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KILLED BY A CRANK
MAYOR CARTER HARRISON OF
CHICAGO AsSAsSINATED.
While in HIS Own House the Mayor
IL Shot by Crank and Dies I'm
Twenty Minutes-His Assassin Now
tn Jail.

Chicago, Oct. 30.-Carter II. Harrison,
FIVE times mayor of Chicago, and cne of
the best known men in the West, lies
dead in his own home, 321 South Ashland
boulevard. Three bullets entered his
body, two of them making wounds suf-
icient to cause death. The murder was
committed by Eugene Patrick Fender
CAST, paper carrier, who declared that
Mayor Harrison had promised to make
linn corporation counsel and had not kept
his word This, he said, was his only
reason for committing the crime. The
orly persons in the house at the time
beside Mr.. Harrison were his son, Will
lam Preston Harrison, twenty-five years
of age, and the servants.
Shortly before 8 o'clock Saturday even
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LAND GASES.

Washington, pecial-secretary Smith
has rendered. two decisions in the Ash
land district. Both involve the question
Of rights acquired by prior settlement
on the lands thrown open to the public
in 1880. :. p. Marlette wins title to
the southwest quarter Of section 10,
township 40, range 8, against William
Drouillard, and Daniel Taylor establishes
his claim to the southeast quarter Of
section 13, township AZ, range Q, against
Hattie Knickelhine.
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Pa. member of the city council, was
killed and robbed by highwaymen
Agstina Nolli of Scranton, Pa. has
been found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree for the killing of fellow
Italian named Prignano.
Peter Hombaugh of Scranton, Pa, who
twice set FIRE to and destroyed the Elm
PaNk NJ. Il. church last winter, has been
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment.
Arthur Bennett was lynched in Georgia
for poisoning the family of a farmer. He
claimed that he was hired by another
negro.
G. III. Devore, an oil we'll driller, was
robbed at Parkersburg, w. Va, and
placed on a railway track. One hand was
cut off by a train.
Gov. Altgeld of Illinois has issued n
requisition on the governor of Iowa for
Robert Stockton, wanted at Danville for
murder and robbery.
Gov. Markham of California will not
interfere in the case of ID. Vincent, of
Fresno, Cal, who is to be executed for
the murder of his wife. 49,.
Buck" Harlan, an ex-conyict, was
arrested at kokomo Junction, Ind, On
dollars.
Bob Marler of Middlesborough, Ky,
who killed Mrs. Mary Boiling while at
tempting TO assassinate Conductor Lang,
was convicted of murder in the first
degree and his punishment fixed at death.
George Koontz, u painter, shot his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Malbeth at
Peru, Ind. The woman is old and the
wound may prove fatal. The act was
the result of a quarrel. Koontz is under
arrest.
D. G. Ramsey, grand chief of the order
of Railway Telegraphers, has been ar
rested, charged with instigating the cut
ting and crossing of wires and otherwise
0bstructing the telegraph system of the
Burlington & Northern railway during
the telegraphers' strike In September,
1892.
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AT WASHINGTON.

The gold reserve of the treasury creeps
up again.
In event of Attorney General Olney's 5
resignation, it is said that Gov. Russell,
of Massachusetts, will be his successor.
In his report, Commodore Melville
recommends the comforting of a position
instead of relative rank ON members of
the engineer corps.
Gov L. c. Hughes of Arizona, who is
in Washington on official business, has
concluded a negotiation with responsible
representatives for the establishment i'll
his territory of large colony of Euro
pean agriculturists, viticultursts, fruit
growers, silk weayers, cotton spinners
and mechanics
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NOVEL, SE

Memphis, Tenn, Oct 31.-A case is on
trial in the criminal court, the outcome
of which will be watched closely by all
foreign corporations doing business in
Tennessee. Miss Mary Clancy, who for
several years has been agent for the
Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine COM
pany, is on trial charged with embezzling
the funds of the company. To-day il
was discovered that the charter of the
company had not been filed with the
secretary of state or registered in this
county, and therefore it had no legal ex-
istence in Tennessee: The attorney gen.
eral decided to nolle prosecute the case
and the defendant counsel insisted ON
trial. In case trial is had verdict of
acqnittal must follow under the law,
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IN GENERAL.


