Evening journal., 1889-04-09
coNnENsEp NEMs.

Davis Bros. & Co, boot and shoe manu-
facturers, Haverhill, Mass. have failed, and
an assignment has been made for the benefit
Of the creditors.
]. Uric Alton, Of Greenville, N. H., was
instantly killed and Joseph Legros, Of Fitch
burg, badly injured while attempting to
drive across the track in front Of a tram at
Fitchburg, Mass.
A boy giving his name as Joseph Wright
has been arrested in Boston for passing raised
checks for small amounts on Boston banks.
One check was altered from 80 70 $40 and
another from $40 to 500.
At the regular meeting of the Ohio society
in New York, Gen. H. L. Burnett read
PAPER IL favor Of increasing our military and
naval force. He declared that in case OF war
we would be practically helpless. Several
members spoke in commendation Of the ar
gument
A dispatch from Cohassett, Mass, states
that the spar buoy marking the Grampus
ledge has broken from its mooring and is
missing. The series Of lodges exposed at low
water are about a mile northwest Of Minots
ledge and dangerous to sailing craft beating
in or out of the bay.
The Connecticut supreme court Of errors,
in the case OF Jacob Schiel, the New Canaan
lnNiNtttts AiltA rtuASASl " RN AttAA-c4 4Aae
% for the murder Of Constable Druker in
January, 1855, has announced that it found
no error in the Judgment Of the lower court,
standing three to two against new trial
Jacob Sandt eminent commander Of the
Hugh De Payen commandery, Knights
Templar, committed suicide at his home in
Easton, Pa, by hanging The act is believed
70 have been due to melancholy over the re-
turn Of an old sickness He was in the
grocery business and one Of Easton's most re-
spected citizens
A defective switch derailed the four rear
coaches Of an inward bound train between
Colehour and South Chicago. The coaches
were thrown with terrific violence against
several coal oil tank cars standing on the
side track and broken TO pieces. One man
was killed and twelve Others injured, two or
three of them very severely.
Miss Eta Johnston, a chorus girl in Kiral-
| fy's "Water Queen company, where She is
known as Eta Collins, has Leen notified that
she has become an heiress by the death Of her
father at Richmond, Va She will leave the
company at the end Of this week. Eta ran
away from hoRe three years ago becau. .;e
Der parents opposed her going on the sta xe.
Rumors are ahoat that several r.ursery.
men and an ex-member Of the legisl <ture have
preferred charges against ST. .oerintendent
| Gideon, Of the Minnesota state experimental
fruit farm, alleging that be has sold $40. COX
or $780, 600 worth of trees without accsuntine
for them. Mr.. Gi.ieon denies the charges
and the state seAate VIII. soon get at the roo
Of the mat 'er.
Word. oas beea received at Regina, n. w
T., Of a destructive cyclone that struck a set
t.enaent on Long lake last Sunday night /
, moved path thirty yards wide through tn
bluffs, tearing green trees up by the roots
Several houses and barns were blown down
and logs were carried fifty yards. No casual
ties are reported. Prairie fire. swept a larg
area of land north Of Regina Saturday night
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife Of the mus
cian, died in New York after lingering an
pninful illness. She had been confined to be
bid since last autumn with form of nervot
plostration. which from the first puzzle
msdical science, though 1t was not unit
within few weeks of the end that hope
successfully coping with it Was abandone'
Kris. Thomas was Woman Of fine inteiiectu
attainnents aud unusual force oi caaractc