married. and the couple are now spending their
honeymoon in Syracuse The bride, who is only
10, is said to nave N Jnsy.
ADELAR FAscETTE, sitting On the bank CT the
river at Chippewa Falls, Wis, was taken with
an apoplectic fit. roll d into the river aud was
drowned be ore the ey-s OF the friends with
whom he had been CHATTING.
Al SHArLER. Cincinnati's veteran ''newsboy, ~
has retired from the business wltl a fortune.
it is said, of 100000 He is so years OLD He
inten Is purchasing cattle ranch in Colorado,
going west on account of failing health.
A CITIZEN OF Lynn, Mass, has entereIa PRO.
test before the school board of that plac, against
the use of certain text book, on the ground
that the smallne s Of the type in which it was
printed proved injurious to his daugh-
ter's eyes,
LONDON ha. fifty nine fire engine stations TO
! about 118 square miles u the metropolitan area.
Capt. Shaw has asked for means TO provide
more efficient protection against FIRE for the
metropolis his chief complaint being that of
| lack of water.
HERE is a marriage notice clipped from a
Cleveland paper: In Guilford, Medina county.
| Ohio, on the 2 inst, by S Wilson, ESQ, Mr.
| Samuel D. Curtis to Miss Sally Murphy after a
| tedious courtship of fifteen years, which was
| borne with christian fortitude ald patience