The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-07
FORTUNE IS TICKLE.
AN INTERESTING GROUP IN A
CHICAGO COURT.
Phrbus! What a Name for q Princess -
Great Loss Of Life and Vast Damage t.
Property In the Canadian Northwest
miscellaneous Items Of Interest.
Told In Few Words.

Told n u Few Words.
-DistlnI uished men flied the small room
occupied by the United states Court OF
Appeals in the Monadnock Building. Chi
cago. Thursday. and the scene typihcd the
rapid changes in the live, OF public men In
this democratic land On the bench sat
the judges in their black silken robes and
At cue OF the lawyers tables sat the man
who had conferred on three OF these judges
the rig hit TO wear the sable substitute for
the ermine. eN-President OF the United
States Benjamin Harrison who appeared
as counsel for the appellee in the case OF
the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton
Railway Company against W. Il Mckeen
With Mr., Harrison ex-Attorney Gem
eral OF the United States ". II. H. Miller.
who is associated with hin. in the case.
and on the other side of the table sat Law
renee Maxwell. Attorney General Of the
United States. who Is In this Case opposing
the OK President and ex-A :orney Genera.
Near by was eX- Solicitor General OF the
United states Aldrich. and in another chair
was cx- Attorney General Hunt, OF Illinois
1T IS reported that the engagement Is
settled between Prince Poniatowski and
and Miss Beth Sperry. OF Stockton. Cal.
sister OF Mrs William Crocker. Of San
is eager to have prince In the family.
and that 1t was her influence which
caused the breaking Of the Princes en-
gagement to Miss Maude Bourke.. Miss
Sperry is handsome brunette. and her
fortune. which will come from her father,
the millionaire wheat and flour operator.
will be 81 900. 0Ol. Mrs Crucker has great
ambitions to be SC cial leader in San
Francisco
The town OF Concannully. Wash. has
been swept away by the flood. Every
business house in the town was destroyed
and all the residences for u distance OF q
mile and u half have been swept away
Mrs Almira Keith lost her life There IL
much SUFFERING At Vancouver. II C.. the
Frazer River is still rising and the indica-
lions are that the TO I'd will be even more
disastrous than the great flood OF 1851. Al
Ntcoman Island forty four fine farms are
entirely under water Though much live
| stock has persisted. but eight human lives
! are known to have been lost. Annacis
Island. two miles above New Westminster.
is totally submerged. Many fine farms
formerly dotted the island. The ranchcr=
| were rescued by steamb boats, but all their
stock has gone down the river All the
| river steamers have boen commissioned by
| imperiled persons. In the vicinity OF Ruby
the greatest danger Is apparent and sew
| eral steamers have been dispatched to the
| district The marks Of the 1882 Hood have
already been passed Mt many points
Representatives OF the Lake Carriers
Association OF the great lakes appea red be-
fore the II ouse Committee on Inning rat ion
to oppose the bill int rodu by Represen-
tatke Lockwood. which is directed in par
| against the em ploy mont OF Canadian sailors
| On American vessels
AT Erie. Pa. Helen Marie Whipple
| aged 10. was playing with Others and ran
up TO the third story OF un fin !shed
house She started to cross q plank from
one garnet window to that OF an ad Join ing
house. when she lost her balance and was
| dashed to death.
Two men were killed and two fatally
| injured by boiler explosion at Adelphi
| Ohio
One night out on jury service has
proved disastrous TO George Daniels. O
| Clarkstown. n. Y. Tho day following q
night session OF n jury in u person al dam.
| age case Daniels showed signs of mcnta
dcrangement. which has progressed TO sucl
an extent that he must be taken to Ar
| asylum for the insane
An immense plush chair f1oated ashore
at Patchogue. l. l., from the STEAMSHIP
Oregon. which sunk So myst eriously several
years ago The chair waS cast up on the
| beach opposite Cherry Grove. Several
| other chairs of common make have re-
| Gently drifted in near tho same place l,
IS believed that the late high seas have
| partially broken up the Inflated ship and
that wreckaye OF value is likely to drift ia
at any time
| Phelps Perrin. one OF the men who
| stole $40. 600 belon :ing to the United States
EXPRESS Company from the on Exchange
| Bank at Hurley. and who was a fcw weeks
| ago pardOned from the penitentiary, IL
dead.
| 1T rained necessarily for thirty hour.
all over the eastern part OF Colorado The
| rainfall Is one of the heaviest ever known.
| In Pueblo the Arkansas River broke the
| levce in six places The damage amounts
to at least $780, 600. The food is now re-
ceding. and it Is thought that all danger
Is practically past
| Andrew Nordgen. Of Chicago. met q
| terrible death by falling from a 6fth-story
window of the Venetian Building Nurd.
gen was assistant janitor OF the building
and vas cleaning windows On the Rftl
| floor. He VS. sitting on the out side OF The
| case ment and as he had finished cleaning
| one window. started to go back into the
! building. He lest his balance and fell Il
| the sidewalk below. He was instantly
killed. The dead man was twenty-five.
! years old and single.
| An old grudse growins out OF love
affair resulted in a triple tragedy at VII.
la2e Springs. Ala. In q fit of rage aud
jealousy Tom Early went into mine
where Washington Bailey WAS at work and
| shot him TO death. Then going to Bailey.
house. the murderer shot and killed The
dead mans wife. who had rejected him 10,
Bailey. A posse OF ofiicere and citizen.
chased Early and shot him fatally. Bot.
men were miners
| A cyclone 30 fee. wide passed nortt
| OF Wichita. Kan. destroying country
| church and ever urhing the monuments II
| the kechi cemetery. No one was killed i
| VAS travelling northeast