Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-10
SPECIALS BOILED DOWN.

oneer WOODS. Of Bloeton. Ala. was
$40. a1.d Instantly killed while T@iilag
= crap game.
Erank Bowen, boy. was crushed 70
death Wednesday IN the elevator OF
Denver bank
The British steamship Thames has
reached baltimore with q cargo of cot
fee valued al 500. Zls.
David Holderman. dry goods Of Fort
Dodge, Ia, has assigned Liza oilities.
s.. 600; assets unknown
Michigan salt manufacturers have
formed new organization 10 control
the price Of their product
David Davis. detective employed in
hunting out Illicit stills. Was found
murdered near Elkhorn. Va
One Of the richest gold mines ever
found in the dominion has just been
discovered at Mannosa. Ont
John benton, while working in q
boiler in the city hall In Richmond, Va,
was suffocated and taken out dead.
The loss to the oyster beds near New
Orleans caused by the crevasse at
Ames' plantation viii reach $500. 600.
Gen. A. w. Greedy, chief of the Uni
ted States signal service. is making a
brief inspection of Texas signal sta
tons.
President Harrison has issued the
usual Behring sea proclamation warn
ing poachers away from the seal fish,
cries
A. j. Morris. the last survivor of the
Fort Mirus massacre near Mobile,
Ala. in 1913. died Wednesday, aged 100
years
The United States treasury has paid
the governor of Tennessee the direct
tax claims Of the state, amounting to
$780,, 0Co.
ground is in good condition and farm
work in full blast, with much small
grain beir., sown.
Charlie Cox was found dead in the
Sorrento coal mines near Greenville, H.,
he having probably been killed by a
premature explosion.
Marso Skrukanze, bohemian, was
ldtdlly Il uCD4O. AOl.,
attempting to kindle fire in kitchen
stove with kerosene oil
While temporarily insane Mrs. Susan
Robinson, of Detroit. Mich, drank sui
phuric acid at Erie, Pa, Wednesday
and died in great agony.
Gilbert Wicks, a well-fnown Iowa
farmer, died suddenly at Davenport
while in lawyers Office giving in
structions regarding his will
Mrs Chapman Coleman, wife of the
secretary Of the United States legation
at Berlin, was robbed of $1,000 worth
of jewelry at Frankfort Ky.
Toof, MCGOWAN & Co., of Memphis,
cotton factors. have assigned. Liabili-
ties, $l25.000; assets, $4,000. The
cause is given as poor collections.
A convention has been signed be-
tween this country and the colony of
the Bahamas, West Indies, for the ex-
change OF postal and money orders.
Fred Hundlcy, of Huron, s. d., con-
victed of numbering his father, Judge
z. I. Hundley, has been denied a new
trial and will be sentenced on Friday.
Lewis Booker, one of the most prom
inent business men in Richmond, Va,
has been arrested. charged with misap-
proprfating 100000 of fiduciary funds.
Mrs. King. the venerable grand
mother of United States Judge Speer,
was burned to death at the residence
of her son at Eastman, Ga, Wednes-
day.
The Marquis of Lawnsdowne has in
timated to the English government his
desire to resign the viceroyship of India
on account of ill-health and for other
reasons.
Consul General New complains to
Secretary Blaine that a com bination of
transportation companies threatens to
ruin the American flour trade with
Great Britain.
Secretary Noble has ordered all in
truders out of the Sac and Fox. Chcy-
ennc and Arapahoe, Iowa ans Po:tawa-
tonne Indian reservations and says sol
diers will clear the entire country.
At Davenport Ia. Wednesday the
Bell clothing store was burned out 1t
was owned by Max Weber, of Chicago.
A stock of shoes owned by T. Z. Muir
ray & Co., was also destroyed Loss,
S35. 900; fully insured.
The board of regents Of the Nebraska
university Wednesday appropriated
| $4,000 for the investigation of diseases
Of domestic animals, and appointed DIR.
L. S. Billings. of Chicago, director of
the experimental station.
The Massachusetts, Republican esso-
citation held q banquet Wednesday
night in Boston. Secretary of the Navy
Tracy made q lengthy speech lie
said hereafter the navy-yards employees
would be selected without reference to
their politics
Mrs. Lillian NJ. Hall, prominent so
ciety woman at Ellington, Conn, was
charged with fraudulent use of the
mails. Some four months ago she ad.
vertised in a newspaper asking for
charity, and has been receiving mail
from all parts of the country under an
assumed name.
a sTinc on Fire.
CALUMET, Mich. April 9.-The Pewa-
bic mine is burning. 1t lies between
] the Quincy and the Franklin, and il has