The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1895-10-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

assassinator, has been granted n stay
of execution until next week.
The Illinois supreme court has de-
cided that a woman may recover mon
ey lost 10y her husband in gambling.
The government crop report shows
q falling off in the percentage of cot
ton and potatoes.
IL IL said That the Nanderbilts are
striving to secure control Of the Union
Pacific in order to perfect "a transcon-
t%inental system.
Two converters filed with molten
metal were overturned on employees OF
a Pittsburg iron works. Four men
probably viii die.
A counterfeit $40 silver certificate is
being circulated extensively.
Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, writer of
stories for children, died in Chicago.
The kamr mining craze has struck
New York, and the stock is TO be put
upon the market there.
Harry Davis of Chicago, who has for
four years been n hypnotic subject"
says that hypnotism Is a fraud.
Emperor William, commenting ON
the murder of a manufacturer, said
That it was done by Socialists, and
that he wished the German people
would rise against that party.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Train
men has decided at last To establish
headquarters ut Peoria. III.
Mrs. John Ost of Topeka, Kan,
took a dose of s%trychnine by mistake
for medicine and died soon afterward.
Arkansas Pass Harbor company has
subscribed $3.50, 900 To an exposition IL
same is held at Arkansas Pass.
Congress is to take up and invcsti-
gate the Venezuelan question.
An exiled Russian princess was
driven crazy from want in New York.
One person was killed and two
injured by n train at Chesterton, Ind.
Mrs. Langtry is suing the bank
which lost her diamonds and the bank
will fight.
All western roads are short of
freight cars, although the crops have
only begun to move.
The Cottage hotel ut South Me
Alester, Ind. Ter, was destroyed by
Dire. The loss Is 81, 800.
Joseph Fuller Thomas, a colored
mail clerk running between st. Louis
and Texarkana, Ark, was arrested at
st. Louis and confessed having stolen
mail addressed to Chicago.
The executive officers of several of
the largest Eastern insurance com
panies met in New York city and de-
cided to stop all rebates of premiums
hereafter. Arosecutions IRE to he be-
gun against companies indulging in
the practice.
The work of the law division of the
interior department is ten months in
arrears. Secretary Smith has directed
the force to work one hour extra
until they catch up.
Railroad earnings of 1I6 roads show
an increase of ~, 900, 600 on an in
crease Of $50 miles of track over last
year.
At South McAlester, 4. T., the Cot
tage House hotel caught on fire and
burned to the ground, Loss, 81, 500.
Fully insured.
Ltter clipping three times, J. Will
Gray and Mary Frances Judson of st.
Joseph were married at Troy, Kan.
+. w. Harris. a professional ball
player, was convicted of murder at
Freeport, III He was sentenced to
be hanged.
The supreme court Of South Oak ota
has reduced the sentence of w. w.
Taylor, defaulting state treasurer, TO
two years.
Rev. jeremiah Phillips was arrested
at Lafayette, Ind, charged with at
tempting a criminal assault upon O
little girl.
The convict hulk Success of Austria.
liza, is to he converted into "a museum
"a floating chamber of horrors" in
London"
Young Critic aud kid L.avigne
fought twenty rounds to IA draw before
q Long Island club. YoungGriffo had
much the best of it.
At the meeting Of the Republican
club of Massachusetts, a letter was in
dorsed placing Boston in the list o.
contestants for the Republican nation
al convention next year.
A new trial has been asked for tn,
convicted wife murderer, Rev. Hin
shaw of Danvillc. Ind.
The supreme officers of the A. p A
are in session at st. Louis discussing
the political situation.
by an explosion OF gas on the stag,
of the Corsicana, Texas, opera house
two lives were lost md n number o
persons injured.
Tom Speer of Miner, Pike county
Ohio, gave Rough on Rats to hi
nine children, killing them all. Tn,
fend is in Jail.
Lutherans spent So, 1888. 40 on for
cign missions the past year.
Ohio's wheat crop will be IA, 90
bushels short of an average.
Governor Altgeld OF Illinois says h
IL not a candidate for reelection.
W%illiamsville Coal company miner
at Springfield, ILL.,, have resumed worl
at a raise of . cents, from IS to a
cents.
A storage reservoir containing 9, 500,
900 gallons of water, In the heart O
Scranton, Ia, burst, doing nue.
damage.
George w. Mari and William
Mackey have gone To the City of Mex
: leo to take up l0O,O acres on tn
! isthmus of T~ehanntcpec for q coffe
plantation.
/, The review of the weeks Chicag
grain markets shows a bearish gen
eral tendency.
| The Big Muddy Coal and Iron CON
, pany increased its employees wages /
. per cent.
: New York bank statement shows dc
! creases of 50, SOC, 900 in loans an
/. 81, OOO, 900 in deposits.