Telegram-herald., 1890-03-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.


The Lee monument at Richmond Va,
will be unyailed May "a
John Jacob Astor had never travelled
further West than Chicago
henry 81 Stanley writes that he ex-
poets 70 reach London on April IS
The Forepaugh show keeps its name
bat becomes The property Of James T.
Cooper, late partner Of Barnum.
Tennis Evinger, Who killed Christian
French al Sanford, Ind. has been ac-
quilted OF the charge Of murder. Self
defense was the plea
The knitting mill OF the A. c. Staley
Manufacturing Company al South Bend
Ind. burned Wednesday night Loss.
$4,000; fully insured.
IL is reported at Topeka. Kan, that
the Santa Fe road is daily 500 cars short
Of the number necessary 10 aceommo-
date the shippers Of corn.
All the through mail for San Fran
cisco, Cal, on the mail storage car Of
the west-bound fast mail train was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday at Blue Creek.
Utah.
The Lincoln pa National Bank
has opened its doors for business, the
stockholders having made good the loss
occasioned by the defalcation OF Cashier
Bard
The statement that +. p. McCabe, a
colored man, is 20 be appointed Gov
ernor of Oklahoma. has caused intense
- al IA Ia Of 81
territory.
Lafayette Morse, aged As, a well-to-do
farmer living three miles south Of Jas
per, Mich, committed suicide Wednes-
day afternoon by shooting himself in
the head with revolver.
Several Minneapolis people have been
lately victimized by counterfeit IS gold
pieces, and there is reason to believe
the bogus coin is being circulated in
that city in a systematic manner.
Robert Dempsey who was being con-
veyed to the Michigan City peniten-
tiary by deputy sheriff. leaped from a
train running thirty miles An hour be-
tween Rochester and Plymouth and es-
caped.
Margaret Steene, colored woman,
was roasted alive by the burning of her
house at Chamberlain, s. D., Wednes-
day night. A great crowd gathered,
but the unfortunate woman's life could
not be saved.
John Stanberry, formerly OF Newton
County, No, has been convicted at Fort
Smith, Ark, of the murder of his wife,
whose head was crushed in with al axe
as she slept the night of October 13,
near Eufaula, |. I.
Prof John F. Weir. OF the Yale Art
School, has completed a model for the
bronze statue OF DR.. Woolsey. The
statue is to be sixteen feet high, in
cluding a granite pedestal, the figure
being Of heroic size.
The Newfoundland Legislature will
not consent to a renewal of the modus
vivendi regarding the issuing OF licenses
to American fishing vessels on account
OF the bitter experiences the province
has had in enforcing the bait act
Emil Neuman, we'll known 70 mu-
sicians all over the world by his "His-
tory OF Music" has been arrested in
Berlin on charge OF murderlng MS
son. aged 81, who was found hanging
to bed posi- with all the appearance OF
suicide.
Sheriff J. g. Edwards is defendant in
a damage suit at Lebanon, Ind, for
s., 900, growing out OF the fact that Ed
wards detailed his deputy to bring FL
vim Wade before the grand jury, and
the officer shot Wade while he was try
ing TO escape.
By the breaking OF a chain Wednes-
day night Edward Schriber, aged 20,
top filler at Andrews & Hitchcock's
blast furnace at Youngstown, O., fell
from the top Of the furnace 70 the
ground, distance of eighty feet, being
instantly killed.
A band Of trsin-robbers and consider
able of their plumber were discovered
Wednesday near Spencerville, o. Al
Jones, said TO be one OF the gang. has
been arrested. 1t is alleged that dur
ing the last year he and his accomplices
have stolen goods 10 the value OF $40, 600