The Globe-republican., 1891-03-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

SIX men were drowned in the river
near Paducah, KY, being swamped In q
storm.
News of horrible massacre comes
from Madagascar. Ramiastra, governor
of the province of Belanond, resenting
petition from the populace to the gov
eminent to defend them from cruelties,
massa cred 21S persons, including men,
women and children belonging to the
leading families.
OTro colliery, Minersviile, Pa, is
flooded and useless.
THE J. o. SCHIMMELs fruit preserving
company's plant at Eighth and Berks
streets, Philadelphia, was destroyed by
fire the other morning. The loss was
$50, 900: insured.
NJ. constants, French minister of the
interior, has given instructions that
even ready money betters on races on
courses are henceforth to oe arrested
A FALL of from twelve to fourteen
inches of snow was reported through
out New England on the 5th, the
heaviest of the season.
The Monroe high school at Monroe,
La, was burned the other morning
Thomas Pemberton and Albert Bosl,
two students, persisted in the flames.
In a snowslide one-fourth of a mile
below Alta, in Emory gulch, Utah, nine
men were caught. Hans Olsen and
Barney Cast were killed instantly. The
body of the latter was recovered. Au-
gust Hansmob and John Ford were
badly hurt, but got out alive.
II has transpired that Helena Marko-
vic and Helena Knicanine, who at
tempted to kill King Milan, of Servia,
in 1882, have been strangled to death in
prison. Milan has requested NJ. Gar
aschanine, who was premier at the time
of the attempt, to institute an inquiry
into the circumstance of the killing of
the prisoners.
The suit of Hope & Co., the Amster-
dam bankers, to compel the Louisiana
board of liquidation to fund over ST.
600, 900 state bonds, has been decided in
favor of the board of liquidation.
THE troops have reached Ponca, I. T.,
after a march through the Cherokee
strip and report an almost utter alb
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tie was found on the strip.
THE Queen Isabella association, which
intended to erect a pavilion on the
worlds fair ground for the use of the
women of the world, has withdrawn it's
application for space owing to friction
between the association and the
women's board of managers of the
worlds fair.
THE snow blockade on the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad has been raised.
HAMILTON FISH KEAN, of New York,
has been appointed permanent receiver
of the Kentucky Union Railway Co.
THE wages of the heavy grade silk
ribbon weavers of the mills at Allen
town Pa, have been reduced 10 per
cent.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended March 5 numbered
265, compared with 300 the previous
week and $50 the corresponding week
of last year. General business was un-
satisfactory.
LEONARD KUHN, cashier of Faulkner's
defunct Dansville bank. has been sem
fenced to the penitentiary for receiving
a deposit, knowing the banks insolv-
ency.
Two small children of George White,
of Limerick, Me-, were burned to death
while alone in their house.
THE Baltimore Methodist conference
by a vote of 145 to SO has decided against
women delegates to the general con-
ference.
GREAT excitement is reported in the
state of Washington over the coming
opening of the Ceur d'Alene reserva-
tions. Thousands are encamped on the
borders.