The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-01-11
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

cruiser Vesuvius in Delaware bay were
pronounced success.
Fire in Dongola, ILL.,, the other morning
destroyed eight business houses, causing
900, OOO loss. Cause, defective fue.
An escaped Soudanese has offered to
bring General Gordon's clothes, sword and
papers, which are said to be hidden near
Berber.
The new statue of General Lewis CaSs,
presented to the Nation by the State Of
Michigan, has been taken to the Capitol at
Washington.
Mrs. ConcOrdia Muench was found dead
in her room at Rockport, Mo-, the other
afternoon and was thou lit to have COM
mitted suicide.
c. V. Lambrigger, living n oar Avalon,
Mo-. has been probably fatally wounded
accidentally by john Kimber acompanion,
while hunting.
The other night the west bound train on
the Cincinnati Selma g. Mobile, was de-
rallied about five miles from Selma. Ala.
Two coaches were partially turned over
and the passengers badly shaken I'D, but
nobody was seriously hurt. There was
also an accident in the ornng near
Selma, on the East Tennessee road bv
which sixteen passengers were bruised up.
Charles Stevenson, agel thirty three,
was crushed to death I'm 'er a bank of
earth which recently caved III on him at
Wyoming, Neb
The State of Texas, it is announced, has
issued its last patents for public lands.
What has not been tax up belongs now
to schools, asylums, etc.
Charles Shawl 'fcbre, Vl.count Evers-
ley, di d recently, a5el ninety-four
years. H was for many years promi-
nent British statesman.
A causeless run was made On the Ger
man American Saving' Bank of Burling-
ton, Iowa, the o her day, but it lasted only
short time and had no bad effects.
A large new crayOn portrait of Speaker
Carlisle has been hung in the House of
Representa- tives chant CT in place of the
smaller one which has b zen there for years.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended Decent err 81 numbered
299, compared with 81 tie previous week
and 263 the correspond NJ week last year.
The President has ordered the removal
OF Edward Cushing, collector Of customs,
at Belfast, Me-, because of charges that be
had accepted money from applicants for
positions.
The final dividend Of 20per cent, making
the amount paid 100 per cent, has been
paid by the Comptroller of the Treasury to
the creditors of the Second National Bank,
of Xenia O.
James Conley, a teamster, was run over
and killed at Marceline, Mo recently, his
left arm and leg being entirely severed
and his head and face crushed beyond
recognition.
During heavy fog III Nebraska City,
Neb, the other morning a Burlington
freight engine was wrecked and Council
Bluffs cabocse and car destroyed, but no
one was hurt
Amelie Thurin, seventeen wears of age.
who was employed as a domestic in a
Chicago private family. upon retiring
blew out the gas and was found dead in
bed the other morning.
James Macken and Nathan Gilchrist
aged nine and four years, were skating on
the bayou at Toledo, o, recently when the
ice broke, preciptating the boys into the
water and both boys ere drowned.
More battles with oyster pirates have
been reported off the Maryland coast. In
one Of the engagements Captain Shores
was wounded. In ano;he five dredging
schooners were captured by the State
navy.
It is said that DR.. Alexander e. McDon-
aid, general superintendent of the insane
asylum on Wards Island, has become in
sane. He was one of the experts whose
testimony convicted Guiteau, the assassin
of President Garfield.
Richter calcu' ates from recent statistics
that Germany has at her disposal in the
event of war an army of 3 5l3,416 COM
pletely drilled men, not counting the re-
serves and the lands:urm, which are not
drilled in the time of peat
The past year has been a profitable one
for the Fall River (Mass.) manufacturers
and closes with the market entirely clear
of spot goods and the production sold we'll
ahead to April. TIE dividends aggregated
the greatest ever paid in the history of the
city.
The London Stock Exchange was active
and advanced during the week ended De-
cember 80 American railroads had a
sharp rise, but weakened toward the end
of the week. The Continental bourses
were depressed with prices tending down.
ward.
1t has been announced that the vault Of
the United States b-treasury in the GUS
tom house of Baltimore, Md. was robbed
OFFS, 243 in standard silver dollars, April
10, but the robbery kept secret in the hope
that the thief might be surprised and cap
tured.
The coal miners in the anthracite region
of Pennsylvania have made a demand for
a reduction of 81 per keg in the price of
the blasting powder furnished to them.
The employers are not expected to give in
as their profits from this source have been
enormous.
At the request Of the Acting Secretary
of War Attorney General Garland has in
structed the United States District Attor-
ney at Austin, Tex, TO take the necessary
steps for the defense of General Stanley,
y. S. A, recently arrested in that city
while in the execution of his official duties.
Mrs. Henry Martin and Miss Kate Pow
ers, two ladies living in one o. the suburbs
of Chicago, while driving across the Rock
Island road track at Forty seventh street
recently, were struck by locomotive and
instantly killed, there bodies being terri
bly, mutilated before the train could DO
stopped.
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