The Minneapolis observer., 1890-09-20
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
for the Wees RAILING sept. ~

~ NhACARo gu hohue1t
General Carlos Ezsta was elected Pres
ident Of Salvador ON Friday.
A fire on Monday destroyed $3.50 900
worth of property in nchburg, Va.
Charles II. Smith g Co. members Of
the Chicago Board Of Trade, have failed
for 500. GOO
Al Salt Lake City the two boys OF
Mrs J. w Savage we're burned TO death
In their mothers dwelling.
At Portland, Ore, Charles whalley
fatally shot his wife ~ house OF i'll
repute and then killed himself
Robbers tunneled into bank build
ing at The Dalles, Ore, blew open the
vault and secured about SlO.0
Joseph Bell, who took the iirst steam
boat across the Gulf OF Mexico, died OF
apoplexy on Friday &C Cincinnati.
i Counterfeit $40 bills on the German
/ National Bank OF New Orleans were In
] circulation at st. Louis ON Monday
! In Pistt County, III. on Friday Dan.
iel Quick unearthed the skeleton OF one
of the largest mastodons ever found.
At Morris. H., on Monday James
Maxwell, who murdered Charles Deck
err was sentenced TO be hanged octo-
Der IL.
Solomon Stanley. aged 80 years and
Captain Ralph Atwood, aged 81 years
we're killed by lightning al Province
town, Mass
Joseph +, Gibson, general manager Of
the Adams Express Company. died sud.
denly in Richmond, Va, on Monday,
aged IS years.
The upper house OF the Oklahoma
Legislatures has passed bill locating
tho permanent Territorial capitol at
Oklahoma City.
Miss Annie Adams, aged 50 years, and
her nephew, aged years were asphyx.
lated by gas from gas-stove at Mans.
field, o., on Friday.
The r. O. T. Peclrham Candy Com
pany's factory in 81 Bouis was burned
Sunday. Loss, sis5,o00 Dan Lynch, u
fireman, was killed.
1t was reported from Ellensburg,
Wash, on Monday that forest hres had
, caused suspension OF traffic on the
, Northern Pacific road.
. Snow from quarter OF an inch Ia
0 several inches in depthfell on Friday in
c North Dakota, Montana, Northwestern
q Minnesota, and Manitoba.
4 The anniversary OF the independence
{ OF Mexico was celebraked on Tuesday
h with great pomp President Diai
opened Congress in the evening.
1t is reported that the schooner Der
Q Brink has been wrecked on the rock
n oil Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior ant
N that the crew Of five man persisted.
l. The population OF the State OF Col
l. orado according TO the count OF the Cen
( sns Buraan Is 4io,e75. Hats IL net In
. crease during the decade OF slG,els,
= At meeting OF citizens OF Aberdeen
Wash. on Monday committee Of fort
u was appointed to notify all Chinese 4
y leave the town before September -.
Mrs IIcsler Reed tcolored) was sho
and killed at Kansas City by her hns
band who afterward committed suicide
: Each charged the other with inddelity
Adviccs from Africa show that II
spite of all assertions 20 the contrar,
the purchase and sale Of slaves IN Ger
= man African territory continues almos
\ undated.
a Rev John w. Arney Of Muske
y gon. Mich, who trains race-horses ant
manages race-track, has promised thu
Methodist conference that he will give
Of up his sporting ideas.
L. Gustavus P. Adams died at his resi-
y dence. No. 335 Eiity.third street, Chi
u cago, on Saturday, Of pneumonia Mr.
n Adams WAS one Of the Oldest commits
TO sion merchants In Chicago.
y The chief OF police OF Cincinnati ha
q issued orders TO the police TO arrest al
p children found smoking cigarettes an'
n will hold them until they toll who sol
?, the contraband goods TO them.
n. One hundred negroes attending re-
iy viyal at Collirene. Ala. we're poisone
al by eating pork in which arsenic ha
been placed. Eight died and twent
others were in critical condition.
III The two confidence men who success
81 fully fieeced two farmers at jackson
e Vile, III, out Of $500 Friday we're cap
a. ured 81 Springfield Saturday and place
.. In Jail. Most OF the money was reco'
cred.