Sharp County record., 1890-05-08
Ex.N,von Eli Colby, Of Fitchburg,

EX-MAYOR ELI COLBY, OF Fitchburg,
Mass, went out, on the 21st, for the
first time after a long illness. His dead
body was afterward found near the bank
of the reservoir. His illness was an al
lection of the brain.
THE New York State Senate, on the
22d, passed the bill recommended by the
Governor to require party agents, COM
mittees. etc, to file statements of cleo
tiOn expenses.
THE Republican State Central com
mittee of Iowa, at its meeting in Des
Moines, on the 22d, decided to hold the
next State convention at Sioux City,
June 25.
EDWARD HANLAN and Fred Plaisted
have been matched to row three races
on the Tennessee river at Bridgeport,
Ala, on May 6, and 8, for the one
mile championship of the United States
and purse of $1,000. Each race will
be one mile straight away.
TIE Pennsylvania railroad statement
for March shows an increase OF S5S, III
in net earnings over March, 1889. For
the first three months of 1890 the net
earnings have increased S2S7, ITO over
the same period of 1889.
THE Prince of Wales will visit HON.
burg in July.
THE Massachusetts Legislature has
adopted a constitutional amendment
providing for biennial elections.
RANDOLPH DUBOIS, who murdered his
wife, two children and mother-in-law in
the village of st. Albans, Canada,a a couple
of months ago, has been sentenced to
be hanged.
The ice broke up and went out of the
Lower Saranac lake on the 23d.
THE main Shaft of the Sanders power
line at Haverhill Mass, was twisted
off on the 23d, and over 2, 500 hands were
rendered idle for two days. One-quarter
of the shoe district was shut down.
NOAH PALMER, aged seventy years, a
member of band Of gypsies encamped
at Morrisville, n. j., who had been on
protracted spree, shot his wife, on the
oath, killing her instantly. He nextat-
tempted to shoot his daughter, but
failed, and then shot himself in the
back of the head, inflicting fatal
wound.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was ex-
perienced in portions of California
shortly after half-past three o'clock on
the morning of the oath, Buildings
were shaken perceptibly and persons
were aroused from their sleep Plas-
tering fell from the walls in places, but
no serious damage has been reported.
The sixty days notice given by the
coal miners and coke workers of the
Smithton (Pa.) district expired on the
oath, and strike taking out over 1000
men was inaugurated. A protracted
struggle is anticipated.
THE New York State Senate, on the
oath, recalled from the Assembly the
Saxton Ballot-Reform bill and repassed
it, after changing it so as to agree with
the amended Saxton bill which was
recently agreed to by the Governor,
Mr.. Saxton and others.
Two men were crushed TO death
under falling walls caused by an eyplo-
sion of vitriol during fire in the l.aSse
new building of the Unicorn Silk Man
ufacturing Company, at Catasauqua, Pa,
on the oath. Four others were fatally
and five severely injured.
THE only hope of the creditors OF
Montana is in an extra session of the
Legislature The Supreme Court has
decided an action brought against the
State Auditor to recover money for the
State printing adversely to the Journal
Publishing Company.
A WELL. TO-D0 farmer named llorri-
son, living near Shelburne, Ont,
drowned three of his children in bar
rel of rain-water, on the 23d, and then
attempted to drown himself in creek.