Smyrna times., 1890-02-12
News lem 9

great ana gOOd men at the head of the
movement.
Several oyster slOops and other yes.
sells, owned in the Eastern shore a
Maryland, were lost during a heavy
gale on Sunday.
When a thousand bushels of corn
belonging to a mOrtgaged farmer al
Wlchita, Kansas, was seized for debt
he reclaimed it as fuel.
President Harrison issued his procla.
motion opening to settlement the IL.
OOO' acres of the Sioux reservation
ceded by the Indians.
One hundred ard seventy bodies
nave been taken from the Abervscban
cOllIery, Wales, where the explosion of
gas occurred on Thursday.
Ocean steamers coming in at New
YORK and Boston, report meeting with
enormous ice foes and lofty icebergs
as well as with fierce gales.
A report was made in the House bv
the Committee on Account in favor 6f
allowing each member of that BODY a
clerk at Government expense.
An immense slide on the Oregon and
California railroad filled up Crow
Greek Canyon and the creek. damned
up, formed a lake three miles long.
A widow in Brooklyn who persisted
In refusing $1,000 insurance money ON
her husbands life has been declared
insane because she would scrub the
steps five times day.
There are American exiles now in
Canada who represent over ten millions
OF dollars of stolen money. The pend
IND extradition treaty should be passed
before that amount is doubled.
The National Executive Silver Com-
mIttee is arranging for a series of DnhIic
meetings to be held in all the large
citles OF the country to induce Congress
TO take favorable action on silver iegis.
latiOn.
The colOred mems convention. in
session in Washington. issued an ad.
dress to the people of the country
seGtlhg Iorth their wrongs in the South.
asking justice and coudemning the
NNASA SAii SIdllOu Dill.
Near st. Iguace, Mich. Barnabas
Gllroy, blacksmith, was leaning over
MS forge when a flame shot inward
and ignited gas from his stomach
caused by liquor and burned him in
ternally so badly that he died.
Henry J. FAM, the victim of the Alb.
erdeen, Miss, outrage, has written a
letter from Lexington. Tenn, to Sena-
tor Spooner, approving that gentle
mems recent speech, a0d pronnncing
Its account of the trouble correct.
Susie Thomson pointed revolver at
her friend, Allie Ellis, aged Is wears
IN Cameron, Missouri, yesterday. saving
thls Is the way to scare burglars" A
report following, and Allie Ellis was
Kliled by bullet, which entered her
brain.
The wool growers and manufactur.
ers, at a conference in WASHINGTON
agreed on a schedule of duties on
goods in their line, to be recommend
eu 10 the ways and means committee
ioI iSr incorporation in the proposed tar
IL oAlA
X. G. Church, of the North Elkborn
tKentuckyl Breeding Establishment
sold to ID. COnkling, of New York. his
bay colt ElkhOrn for $4,000 cash. The
colt Is by Edward z 253), first dam
Long Lane by Long Island Patchen.
his two-year-old record is 2.IS2.
In North Dakota House of Reprasap.
tatives, yesterday, the friends of the
lottery bill moved its indefinite post
ponement and carried the motion. Tn
the Senate a committee was appointed
to investigate the charges of bribery
IN connection with the lottery bust.
ness.
The Press correspondent made a
trip over the pralries of Nelson conntv
~ w. and visited the homes of the
destitute farmers. Their food contents
ofpotatOes and wheaton cakes. they
are burning hay for fuel, and have
srant clothing and no seed for Spring
planting. '"s
Mountains of solid ice at sea and
canyons chOked with snow in the far
northwest indicate that the forces of
winter have not been resting every
where on this planet. A more eouabIe
distribution might have been accent
aoie IN many ways to the dweIIers
hereabouls.
The four children of Jacob R Slater
broke through the ice on the lake at
benneWater, near Kingston. NewYorlx
yesterday afternoon The mother rush.
ca TO the rescue and also broke through
the ice. Mr. Slater then attemnted to
reach his wife, and he too was drowned
The entire family was lost.
Miss Elizabeth COchrane Nellie Blv)
who recently beat the time records IN
a trip around the world, appeared ON
the lecture platform at the Union
Square Theatre, New York. last niobt
one gave an interesting account of her
TRIP and its incidents. She is under
engagement to deliver 43 lectures.
1t is stated that National University
Is to be founded in Washington. d. g.
oy the Methodist church. Il is said
that Bishop Hurst, whose residence IL
IN Washington, is at the head of the
movement and has paid an option of
81 ,OOO on piece of property on the
ienallytown road, which is to be sold
for 100000. ~ 7O'O
The worst blizzard in the recollection
OF the oldest inhabitant of Minnesota
prevailed in that State Friday A
furious storm, accompanied by snow
and sleet, swept over Western Penn
sylvanla, killing two men at Blairsville
and blowing down many buildings
Freezing weather and snow were Te'
ported from Virginia.
The floods on the Willamette and
Columbia rivers, in Oregon, have done
much damage. Al Salem a S75 000
bridge was carried away and the river
fronts still are flooded at Portland the
hrst floors of stores and residences
being covered. The steel bridge Al
the latter place was threatend ana was
badly battered by the driftwood.
It will be gratifying to all of secre-
Jary Iracy's friends to receive the posi.
1--WE assurance which Is given bv his
orother-in-law, General Catlin. that the
head Of the Navy Department has no
Intention of giving up public life. The
Olow ne has sustained was well.niph
overwhelming, and ia addition he is