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Ind, raided its only saloon and shipped
the goods out by rail. The proprietor
made no resistance.
| Superintendent of Census Robert p.
Porter's youngest daughter Alice, aged
three years, died after long and linger-
ing illness at Washington.
At Tacoma, Wash. Superior Judge AL
lyn has appointed a receiver for the North
Pacific insurance commissioner, who as
serts the company is insolvent.
Near Williamsburg, o., a four-year-o
daughter of Abner Curtis was fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge of a
revolver in the hands of George Snider.
Thomas Hughes and Walter Davis, of
Edwardsville, Pa, fought for the affec-
tions of widow. Davis threw up the
sponge after half an hours pummeling.
Ex-Governor McIane is lying i'll with
pneumonia at his home in Baltimore. His
condition is serious, owing to his ad-
vanced age. He is in his seventy-seventh
year.
Burglars entered the bric-a- brac store of
Baumgarten & Sons, at 321 Fifth avenue,
New York and, it is said stole between
$4,000 and $4,000 worth of silks and
satins.
At a reception at Des Moines, J. S.
Clarkson, chairman Of the Republican ma
tional committee, said that Blaine or Har
rison would make great presidential
leader and could win.
George Kirk, sixty, of Fleming county,
KY, became violently insane after a
week s married life. He burned his wife's
and his own clothes and $500 in cash be-
fore he was overpowered,
In. a saloon at Buchtel, O., Thornton
Sampson, Kentucky desperate, shot
and killed John Lynch a miner, because
he made remark about his rubber boots
Sampson may be lynched.
Frank Kimmel, Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago brakeman, was
showed from a train by tramp at the ST.
Mary's river bridge, near Fort Wayne
He fell sixty feet and was killed The
tramp escaped.
At Pendleton, Ind, Coon Brown shot
and probably fatally wounded Clinton
Johnson for assaulting his wife and
daughter, The deed was committed sew
eral months ago, but the men did not
meet until Thursday.
Off Coney Island the schooner Mary A.
Randall collided with the excursion
steamer HaYana with 450 passengers on
board. No lives were lost, although sew
eral people were slightly injured. 1t was
close call for the steamer.
Although loving each other for seventy
years, but never marrying, William
Clark, aged ninety-two, and Mary Sake,
aged ninety-one, died near Craw-
fordsville, Ind, on adjoining farms,
within ten minutes of each other.
Sheriff r. T. Rodgers, of DeKalb Mo,
arrived in st. Louis Thursday with
Charles r. Bell, a young Ohio school
teacher, wanted in Clinton county, o., on
a charge of criminal malpractice on Effie
West, pretty young girl of Clinton
county.
The brothers and sisters of Actor Will |
lam j. Florence, whose real name was
Conlin, profess to be surprised that a
codicile to the will has not been found |
and they will contest it. The will leaves
the entire estate, worth over $500, 900 t.
Mrs. Florence.
At Detroit John l.. Herig shot anG |
killed Mrs. Kate Freeman, notorious |
woman, who had been extorting money
and other va!uables from him for about
year. He was preparing to kill himself |
him to give himself up
1t is now believed that Frank Porter, |
the man who was shot and killed by Will |
lam Ray, in low saloon on Halstead |
street. Chicago, was one of the men who |
held up the mail wagon on Mather street |
Tuesday night and robbed Uncle Sam of |
like $1,000. Ray is also sus-
pected, and it is thought the shoting was
caused by a dispute over division of
spoils.
The waterways convention, in session
in Detroit, adopted a resolution urging
to authorize the immediate com
and speedy completion of an
channel-not less than
twenty feet in depth and of sufficient
width-through the lakes, and their con
nections of waters between Chicago,
Duluth, Superior and Buffalo, and that
5he secretary of war be authorized to
make contracts for the entire work and
A sufficient sum of money be appropriated
therefore.
The southbound passenger train on the
Kansas, was wrecked two miles
north of Cherry Vale, Kan. Thursday
by defective ties. The express
,ar, two regular coaches and the sleeper
we're hurled down a high embankment,
With about forty passengers on board.
rwenty-six persons were more or less IN
ured, three of whom may die. Those
most seriously injured are Conductor IIli
Parsons, Mrs. Lizzie Mcclure, of Sharon,
Kan, and little colored boy, name un-
Known. Fire broke out and all the cars
litched were entirely consumed
Italy is arranging to send minister to
Washington in place of Baron Fava, who
vas recalled from America in conse-
luence of the New Orleans lynching
The name of the proposed minister has
lot yet been announced. The Italian
government has concluded to take this
curse, without waiting for an assurance
rom the American president that the
constitution will be changed so as to af
ord more protection TO foreigners,
ludini having learned semi-officially
hat it will be beyond the power Of
he president to give such an assurance
The court house at Cincinnati was the
Gene of an unusual riot Friday morning,
ccasioned by the crowd of tax payers
gho wanted to pay their taxes and thus
void the 5 per cent penalty. The treas
rer's office was overwhelmed Six
yomen and one man tainted. A patrol
1agon had to be called into service. The
met at once and promptly
xtended the time without penalty TO
an. 10. In the scrimmage the furniture
nd windows of the treasurer's Office were
adly broken and damaged. The terrified
Jerks locked the safe and called assist
nee from the police.
The Death Roll.
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