Immigrant business causes trouble
among Western railroads.
Illinois authorities will attempt to over
throw the school furniture trust.
There are 1900 Unemployed people in
Dayton, Ohio.
The 500 withdraws it $50 Portland
rate.
Unpaid employees of the Santa Fe sys-
tenn threaten to strike for back pay.
Work has been resumed at the Dexter
mine, neaF Ishpeming, Mich, after three
months Of idleness.
Mills at New Bedford, Mass, Bellows
Falls, VT, and Raymond, N. H, started
up,
While awaiting decree of divorce
against his wife, William Jacks dropped
dead in court at st. Louis.
George Meyer, the New York carriage
manufacturer whose firm has failed, has
disappeared,
At GeorgetowA, KY, Officer G.. 6.
James was killed by Lloyd Cole, who
was himself fatally wounded,
Horace Hill, arrested for the MUIR
der of Anna Wiese at Marshaltowp,
Mrs, George Burbank was divorced at
Tacoma, Wash, and was married three
minutes later,
Frederick Morris, a harness manu-
facturer of Bath, N. Y, has failed for
over $65,OO0.
Big Bear and 200 braves have seized
the abandoned Fort Russell military re-
serve in Montana, claiming it reverts to
the tribe. "
A San Francisco company has contract
ed with Chinese brokers for 10000 cool
| les, who will be sent to Central and
| South America. -
The estate of Miss Jane Holmes OF
| Allegheny, Pa, estimated at $1,50O,00O
has been left to ten charitable institu.
| tions.
A city council investigating committee
| severely arraigned officials of the South
Boston house of correction for abuse
Of the prisoners.
The Horton company, manufacturers OF
carriages at Cincinnati, Ohio, has as
signed. Assets, $4,000; liabilities, $23,.
coo.
The Exchange Bank of Climax, Mich,
has suspended payment and posted no
tices that depositors would be paid ir
full,
The male students at Wesleyan univer.
sity, MiddletoWn, Conn.,, have formed q
secret society to boycott young women
| students.
Judge Dallas, In tine United States cir
cult court at Philadelphia, granted an
| injunction to the American Bell Tele-
phone company restraining Rolls Stier
of Bedford, Pa, from manufacturing
using and selling telephones alleged tc
contain infringements on the company
patents.
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Washington, Oct. 31.-By a vote of
43 to32 the senate, after one of the most
remarkable and memorable parliamentary
battles of generation, passed the bill
Internationally repeating the purchase
clause of the Sherman silver law. The
end was reached at the conclusion of a
continuous session of fourteen days, af-
ter sixty-one days of debate, during which
five volumes of the Congressional Rec
ord had been filled with speeches amount
ing to in the aggregate about twenty
million words, stream of talk that
would stretch in cold type from the sea-
board 1,600 miles into the interior, from
Liberty enlightening the world in New
York to the foothills of the Rocky noun
tains. The closing day of the great
struggle for the repeal of the purchase of
silver was one of intense excitement. The
galleries were packed to the doors, every
seat in the senate was occupied ard the
walls were lined with representatives
from the lower branch of congress
Those voting in the affirmative were:
Aldrich, Brice, Caffery, Camden, Carey,
Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Faulkner,
Frye, Gallinger, Gibson, German, Gray,
Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Hoar,
Hunton, Lindsay, Lodge, Mcmillan, Me
Pherson, Mandcrson, Mills, Mitchell
(Wis.), Morrill,, Murphy, Platt, Proctor,
Quay, Ransom, Sherman, Smith, Squire,
Stockbridge, Turpie, Villas, Voorhees,,
Washburn, White ia .)I43.
Those voting in the negative were:
Allen, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Butler,
Call, Cameron, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel,
Dubois, George, Harris, Irby, Jones
ark, Jones (Nev.), Kyle, artin, Pasco,
PETER, Perkins, Pettigrew, Power, Pugh,
Roach, Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Vance,
Vest, Walthall, Wolcott-32.
The following pairs were announced,
the first named would vote in the af-
frmative: Allison with Mitchell Orr,
Chandler with White (Cal.), Wilson with
Colquitt, Gordon with Morgan, Palmer
with Hansbrough.
1t took almost ten minutes to call the
roll and arrange the pairs. When the
vice president announced the vote Mr.
Voorhees, Strengthened up to his full
length. 81 now move" said he, with a
note of triumph in his voice, that the
senate adjourn until tomorrow at l.
o'clock" Before the question could be
put the occupants of the galleries were
jostling each other in their attempts to
crowd out of the doors. The senators
filed from the chamber. In sixty seconds
none but few employees remained upon
the scene. The long battle was over,
the field deserted. The bill now goes to
the house, where it will no doubt be
passed in a day or two.
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EX-MAYOR BANKRUPT.

