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inship. named Martin. were drowned.
Two youths. aged respectively is and
20 years. the youngest named Blount
and the older Fourche. engaged In u
duel with pistols near Pontotoc. Miss.
and both were killed.
A. ID. Payne. postmaster at Long
view. Ala. was murdered by Jasper
Majors. his nephew.
The Union Traction company, owner
OF the street car lines involved In the
great strike In Philadelphia, consented
TO arbitrnte the differences with It's
employees, and the strike was declared
off.
Albert Neeland, photographer OF
ST. Louis, who already has three wives.
was arrested In Sc. Joseph. Mo-. when
about TO marry the fourth.
Twenty-nine miners lost their lives
in the Nelson mine near Dayton. Tenn.
by an explosion of fire-damp.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses Ia the United States dur
ing the week ended on the Goth aggre-
gated si.is5. 267, 500, against 81, i2o, 76o,-
2ss the previous week. The increase.
compared with the corresponding week
In 1894, was 1879.
Fire In the Richie block at Denver
caused loss of $4,000
The third floor OF the Palace clothing
house in Minneapolis collapsed under
a heavy load of wall paper. killing Gale
Walters. clerk. and doing damage TO
the extent OF $4,000.
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the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 9ss the week
previous and $40 In the corresponding
time of 1894.
NJ. NJ. Packard & Co. dealers in spices
and teas in New York, made an assign
mcnt with liabilities of 100000.
Friends OF Henry Ward Beecher are
perfecting plans TO erect memorial
building to him In Brooklyn.
George Wolfe shot and killed Mrs.
William Rattledge, with whom his di-
vorced wife was staying, shot and fatal
ly wounded his wife. and then commit
ted suicide near Castana, In.
The Illinois Live Stock Insurance
company, organized in Chicago with
capial of 100000. made an assignment.
The American national and Union
national banks ut Omaha were consoli-
dated, the business of the formed be-
ing merged into the latter.
Willie and Eddie. sons of Mrs. +.
Lauernan, and Jimmie. son of Law
renee Kinney. aged -, 10 and l2, were
drowned at Morris, H., while skating.
Charley Jones, aged eight, his brother
Robert and sister Maggie, aged 81 and
&c respectively, and Ida Ball. aged 10,
were drowned while skating near DEN
yer, Col.
William Helm. alleged TO have been
the leader of a gang OF cattle thieves.
was assassinated by yigilantes ut Chap
pellc, Neb.
Mrs. Tennie Willard. of Bismarck,
Mo-, her infant. and her sister. Ada
Hardage, while attempting TO ford
Forchee creek were drowned.
Joel Davis and his wife, of Coggou,
Ia, died of poison due 10 canned to-
matoes and other members of the fam
sly were very Ill.
The president will issue proclama-
ton January 4 next. declaring Utah
state of the union.
Seven brick buildings, with stocks d
IL firms, were burned ut kossea. Tex,
the loss being 100000.
The president signed the Venezuelan
commission resolution and IL Is now Il
law.
Andrew johnson and his three chit
dren were burned To death In their home
in Philadelphia.
Al cabinet meeting In Washington
it was decided TO make arrangements
for another sale OF bonds for gold at the
earliest practicable moment
Barney Brown (colored) was lynched
by crowd of negroes at Wrightsviils
Ark. for assauiting negro woman.
One OF the three buildings of Spnul-
ding. Jennings g. Co.'s steel works ut
West Bergen, N. j., was burned. the loss
being 100000.
State Mine Inspector Sampson In lis
annual report TO the governor places
the output OF gold for South Dakota al
So, 100000 for 1894; $1,000. 900 for 1895.
and gives an estimate of S7.0o0,0oo for
1896.
The agreement by which the trolley
strike was declared oil in philadelphia
fell through and the strike was re-
sumcd.
Dispatches from st. Louis say that
the Mississippi river rose 20 feet IN two
days. and the flood In consequences COW
cred the Mississippi valley from the
Iowa line 10 Cairo. III.
The troops in New Mexico were or
dered by Gen. Miles 10 pursue the IL
dams of their reservations. and IL they
would not return to kill them.
"Owney." the postal clerks dog, mr.
rived in New York from China, having
completed the circuit of the globe since
August ~ last.
The Bank of Pennington, located at
Pennington. ILL.,. failed for $4,000.
A break in the In Marsh dixie near
Peltin, H., flooded thousands of acres
and thousands OF dollars worth OF dam
nge was done.
In the District OF Columbia supreme