The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-09-10
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the 31st the Clyde and Belfast
shipbuilders settled their difference.
with their employees by conceding the
ndyance in wages demanded bv the
men.
On the 30th fire resulted in the de-
struction of the Red Lion inn, the ia
nous Berkshire (Mass.) summer re-
sort. The loss is estimated at $50, 100
Insurance, $4,000.
The Riverside Iron Works Co. OF
Wheeling, w. Va, notified their blast
furnace men, on the 3Ist, of 2O-per
fused to accept the cut, and the works
we're shut down. The whole mill, en-
ployinP 5000 men, was closed.
THREE Cubans were recently dragged
from the Hotel Suiso, Havana, at mid
night and shot, in the outskirts of the
city, by the Havana police. Official re-
ports announced that three rebel
scouts, lurking in the suburbs, had
been surprised and killed by Capt
Calvo.
BARONESS DE RoQUEs, the mother OF
Mrs. Maybrick, had an interview with
her daughter at Woking prison recent.
: ly. She says that she found her daugh-
ter very ill, and thinks that Mrs. May.
brick is not likely to survive the win.
s ter.
THE rebel leader Serafn Sanchez,
commanding Gomez extreme advance,
has crossed Gen. Weyler's central
trocha, between Puerto Principe and
Santa Clara provinces, Cuba, invading
the latter with ] 500 men.
The thirtieth annual national en-
campment Of the G. A. r. opened at st.
Paul, Minn., on the 3lst, with recep.
tion to the commander-in-c chief, Gen.
L n. Walker. The opening day was
an ideal northwestern day, clear, cool
and brisk.
FRITZ STRUCKMEYER, worth nearly
ei00, 200, died of heart disease, oD the
3]st, in a wretched room at Chicago he
called his home. He hadrbeen a miser
for quarter of century, denying
himself the comforts of life and almost
: The common necessities.
INFORMATION has been received at
. Washington that the Italian ambas-
sador, Baron Fava, is to be recalled.
1t is alleged that he has not done his
Z duty in his reports of the killing of the
three Italians at Harnersville, La.
LILLE JORDAN had been at work at
her sewing machine at her home in
Evansville, Ind, on the 31st, when
three ladies from Henderson were an
nounced. She met them at the door,
and while welcoming them fell dead.
The fine iron bridge over the River
Bayate, in the province of Pinar del
Rio, Cuba, has been blown up, and
there has been no communication be-
tween the towns of Artemisia and
Pinar del Rio since.
HENRY NJ PRIEST, of Steubenville,
O., has been appointed receiver of the
Brilliant iron and tube works at Bril-
liant, o., by Judge Douthell. The
company recently made an assign
ment to John s. McMasters, and this
action takes all the property out of
his hands
CHAs. f. WARBURToN, proprietor OF
the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph,
was found dead in his room in Allan
tic City, \. j., on the 1st. Mr.. War
burton was 81 years of age, and had
been afflicted with heart trouble for
some time.
SECRETARY HOKE SMITH, on the 1st,
took formal leave of the heads of bu-
reaus and other employees of the inte-
rior department..
MRS. CHARLOTTE SMITH, president of
the Woman's Rescue League of the
United States, has taken up her quar-.
ters in New York city, and intends to
dismount every wheelwoman in
Gotham-if she can.
SECRETARY CARLISLE said, on the 1st,
that President Cleveland would write
letter indorsing the nominees of the
indianapolis convention.
ACTING COMPTROLLER BOWERS has de-
cided that man transferred from the
volunteer service to the regular army
not entitled to veteran bounty.
DANIEL SPRAKER, president of the
Mohawk River bank. died in Fonda, n.
1, on the 1st, of pneumonia, aged 90.
Mr. Spraker had been president of
the bank since its esta blishment, over
torty years ago, and was probably the
oldest bank president in the United
States.
TIE entire main building of the pic
Mresque Kentucky institute for fee
ele-minded children, at Frankfort, was
eestroyed by fire, on the 1st, rendering
aoneless 200 feeble-minded children
sad destroying SSO,OOO worth of prop
srty.
1AE Banca Bulese, located in Brook
and operated by Pietro Gallo q
son, Is closed, the proprietors having
S st the place. When the building was
pened, on the 1st, it was found that
sae saie was open, but empty. It was
s1erted by Italians that the deposits
smounted to $4,000.
hE resignation of Hoke Smith as
xetary Of the interior went into
IS sct on the 1st inst. Assistant Sec
Reynolds assumed charge Of
apartment pending the arrival of
asscy: Francis.
rs GEORGE KNoPP was arrested in
eii Bluffs, Ia. on the 1st. charged
using the mails for fraudulent
oses.and held for the grand jury.
seyertised for husband and sue.
~ y getting the better OF mat.
y sdventureg who married her
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