The herald., 1894-08-18
CONDEMNED TELE6KAMe.

Ex-Governor Charles Robinson OF
Kansas is dead.
AT Ludington, Mich, the Commercial
and Savings bank has suspended busi-
ness.
w. J. Taylor WAS hanged at Newburn,
W. Va, Friday, for the murder OF nis
wife.
Prince Emanuel OF Orleans was
arrested in Bordeaux, on his way to visit
the emperor Of Austria.
At Trenton, Mo-, q passenger train
ran upon . misplaced switch, collidine
with dining car and injufing five OF
its occupants, two fatally. All were
employees of the dining car.
At Altoona. Pa, Bank Examiner
William Miller, who had just completed
an examination OF the accounts OF the
suspended Second National bank, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
News received from the Mountain
View mine, 40 miles northeast OF Fregno.
reports very rich strike OF gold l200
feet below the surface. A report from
an adjacent mine tells OF find sssaying
over $1,000 to the ton.
At the'Anita mine. Mexico. fight &C.
Cured between John Merritt, the Amer
lean uperintendent, and his four az
sietaRts, and about 80 Mexican miners.
Merritt and three Mexicsus we're killed.
Merritt came from Denver.
The steamer Empress OF Japan. when
on the way betwesR Hong Kong and
Yekohsma, struck a monster whale, cut
ting it almost in two. Pieces Of the ami
NAL stuck to the bows Of the vessel and
had to be taken off, as they impeded the
boats progress.
Miss Helen Martin. daughter of
United States Senator Martin OF Kan
sas, has snterod the nevitiate at St.
Mary's Roman Catholic academy at
Leavenworth, intending to become q
nun. She recently became convert to
the Catholic faith.
The assignment OF the E. 7. Harris
company, architectural iron workers. in
Chicago, was followed by the assign ment
OF its president and principal owner.
Elijah T. Harris. The personal eatate
OF Mr.. Harris ia worth ,000, and ia
eneum bered for about SAC, 600.
The rebellion of Kafirs in South Al
rIca ia assuming alarming proportions.
Trsnsvael police have been repulsed with
serious loss. Emboldened by their sue
cess. the Ksffirs pursued the retreating
troopers and attacked the main column
OF Boer forcea. The Kafirs were driven
back.
The committee on judiciary has made
an adverse report to the senate ON the
nomination of James D. Porter as
United States Judge for the eastern and
middle districts of Tennessee. 1t is un-
derstood the opposition is based on the
ground that Porter lives outside the
district.
! A plot to assistance Premier Du Puy
of France has been discovered. The
plot was Matched in Barcelona by Span
ish and French anarchists. Three men
were designated by let to cross the bor-
der about the middle of August and
assassinate the premier during his abb
sence from Paris.
The fusion convention OF Populists
and organized labor at Columbus, o.,
nominated the following state ticket
Secretary of state. Charles r. Martin
Judge of the supreme court, E. D. Stark
commissioner OF common schools, nj. j.
| Flannery; member of board of public
works, ]. s. Stewart.
At Benicia, CAL, Joseph Roy, an en-
ployee of the Southern Pacific company,
was killed by being run over by a
switch engine. Roy was engaged in
cleaning an engine on turn table and
stepped oct on the track. when yard
engine ran over him. He was about 60
years old, and resided in Port Costa,
where he leaves widow.
So far the American ministers in Cen.
trail America have not advised the state
department of movement for a COM
bination of the five small Central Amer.
loan republics into one large nation.
While such a combination would be well
coined, it is felt it is scarcely practicable,
becauee of the personal jealousy of the
many self-constituted leaders, which led
to the downfall of the old confederation
quarter OF century ago.