People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-30
TERSELY TELEGRAPHIc.
News Items That Flash Over the Wires
from All Points.


from All Points.
The Home Bleach and Dye works. VAL
ley Falls, r. l., burned. Loss $4,000.
A Pittsburg pa and Rochester{N. "
syndicate has bought the Indianapolis
street railway.
Nelson j. Alexander, postmaster at New
London, Conn, has disappeared, leaving
shortage of $4,000.
Over 81, o00, 900 will be invested in the
building of whaleback steamers for the
great lakes next season.
Druggist Ross, of Chase, Mich, on trial
for burning down that village last April,
has been acquitted of the charge.
All trains in the extreme northwest
have been delayed and seriously crippled
by heavy snow storms and drifts.
Little 11-year-ol Sibley Harrington was
accidentally shot and killed while shoot
ing Christmas guns in Macon, Ga.
A train on the Mexican Southern rail-
way was derailed. Four persons were
killed and number severely injured.
A Mexican street car can be hired for
personal use for $3.50 a day, with right
to stop at any one place for two hours.
The Homestead poisoning prosecution
at Pittsburg is now waiting for an analY-
H. n Mellor, a lumber merchant who
failed for $500, 900 two years ago. at Anti
go, Wis, killed himself with revolver.
Absinthe is an alconolate composed Of
anise, corlander and fennel, favored with
wormwood and colored with indigo
and sulphate of copper
At the time Shakespeare wrote his plays
there We're not in all the world as many
English speaking people as there are now
in New York and New Jersey.
John Mccormick and William G. Cow
an, employed in the yards of the PenQsyl-
vania Railroad company, were struck by
an express train and instantly killed
The statistics Of life insurance people
show that in the last twenty-five years the
average of mans life has increased per
cent, or two whole years, from 41.9 to 439
years.
One of the largest meteorites in exist
ence was found some days ago at Bacubi-
rite, Mexico. It's length is 1165 feet,
height 525 feet, width Abs feet, weight
% tons.
Numerous experiments to test the best
fire resisting materials for the construc-
ton of doors have proved that wood COW
cred with tin resisted the fire better than
an iron door.
It is asserted that waterproof sheets of
paper gummed and automatically COM
pressed, make material as durable as
leather for the sole of shoes. It also
makes very serviceable horse shoes.
Oysters come nearer to milk than al
most any other common food material as
regards both the amounts and the rela
tive proportion of nutrients, the food
values of equal weights of Nrnilk and oys-
tiers being nearly the same.
1t is somewhat singular What, notwith-
standing the great advaI4es made in
chemistry and metallurgy, - other more
satisfactory silver alloy has Ht been dis
covered hycoining and ota&@ pr loses
2 eoh hS tb o. GU used soo sfee~r Ks by
Quail love potato bugs as -all" aroE-1e Of
diet. One of these birds was recently
opened which had 101 of these farmers
pets concealed in it's crop. 1t will pay the
average potato grower to have flock of
trained quail among his other live stock.
At Wilmington, Del, E. Wright, a
freight conductor on the Delaware road,
was run over and killed. Two hours later,
Benjamin Birmingham and his brother
Edward. farmers. were struck by train
and instantly killed. six miles south of
Delmar.
Miss Viola Fuller, of Mitchell, S. D.,
will present to the Chicago Worlds Fair
a unique opera cloak. 1t is made entirely
of the feathers of prairie chickens. 1t took
Miss Fuller ten years to collect and sew
on the small feathers. each prairie chicken
caught yielding only four or five suitable
feathers.