The Globe-republican., 1890-01-15

ThrOOp avenue, Brooklyn, N. L. "A
small house adjoining was crushed,
two of the inmates being killed and
quite q number wounded.
THE WEST.
PUEBLO Indians near Cochite, n. NJ.
put on war paint recently and ordered
Engineer Virgins, of the Rio Grande
Irrigation Company to suspend work
on his canal.
THE strike on the Mackey system, &C
cording to an Evansville, Ind, dis
patch, is settled.
THE Mississippi river at Davenport,
Iowa, was reported on the 5th to be
eight inches lower than at any previous
time recorded.
THE Compulsory School law has been
put to the test at Shelbyville, Ill, and
Mrs Jane AFFORD, who kept her boy
at home because she W 80 poor that
he had to assist A making living, is
in Jail. Five dollars and costs was the
penalty attached and the poor woman,
unable to pay, was put in prison.
THE explosion of lamp caused the
destruction of furniture factory at
Manistee, Mich. William Chambers
persisted. Loss, $4,000.
JUDGE WALLACE, in the Superior
Court at San Francisco, has decided the
case of the American Sugar Refinery
Company adversely to the trust.
w. T. BAKER has been elected presi-
dent of the Chicago Board of Trade.
For the first time in many years the
honor was conferred without a contest.
J. G. Stoner defeated Yep Brosseau
in a close fight for the vice-presidency.
The Lee-Deming Wholesale Grocery
Company of st. Louis, has failed with
liabilities estimated at $242,OH0 and
assets s25O,0OO. The failure is due to
slow collections and an attempt to
carry on a big business ON a small cap
ital.
LIBERTY, Mo-, was the scene of a
sensational killing on the evening of
the 18th, stranger named Luyton
being killed by the representing
county attorney, James L. Sheetz. No
cause was known for the affair.
A REAR end collision in the suburbs
of Poplar Bluffs, Mo-, caused the wreck
ing of an engine, a cabOose and seven
loaded cars. Two persons were in
jured.
HEAVY rains in Southern Illinois
have caused washouts on The Toledo,
st. Louis & Kansas City and Wabash
branch roads near Edwardsville.
THE other morning as street car on
Fourth street, st. Louis, was bowling
along the two horses ran against a
broken electric wire. The shock killed
both horses and stunned the driver.
ELLA WHITE, a female forger, re-
Gently arrested in Chicago for swindling
people of Emira, N. Y, out of $50, 900,
has escaped from the Jail there.
THE Western Union building at st.
! Louis was destroyed by fire recently
The cause was said to be crossed cleo
trio light wires.
The roof of one of the rooms in the
Boyd coal mine at Knob NOster, Mo-,
caved in and caught three men, JEFF
Allen, Roam Blum and Charles lien
hart, crushing t. EN- severely, though
their wounds are not necessarily fatal
STOCKMEN met at Topeka. Kan, on
the 9Th and passed esOlutions denounc'
ing the alleged Big Four dressed beef
combine.
FIVE miners were entombed by a
cave in at the Victory coal mines,
Trinidad, COL, on he Sth, with but
small hopes of their ecovery alive.
ALL of the stove foundries in Cincin-
natl are closed. 1t is claimed that
there is an Overstock on hand, and that
work will be resumed in March. There
is much suffering among the hundreds
out of work.
IsIDoRE MoNAsCH, secretary of the
Turner Building Association Of Min
neapolis, MIMI, has teen arrested toE
embezzling $4,000 of the funds. He
threatens revenge.
THE West indianapolis hominy mill,
owned by C. E. Hall, which was run.
ming day and night, was destroyed by
fire the other morning. Loss, S75, 900.