The Globe-republican., 1890-08-06

Tw British schooner Ariel has been
| warned by the cutter Rush to keep out
of Behring sea.
An alarming fire broke out in the
lumber yards north of the mouth OF the
river at Chicago on the SOth. Forty
acres were burned over The loss
amounted to $500, 600.
THERE was a disastrous hailstorm in
the vicinity of Casselton. n. D., recent
". Seventy five per cent OF the crops
was destroyed in places
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, in speaking
of census frauds, said there was over
whelming evidence of padding in the
St Paul returns The corruption was
as rank as it was at Minneapolis.
FoRrY-oNE dwellings at Braddock,
Pa, were destroyed by fire on the after
noon of the 31st Three hundred people
were rendered homeless. The aggregate
loss was s16O, 900; fairly insured.
THE business portion of Walnut ILL.,,
was burned recently. The loss was
S125, 600.
VIOLENT diphtheria is reported at Red
Bay, fishing settlement on the Labra-
dor coast.
THE Treasury Department has issued
its first order for the purchase of bull
lion under the new Silver act.
ONE hundred years ago (July 81, 1901
the first mechanical patent was issued
BY the Government 1t was granted to
Samuel Hopkins for making pot and
pearl ashes. The total number of pat
ents issued during the century was 4S3, :
49,
THREE children of Samuel Warrington,
a farmer near Laurel, Del, have died
within two weeks of black measles, and
the father has become a raving maniac
in consequence.
THE Illinois Legislature has passed
the requisite resolution permitting Chi
cago to issue bonds for the Worlds
Fair.
RIOTS are reported on Sado island,
Japan, consequent upon the high price
of rice.
Mrs. REESE and her sister, Miss An
derson, were drowned at Youngstown,
n. Y.
JACOB HANCOCK and wife, an aged
couple, were fatally injured by run
away at Mackville, Ill.
UNDER the new form of statement is
sued by the Treasury Department the
public debt showed net decrease dur
ing the month of July of $685.
PATSY DowNEY, Peter Mclaughlin
and Charles Mcneil. inmates of the
Sunnyside orphan asylum near Toronto,
Int 10 tfnv nj m rai l.
road track in carriage were struck by
a passenger train and all three instantly
killed.
The total wheat yield of Tennessee is
placed at $500, 600 bushels. Corn will
produce only 60 per cent of crop if the
rest of the season be favorable. Cotton
is in fine shape.
In the race for the Goelet cup off New
port, R. l.. by the New York Yacht Club
the Volunteer won, beating the Puritan,
Katrina. Gossoon and others.
LIGHTNING in North Arlington. Mass,
killed Mary Quigley, aged twenty, and
badly injured Thomas Sheridan and his
wife and son.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended July 81 num-
bered 1s9, compared with 1919 the previ-
Gus week and 2lO the corresponding
week of last year. The business tone
was good.
MANY deaths have occurred in Italian
regiments on the French frontier and
they have been ordered removed to the
interior.
THE Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has promulgated its order mate
rally reducing grain rates from points
$50 miles in Kansas and 200 miles in
Nebraska to the Mississippi river. The
order does not affect Eastern rates,
which were declared not to be excessive.