The Bessemer indicator., 1893-01-07
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There is an epidemic of typhus fever In
| New York.
. The thermometer ranged from 10 TO IA be-
| low zero In Minnesota Tuesday -
/ The Burlington company are to use cleo
! tricity for lighting their cars.
| Navigation OH the Ohio River is practically
closed from Pittsburg to Louisville.
The thermometer registered 30 degrees be-
| low zero AT Winnipeg, Monday night.
DIR. Ralph Butterlield, Kansas City mtscr,
| has left slS5, 900 to Dartmouth college.
| A large humber of men have been arFested
at Erie, Pennsylvania, for robblng freight
| cars.
There is bread war in Omaha, and tie
bakers are selling thirty-six lOaves OF bread
| for 81
The Mexican demand for American corn IL
| said to be satisfied, and corn Il drug on The
| market. ~
Deacon s. " White. the Now York
broker who failed for 81, 75o, 900 hss paid all
| his debts.
A tein Of natural gas has been struck ss o.
wego, New York, and the drillers had to fdu
| tor their lives.
More trouble ia threatened At Cod Ereek,
preparing for it.
| A beer war is on in st. Louis between the
brewers trust and tho new brewers. They
| arc cutting prices.
| 8. l.. Gilmore, a prominent whisky man;
says Kentucky will produce so, 000, 600 gallons
Of whisky this year.
The strike Of telegraph operators on the
Rock Island system has been declared of, as
| 1t was not successful
| The delayed Cunardcr Umbria reached
New York on the 3lst She had been delayed
by broken machinery.
drunken New York woman threw an in
| FAINT into the air the other day and II fell In
the street, fracturinG Its skull.
| OF the foreign powers taking part in the
| Worlds Fair the little republic of Hayti was
the first to complete its bull ding.
| Chicago will soon have another drinking
fountain, the present Of Joseph Rosenberg OF
San Francisco 1t will cost $4,000.
The Illinois steel mills at Joliet, Illinois,
will close down January until April for re-
pairs and to settle the scale of wages.
Secretary Elkins will give instructions for
| an unusually large number of United States
troops to assemble at Washington, March 4.
Ground was broken on the Bird for the SlO,-
900 building at the Worlds Fair to be used
Jointly by New Mexico, Arizona and Okla
homa
| A peculiar disease has attacked horses In
| Pittsburg. They fall down without having
| given any previous sign of sickness and die
| within few minutes.
| The Traction company of Philadelphia has
won its trolley suits In the supreme court.
| MS ucclSlOn HcanS luat all tnc lines IN LnnL
| city can use the trolley
| The Algenia coal and coke mines in Me-
| Dowell county, West Virginia, are on fire.
| The mines are extensive, and are located
| three miles from Elk Horn.
| There was another explosion of dynamite
| in Paris on the 2lth. A police station was
| the scene. No one was hurt.
Hon. T. Jefferson Coolidge, American min
lister to France, Mrs. Coolidge and Miss Cool
| idge gave Il brilliant New Years reception Mt
their hotel on the Avenue Marccau.
The New York Presbytery has acquitted
Professor Briggs of the charge of heresy by
| a majority of seven. The case will be ap-
pealed TO the General Assembly.
Senator Allison, Secretary Hale aud Mr..
Morgan, the representatives of the United
States ut the monetary conference at Brussels,
arrived at New York on the Both.
1t is said the Canadian Pacific road will
soon transfer its big steamers-Enpress of
| India, Empress of China and Empress of Ja-
pan-from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean.
Cholera continues TO spread In the north of
| France. In the town of Grayelincs, near
| Calais, three deaths and one new case were
| reported on Wednesday and three deaths on
| Thursday.
T.. w. Lewis, who during the war was adju-
| tant general of New York and was for n long
| time prominent In the politics of that state,
has just died in the Clinton County, Iowa,
poor house.
Mrs. Maybrck, who was recently reported
to be dying In an English prison is getting
well. The doctors declare that she did not
have hemorrhngc stated, but that she at
tempted suicide.
The President has proclaimed definite ar
rangemcnt of commercial reciprocity with
Salvador. concluded on the 29th ultimo. The
arrangement is TO take effect from and after
December 81, 1892
Convicts in the Arkansas pcnitentiary con-
tinue 10 suffer from the disease which was
supposed to be the result of poison. 1t is now
thought to be something akin to cholera and
the penitentary has been auarantined
The Democrats in the Montana house of
representatives have united with the POpu-
lists and elected Popuist for speaker and II
| Democrat for chief clerk. A Democrat will
| probably be elected to the United States SEN
| ntc.
| A Panama dispatch says an expedition has
| gone to seek treasure supposed to have been
| hidden somewhere In the Manganate noun
| tains in the time of the Incas. The believe
| they have recovered lost traces of Valverde's
route.
The statement of the Chicago. Burlington
| d Quincy for the month of November shows
| an increase in net earnings of 1888 as COM
| pared with year ago. The increase in the
| net for eleven months ending November 80 Is
$GGO31S.
The mayor OF Limerick gave banquet last
Monday evening to Parnellitc and anti Par
| PRIESTS. me tOaeC' OF inc
| evening was "Ireland as Nation" All the
customary toasts to the Queen, etc, were
| omitted.
All reports of the speech delivered by En-
peror William ut the New Years reception
Sunday concur in stating that his majesty, In
| referring to the army bill, said that the
Reichstag would be dissolved II the bill was
not passed.
| The big trust formed by the prominent wall
paper manufacturers Of the United States, and
known as the National Wall Paper Company
contemplates an increase of $4,000, 600 in Its
capital stock which will make the whole
amount ssO,000,000.
| There is serious riot of coal miners in the
Saar district, Germany. The leaders are very
aggressive and have drawn 1900 men Into
the strike. A large force of troops has been
| dispatched to the scene to put n stop to the
cxccsscs OF the strikers.
| After many years of outlawry Ramon Noure
one of the most desperate bandits In Mexico,
has been captured and will be shot. He and
his band of brigands committed many rob-
berries and murders. their last exploit being
| an attack on Hacienda de San Rafael
The return of DR.. Edward McGlynn to
communion with the Catholic Church was
the cause of great rejoicing among the par
lshioncrs of his former church, St Stephens.
| His old parshioncrs collected purse of
/ q, 500 as a Christmas present to DR.. Nc
| Glynn.
| Two guards In pursuit of a deserter made
| a scene in the streets Of Berlin Tuesday. On
| his way to the military prison the deserter