Fair play., 1891-12-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL ANp GENERAL

| FtfHber was ~, NJh,1'h pieces az VI IA" Of
! S3.G19,2ti. OF this, denominations were
as follows: Gold, los, $50 pieces, valued
at sl,742s0 silver $3.50, ,56 pieces.
! vHlnc'! at 81 ,s45, 80: MINOR coin, =, So =
| 900 pieces, value $40, 700.
The issue of the new Window -
| silver certificates began on the lst.
| There was brisk demand for early
! numbered notes and the first 800 were
| soon taken up as souvenirs. No was
| allotted to Mrs. Window: No. > To
| Treasurer Nebaler and No. 3 to Assist
| ant Secretary Crounx The new notes
| will he put into circulation as rapidly
as possible.
AT the meeting of the citizens exec
utive committee having in charge the
preparations for the encampm-nt Of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Washington in 1892 the reports submit
ted showed that ample arrangements
will he made for the comfort of the
old soldiers who attend. The guaran-
tee fund is being rapidly subscribed.
SOME one set fire to the Grand hotel
at Lcadville, Col. on the tst, and the
structure. with all its contents, was
totally destroyed. 4 man named Mat
thrws is missing. and was probably
burned to death, as he was sick in bed
VIXEN the flames broke out. The loss
is $40, 900.
EDWARD NJ. FIELD, not satisfied with
absorbing and squandrring every dol
lar he could get hold of in the line of
business, >wep, his fathers Cyrus W
Fieldl strong box clean of its valuable
contents. At last accounts the elder
Field was not expected to survive many
hours
THE McCarthyitcs have decided to
take decisive steps TO secure the Paris
fund. Mr.. Mccarthy and Timothy
lIealv have begun action against Mr..
Monroe. the banker. who holds the
funds, tn decide the ownership thereof
and compel the restoration of the
money to its rightfuI owners
A. Il. BLOOD. IA wealthy petroleum
dealer of Pittsburgh. Pa. aged about
30. was thrown from his horse. on the
Ist. and instantly killed
EDWARD PiNTER. the American crook
who swindled people by pretendn" To
turn metal into gold, was rcarrcstcd
in London, on the 2d, on Il charge of
selling bonds stolen from the Earrings
in 1883 lie will he held for extra,li-
tion.
JNO. G. Emo. cX-prrsidcnt of the
Fifth national bank of New York, who
has been fugitive from justice in
Canada for seven years. has arranged
I.
New York in a short tine.
EX-EMrEEoR Dow PEDRO is seriously
i'll in Paris lie is suffering from dia-
bctcs complicated with chills. His
daughter is with him, and he is at
tended by eminent physicians.
GEORGE ). REFS, his wife and three
children. aged 20 l" and $, lost their
lives by the burning of their home in
Detroit, Mich, at , o'clock on the morn
ing of the I'd.
The treasurer of Allen comfy o.,
has filed suit against United States SEN
ntor-elect Calvin :. Erice for $3.50
delinquent taxes and penalties.
The budget committee of the German
rcichstag have voted 900. 900 marks for
German exhibit at the Worlds fair at
Chicago.
FIVE persons were killed by an cx-
plosion in dynamite factory at lla-
verstraw. y. V, on the ID.
OK the evening of the I'd. two boys
Of West Superior, Wis, named August
Shanson and Armour Glover. dug a
cave in Il pile of sawdust The crust
cavcd in on them and crushed them
both tn death.
THE midnight south-bound express
train on the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia railroad was held up and
robbed by two masked men, three
miles east of Rome. Ga. on the night
of the I'd. l; is believed the robbers
got less than $1,000. Officers with
bloolhounds We're put on the trail of
the robbers. Supposed to he railroad
men, as they We're in possession OF
lanterns and keys belonging to the
company.
THE October statement of the NcXi-
can Central Railroad Go. shows earn |
ings of S,?s. S44: increase. S2l9. 4i!: net
earnings. S3i59,s: increase. S>h.4++.
Since January l. gross, S6.G46, 81: in
crease. Ssi. ;:...?. Net, S2.lIs,3tj: in
crease. S5O..l45.
JouN ID. EAGLE. an indianapolis |
tlnd. mail carrier, attempted 10 get on
an electric car. on the Sd. hut missed |
his footing and fell to the track. The |
trailer. packed full of people. passed !
over him, causing instant death. /
THE ear has appointed new metro /
politan of the Greek church. and has (
decrecd vigorous action against the /.
Stundst>. who. he says. are injuring .
more and more the faith of our ia
therS"
The condition of Dom Pedro had SO
much improved. on the 81. that his .
physicians believed him to be out of
danger.
HARDY BowMASrFR. of Duguesue.
Pa, WAS shot dead. on the night of the
I'd. while trying to brcal. into the resi-
dence of James Tavlor.
WILLIS HAREYHAY. eighteenth carl
of Errol. died on the Sd. He WIS born
in ls2S. and succeeded 70 the earldo,u
in 1876. lie sat i'll the house of LORDS as
Lord Kilmarnock.
PIAINFIFID. y. j.. was visited on the
night of the Sd by one of the most dis
astrous cont!agrations in its hi>tors,
and the total loss will foot MP between
S5G. coo and S20o.1o0 The Ro;ca estate
loss is fully 500. 600. covered one-nalt
hy insurance.
THE county commissioners Of stat
ford county. kaS.. who have been IN
vcstiga.inC the books Of County Treas
urer Lands. place his shortage at SI5.-
l2o.1,5 and Will bring criminal action
against him. and civil action against
his bondsmen. Lands claims that the
shortage IS due 10 burglary Of the
county treaSllr,ar's NtEnn alIe ra.i =,