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THE Montana Legislature has adjourned
after ninety days spent in the Capitol and
not bill passed The Republican Senators
issued an address to the people, as did the
Democratic representatives.
REV. JOHN a. LANCE has been murdered
in Union County, Ga. The crime is be-
lieved to have been committed by moon
sinners fearful of exposure.
GEORGE McBRIETY, a wife beater, was
tied to an electric light pole at Salisbury,
Md, stripped of his coat and vest, and
severely horsewhipped.
MARTIN AND HUGH BRAINERD, brothers,
were instantly killed by falling to the bottom
of a shaft in the Mollie Gibson Mine, at
Aspen. Col. distance of $50 feet. Both men
We're at work on a scaffolding when it gave
way and precipitated them to the bottom.
THE Indiana Prohibitionists held their
State Convention and nominated full State
ticket. Their platform declares against local
option and favors the exemption from tax
alton of clothes and necessities of life.
THE bill to exclude meat killed out of the
State has been signed by the Governor of
Virginia.
THE long deadlock over the appointment
of officers in the Iowa Legislature has been
broken, the Democrats getting the Speaker
and Second Assistant Clerk, and the Repub-
licans all the other important officials and
five Leading committees
TIE seventeen men found guilty of murder
and rioting on the Island of Navassa have
been sentenced at Baltimore. Three received
the death penalty, and the other fourteen
were sentenced to terms Of imprisonment in
the Albany IN. " Penitentiary, ranging
from two to ten years.
Mrs. EzELL, wife of Milt Eel, a we'll
known Democratic politician, was killed at
Tamalco, ILL.,, by stroke Of lightning.
THE village of Aurora, Iowa has been en-
trely wiped out by fire.
FRANK TRowBRIDGE, of Big Rapids,
Mich, shot his wife and then put bullet in
his own body. No cause for the deed is
known.
HENRY DUNCAN, a white Free Will Bap-
list preacher, was hanged at Ozark, Ala,
for the murder Of his wife in July last. He
confessed giving his wife morphine to kill
her.
The Mississippi Legislature has rejected
Representative Vests memorial to Congress
asking for the repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment.
SIXTEEN persons-thirteen women and
three men-were fined SIS each and costs for
wrecking liquor saloons at Spickardsville,
No. An appeal was taken.
The tobacco factory of Cameron & Sizor,
at Richmond, Va, has been burned. Loss,
s25Q00
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee has de-
cided that the making Of books and the SELL
ing of pools on races run outside of the State
is in violation of law, and therefore in
dictable.
AN explosion occurred at the Armour
Cudahy packing house at Sonth Omaha,
Neb. It resulted in the instant death of at
least one man, the subsequent death Of
second and the probably fatal injury of
others.
WILL LEAPHART, young colored man,
has been sentenced to death in the Lexington
County Is. C.l Court for criminally assault
ing girl of sixteen.
THREE children of Hunt Bead, of Franklin
County, Ga, were burned to death In their
fathers house. They were aged respectively
six, four and two years. The skeleton of the
Youngest was found in the arms of the old
est.
MRS. SANTA BAKER and her eight-year-
old son were burned to death in stable at
Salina, Kan.
THE bill making General Robert Lees
birthday legal holiday has passed the Vir-
ginia House Of Representatives.
The Superior Ice Company's building at
Bayfield,, Wis, collapsed. One man was IA
tally and several others more or less seriously
injured.
CHARLES HANLEY and William Dobson
were found in ca round house at Terre
Haute, Ind, the former dead and the latter
unconscious They had entered through the
windows during the nn;;ssht and became
asphyxiated by escaping gases.
The President sent to the Senate the FOL-
lowing nominations: Joseph A. Wingheld,
to be Supervisor of Census, Third District
of Virginia, and Albert F. Price United
States Marshal, District of North Dakota.
HEAVY rains have occurred at Bowling
Green and Hopkinsville, KY. The streams
we're swollen, and at Bowling Green the
food from Green River drove many families
from their homes At Hopkinsville about
one million pounds of tobacco was destroyed.
COUNTY TREASURER FLYNN, of Custer
County, S. D., is short in his accounts Sl2,-
600.
DURING a revenue raid on an Illicit dis
tillery near Hillsboro, n. c., colored man
connected with the distillery was shot and
killed by the officers and Revenue Agent
Kirkpatrick was shot in the face and had one
eye put out.
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, was visited by
severe cyclone and five minutes later the
town was almost in ruins.
LATER news received at Phoenix, Ariz.,
from the scene of the Walnut Grove disaster
is more appalling than the first reports:
Four couriers arrived from the dam and
brought tidings that fully $50 lives were lost
and s., 900, 600 worth of property destroyed.
A TERRIBLE hurricane swept over part
of Northern Texas. The Masonic Hall in
Gainesville was torn to pieces, the Court
House uprooted, the Santa Fe Railroad depot
wrecked and twenty buildings blown down.
Nobody was killed, but several persons were
injured. The damage will aggregate $780,
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A LITTLE colored girl, aged seven years,
was burned to death at Clayton, ILL.,, by
matches having set fire to her clothing. In
her death agonies the child tore large strips
Of burned flesh from her body.
THREE Louisville Ky physicians and two
colored assistants were surprised in a New
Albany Qnd) cemetery robbing graves. One
of the assistants was killed, two Of the doc
tors arrested with one Of the colored men,
and one doctor escaped.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked above
Vincennes, Ind, by the giving away of
bridge over small stream. The whole train,
excepting sleeper, went through into the
water and mud. The engineer and fireman
were killed, and several other persons were
injured.
Washington.
Both Houses of Congress have agreed
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