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turned off 1917 Of his employees, in ac-
cordance with the resolution adopted
by the National Morocco Manufacturers
Association, that on November 1 all
Knights of Labor should be discharged.
The men refused to sign paper re-
nouncing their allegiance to the order.
BETWEEN thirty and forty buildings,
including almost the entire business
portion of Chillicothe, ILL.,. were de-
stroyed by fire on the 1st. Tho loss is
estimated at 5000, 900, on which there is
only partial insurance.
M1LLET's celebrated painting "The
Angelus" has been sold by the Ameri-
can Art Association to persons in Paris,
and the masterpiece will go back to its
native country in December. The price
paid was 75O, 600 francs. The painting
has been on exhibition in this country
nearly year, and has been Vowed by
over 100000 persons.
JOSIAH GRAY, aged sixty-seven, sui
cided at Chicago on the I'd by hanging
himself. He laid the first rail on the
Ft Wayne line, and was the inventor
of the patent frog and switch chiefly
used by steam railroads, and of the
street car switch that is thrown by the
weight of horse.
THE State grand jury at st. Louis on
the 1st handed in a sweeping denunci-
alton of the whole grand jury system
and called for its abolition. The report
declared the grand jury superfluous
adjunct to criminal jurisprudence, and
asserted that in most cases it hinders
and delays the administration of Justice.
AT Akron, N. Y, on the 1st Miss Sarah
McMullen threw two children namod
Nellie Connors and Della Brown from
railroad bridge. The children fell Sky
five feet. The Connors girl was in
stantly killed and her companion fatally
hurt The cause for the fiendish act is
unknown.
JOHN c. BURLINGTON one of the most
noted desperadoes in the Southwest,
effected his escape from the county Jail
at Boonville, Mo-, on the I'd. Turling-
ton was convicted of the murder of ex-
Sheriff Cranmer, of Cooper County, Mo-,
and sentenced to be hanged, but had
been granted new hearing and was
awaiting trial when he escaped.
THE new rolling mill department of
the New Albany Qnd.) Forge and Roll
ing Company was destroyed by fire on
the 1st, entailing loss of $4,000.
THE Mallory Line steamer Leon,
loaded with cotton, burned on the 1st
while lying at pier No 10, East river
The loss on steamer and cargo was about
$50, 900.
GOVERNMENT receipts from all sources
during October past aggregated $40, ,215,
994, or nearly eight millions more than
in October, 1889.
The wholesale dry goods house of LIE
Baron, Holt & Co., of Chicago, made
voluntary assignment on the Sd. The
assets are placed at S25, 900; liabilities,
$4,000.
THE steamer Belgravia, having over
1000 italian emigrants on board, among
whom smallpox had broken out, arrived
at New York on the Sd. The vessel was
quarantined and the sick placed in
charge of the health officers.
By the fall of travelling derrick
from trestle work at Allegheny City,
Pa, on the Sd, two workmen who were
on it at the time were carried down
thirty-five feet and fatally injured.
falo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad,
was knocked down and robbed of $500 at
Bradford, Pa, on the Sd. Allen was
taking the money to the express office,
when he was assaulted by q footpad
with the above result.
A NEW and novel trust has been con-
summated by the. Standard Oil Com
pany, which includes all the bulk oil
carrying craft plying between Philadel-
phia and Europe. The sole purpose of
the deal is to create line of steamers
which can be relied upon at all times
to favor the Standards interests and
carry its products at low figure.
A MOVEMENT has been started at
Richmond, Va, to raise a monument to
Lieutenant Matthew f. Maury, ''the
pathfinder of the sea-" whose contribu-
tions to maritime science have been a
blessing to the mariner and to COM
merce.
THERE is official authority for the
statement that an extra session of Con-
gress will be called to meet on Novem-
ber II or November 49,
THE Post-Dispatch Publishing Com
pany of St Louis has been sued for S25,-
600 damages by R. ID. Lancaster, men,
ber of the grand jury. A recent issue of
the Post-Dispatch contained strong
arraignment of the grand jury and Sc
verely criticized Lancaster's conduct as
a member of that body.
BUD Mccoy, the leader of the notori-
GUS Mccoy gang, was killed near Tennis
Camp, Logan County, w. Va, few days
ago by a man named Dempsey, OF the
Hatfield gang.
AT Kingston, Tenn, on the Sd John
M. Wester, Jr., the town marshal, was
shot recently by James Edwards, whom
he was trying to arrest, and Wester in
turn shot Edwards. Both men are dead.
FRANK STRAUB, an ex-policeman of
New York, and Sidney Smith, pro-
bationary officer, were drowned in He'll /
Gate on the Sd by the sinking OF the
yacht Tyrant
WHILE John Rupert and James Halo |