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school district at l'arnauG MINI, was
arrested GU the sOth. uls for embezzling
$500 Of SCHOOL funds and obtaining
$4,000 from banks and private individ-
uals in Duluth under false pretenses.
He has been working his dishonest
schemes for year and half.
The Republican, the Oldest daily in
Omaha, Neb., has suspended publication.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
on the 31st ult paid the State S035,654,
being the last installment due on ac-
count Of the purchase Of the main line
of their road from the State. The main
line was purchased IL 1887 for some
thing over $7,0Oo,OOO, the railroad
company stipulating to pay for 1t in
yearly installments Of 100000. The
company now has clear title to the
property.
NEAR Greensburg, Ind, on the 31st
ult. the explosion of twelve horse
power engine boiler in the Sand Creek
stone quarry killed John Paugh and Ed
Wallace and injured five others
THE resolution to amend the' consti-
tuition Of the State so as to enable Chi
cago to issue $5,000,0 900 in bonds for
Worlds Fair purposes, has passed both
houses of the Illinois Legislature and
has been sent to the Governor for his
proclamation to the people, submitting
1t for approval or rejection at the No
vember elections.
AFTER being out fourteen weeks the
strike Of the cloakmakers at Philadel-
phia ended on the 31st ult. in victory
for the workmen. The concessions made
by the manufacturers are that they will
employ only union men and discharge
the non-union men at present in their
employ. The union men, on their part,
agree to allow the non-union men who
desire to do so to join the union.
AT Cape May, N. j., on the 1st Joe
Mcclure, long known as fearless guar
dian Of the beach and saver Of human
life, was drowned while bathing.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended August number 1s9, as compared
with 199 the previous week. For the
corresponding week Of last year the
figures were 210.
THERE wexe six fatal cases Of heat
prostration in New York City on the list.
MARY BRENNAN and Miss Mcintosh,
young women employed at a resort at
Elkhart Lake, Plymouth, Wis, were
drowned on the 1st, their boat capsizing
in the strong gale and rough sea.
The Union Cattle Company's feeding
plant at Gilmore, near South Omaha,
Neb., burned on the 1st, causing loss
Of $3.50, 900; insurance s65,00o.
THE will OF General John G. Fremont
was on the 1st offered for probate in the
Surrogate Court at New York, where IL
had been deposited, according to statute,
many years before. 1t was executed in
1854, and leaves the entire estate to his
widow
NEAR Muncie, Ind, on the 1st the
boiler Of an old traction engine in o
sawmill exploded, killing John Chester
and his son, and fatally injuring the
engineer.
THE newly built mill Of the Fibre
Company, near the village Of Turner's
Falls, Mass, was wrecked by an explo-
sion on the 1st Three men we're buried
in the ruins. Tho cause Of the explo-
sion Is unknown.
The public debt statement for July
shows net reduction during the past
month OF ss95, 257
A PHILADELPHIA syndicate recently
purchased the distillery Of John q.
Beach at Uniontown, Ky. 1t is now
claimed they propose to make cologne
spirits, rye whisky and the like, and
compete with the trust known as the
Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company,
which has its headquarters at Peoria,
Ill.
AT Magnolia, N. j., on the 1st Mr..
and Mrs. Charles II. Tongue, board ers
at q summer hotel, were struck by a
train on the Atlantic City railroad and
instantly killed. They we're enjoying
moonlight stroll on the track.
A MORTGAGE for Sl,340,00o on the
Kanawha & Michigan railroad in favor
OF the Central Trust Company, Of New
York, was filed at Charlestown, w. Va.
on the 1st The mortgage was given "a
insure bonds Of the road for that
amount
GENERAL TYNER, attorney for the
Post-office Department. has decided
that Count Tolstoi's novel, the "Kreut
zer Sonata" is an immoral publication
and its circulation through the mails IL
forbidden.
ALL tho glass factories in the country
manufacturing pressed table ware have
been actually purchased by a syndicate
Of English capitalists. The factories
number thirty-three and are ell at
Pittsburgh and points west OF there
none Of tho eastern factories being en-
braced In the deal or these factories
one-half are in tho natural gas region o.
Northwestern Ohio, the remainder being
ct Pittaburgh and on the Ohio river.
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