The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24
NEWS I'M BRIEF.
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vention passed resolutions declaring
against the extra session of the lcgis-
lature.
A special election is to be held i'm
| New York to choose Successors to
Messrs Fitch and Fellows as repre-.
sentatives in congress.
Postmaster Merrill of South Jack
sonville, Fla, was arrested on charge
of embezzling money order funds
Mrs Scaflidi was awarded a verdict
of 3 500 for the lynching of her hus-
band at New Orleans and the Judge
set the verdict aside as ridiculously
small
A dispatch from Rome TO the London
! Chronicle says that Pope Leo's Christ
mas address will be denunciation of
Anarchism
Edward L. Stokes has been appoint
ed receiver of the Hoffman house,
New York city, and other property
belonging to the estate.
One of the largest gas wells ever
drilled in Indiana has been completed.
A test proved it good for 5000 cubic
feet daily. The well lies northwest
of Camden.
J. Minnie sullivan was hanged at
Anderson, 5. c., for the murder of
Herman c. Galbreath on the main
street of Grcenville, 5. c., in June,
1s02
Mr.. Leez, advanced Liberal was
reelected to parliament from Ian
cashlre in district formerly Con-
servative. 1t is regarded as great
Gladstonian victory
Charles w. Whitman. collector for
several wholesale houses of Joplin,
Mo, has been missing for two weeks
and his accounts are being examined.
Lewiston, Utah better known as
the Camp Floyd district, the scene of
the recent gold discoveries, Is develop
ing into bonanza camp.
The Italian senate, by vote of lO2
TO 10, has appointed a commission Of
five to investigate whether any of the
senators are compromised in the bank
scandals.
The well-lnown Chicago firm of
scenic painters, Albert lS Burridgc, as
signed. The firm has decorated and
made scenery for many of the large
theaters in the Vest
Deputy Sheriff Ed Wright Of Wins
low, Apache county, \. r., was shot
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whom he attempted TO arrest for
creating disturbance.
The penitentiary commissioners of
Arkansas have decided TO enter into
contract with Austin Corbu ~ Co,
for the labor of 400 convicts to work
on Sunnyside plantation,
Extension Attorney Van Leuven
and Surgeons kcssel and Pegg each
furnished a bond in the sum of $1,000
at Dubuque. Iowa, for their appear
ance in April,
At a conference of Populists leaders
in Birmingham, Ala, it was decided to
put a straight Populist ticket i'm the
field with Hon. Philander Morgon. Il
brother of Senator Morgan, as candi-
date for governor.
A bomb charged with dynamite was
exploded yesterday in the village OF
Soda, near Corrun, Spain. A drug
store was wrecked by the explosion,
but nobody was killed.
Cholera is increasing in ST. Peters
burg There are lGO cases now in the
hospital, and thirty-four new cases
and eleven deaths from the disease
were reported Thursday.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon, is in
teresting himself in revival of the
Torrey bankruptcy bill, and is quite
sanguine of success, notwithstanding
the defeat of the bill in the house.
The fire in tho coal mines at Minonk,
ILL.,, from which 800 men narrowly
escaped with their lives, has been
brought under control Officials state
that operations will be resumed within
ten daVS