Duluth, Oct. 31.-Ex-Mayor John B.
Sutphin of this city has made an assign
ment. The failure was caused by the
expectation of the filing of judgment
by one creditor, Chicago and Sioux
City meat house. Assets are ample to
cover liabilities, so the attorney for
Sutphin states, but the amount of the
latter is not given. Mfr. Sutphin has long
been prominent political figure in North
ern Minnesota, and this, with continued
i'll health, has caused his failure.
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Hansen, the domestic, opened the door
she was confronted by man about five
feet five inches tall and smooth shaven,
his rather clean cut features lit up by o
pGir of dark eyes.
SIS Mr.. Harrison In ?" asked the man
IL a quiet, pleasant voice.
'Yes sir" responded the girl rs she
threw the door wider open to permit his
entrance.
Il would like to see him, please" said
the man as he walked toward the back
end of the hall. Mr.. Harrison was in
the dining room, which opens into the
rear end of the hall. Hearing the man
ask for him, he rose and stepping in the
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AGAIN FuE nATTn>rc

Guthrie, Okla, Oct 31.-Two members
of the Dalton gang entered Halls store
fifty miles east of here, and ordered the
proprietor to deliver all the money in
the safe, which amounted to $12O. The
robbers then coolly walked out and joined
the remainder of the gang, who were
waiting for them. There were twenty
men in the store at the time, but no,
one of them raised q hand
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BRUTAL MURDERS,

Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 31.-News of
two brutal murders has reached here.
At Fayetteville George s. Lee, in at
tendance upon the circuit courts session,
was, while iokingly reaching for Police,
man Sam Dillworth's star, shot by him
five times and instantly killed Lee was
very prominent citizen politically and
otherwise, and his murder uncalled for.
Dillworth is in Jail. Near Milltown
Charles Ernest, opposed in his suit for a
Miss Brunley's hand, shot and killed her
father, Reuben Brunley, and seriously
wounded a brother of the girl, All the
participants in the tragedy are prominent
in their section,
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FOREIGN NEWS.

