Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-11
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damaged wheat in Kansas and Mis-
souri,.
Eighteen Mormon missionaries
have recently sailed for Europe to
make converts for that church.
The Roman Catholic Church has
6,25O,0O0 members over Is years of
age in the United States.
VIM. H. Gladstone, eldest son of
the great English statesman, died in
London on the 4th inst.
-Four murderers were executed by
electricity in the State prison at Sing
Sing, N. Y. last Tuesday.
Damage to crops in South Dakota
from hail storm last week is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Two men and one woman were
killed in attempting to make balloon
ascensions in Ohio on the 4th.
The appropriations of the differ
ent States for exhibits at the Worlds
Fair aggregate $2,775,OOO.
Twenty.one nations have thus far
decided to be at the Chicago Worlds
Fair and make a show of themselves.
Three military companies from
New Orleans are in camp upon
Lookout Mountain, near Chatta-
nooga.
w. o. Farmer and Will Finch re-
turned to Nashville, Wednesday,
from Spain, with three car loads of
jacks.
Over 100000 bushels of wheat in
the State of Washington is in immi-
nent danger of being destroyed by
gophers and squirrels.
The United States war ship,
Charleston, and its captive, the Itata,
anchored in the harbor at Los An
geles, CAL, last Saturday.
Two steamships collided in dense
fog off the coast of England Sunday
night, and one of them sunk, carry
ing seventeen persons to watery
graves.
The Moses bank failure at Mont
gomery caused the Bank Of Com
merce at Sheffield to close its doors.
Other failures are also expected to
follow.
The Russian village of Ekalerinos.
lone is reported to have been swept
out of existence by cloud burst.
One hundred and fifty houses were
destroyed and hundreds of the IN.
habitants drowned.
The banking house of Moses Bros,
at Montgomery, Ala, made an as
signment last Monday. 1t was the
largest banking establishment in the
city liabilities being between $500, 0O(
and 81 100000.
The international convention Of
the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tan Endeavor is in session at Mime
apolis, Mimi, this week. The con,
vention has gathered nearly twenty
thousand strangers in the Flour City
Severe earthquake shocks have
been felt throughout Italy for severa
weeks, and jewellers on the slopes O
Mount Vesuvius are fleeing from
their homes, fearing great eruption
Of the volcano.
Emperor William of Germany il
on visit to the royal family of Eng
land. At banquet given in hi
honor on Tuesday night the table
was adorned with the royal plate
valued at 1900, 900, or about $1,000,
600.
A cyclone swept over the city 0
Baton Rouge, La, early last Monday
morning, unroofing fifty or NOR
houses, and partially wrecking tn
state penitentiary building. Tel
convicts were killed and a humble
of people in the city injured.
A fast freight train crashed into tn
rear end of a passenger train a
Ravena, o., at 8 o'clock last Frda,
morning, instantly killing twenty
one persons, and injuring score 0
more of Others. The wreck caugh
fire and two sleepers and one ola,
coach were burned, cremating
number of the bodies.
A passenger train went through
IS foot tressle near Charleston, w
Va, last Saturday. Fourteen pei
sons were killed and forty.five in
jured, many of them fatally. TIL
cross ties of the tressel had caugh
fire from train which passed owe
previously, and burned out sufficient