The Bessemer indicator., 1894-02-10
TeicGraphic BrevitieI.


on the 10Th
VIM NJ. Eyart- Is losing his cyesight. lie
can not read or write.
The Democrats Of Kansas have declared for
Cleveland and free coinage.
Herr Mos, has Just been released from prls-
on after years confinement.
An anarchist, arrested Ia Spain has revealed
the existence of plot to murder the infant
king
London paper declares that the United
States has purchased the island OF San Do
minSo.
The Michigan Republicans have selected
Aleer men for delegates to the national con
vcntlou.
The Gar Is very grateful for the food sent
from this country to the famine sufferers In
Russia.
Hon Alexander Mckenzie, er-premler Of
Canada, died on the 10th. He was seventy
years old.
Another instance has just been reported Of
a man assaultlng woman in an English ctr
compartment
j. r. Jordan. a furniture dealer of Bristol
Tennessee, shot and killed n, c. Adams, his
wlfe's paramour.
Pittsburg IS interested over the coming mar
teacher OF twenty-five
The charges Of cruelty made against United
States troops in Texas have been found by the
grand jury to be groundless
5Roswel Smith, president of the Century
Company, died Of paralysis on the 10th. He
had been sick for some time.
our government has sent seven vessels to
patrol Behring Sea, and the British govern
meut win furnish several more.
The people living in several counties OF
Texas are said to be suffering for tho neees-
saries Of life because Of drought
Louisville, Kentucky, wa. the scene Of
number of fires few nights ago a band of
incendaries are trying TO burn the city.
The eIghi-year-old son of Joseph swayne,
wealthy resident Of Annl-ton, Alabama, was
kidnapped Wednesday and taken to the noun
tain< where he was found tied to tree later
ou.
The saloon men of Sioux City, Iowa, who
have been driven out OF business by the en-.
forcemcnt of the prohibition law, have organ
ized and VIII endeayor TO stop all business on
sunday.
Quar,cnnaster General Batchcldcr has or
dered the department quartermaster at St.
Louis to send 400 tents to the mayor of Colum-
bus, Mississippi, for the benefit of the food
sufferers.
Receiver Wyman of the Nebraska Fire In
surance Company has brought suit against
tive OF the stockholders, alleging fraud by the
disposition Of $780, 900 deposited in the Bank
Of Commerce, Omaha,
Fred Strauss the St Louis dynnmiter who
attempted to blow up the bakery of John
Miller because that individual refused to give
him work, was sentenced Friday TO thirty
days in the workhouse.
Henry Lee, nephew OF Ex-Governor Fitz-
hugh Lee Of Virginia. took three and half
grains Of laudanum at Hotel Barnum, St
Louis, with suicidal intent Friday night A
stomach pump saved him.
Captain \. D. Yocum, who Killed Myron
Van Fleet, the correspondent Of a sensational
sheet for slandering his daughter, and who
was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary,
was pardoned the next day by Governor Boyd
Unknown persons made desperate
| tempt to wreck the New York express on the
| Lackawanna road by placing heavy boulder
on the track a short distance south of Oswego
| the other night, but the locomotive threw II
| from the track.
The Mercantile Telegraph Company Of ST.
Louis, Missouri, has applied to the Circuit
| Court for AN injunction to prevent the police
from raIdlng it. Office. The manager of the
| company was fined 10000 for violating the
| stone pool law
A Chicago coroncrs Jury, after lnvestirat-
| ing the deaths OF the eight victims Of the
| Pearce street disaster, found that tho CITY
building commissioner and two of his lnspcc-
tors the owner and the architect Of the
| collapsed building were responsible.
The prospectus Of the May Issue Of the Cos
,nofotfDt, Is accompanied by a letter of the
American News Company, stating that the
news stand sales Of the Cosp,oDoHian have in
creased nearly 900 per cent during the past
three years-the second half Of the papers
| existence.
One of the most unique strikes ever inauC-
ulsted Is in progress at Dodge City. On ac-
| count Of the small salaries received the school
teachers have nearly all ceased to instruct
many having left town, attracted by higher
salaries, while nearly all those who remain
| refuse to teach until their salaries are raised.
Major A. d. Yocum of Hastings, Nebraska
was found guilty Of manslaughter and sem
fenced to serve one year In the state peniten.
tiary for the killing o; Myron Van Fleet,
February 22, 1892 who had .nsul'cd Yocum's
laughter. petition with over 1000 names
has been presented Governor BOYD praying
for the pardon OF the prisoner.