Telegram-herald., 1889-10-30
CURRENT EyENrS.

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polnt ca Nonaay 81 caanb4rd Caa.
TIE paeiie schools a. Clinton. IA
have been clased on account of the prev
alsnce q aiphgbeTis
George HoNes, aged is. Vas thrown
from a horse al Washington. lad. Mon
dzy and instantly KILLED.
last month So applicants were re
fused aiaission - the Pabhe schools Of
Jersey City Cor want q room.
CITIZENS cf Pierre, : D., nave gone
out 70 nght prair.e IRE which started
north q that city Monday afternoon.
Lord Wolseley has accepted an invita-
tion 10 be present st the uny4iling Of
the statue Of General Lee al Richmond,
Va
Charles Erickson jumped from Wis
consin Central train Al IrOnwood Mich,
Monday, fell under car and was cut IN
two.
Henry Lee. a carpenter, fell thirty feet
from bridge on the Iowa Central road
al Burlington Monday and was instantly
killed
AT New York Monday Henry Her
wi!z. a diamond broker, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the right
temple.
Alexander Reese was thrown by
horse frightened by an elevated rail-
road train and killed at Kansas City,
Ma, Sunday
Ed Lansing, Of Troy, recently killed
a buck that weighed $50 pounds. This
was the largest deer shot in the Adiron-
dacks this season.
A large bear was killed by some hunt
ers in Coyington township, Clearfeld
County, Pa, recently. It's carcass
weighed 47O pounds.
Father John O'Leary, a Catholic
priest near Little Rock, Ark, was
thrown from horse Sunday night and
had his neck broken.
Governor Ross, of Texas, has gone 20
Mexico 10 secure the cooperation Of the
Mexican authorities in suppressing brig
andage on the border.
Daniel Evans attacked w NJ. Gray
with stone in quarrel at Bala, Kan,
Sunday, and was stabbed and killed by
Gray, who gave himself up.
Christopher Geiger. for many years
one of the leading iron-makers in
Eastern Pennsylvania. died on Monday
at Lancaster, aged 81 years.
The two-year-old son of John Lam
mers, Of Holland, Mich, was burned 10
death Monday While alone in the
house he set fire to his clothing.
As result, as alleged, of rise in
chemicals the window-glass manufact-
urers of Pittsburgh have ordered anoth-
er advance of 5 per cent. in prices.
Sunday morning, at Mount Jersey,
Pa, Joseph Hoffman attempted to break
into William II. Kohn's house, but was
shot by the latter and fatally wounded
Fire at New Orleans Monday de-
stroyed the building occupied by f. a.
| Tylers Sons jewelry establishment and
the upper portion of saloon next door.
The loss is $50, 900.
Fire Sunday night destroyed the resi-
dence and barn of Alexander Peak, liv-
| ing five miles north of Vandalia, III.
Mrs Peak narrowly escaped being burned
to death. Loss, S10,O
In dispute at Washington Monday
afternoon Edward Blunt, a we'll
known lawyer and turfman. was shot
and seriously wounded by George Mantz
political boss in Maryland.
Zachariah Taylor, sentenced to be
hanged for numbering Drover Me
Causland in Greene County, Pa, two
years ago, has been denied new trial
| by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Senator Stanford, of California, has
dispensed with Cinnamon in his Vina
vineyard. The superintendent says
that white labor is much more profitable
than Chinese, even at far higher wages.
Twenty men charged with lynching
Berrier, the man who was killed at Lex
ington. KY, have been arrested amid
much excitement at Lexington. Some
Of the ringleaders of the lynchers have
fed.
Jacob Sunday, a hotel-keeper at
Scranton, Pa, was stabbed to death
sunday night by three Hungarians who
had been refused admittance TO the no
tel. Two of the murderers are under
arrest.
The Mitylene lighthouse was wrecked
by an earthquake Sunday. Slight
damage was done in Constantinople.
Shocks in Italy caused serious damage,
and some loss of life occurred at Gal
lipo-i.
William c. Tenner, "a French Count
who has been victimizing New York
City business men, pleaded guilty OF
forgery in the third degree at New York
Monday and said that poverty drove hiYs
TO crime.
William Dingman while intoxicated
was crippled for life by railroad train
AT Decatur. H.. few weeks ago. Mon
dav his wife commenced suit for $40. O0C
against the ssloonkeepers who sold him
whisky.
Extensive forest fires have recently
been raging in Spain. Although the
country has fewer trees than any Other
in Europe, the Government doss nothing
TO restore burned forests by planting
young trees.
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