The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-11
A MOTLEY COLLECTION.
Briefly Told News From All lsarts OF the
World.

Briefly Told News From All Iarts OF the
World.
CHARLES S. PRATT, confidential book
keeper, secretary and cashier OF the H.
Wales Lines company Mt Meriden, Conn.,,
has confessed to embezzling S1O.O 900.
Pratt was an officer in several local organi-
cations. treasurer of the First Congrega-
tional society and a city alderman.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, who is in
Jul! ut Boston for debt, tried to buy q suit
of prison stripes, and felt bad when the
sheriff decided that he could not wear that
garb. He has now decide: to start q pa
pc, using his prison cell for q sanctum.
The steamer City of Kingston, one of
the handsomest loats on the Hudson
river, has just been sold to the Oregon
Steam Navigation company, of Portland,
Ore, and Will Mt once be taken to that
place via Cape Horn ani the Straits of
Magellan.
DIR. NAusES. the Norwegian explorer.
is organizing an expedition to the north
pole. Twenty thousand pounds have al
ready been subscribed toward the venture
uni additional funds will be forthcoming.
THE verdict of tho coroner's Jury in the
Quebec calamity holds the dominion au.
thorities guilty of culpable negligence in
neglecting to bull +, buttresses 10 the bank.
MS recommended by the city engineer in
1851.
THE subscriptions to the fund to meet
the expenses of MIR. Parnell in his defense
before the Parnell commission have
closed. The total amount subscribed is
Gal 100.
BUT 90 persons were present Mt the
beginning of the seventh national conyen.
lion of the socialist labor party in tlicago
the other day. The proceedings were
conducted with closed doors.
Ir mas been found that Samuel Garner,
the negro who was recently lynched at
Bluefield, w. Va, for an alleged assault
on u 1-year-old girl, was not the guilty
party.
JOHN A. McCLERNAND of the Utah
commission, has file / IL minority report,
He says the best way to era ilcate Nor.
monism liz by immigrati IL.
BY the explosion of fire damp in n coal
mine ut Rruhrsot'Rhenish. Persia. IL mon
were killed.
Hon. j. u. WAsHBuRN, United States
minister to Switzerland, has arrived at
New York from his trip to Europe.
The white house has been thoroughly
renovated this summer and is now believed
to be in % good sanitary condition.
THE Rotterdam dock laborers who re-
Gently went out on q strike have resumed
work under II compromise.
EDWARD DUFrI aud Charles Golden, st.
Louis burglars. We're caught in the act of
lmrglariZing II saloon. Duffy resisted ar.
rest IL was shot dead.
CHAs. SPARKS, IL United States deputy
marshal, WIS shot and killed at Bell Green,
KY, by u man named Locke EZZell. who
was resisting arrest.
Gov. HILL, of New York, has issued q
proclamation calling n special %e'ection in
the Ninth congressional district to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Hon. S. =.
Cox.
RoBERT RAY HAMILTON has began an
action for divorce from his wife, Evange-
line Hamilton. In his complaint he makes
charges which have heretofore been pub
lished.
II is said that the jute bagging trust
composed of nearly all the jute bagging
companies III the United States, vii or
game a company with n capital of So. OOO,-
OlO thus evading the antitrust laws.
W. s. MoFElTr and his sister, Mrs. Geo.
Middleton, of Tennessee, ILL.,, have re-
ceived notification that they are heirs to
the celebrated Mofitt estate in Ireland, and
entitled to a one-tifth share in the estate,
worth GAG, 600, 600.
The Westphalian coal liners arc
threatening anotaer strike.
In is believed that Bou anger will return
to Paris before the supplementary ballots
are taken.
EXTENSIVE surveys are i'll progress with
q view of making n new channel in the
Thames capable of floating the largest
ships.
No arrangements have yet been made in
Samoa for holding an election for a king.
The political situation remains quiet.
The defalcation in the Louisiana state
treasury is said to amount to 81, 200, 600.
H. q. PACKARD s. Co.'s bank of Reed
City. Mich, has closed its doors. The
deposits are estimated at from $40, 900 to
$4,000.
IT il announced that Queen Victoria will
be unable to go to Dublin in the spring.
The Prince of Wales will be asked to omen
the nrt museum.