The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

S. II. H. Clark has been elected president
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad company
The Worlds fair $500, 900 appropriation
passed the Albany assembly.
Mrs Charles Hagan of Dayton. O., dashed
a bottle of vitriol in her husbands face,
burning out his eyes and fatally wonnding
him.
! A faction of Indiana Democrats are threat
ening to reveal secrets of startling nature
because of the appointment OF Burke as
district attorney.
John w Mackay continues to improve.
The Republicans of Cleveland nominated
w. j. Akers for mayor by acclamation
Fifty two Thousand immigrants landed
| in Canada last year, and 5l3 Americans be-
came Canadian subjects.
The University, fashionable education
al institution for young men, was burned
to the ground at Nashville.
The result of the Oxford Cambridge race
was known in New York Is seconds after
| the race was finished.
| Friday, March e4.
Workmen dug up hox in Durango,
Mexico, containing 100000 in Spanish
gold.
Fitzsimmons will not fight Hall again.
It is said that the Standard Oil company
intends to monopolize the foreign oil trade
and refuses to sell oil to shippers.
The French ministry was again snstained
(3l4 to 200) on test vote.
DR.. G C. Shattuck, for many years at
the head of Harvard Medical school, il
dead
Smallpox is raging in Santiago
During the Worlds fair Dwight L.
Moody will conduct series OF revival
meetings
The Boston schooner Iceland burned at
sea- The crew was rescued by the British
steamer Borierer
The annual report of the Yale Football
association shows balance of $l6,749 Sd
The wrestling match between Perrt of
Canada and Conley of America was award
ed to the former.
More new planets have been discovered
from the Kiel observatory.
Saturday. March %.
The re-enactment by the Delaware legis-
lature of the delinquent tax law will dis
franchise many negroes.
No book on any subject is being written
by ex- President Harrison.
Six New York Central conductors were
discharged because of connection with the
alleged conspiracy to defrand the company.
Uncle Sam wants an absolutely indelible
ink fortune awaits the inventor who
produces it.
DR. Talmage's Tabernacle will probably
be relieved of financial pressure by Easter.
The floor of Boston's city hall sunk, and
many old public documents are lost
Matthew P. Deadly, United States dis
trict Judge, died at Portland. Or.
It is estimated that ex-senator J. Sloat
Fassett will lose about SIS, 900 by the fail
ure of the firm of Tompkins, Fassetr &
Crocker of Elmira, n Y
A general strike of Chicago Carpenters
is looked for April l.
The Chicago Elks have come INTO posses
sion of the original South Cnrolir,a ordi-
nance of secession.
Monday. March 81.
No dearth of gold exists, and Secretary
Carlisle has refused further oilers Of ex-
change
Pacific cable between Australia and
Vancouver has been agreed upon by the in
ternational postal conferences.
1t is said that ex-Congressman Watson
has been fined in the city court at Thon
son. Ca, his home, for striking and draw
ing pistol on Railroad Agent Palmer in II
dispute.
No traces of the persons who ditched the
Ann Arbor train have been discovered
The Lancaster strike lasted 90 weeks, in
volved directly and indirectly l25,0O0 EN-
ployees. and cost III lost of wages alone Sl0-
100000
1t is stated that the Boston and Albany is
at the bottom of the Legislative investiga-
tion into the methods of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford company
Governor Peck of Wisconsin says he will
not allow prize fights in that state
Prosecutions are to be begun at once in
St Paul against the persons charged with
engineering the coal combine.
! Tuesday. March 2S.
Eva Ray, aged 10. was burned to death
in Marietta o., by her clothing catching
fire.
! Ex-City Clerk Thomas P. Burke of Loug
Island City. who disappeared after giving
Mayor Gleason a certificate of election, has
given himself up and been admitted TO
bail
LIS ldCtiOHdl war III tue CuOCt6W uatiOu
has broken out afresh. aud collision
seems unavoidable.
Albert Smith, of Troy, N. Y, ex-presi-
dent of the board OF school commissioners.
is dead
! There were 13.. murders committed in st.
Louis during March thus far.
H. F. Chapman of Detroit claims to have
discovered that almost the whole of the
upper peninsula of Michigan is still the
property OF the Chippewa Indians.
The steamboat Minnie Cornell was burn.
ed to the waters edge at Keyport, N. J.
! The Bridgeton IN j. board OF health
fined DIR. T. J Smith SOS for not reporting
a case Of Scarlet fever Dir. Smith resists
payment
Wednesday, March 80.
The pine forests near Tnckerton, N. J
baye hern on fire
Steve Broiie, the New York bridge
jumper. says he is soon To meet Billy Nc
Carthy of Australia in match for 81 900.
Recent rains Ia Kansas have saved the
wheat crop
The "Whyo" gang of Raritan, n j.,
blew open A safe in Somerville, but left