The historic times., 1891-10-24

IHE president mas lSSueu d pTOC1dn6s
ton reserving from entry and settle
ment the tracts of timber land in Colo
rado known as the White River plateau.
AN animal tanner entered the cage OF
a Bengal tiger at Belgrade, which at
tackled him, and the unfortunate man
was soon torn to pieces in view OF the
Mortified people of the place
SECRETARY NOBLE has ordered all
the surveying corps and allotting agents
in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reserva-
ton to disband until congress makes
further appropriations. This will de-
Law the opening OF these lands one year.
THE French senate tariff committee
decided in favor of proposition to i'm
pose a duty Of % francs per 100 kilos
on salted meats of all kinds, including
pork, ham and bacon, instead of one Of
20 francs, which the chamber Of depu-
ties had already passed
SuyoL trotted a mile in 2:0S4, beat
ing Maud S. s record of 2:08& made In
1885
THE Associated press and the West
over the question of '1eased wires"
the services of which the company has
refused newspapers.
IT was reported that the Burlington
passenger train No. 5, which left Chi
cago at o'clock the previous evening
was ditched between Burlington, Ia, and
Galesburg on the morning of the 21st
The engineer and five passengers were
killed.
THE British sealers Otto and f. b.
Marvin, which were seized in Behring
sea, have been released by direction of
the lord commissioner of admiralty.
THERE was run on the 1onkers (N.
W savings bank. About 1000 excited
depositors drew out 500, 900 in a few
| hours.
JOHN Russ, awhile man, was lynched
at Columbus, La, for brutally murder
ing an aged negress
THE post Office officials are greatly
interested in the expected lessening of
the work in the large post offices of the
country by the introduction of new
stamping machines.
! THE boiler of the Brookhaven Miss
| Machine Co. exploded. instantly killing
James Hoskins, fireman, and wounding
C. A. Woodbury.. Hoskins' head was
| blown off.
THE night agent of the Chicago &
| Northwestern railroad at Boone, Ia,
was held up by burglar who COM
! pelled him, at the point of revolver,
! to surrender the company's funds in
| the office.
| BARDwELL's sash and door factory
at Minneapolis, Mimi, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 500, 900; insur-
ance about half.
THERE is diphtheria epidemic in a
! Norwegian settlement near MARSHALL
| town, Ia.
THE San Juan and Palaloopan rivers,
Mexico, have overhowed and several
| towns are inundated There is also
great destruction of crops.
A FRIGHTFUL wreck occurred at st.
| Johns station, Nd, on the Baltimore &
| Ohio. The engineer and fireman were
killed. Five others were injured, four
/ fatally.
The Dutch steamer Edam, disabled
at sea, has safely reached port.
/ JOHN BARDsLEY declares emphatic
/ ally that no power on earth can unseal
! MS IlpS.
/ A BAD accident occurred between
! Brandon and Kenney stations on the
! Canadian Pacific in Manitoba. Two
/ persons were killed and one seriously
injured
! SYLVESTER WILSON, for abductinE
/ Libbie Sutherland, was sentenced at
New York to five years in the peaafe1-
tiary and to pay fine OF 81, o1A
THE California PAGER Direct ta>.atr
| defeated Hal Pointer at the RACES at
/ Nashville, Tenn.