The Globe-republican., 1892-12-02
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Charles F. Church. . representative Of Q
dry goods house Of Winnipeg. Mani, Was
found frozen to death ON . prairie near Nc
1 Leods He had started to dr,ve across the
prairie and was caught in q blizzard.
The secretary of the English Master Cot
ton Spinner' federation announces that
| ei9ht-tenths of the spinners organized in the
| federation are now stopped or are running
on half time, affecting g. 600 employees
John S. Boyd, who went from St Charles,
Mo-. to teach at Glasgow, ky., was taken
from his boarding house and whipped into
insensibikty by five disguised men. There
had been a difficulty between him and the
school boad
DR.. Scott, President Harrison's father-in-
law. died at 4:1O p. m, Tuesday. Nov. =.
In boring IN oil we'll near St Marys, O..
the most phenomenal rush of oil ever seen
In that section WIS struck, and the flow can
not be stopped.
The typhoid epidemic ut St Louis contin-
ues frlghtfully. There are over 20 cases in
the asylum for the blind, alone. with prob
ably 400 new cases in the city, daily.
South Dakota's electoral vote turns on q
contest which involves the question Of the
right of certain Indians to vote. II their
vote is counted Harrison electors WIN.
Augustus T. Kerr who is charged with
embeZZling from the Jarvis ConklinG Mort
gage company, Is on the ocean being brought
back from England to be tried ss Kansas
City.
United States Senator Gibson. Of New Or
leans, is lying ut the hotel at Hot Springs,
IL l.. - -.AA I- H.
IL 20 years old, and his friends fear he Will
not survive many days
Thirty-three persons living at Danville.
Va, were bitten by skye terrier, six months
old. Ten of them at once went to New York
to take the Pasteur treatment and the rest
are preparing to do the same.
Petroleum refiners and exporters are load
ing every available craft for French ports in
order to get into that country before Janu-
ary l, when the new heavy import duty
which France proposes to impose upon our
oil will take effect.
4 slight earthquake shock was felt at San
Francisco Thanksgiving day morning. A
shower of meteors was observed in the even
ing. Over 1.2UO were counted by Professor
Davidson, of the coast and geological survey,
in less than two hours.
Telegraph operators on the Rock Island
work at st. Joseph, Mo-, for some time, and
have made up new wage schedule which
they say they will stand by, even though o
strike be made necessary.
brilliant meteoric shower was witnessed
at Mount Pleasant, Ia, November %. The
falling stars were very numerous over at
Burlington. At Chicago hundreds of mete-
ors shot across the sky and the display was
far ahead of anything of the kind seen there
in many years.
Stamboul is again king of the turf. He
trotted a mile on kite-shaped track At
Stockton, Cal, in 2:O715. The day was not
favorable, 1t being cloudy, cold and the track
damp from rain. The stallion was in good
condition and had it been a better day his
time would have been lower.
A great sou'wester gale at San Francisco,
lasting from Saturday night, all day Sunday,
knocked vessels together prOmiscuOusly all
about the bay dragging anchors, wrenchin9
ships from wharves. destroying wharves,
etc, yet no loss of life is reported. What
may have occurred outside OH the open
ocean is still 80 be learned.
Fire broke out in the Blossburg mine. four
miles south of Ration. \. NJ, owned by the
AtchisOn, Topeka x Santa Fe road, the larX-
est mines in New Mexico, the average pro-
duction being seventy five cars per day, and
all the mules and mine cars. Over
time, but all escaped through the abandoned
entry.
President Weihe. of the Amalgamated as
sociation. is quoted as stating. in connection
with the Homestead strike: No other strike
was so broad In its influence and men were
never so prosecuted in any other strike. On
the estimate of S1.40 per day for laboreD
and s. for skilled workmen, the 200 strikers
in the Homestead, Lawrenceville and Beaver
Ealls mills lost xCo OlD daily or 81 OO0 uD
during the strike"
An earthquake at La Union. San Salvador,
has laid low nearly all the houses in that city,
and those left standing had their walls %
cracked that it was not safe to remain in
them. The people are living in tents and
are in fear of further disturbances. The
residents of the city were almost driven to
frenzy, and professions paraded the streets
with ringing bells, headed by priests PRAYING
for the abatement of the disturbances. Many
persons were killed and many were seriously
injured.