The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-08-28
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Weeks Threshing.
| Emil " Koester was arrested at Phila,
delphia charged with embezzling 81 ,00(
| from number of societies in Minneapolis
MINI, of which he was treasurer He ac
knowledged being an embezzler, but said
he had taken only $1,000, which he had
used in his business with the hope-of re-
paying it
Noah Taylor, formerly proprietor of Tay-
lor's hotel, Jersey City, died Aug 26 at
Highland Beach.
| New York custom officers have seized
| $4,000 worth of dutiable goods on the
| Spanish bark Farrade Conarios from Ha-
vana. The seized goods comprise tobacco,
cigars, silks, shoes, stockings and other
articles.
! David Linsley, of Philadelphia, received
| fatal injuries by diving off the pier at Bel
mar into shallow water.
Capt. John S Rogers, aged "a years, the
Oldest sea captain in New Jersey, died at
Spring Lake of heart disease, Aug. %.
John B. Reynolds has been nominated
for congress by the Democrats of the
Twelfth district of Pennsylvania
John c. Keller, of Canton, N. Y, has
been nominated for member of the assem-
bly, by the Republicans of the Second dis
trict OF St. Lawrence county.
Maj Mckinley has been renominated
for congress by the Republicans of the Six
teenth (O.) district.
Under the late census the population of
Rhode Island is S45, ,34S, an increase since
1880 of 6s,S12, or 248s per cent. Newport's
population is 19,449, Woonsocket's 20,759.
The seventeenth annual assembly at
Chautauqua lake, N. Y, is over. Finan-
cially and numerically Chautauqua has
been a greater success than ever before
Mcvickar's famous theatre at Chicago
was destroyed by an incendiary fire. Loss,
$4,000. Night Watchman Lapere is
under suspicion.
Scott Shoemaker, clerk of the Forest
home at Scranton, Pa, shot himself dead
Tuesday.
1t is reported that Ismael Pacha. ex-khe-
dive of Egypt, has been poisoned in Con-
stantinople.
Walter Howe, aqueduct commissioner
under Mayor Hewitt, was drowned Aug.
22 at Newport, R. l.
John Kelly, Ambrose Hill and F. MeiD-
hart have been arrested at Rondout, N.
Y, charged with violating the statute
prohibiting the practice of dentistry with
out diploma and registration.
Several cases of cholera, according to
the diagnosis of the attending physicians,
have appeared In the vicinity of Berlin.
The Berlin Post states that Emperor
William has written letter Of thirty -six
pages to Emperor Francis Joseph Of Aus
tria explaining the dismissal of Prince
Bismarck from the chanceflery.
Sunday, the outfelder of the Pittshurg
League club, has joined the Philadelphia
club. Fielder Burke and Pitcher Day
were given in exchange for him.
A chattel mortgage, executed by the
! officers and directors of the Rochester
Baseball association, has been filed at
Rochester, N. Y, in favor of Gen. Henry
Brinker The document recites that the
corporation is indebted to Gen. Brinker in
the sum Of IS, 900 for money loaned between
March %, 1890, and the present time. The
mortgage covers all buildings, grand
stands, chairs, seats, fences and lumber on
the Culver park and Windsor Beach ball
grounds.
The Ohio court of Last resort decided
that Otto Leuth, aged II years, must hang
Aug. 90 for the brutal murder Of little
Maggie Thompson.
Business in Melbourne Australia, is
The accident on the Old Colony railroad
at Quincy was caused by jack being left
under rail by wofkmen who were repair
ing the road Four more of the victims
have died, making the number Of the killed
twenty-one.
The state department. received a telegram
from Minister Miner saying thet the good
offices and mediation Of the United States
have been accepted by both Guatemala and
Salvador.
| Mrs. Mary Crossett has begun suit to
recover 900 damages against the boF-
ough Of Asbury Park, N. j., for injuries
received by a fall from a broken wooden
walk Mrs. Crossett was crippled by the
accident.
| Elizabeth Jones, colored, 35 years old, of
41Y North Sixty-third street, Philadelphia,
drowned her 8-montAs-old child IN tub of
water and then committed Suicide by
hanging herself.
| The executive committee OF the Grant
Monument association has issued state
inent to the public declaring that plans
will be decided upon by September, and
work will be begun at once upon the me-
mortal.
A case pronounced by the doctors to be
severe Asiatic cholera has appeared IN
London, causing great alarm.
Rev. }. H. A. Bomberger, D. d., LII D.,
president Of Ursinus college, Collegeville,
Pa, and a profound theologfan, died Aug.
10, at the age of rs years.
Hon. Robert E. Pattison was officially
notified of his nomination for governor Of
Pennsylvania Tuesday He accepted in a
short speech, and will embody his views
more fully hereafter in letter.
| At the Democratic convention in the
Twentieth district of Pennsylvania, A. l..
Tilden was nominated for congress. Hon.
w. l.. Scott was the first choice Of the con-
vention, but declined the nomination.
A Bradford (Pa.) special says that Sena-
tor Emery has addressed letter to the
chairmaHeof the committee Of the industrial
convention that nominated him for con-
gress declining the nomination. Mr.. Emery
states in his letter. "My acceptance of a
nomination for congress at this time from
any source. however laudable, would i'm
pair the force of my effort to defeat Della
mater, who, in my opinion, is a corrupt
man."
i Peace has been arranged between Guate-
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