The historic times. [volume] (Lawrence, Kansas) 1891-1891, 1891-08-01

to Jay Gould in the Rock Island Union
Pacific Omaha bridge case, holding that
the agreement was valid and that the
Union Pacific had no right to violate it
when the Gould interests succeeded
those of Charles Francis Adams
THERE has been run on the Peoples
savings bank of San Francisco.
HE motion for q new trial in the Ed
holland case at Jefferson City, Mo-, has
been overruled by Judge Burgess.
FREDERICK c. HAvEMEYER, founder
OF the Havemeyer sugar refinery firm,
died at Throgg's Neck, l. l., on the
28th at an advanced age.
The strike at the Dobson mills,
Philadelphia, broke out afresh on the
afternoon of the 2sth, consequent upon
the proprietors enforcing black list
GRAssHoPPERs are reported running
crops along the borders of Ohio and
Indiana.
w. J. ELLIOTT was found guilty at
Columbus, O., of murder in the second
| degree. With his brother, p j. Elliott,
he killed Albert j. Osborne, of the
Sunday World, and bystander. The
cause was infamed personal journal
ism.
COLLECTOR ERHARDr, of New York,
has made public the names of eighty
four attaches of the custom house
whose salaries are reduced or whose
positions are abolished altogether, ac-
cording to the department plan of re-
trenchment
SECRETARY FOSTER does not fully
agree with Superintendent Owen in the
opinion that the alien contract labor
law does not prohibit the importation
of skilled laborers for employment in
tin plate factories.
AT Warren, O., Ed Caldwell, colored,
and John Tumason, took refuge under
tree during rain storm. Lightning
struck the tree and killed both men.
THE New York Herald's Philadelphia
correspondent wires that the books of
the Keystone bank show that the $685.
900 represented by due bills actually
went into that bank. This fact has
been established beyond a doubt by
Expert Helms and Wheeler, who have
been working at the books. The ex-
perts will not talk.
THE culvert at Charlestown. Nd, on
the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Bal
timore, was washed out by a cloud
burst South bound freight III ran
into the washout and was wrecked
Great damage was done to crops.
WHILE preaching to a large audience
at Houston, Tex, and when in the
midst OF his discourse, some people on
the outside turned out the lights and
rotten-egged Rev. Sam Jones and his
audience, most of whom were ladies.
A SERIOUS drowning accident is re-
ported from Essen, Germany. Four
teen employees of the water works were
crossing the river in boat when the
boat capsized and all were drowned.
THE Baltimore United Oil Co. IS tanks
at Canton, Md, were struck by light
ming and set on fire recently. The loss
exceeded 500, 900.
Hoes are dying in great numbers
from cholera in the vicinity of Water
loo, la. H. ]. Lachly, an extensive
farmer in Orange township, has only
seven animals left out of $50 which he
had three weeks ago.
REPORTS from different parts of
Placer county, Cal, show fifteen per-
sons have manifested symptoms of
poisoning after partaking of pressed
corn beef prepared by butcher of the
town of LOOMS A child of Mr. f.
Dee, of LOOMS, is dead
GREAT fears are entertained for the
cotton crop throughout Alabama, as
the cotton worm, which has not been
seen for years, is now reported in all
directions. If they increase panic in
the farming district will ensue. The
cause is constant rains.