The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1895-10-02
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From An Part. of the oouu

by telegraph.
Two boys, aged 10 years each. were
drowned while ia bathing at Da Wis
Island, near Pittsburgh
The Reconsideration Iron Co.. Of
Bessemer, Ala, has secured a contract
for several thousand tons of s-inch
iron pipe for the city of Honolulu.
a great fire was raging in a swamp
half mile north of the village of New,
HOlstein, Wis. All the neighborhood
has turned out to stay the progress of
the flames.
Geo Banker, the American bicyelist.
won the Prix Mirecourt at the We.
lourome du Seine Sunday. The dis
lance was two kilometers. Anthony
was second and Gouglotz third.
Two men were killed and one in
jured in a freight train wreck on the
Chicago & Alton railroad near Drum
mond. Ill The dead men. who were
burned in the ruins of eight cars were
unknown tramps.
DIR. T. W. Burnett, of us West saith
street, New York, who some time ago,
while professionally caring for pa
tient suffering from cancer, became
inoculated with the cancer poison,
died Sunday afternoon.
Willy o. Cox. president of the Kan
sas City state bank, was Saturday APP
! pointed receiver of the Kansas City
Times, upon application of the Rem
ingtou Paper Co, the largest stock
holder in the Times Publishing Co
The wholesale grocery store Of
Adams & Sons, Chillicothe, Mo. was
totally destroyed by fire Saturday
morning. The loss is estimated at
$50, 600. The fire originated in a bak-
cry N the basement of the building.
Lieut. Thomas S Phelps has received
instructions to Immediately relieve
Lieut. VIM. NJ. Wood as navigating Of
fcer of the Philadelphia. Lieut. Phelps
has been many years at Mare Island.
and Is the son of Admiral Phelps, re-
tired.
a tract of swamp land about three
miles square in the towns of Eaton
and Humboldt, Wis, is burning over.
/ Damages so far have been confined to
the burning of many stacks of hay and
/ fences, but there is great danger from
its liability to spread
A special from Pueblo, Col. says Mrs
/ Sallie A. Hogg, wife of Ex-Gov. Hogg,
of Texas, died at the home of her
nephew. Mrs. Hogg was the victim of
/ consumption, and came to Pueblo four
months ago, in the hope that the eli
mate would alleviate her malady.
A dispatch from Havana to the I'm
| parcia says the divers have refused to
examine the wreck of the sunken war
ship Sanchez Barcaiztegui owing to
| the large number of sharks that infest
the harbor particularly in the vicinity
of the entrance to the harbor, where
the warship went down,
Elmer E. Rowell, a prominent at
'orrey of san Demanding, Cal, has
lisS apeared. He is alleged to be guilty
OF tOl gerry and ENLIGHTENMENT amount
ing to $50, OOO All his victims are his
clients. The principal loser has been
reimbursed by Rowell's mother. Row
ellis wife and mother are of high social
standing.
Capt -Lothaire, at whose order the
British trader, Stokes, was hanged in
the Congo country, has been recalled
to Brussels to give an explanation Of
the Stokes execution.
The Paris Eclair publishes dispatches
! from Madagascar which assert that
1900 French soldiers have died in
| Madagascar since the French expedi-
ton began operating against the HO-
vas.
The gymnastic contests which
opened the fetes in cele bration of the
!
troops twenty-five years ago, took
place Sunday and were very success
full
The Calumet furnace, of South Chi
cago, began operations Monday morn
ing, after having remained idle since
the autumn of 1892. Between 1.5OO
and 1000 men will be provided with
employment thereby.
The members of the prison congress
at Denver. Col, attended church twice
Sunday. DR. Slocum- of the Colorado
state board of pardons, spoke in the
morning, and DIR. Brockway. of the
Elmira reformatory, spoke in the even
ing.
Arthur Morrison, who was city mar
shall of Crawford, Neb,, at the time he
shot and killed Addison Won Harris in
that city January II last, was found
guilty after a trial of two weeks, and
the jury fixed the punishment at
death.
The villages of Bakersville and Bar
grintown, n. j., which were threat
ened by extensive forest fires Saturday
night have been saved by gangs of men
| ,r-o-1-;rrr all ,irb4 apd CupIov cot i,
back fires. Some valua Die cranberry
boys were burned.
A fatal balloon accident occurred
Sunday afternoon at LoscheEbeck
D near Brussels An aeronaut canned
Toulet and three companions attempt.
ed 70 make an ascent, and when the
balloon was in mid-air it exploded.
The four men were killed.
Because the sugar trust refused t.
purchase, excepting at its own terms
a cargo Of sugar shipped to this coun
try on the British steamship Falkland
: from Java, she has been compelled L
remain at anchor off the Delaware
breakwater since September l.
At Calumet, Mich. the body of Rob
. ert ions was found Saturday morning
between nos. 4 ana SndILS on the NJ
l teenth Level. Those Of Peter Malstrou
J and Walter Dahl have not yet beer
found, but parties of men are nov
underground searching for them
The United States grand jury a
Pawnee, o. T., returned 43 indictment
I for pension frauds against leading
J county officials, attorneys and a pen
sion agent The finding of the jur,
exposes a gigantic conspiracy to 70
It the government and creates a grea
sensation
Early Sunday morning fire destroys
the magnificent barn and outbuilding
owned by John ID. Rockefeller, the OF
magnate, which are situated on tn
Bedford road, near Pocantico Hills. n
Y. The loss is in the neighborhoOd o
$40, 600. which is said to De covered b
insurance.
other suns Than Ours.
If our sun could be as far removes
from us as are the seven stars it woul'
hardly be visible in an opera glass, ye