The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DOMESTIC.


Lyman r. Casey was elected q. s. Sena
tor from North Dakota on first ballot. Gil
bert A. Pierce is the other Senator.
Secretary Tracy will use the smokeless
powder in the U. S. Navy
A Missouri, Kansas and Texas express
train was robbed in the Indian Territory of
$50 900.
The managers and performers of all the
theatres were arrested in Cincinnati for
performing on Sunday.
Caldwell Wilcox & Co., iron manu-
iacturers of Newburg, n. Y, failed with
heavy liabilities.
November 26th.-Lynn, Mass, the great
center for the manufacture of shoes, had
SlO,OOO,OO0 fire, causing the destruction of
twelve acres of the city. With the excep-
tlon OF the Boston fire in 1872 and the
Portland fire in 1866, it is the most de
sructive cOnf1agration that ever occurred
in New England
Leechburg, Pa, also suffered to the
amount of 100000 by fire.
The ship a. j. Fuller landed at New
York the officers, crew and passengers of
the British steamship Santiago, which was
burned in mid ocean.
Chicago instead of Nashville, on January
| 18th next.
Sixteen masked men took possession Of
the Santa Fe train in the Indian Territory
and robbed the express of $4,000.
November 27-Owing to the recent dis
pute between Maryland and Virginia about
the right Of the latter State TO the oyster
grounds known as Hog Island flats, a small
war was inaugurated among the oystermen,
and the schooner Lawson sunk
John Brown and William Henderson,
two colOred clerks in the postoffice II Char
lotlc, y. G, have been caught ritllng let
ters
G. X. Young, assistant postmaster at
Rugby, Tenn, has been arrested for rtling
letters.
The bark Germania was wrecked at Long
Branch. The captain was drunk. The mate
and three men swan to shore on empty
barrels, the captain and eleven men were
drowned
The bridge on Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad over Wyandotte river, gave way,
and entire freight train preciptated in the
rlver-the eI gineer, Freeman, was killed
others OF the crew had a narrow escape
John Schumacher, wealthy saloon
keeper in Wilkesbarre, Pa, sold police
man liquor, from which the latter became
drunk, AID was killed by passing engine.
The widow sued Schumt cher and he com
promised by paying her 50 500.
Mrs. Howell Cobb, wife of Hon Howell
Cobb, ex-Secretary L. S. Treasury died in
Athens, Georgia.
One Olsen "who was partially insane and
| W !, ,at L.,
hi neighbors to ieaye the county Decin
ing to Go so he was dragged out OF bed, and
without having time to even dress himself
he was drawn up by rope over the limb
OF tree and strangled to death This dis
tardly act was committed at Preston in the
Safe of Wisconsin.
Arthur Il ketchum, members of the New
ork Stock Exchange, have suspended.
Pollard IL Moss book publishers, OF the
same city, have failed.
Lafayette Rodriguez Pereira, one of the
dcleg iies from Brazil, has withdrawn from
the international American Congress, on
account of the changed condition in his
country.
November 2Sth-A great fire in the shoe
and leather districts Of Boston caused
losses amounting To ten million dollars.
Coming 50 closely Upon the great Lynn
| fire ii is thought some OF the insurance
companies will g under. The fire is at
tribu'ed 10 electric wires.
| The students lie saving crew of the
Northwestern University al Evanston
saved the lives of the crew OF the wrecked
steamer Calumet
November 29th-The United States
District Attorney Lyon entered suit at
| Pitsburg, Pa again>r Chambers Il Mckee
glass company, and James Campbell and
III. Slickler, presidents, respectively, OF the
American Window Glass Workers Asso-
citation. and the Universal Federation of
Window Glass Workers To recover 81 900
each Tor forty six men alleged 10 have been
brought here from abroad in violation Of
law, under contract TO work at the jean
etiee glass works.
Judge r. b. Trippe committed suicide at
Atlanta, Georgia.
The Havana factories, belonging TO the
so called trust, have resumed work.
Mr.. Hugh Dunns' four little girls while
PLAYING in an abandoned work house at
Elliotsville, w. Va, found a keg OF powder
and exploded it. All were blown to pieces,
and the bereaved mother lost her reason
when told OF it.
Peter McFaren. Of Canada, purchased
$4,000 acres, in Allegheny county, Virginia.
Said to be finely timbered mineral lands.
Price 100000.
Sheffield, Ala, celebrated Thanksgiving
day by sending the first cargo of iron to St.
Louis, by river-boat. One dollar per ton
is thus saved in freight, and it benefits the
entire mining districts of Alabama.
Surgeon General Hamilton has submitted
to the Pan American Congress paper on
the sanitation of ships and proper methods
of quarantine.
November 30th.-The public debt has
been reduced $4,0O0,000 during the month
of November
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, addressed
three thousand people at Central Music
Hall in Chicago, and was received with
great enthusiasm and vociferously cheered.
The assemblage had gathered in the inter-
eat OF monument to the Confederate dead
in Chicago.
Coal operators of the Monongahela VAL