The state herald., 1891-10-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

| .. v. Whlte q Co., brokers ~ new
York and Chicago. have failed.
John d. Knox, banker and preacher,
has been arrested at Topeka for en-
bezzlement.
General Booth OF the Salvation
Army received an ovation at Sidney,
New South Wales.
At Madison, Indiana, Riley Smart,
prominent young man, has died
from the effects OF being stung by
wasps.
A woman was lynched In Missis-
sippi for aiding in a.murder last week.
together with the murderer. Both
black.
The British government will have
to pay about 100000 indemnity to
sealers driven out OF Behring Sea this
season.
A great number OF priests met In
Buffalo on the 22nd in attendance
upon the German American Catholic
Congress.
The Waltham Watch Company an
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per cent. in the wages OF about 900
employees.
Two young men attending dance
at Elk Mountain, Wyoming, last week.
had difficulty and Hall fatally stab
bed Kelley.
In Newark, New Jersey, Ernest
Lehman, u rejected lover, poisoned
Emma Bush with Paris green mixed
In soda water.
The Alsace-Lorraine passport de-
cree, which nominally goes into effect
In October, is already in operation
and the frontier is now open.
The commercial treaty negotiations
which have been in progress for some
time past between Germany and Bel
gium continue to be successful.
Bradley, village in South Dakota,
was consumed by fire on Tuesday
night. Nine stores, church and
hotel were burned. Loss 100000.
Minneapolis celebrated the .'Har-
vest Festival on the 23rd in elabo-
rate style. The decorations and pro-
cession are described as very beauti-
| full.
Herr Wermuth has selected site
for the German official building at the
Worlds Fair. 1t is north OF the Mex
lean and northwest OF the British
buildings.
A worthless, drunken printer at To-
sNaty hot lrt1 l-l LII.
because she would not marry him.
He had the good taste to kill himself
afterward.
Great anxiety prevails in Rangoon,
British Burmah. Dacoits are gather
ing around Wuntho. At attack on
the garrison is anticipated and SER
ious lighting is expected.
Near Williamsport, North Dakota,
in the recent prairie fires three men
persisted; fortythree cattle were over
taken and burned. The damage oy
the fire estimated at $4,000.
Japanese Prince Katsumata is about
TO marry Miss Cora Dunn, daughter
OF the postmaster Of Binghamton. New
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She goes to Japan with her husband.
The largest fly-wheel In the United
States was set in motion the other
day in the Boston West End street
railway power house. 1t IL 2S feet In
diameter, 10 feet face and weighs so
tons.
While the Italians OF Newark. New
Jersey, were celebrating in honor OF
st. Rocas day. a gas pipe filed with
dynamite exploded and killed three
persons. A large number were in
jured.
negro named Wilson, becoming en-
ragged nj another negro for paying
attention to his wife. shot and killed
the man and then cut his wife's throat
from ear TO ear.
Bart Campbell, alias Bill Under
wood, one OF the worst outlaws who
ever carried Winchester on the
Texas border, was captured In Faulk-
cner county, Arkansas, last week.
after desperate struggle.
Twenty-eight farms with all the
cattle and stores have been destroyed
by fires OF incendiary origin at Kozie-
glow in Russian Poland. In order TO
delay the fire engines. the incendl-
aries Gu, the ropes OF the lire bells.
Philadelphia suffered from great
tire on the 2sth which destroyed a
half million dollars worth OF proper
ty. A building tilled with oil was on
lire at first and from that the flames
spread TO several adjoining buildings.
a number OF tiremen were injured.
The exhibition OF the Holy Coat
will end on Octoberi The number
OF pilgrims who have viewed the coat
already exceeds the total number OF
those who viewed II In the exhibition
OF 1874, and the total number In the
exhibition will probably reach 2.00O,-
900.
Stampede In negro church In
jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday
nt midnight, caused the death OF one
girl and fatally injured three other
persons and crippled about twenty
moi'' ih' Ehr NfH' oul anu some
one shouted, Judgment has come"
and n panic cnsucd.
II Is said that n commercial treaty
Is being negotiated between Russia
and Persia tha, would virtually place
Persia under the pro,ectornic of
Russie The proposed treaty pro.
vides that the duty Of representing
both countries abroad shall be dele.
gated TO one representative. possibly
the Russian.
Superintendent Noble OF the Pacific
system OF the Southern Pacific rail.
road, went over his division on the
goth, from Fl Paso to Yuma. Arlzonu,
and notified MI his telegraph opcr.
ators personally TO either withdraw
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