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Free State.
France decides to maintain the match
monopoly.
Half the town Of Brookiield, Kas., has
| been burned
The car has forbidden his subjects to
enter Monaco.
Germany has officially recognized the
Brazilian republic.
Minister Mizner has been recalled from
Central America.
The native and Spanish on Ponape
island are at war.
Two persons we're burned to death In a
IRE In Pittsburg Dec. 3.
OF the 5000 coal miners In Alabama
5000 are out on strike.
Cyrus Fl Field and wife celebrated
their golden wedding Dec. 8.
Incendiaries have been trying to burn
the town OF Nashua, n. Fl.
T. Foulkes, a murderer, was lynched
Dec. at brakes Branch, Va
Secretary Proctor wants TO tame the
Indians by making soldiers of them.
The Indian scare rises and falls like
the tides but no blood has been shed.
The st. Mary Magdalene church and
convent at Pittsburg were burned Dee. 4.
Kidnapping capitalists in Cuba and
holding them for ransom still continues.
1 IdcneCO 6uCcceuS Mfk1eE As
minister to the Central American repub-
| lies.
The Hesslan fly is reported 10 De work
ing in all the fields. OF Illinois winter
wheat.
Rich deposits Of gold and nickel are
reported IN the Stewiacke valley, Nova
Scotia.
There are 1882 blind persons In Rus
sia more than in the whole of ives ern
Europe.
Albert S. Smith. New York's forger
broker. is sentenced TO seventeen years
in prtson.
A blast furnace at Joliet, Ill, fell while
being repaired Dec. and eight persons
were killed.
John S. Clems was frozen to death
while driving from Honesdale to Alden
vile, Pa, Dec. L.
People are starving and suffering for
want OF clothing in Kleitf Co., Neb.,
owing 20 crop failures
More money was coined In tae United
States. last year than ever befol In the
same length of time.
Ex-Congressman Isaac II. Jordan fell
down an elevator shaft at Cincinnati
Dee and was killed
Mrs. Kuth Unaimers OF Uenterport, \.
l., 10 years old aud great-grandmother.
has married her gardener.
Six persons perished in a fire In the
wonef's dormitory of the workhouse at
Newcastle-on-Tyne Dec. L.
A tank used in making prussiate OF
potash In CINCINNATI exploded Dee. 4.
fatally injuring three men.
1t is probable that fhe government will
forbid the tiking OF any seats in Alaskan
waters the coming season.
passenger train was wrecked at
Jacksonville, Ill, Dec. and two men
killed aud half dozen injured.
Ships crossing the Atlantic the first
week in December encountered The most
terrific storm ever known there.
Robbers took Mrs. Caro- from her bed
at Sewell, w. Va, Dec. 3, bound and
gagged her and robbed her of Sleoo.
The British government is about to
send seed potatoes to Ireland to be sold
on credit TO famine-strieken peasants.
The British government has sent Ten
tons of meal TO the starving people of
Clare island, whose potato crop had
failed.
December came in with the mercury
below 20 in the north middle and north
eastern states and the eastern half of
Canada.
Forger Smith of New York remains a
member of Plymouth church while he
serves his seventeen-year sentence in
Sing Sing.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
providing for the di59rming of the Indians
and making il a crime to sell them arms
or ammunition
The body OF young girl who had
been murdered and mutilated in Jack the
Ripper style WAS found in a wood near
Berne, Dec. 3.
The Rittenhouse wooden factory at
Passaic, n. j., has failed, with $S10,0o0
OF liabilities and about the same estim-
ated value OF assets.
At Williamson, KY. Dee. 5. George
Burgess fatally shot Alice Mckinley and
barricaded himself in his saloon, where
SherifTS posse killed him.
The intereontinental railway commits
sion, which is to supervise the survey of
proposed railroads through Central and
South America, met In Washington Dec. 4.
Lieutenant Colonel w. Hope of England,
an authority on ordnance matters, de-
elares the Bethlehem (Pa.l plant the
finest gun and steel producing plant in
the world"
AIRS. Nellie Percy, who murdered Mrs.
Hogg and her child on Hampden road
and tried TO make the police believe Jack
the ripper had done it, has been sem
fenced TO death.
Surgeon William A. Wheeler of the
United States marine hospital at Norfolk,
Va, and his wife grappled with a negro
whom they found In their rooms Dec. f.
and he slashed them both terribly with
q razor.
a TODDeT VIII a drawn knllG looted a
passenger In a compartment OF a rail-
road car in the south of France the other
day and jumped from the moving train
but the cars were stopped and he was
captured.
The fine-cut department of the Scatter
tobacco works at Detroit was burned
Dec. 3, throwing 600 girls out of work.
Two tiremen were killed and two badly
hurt while fighting the fire.
A passenger car was uncoupled and
left at a water tank between Big Sandy
and WiDona, Tex, Dec. 1, and one man
robbed one passenger of SO and got into
a fight with Mr.. Gerhart and shot him.
The robber then ran away.
Many Syrian silk weavers and decora-
tive craftsmen are coming to America to
establish colony, probably in Phila-
delphia. A wealthy syndicate is pro-
noting the movement and will have an
extensive exhibit of their handiwork at
the worlds fair.
President John NJ. Egan OF the Chicago
st. Paul and Kansas City railroad, gem
eral Freight Agent Thomas Miller of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and
general Freight Agent J. M. John of the
Rock Island and Pacific have been in
dicted by the federal grand jury in
Chicago for giving rebates.
Severe frosts and SHOWS are reported
on the shores of the Mediterranean,
something unknown for twenty years.
Very severe snowstorms are reported In
Spain and the Pyrenees are impossible.
German rivers are full of drift ice Eight
persons were drowned at Barmen. The
damage at Elberfeld, Barmen and Posen
is estimated at 100000 marks.
Two men entered the Office of the
Allerton packing company at Chicago
Dec. 2, held revolver at the cashiers
head and compelled him to empty the
cash drawer into o sack which they held,
went out, barred the door on the out
side and disappeared before an alarm
could be raised.