King Humbert of Italy has given
$1,000 to the British Society for Sailors.
Italy Is said to be seeking pretext for
quarreling with France, with view to
general European war.
A banquet was given by the Partisan
press in honor of the visiting Russians.
Covers were laid for $500 guests.
Having refused to evacuate their in
trenchments, the Moors at Melilli were
attacked by the Spaniards and defeated.
A mimic battle between British marines
ard sailors at Halifax, n. s., was wit
messed by 10000 persons.
Judge Boyd of Dublin has refused to
grant the petition of Michael Davitt,
who applied for his discharge in bank
| ruptcy.
The ultIa-COnservatives and the anti
| SemiteS have united under the name of
the United Parties faithful to the empire
| in Berlin, and. have decided to favor the
| same Candidates in the Prussian elections.
Five hundred anti-home rule delegates
attend the Ulster parliament in Belfast.
Among the passengers on the steamer
| Umatilla, arrived at San Francisco, were
| seventeen miners who return from the
| Yukon river, Alaska, with gold dust in
| their possession valued at $4,000 as
| q result of one years work.
| In the peichsrath at Vienna Count Won
| Taafe, president of the council of min
| listers, in q long speech moved the first
reading of the franchise bill, thus setting
at rest all rumors to the effect that this
| important measure would be Withdrawn.
| A dispatch to the London Times from
| Calcutta says that money Is daily be-
| coming scarcer. In this connection the
gentleman suggests a gold loan of 5,OO0,-
| 600 pounds, and declares that this loan
| is an absolute necessity in order to avoid
a panic.
Prince Antoine d'Orleans and the In
fanta Eulalia have been staying at the
Savoy Hotel 1T London since Oct. 18.
| The Spanish princess will remain several
| days longer in London. She, does not
attract much attention. She has been
visited at the hotel by several Spanish
| nOtabilities and dined yesterday evening
at the Spanish embassy. The Prince of
| Wales has called upon her.
A Buenos Ayres special says: The for
eign colonists in Santa Fe charge the
foreign consuls with lack of interest
| and activity in the protection of their
| interests. Several meetings have been
called in order to protest against the con-
duct of the consuls. Agents of the Bra
! lillian revolutionary party at Buenos
Ayres have gone to Rosario to intercept
the Brazilian gunboat Bahia, which is
descending from Paraguay, in the hope
of winning it over to the insurgent cause.
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RIOTS IN PERU.

Lima, Peru, Oct. 81. - Disgraeeful
riots here still go on unsurpassed by
the police. A group of Caesarists went
through various streets of the city last
night shouting: Long live Caeares and
death to congress-" abusing persons
whom they met and otherwise acting dis.
orderly.
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VALUABLE HORSE DEAD

San Francisco, Oct. 81. - The great
turf mare Santa Anna, winner of over
twenty-five races for 'IuekF" Baldwin
and holder Of tive track Feeerds, died at
Bay District track last evening of lung
fever. The mare was valued at $50, 900.
The Aetna stable string OF twelve horses,
including Rudolph and Macbeth, have
arrived at the track from Louisville.
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ROBBED IN FISH ATtEw

Minneapolis Oct, 31,-Emil Christian
son, while under the influence of liquor,
was slugged and robbed in Fish alley:
He lost a watch and $50 in cash. He
was sober enough to make complaint to
the police at midnight, and thinks he
could identify the thief if he were to
see him.
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IMpRONINn

Philadelphia, Oct. 31.-A consultation
was held at the home of Col. A. K. Nc
Clure at which were present Doctors J.
William White, William Pepper, Edward
Martin and J. Laine. When it was over
DR.. White announced that his patient had
so far improved that the consulting ply
sicians thought he had at least an even
chance to recover.
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FGTu, PLAY

Paducah, Ky. Special. body Of
an unknown white woman was found in
a smouldering fire near Eddyville, KY,
this morning. The body was badly
drawn showing that the fire had caused
the death of the woman. There were
some whisky bottles rear. The woman
was seen near the scene with some men
yesterday, all strangers Foul play is sus-
pected.
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GYMNAS STTCS

Minneapolis, Oct; 31.-Nils Posse. the
famous exponent Of the Ling system Of
gymnastics and the head of the physical
culture and gymnastic classes of the
public schools of Boston, delivered an
interesting lecture on the subject of
gymnastics in the public schools before
the teachers of the city at the central
high school.
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PERHAPS A FATAT, Rrow

redwood Falls, MINI, Oct. 30.-A blow
was struck, which may prove fatal, by
John Spopper with a sledge hammer in
an alteration with Charles Ripke. The
men had been sworn enemies for years.
Ripke drove to Spopper's house to settle
with him regarding an alleged trespass,
While engaged in An angry alteration.
Spopper knocked him from the buggy ~
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KILLED

Bird Island, Mimi, Oct: 81. - Mrs.
Andrew Bloomquist 9f Kingman was
killed this morning by poles falling from
the roof of straw shed, crushing her
ribs on the right side. She leaves. six
small children.
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CASUALTIES.


