The Globe-republican., 1891-04-08

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poses of $4,000 worth of property
There are no public requests.
THE business men and leading farm
ers of Alabama have been called +
meet in Montgomery, May 20, to a,
range for a creditable worlds fair ex
hibition.
LATEST advices from the Argentin
Baron Hirsch have purchased 400, 90
acres of land near Santiago del Ester,
upon which to place colonies of Jews
The Cunard steamship company ha
made contract with ship buildin,
firm on the Clyde for the construction
of two steamships each of $4,000 ton
mage. The new vessels are designed t.
cross the ocean in FIVE days.
SERIOUS floods were reported in thu
east on the Sd. A reservoir near Pitts
burgh, Pa, threatened to give way
New England was swept by sever.
storm. At Montreal the ice blocked
placing much valuable property il
jeopardy.
The will of John Plankinton, of Mil
waukee, disposes of property worth
So, O0O,O The Y. NJ. c. A. receives q
large bequest
THE employees of the Illinois Steel Co.
at Joliet have been ordered to strike un.
less their terms on wages are granted.
The Waverly oil works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, covering an area of four acres,
were totally destroyed by fire, together
with so, 600 feet of sawed timber. Loss,
$50. 900; covered by insurance.
ERNEST FORBES, the colored boy who
committed criminal assault on Bertha
Phipps in Anna Arundel county, in No
vember last, was hanged at Annapolis,
Md Miss Phipps has since become Mrs.
John Griffith.
AFTER several failures the new
gunboat Bennington has at last sue
ceeded in meeting the contract require
ments, according to the statement of n.
F. Palmer, the contractor. No official
report has yet been received ct the navy
ONE hundred and seventy-two small
orphan boys from England have arrived
in Canada for distribution among the
farmers.
d. c. O'MALLEY has surrendered at
New Orleans. He was indicted for per-
jury and conspiracy to commit perjury
and accessory before the fact in an at
tempt to bride the Malta jury.
A DISASTROUS explosion in a coal
mine took place at Apedale, Stafford
shire, England. Ten persons were
killed outright and several others were
injured.
THE Columbia Iron & Steel Co., of
Uniontown, Pa, has made an assign
nent. The liabilities are supposed to
be 100000. The Pennsylvania Con-
'truction Co. is forced to go with it, be-
ng an adjunct. Its liabilities are $780,
100 with assets of S15O,OOO.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
he seven days ended April numbered
,43, compared with $50 the previous
week and 265 the corresponding week
If last year.
THE body of we'll dressed boy of Z
years was found in the river at Blaine,
:. T. There is no clew to his identity. !
The question of Havana tobacco is
ausing deadlock in the negotiations /
or commercial treaty between Spain |
md the United States.
NINE Mexican bandits, who robbed |
he mail in January last near Browns !
lille, Tex, have been indicted. One is !
ead, two arrested in Mexico and three |
t large.
A BLOODY fight occurred between Ibn-
Il-Reshid and the tribes of Ben-Maso-
'ud, near Jeddah, in which over 600
we're killed.
The carpenters unions of Indianapo-
is have been expelled from the build
ng trades council of that city for agree
ng to work with non-union men.