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cen ana sixteen respectively, sons Oh Dur
leigh Griffin. and also James, aged sixteen,
SON of Aaron Pitcher, were drowned in OF.
sego Lake, N. Y, while skating.
SEVEN children dead with diphtheria is
the misfortune that has befallen the fam.
ily OF Andrew Albert, of Delaware Water
Gap, Penn. The last to 5uccumb was George
Albert, aged eighteen. One was young
woman Of twenty and bride Of two months.
THIEVES tried to wreck and burn train
and then plunder it on the New Jersey and
New York Railroad.
The steamer Andes of the Atlas Line, was
stranded on the New Jersey coast, and will
probably be total loss.
South and West.
MRS. ANNA AUSTIN has been elected Mayor
of Pleasanton, Kan, by majority of eight
In total vote OF 1888, Of which women cast
1923.
MRS. MARY DE HDoN was killed by fold
ing bed. which collapsed, at San Francisco,
Cal.
TIE National Farmers Alliance in session
at Chicago, H., has adopted resolutions re-
questing Secretary of Agriculture Morton to
resign because he had denounced their Or
ganization.
JOHN HARDY was hanged at Welch, W. Va,
for the murder Of Thomas Drew. Wilson
Howard was hanged at Lebanon, Mo-. for
the murder Of deaf mute. Albert F. Bam-
berger was hanged near Cando, North Da-
kota for the murder OF six members OF the
Kreider family. Ernst Lacore was hanged
at Joliet, ILL.,, for the murder OF Nellie By
ron.
N. L. ODELL, an aeronaut, was killed while
making an ascension in Washington, N. G.
h.1l l,,rs 1,ba II ho5 raanhpd q
height of 800 feet. Odelrs body was badly
mangled.
A HURRICANE swept over Oak Cliff and
South and East Dallas, Texas, destroying
property to the extent OF 800, 900 and killing
boy. Its path was 100 yards wide.
THREE men were killed and eighteen in
jured in wreck on the J. E. Potts Lumber
Company's tram road, ten miles south Of
Camden, Ark. The disaster was caused by
the giving away of a trestle.
THOMAS BENEFIT, colored and an e1-con-
vict, pleaded guilty in the st. Clair (lu.)
County Court to the burglary of an Office,
from which ne stole two cigars valued at ten
cents. He was sent to the penitentiary for
six years.
MRS. LOUIS A. LANCASTER met frightful
death by fire at Milwaukee, Wis.,, in tryingto
save tho life OF her two-year-old child.
AMEMoRrAL window in honor Of the naval
heroes who died in the Samoan storm OF
March, 1889, was unveiled at the Annapolis
(Md.) Naval Academy.
ALL the banks OF Helena, Montana, which
closed during the financial panic last sum.
mer are now open. The First National Bank
of Helena during the first day received de-
posits aggresating $4,000
Washington.
THE official trial board Of the new United
States cruiser Olympia announced her speed
as q. SO knots, earning premium of $780,
600 for her builders.
OFFERS made for the new Government
bonds led Secretary Carlisle to think sub.
scriptions would reach 200, 100000. and the
price 90 to 120, thus reducing the interestto
~ per cent. ... =
TIE President sent to the Senate the fol.
lowing nominations: William l. Buchanan
OF Iowa, to be Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary OF the United States
to the Argentine Republic Allen Thomas, OF
Florida, to be Consul Of the United States at
Laguayra, Venezuela I; Edward W. 8. Tlngle.
OF Montana, to be Consul Of the United
States at Brunswick, Germany.
ST. GAUpEN's Worlds Fair medal has been
rejected by Secretary Carlisle because of the
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represented on It.
BIDS for the new bonds were received by
the Treasury Department In remarkably
large numbers.
THE Hon. Lorin Z, Thurston, the Hawaiian
Minister, reached Washington after his long
trip across the continent, and at once went
to the legation.
THE hard times have struck Washington
society pretty hard, and the gayeties OF the
winter are on a much more moderate scale
and much less numerous than they were last
season. Some of the biggest houses are
closed.
Mas. CLEVELAND sid her first public 70.
ception. There were no cards required, and
the attendance was, OF course, something
enormous. The reception began at $3.50, and
lasted two hours.
SENATOR ALLEN. Of Nebraska, will act as
counsel for the Knights of Labor in the ef-
fort to enjoin the issue Of bonds. He will
assist Judge Cole, OF Iowa.
HAWAIIAN Royalists sent memorial TO the
President, who Transmitted it 20 Congress
with other Hawaiian correspondence.
Foreign.
FIFTY mon OF the Nictheroy garrison vera
killed in the bombardment OF that place By
the Brazilian insurgents.
OVER 100 native nomads, with their hocks,
were killed by earthquakes in Urga, Mon
golla.
THERE was rotIng by Anarchists in Berlin.
the police charged the mob; many persons
were hurt and alarge numbef OF arrests were
made.
THE Provisional leaders have made all
preparation for declaring Republic in
Hawaii constitution has been drafted and
fag chosen royalist lobby has been sent
to Washington.
The Government troops were repelled by,
the Brazilian insurgents on Conclicao ISL
and. in Rio HsrDor, with loss OF 12O killed.
AFTER four days of continuous fighting
the army of President Vasquez, OF Honduras,
has been completely routed by the revolu-
tionists and their NIcaraguan allies.
ADM1RAL DE MELLo has been deposed from
his position OF leader OF the forces operating
against the Brazilian overnment. because
aid the insurgents in the lay in making
their proposed land movements.
HEAVY gales in the bay at Biiboa, Spain.
have caused the loss of twenty-five fisher
men.
A FRENCH force in Tonquin. China, was at.
tackled. from ambush by pirates and lost
twenty men killed and wounded.
THE cloth and yarn markets in Manchss.
ter. England. have been paralyzed by the
latest developments in regard to Indian cur.
rency.
LUIAN and twenty-five OF his outlaws were
killed and the survivors dispersed in Chihua
hua, Mexico.