Forest fires are causing heavy losses
near Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Six business houses burned at Clinton.
KY, causing loss of $4,000.
Fire at Providence, r. l.. destroyed a
warehouse valued at 100000.
John McDermid was burned to death
in his dwelling at Kingston, Ont
The Love wagon factory at Durand.
Miss, burned. Loss, $4,000.
Survivors of the wrecked schooner
Charles E. Young reached Baltimore and
told a tale of suffering.
Joe Jones, a minister of Brazil, Ind,
was fatally injured by a premature ex-
plosion while preparing q shot.
George W. Teney, a farmer. was
drowned in Wood Lake, near Bremen.
Ind, while duck hunting.
Thaxton's warehouse and 800 bales of
cotton burned at Austin. Tex. Loss,
$4,000.
A bridge being built at Martinsville,
Ind, fell, killing one man and injuring
four others.
In fight near Wallace, Idaho, between
robbers and posse, several men were
wounded.
The main business block in Weston.
Mass, was burned. Loss, $4,000. The
fire was of incendiary origin.
Portions of a human body have been
found in the ruins of the burned Com
mercial block at st. Joseph, Mo.
J. .. ScrOggins, an ex-world's fair
guide, was killed by train at East St.
Louis.
The partly charred body of man was
found on pile of burning slack at Can
ton, Ohio.
Five more victims of the Battle Creek
disaster have been identified. Gov. Rich
will be present at the inquest.
The schooner James O'Donohue of
Bangor, Me, was wrecked off GIouces-
ter, Mass. The crew was four hours
rowing ashore.
A misplaced switch caused collision
on the Staten Island Rapid Transit Road.
One man was killed and another fatally
injured.
The storehouse and hackIe department
of the cable fax mills at Schaghtfcoke,
n. Y, were burned. Loss, 100000; well
insured.
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HASTINGS news NOTEs

Hastings, Mimi, Oct. 31.-Gen. G. p
Adams of Vermillion is very ill.
Miss Hannah Palleen left yesterday fol
Glenullen, N. d., where she will be mar.
ried this week to Qtte Leedstrom.
Miss Lavina d. Pearce returned yes.
terday from a years visit in London,
Eng.
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HlR SES RTIRNEn

La Crosse, Wis, Oct. 31.-Last night
fire destroyed the horse and hay barn al
Holway's saw mill. There were thirty
horses in the barn, of which number
twenty-one perished. The loss is from
$1,000 to $4,000 with $3.50 insurance,
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ARRESTED.

Little Falls, Mimi, Oct. 31.-Deputy
United States Marshal e. w. Goodner
has arrested Earl Tucker and Stephen
Barlowe ON the charge of robbing the
Vineland postofice. The prisoners were
taken to st. Paul.
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DEPARTS FOR JERUSALEM

Aberdeen, s. p, Oct. 3f.-Rev. Ed. s.
Wallace, appointed United States consul
his post. He will sail in company with
his wife on NoY. s.
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TJNR I'M DApTS

Paris, Oct. 31.-Mrs: Levi P. Morton
has leased the house formerly occupied
by Senator Jones Of Nevada in order to
supervise the complete education of her
daughters.
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ment which was voted down without re-
sorting to roll call. Mr.. Harris did
not offer to ask a vote on his amend
ment. Mr.. Pasco offered an amendment,
which was not read, but was ordered
printed, with the understanding that it
could be offered later.
The senate then went into executive
session, at the expiration of which a
recess was taken.
The bankruptcy bill still occupies the
attention of the house and there will be
a bitter fight against its passage.
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SOLDIERS, HOMIE

Minneapolis, Oct: 30.-The trustees Of
the Minnesota Soldiers home took out q q
permit for the $4,000 addition to the
hospital that was built this year. " :,
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RUN OVER.

