The Globe-republican., 1889-10-30


sine die at New York on the 9th.
FITfEEN farms near Fergus Fails Mimi.
have been devastated by prairie fires.
THE recent wheat growers' convention
at st Louis, after the adoption Of resolu.
tions. elected the following officers: Pres
ident, Hon. Norman J. Colman. Of Mis-.
souri, with the privilege Of naming his
own secretary; executive board, w. l.
Scott and A. D. Noe, Of Kentucky; N. J.
Colman and U. s. Hall, OF Missouri; E. II.
D. B. Green and ]. T. McCaffrey. of Illi-
nois; Calvin Cole and George Gibson. Of
Oregon; Walter n. Allen and ex-Gover.
| nor Charles Robinson, of Kansas; J. A.
Coates and D. A. Eppson, of Indiana; n.
| O. Walker, Of Tennessee, and H N. Sar.
gent of Ohio.
The Russian Government has offered
prizes of 2 900 franc, and large gold and
several silver medals for the best essays
on the part John Howard took in prison
reforms, to be delivered at the fourth in
ternational prison congress in Russia next
year.
THE strike of the switchmen at Evans.
vile, Ind, has ended in the defeat of the
| men, many of whom have lost their places.
GEORGE CURTIS and Charles Kimmck
| have been held for trial at Ashland, Wis.,,
on the charge OF bong principals in q
prize fight
Can, the other morning caused one death
and the serious injury of five other per.
sons.
ing oil by q wreck and explosion on the
r -, C.;& p 0hx4 L.
Their awful fate was the work Of I'M
known miscreants who placed an obstruc.
ton on the track.
DESTRUCTIVE wood fires were reported
at Winchester, forty miles below Pine
Bluff, Ark.
Rev. J. w. PowELL's private bank at
Fostoria, o., has closed its doors. The
assets and liabilities are each about $24,.
coo.
By the premature explosion of a cannon
during political meeting at GAINESVILLE,
O., William hewitt was blown fifty feet
and fatally injured.
FIRE in Port Leyden, N. Y, the other
night destroyed nine business houses and
seventeen dwellings causing 500, 0c0 loss
with $780, 600 insurance.
The State Departments estimates for
1S9o.91 aggregate about 3,C00, 600 The
principal new item is IS, 900 for new furni-
ture for the department rooms
MICHAEL DAvIrr asserts that the Pigott
forgeries were known to lie forgeries by
Mr.. Houston, secretary of the Loyal and
Patriotic Union. before they were pub
lished in the London Times.
GEORGE SABoURIN aged twenty.one
working on a new Congregational church
at Newport VT, recently fell eighty feet
from the spire and was fatally injured.
A BATTLE is reported to have taken
place on the island of Savaii between the
forces of Malietoa and Tamasese. Which
par y won was not known.
JAY GOULD thinks that the combination
of railroads, as often mooted, is not at
present feasible.
THE negroes concerned in the fatal riot
ing on Navassa island, West Indies. have
been landed at Baltimore and Jailed.
Two children were fatally injured at
Franklin, Pa. They had found a dyna-
mite bomb and were playing with it when
it exploded. Eight other children were
seriously hurt.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reporD for the
seven days ended October a numbered,
including Canada, 225, compared with 254
the corresponding week of last year.
CHARLES MCILvAIN, nineteen years old,
murderer of Christian w. Luca while
committing burglary on the night of Au-
gust 2l-22 last has been sentenced to
death by electricity at Sing Sing prison
in the week beginning December g.
AT the instance of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Chung
Lee, Buffalo IN. " laundryman, has
been arrested for abducting two little
girls from their homes.
A SUPPOSED Tascott was arrested at
Reading, Pa, on the 25th. The detectives
were sure of their man.