Fair play., 1894-05-19

THE Kingston mills, a cotton spin.
ming company Of Hull, England, failed,
on the 9th. with unsecured liabilities
estimated at $t00, 900.
WALTER NICHOLS, 80 years of age. a
stccple jack, in the employ of 7. W.
llasSctt, was precipitated inside a Sec
| ton of snoliestacl;, which was being
taken down, distance of ninety feet
from the top of the burned Udell wood
enware building in st. Louis, on the
sth. and instantly killed.
THE steamer Normannia, which
sailed from New York on the 9th,
tool; 1900, 900 in gold.
y FIRE causing 800, 200 damage was
started, on the 9th. on the docks be-
| tween Catharine and Oliver streets,
New York, by the explosion of a bar
rel of coal oil.
| Ten striking miners were killed and
twelve wounded in an attack upon the
gendarmes guarding the Theresa mine
at Ostrau, Moravia, on the 9th.
| Two-rHIRDS of the town of Norway,
| Me, was laid waste by fire, on the
/ 9th, and many of the people who could
not find shelter in ahe two hotels
which We're saved ar uuburned dwell.
! ing houses, spent the night in tents or
shelters made Of cloth from the stores.
or sheets from beds. The total loss is
| over SlG0,03
1'nE bank at Southwest City, Mo,
was raided bya gang Of robbers in reg
ular Jesse James style on the after
noon of the 10th. They secured all the
money on hand-between 5000 and
| 81 .00r. In battle with citizens four
| of the latter were badly wounded,
among them United States Marshal 5.
| +. Melton.
ABRAHAM GARRISON, millionaire OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, brother of the late
Commodore Garrison. died, on the 10th,
AT the age of % years.
THE countess of Clarendon, wife of
the fifth earl of Clarendon, died in
London, on the 9th. She was the
eldest daugL ter of the earl of Nor.
mantOn.
Ar St Henri. suburb of Montreal.
Can. early on the morning of the 10th,
fire DESTROYED whole block of dwell
lings and their contents. Twenty fam
lies were rendered homeless. Loss,
So, 900: insurance, $1,000.
IN the French chamber of deputies
on the llth the hill providing that the
execution Of criminals shall hereafter
be conducted privately instead of in
public. as now. passed its second read
ing by Il majority of one. The vote
stood lj9 toI5S
TmoUGH the tests of the bullet-pro of
coat invented by Herr Dove, the Mann
helm (Badcnl tailor, have been salts
factory as far as they have been pur-
sued. the authorities of the war Office
entertain doubts of its practical utility
in the army.
FlEEEUGS applied the torch to the
barn of john Dunslan, of Red Jacket,
Mich. at / a. m. on the llth, and before
the fire was gotten under control ten
business buildings were destroyed.
Several families lost all their house
hold goods.
WILLIAM WElSLEH, who joined the
CoXcy army at llagcrstown, Md, was
seized with cramps and drowned while
bathing in the Potomac at Washing
ton river on the 10th.
SENIOR AMAHALE has been appoint
ed president of the brazilian senate. tc
s,ucceed DIR. l'rudcnte de Moraes, re-
Gently elected president of the repub
lie.
DAYTON. O.. was struck by tornado
on the 10th. The streets were covered
with debris. Trees were blown down,
windows smashed. houses wrecked,
roofs torn off, and the pottery of +.
lioughton WAS demolished Roy Oberlin
was struck by lightning and killed.