Chicago, Special. Gus Canton of
Manawa, Wis, was run over and killed
last night at Sixtieth street crossing of
the Fort Wayne tracks. Canton was
thirty years old and proprietor of gen.
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PEOPLE IN PRINT.

Sir John Abbott, ex-premier of Can
ada, is dying ut Montreal.
Earl Spencer has fourteen rooms in his
house devoted to books.
DR.. John G. Peters, an authority on
Cholerl and germ diseases, died at East
WillistOn, L. l., aged "A.
Brother John, one of the oldest men,
bers of the Trappist Monastry at New
Melleray, Iowa, is dead.
James A. Denaree, founder of the
Knights Of Hon, r, is dead at Louisville,
Ky.
George G. Gaskin. who disappeared
from Brooklyn forty one years ago, re-
turned to find his wife remarked and
himself a grelt-grandfather.
A negro woman named Jordan died
at Little Rock. Ark, aged 129 years.
Miss Sallie Wheeler died at Philadel-
phia, aged 1O3.
The statute of George B. Mcclellan to
be erected in the great public square of
Philadelphia, his native city, is now near
ly completed at the Ames works in Chi
Copee.
Mrs. John Cleveland Osgood, the mis-
tress Of Bulwer Lytton's old home Kneb-
"oIIu MUSE, EuSidnU, Is an AnerlCln,
formerly Miss Belote of Virginia, and her
husband is also an American.
Armenoq Medzadoorian, who is in 4
Turkish prison, claims to be an American
citizen, and he wants the American gov
ernment to rescue him. A man with
such opportunities in his name wants
to be on the spot when Offices are going
round.
The archbishop of Armagh, primate of
all Ireland. died suddenly in Dublin.
George Gould is far more popular in
New York than his father ever was. He
is a thorough American, and does not
conceal his contempt for the Anglo
maniacs.
Miss Harriet Morroe, who wrote the
worlds fair Cde, has brought suit for
$25,OOU damages against the New York
World, which printed in advance of the
delivery without authority, and also print
&c m alleged likeness and biography of
Miss Monroe, each of which she considers
ground for action in itself
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RI1RNEn TO nEArn

Dallas, Tex, Oct, 3i.-By the burning
of a saloon here two men who were in
the building were burned to DEATH They
are q. /. and w, I'll, Brown, father and
son, respectively.
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SUICIDED,

Dubuque, Iowa, Oct, 81. - Phillip G.
Henry, member of the firm of Henry &:
Ahlera, cut his threat, inflicting fatal
wounds.
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Rx-pREMIER imam

Montreal, Oct. 81.-Ex-Premifer of Can
ada Sir John Abbott died at $40 last
evening.
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FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL
SESSION OF CONGRESS-.

Condensed Record OF the business
Being Trnnsacted by our National
Lnw-mnlSers--ROutin Report Day
by Day.
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ORATORIcAT cnNrEST

Pipestone, Mimi, Oct, a1.r@AItss Maud
Pratt won the Demorest silver medal at
the oratorical contest.
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STAMRS STOLEN

LitchfeId, Ninn., Oct 31.-Ahout $50
worth of stamps were stolen from the
Manannah postoffice.
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THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL,
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.

All Important Occurrences of the
Past Week, Boiled Down and Arr
anEed for Rapid Reading, From
Home and Abroad.
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pRINCESS nnAn

4RINIESS DEAD.
Paris, SIecial. The Temps announces
the death of Prir cess Czartoriska, daugh-
tar of the duke of Nemours.
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Castoria.

"Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chil.
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children."
DR. G. G. Osaoop,
Lowell, Mass.
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"Castoria Is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant whenmothers willconsider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria in
stead Of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtfu
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
On. J. r. KncHE1oE,
Conway, Ark.