Sharp County record., 1896-07-03

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| c. E, Hart, a prominent farmer
who lived near Wichita Kan, shot
his wife, Ida, aud then suiclded
Jealousy was the cause.
Henry w. Beecher, a son of the
late Rev, Henry Ward Beecher, wa
tried IN New York last week for for
gerry and acquitted,
The international and Great
Northern Railroad Car sheds and
round houses at Laredo, Texas, burn.
ed last week, Loss 100000.
May Conklin, 10 years Old, COM
mitted sucide in the Industrial
Home at TeYolia, N. Y, last week,
because her hair had been cut off.
Lord Balfour, first lord of the
treasury and leader for the governs
ment IN the English House of Com
mons, has resigned from the caJi
net.
One hundred and eighty cans of
dynamite exploded last week near
Lilly, Penn, Killing one man and fa>
tally iniuring six others.
Last Friday the explosion Of a
barrel Of oil IN the basement of a
building at Allegheny caused the
death of a woman and her two grand
children,
At Leggott, Teyas, last Friday Ed
Harris, aged l3, shot and instantly
killed Charles Hogan, aged Is. Har>
riS claims the killing was accidental.
Harmarville, Penn, last Friday
night, Jack ToIpfer got drunk at a
Mckinley meeting and then went
home and shot his wife through the
head.
While G. Nelderhauser, of Marion,
Kan, was olllng a revolver prepara
tory to killing a vicious dog, the
weapon was discharged and Neidcr,
hauser was killed.
Last Saturday Queen Victoria en-
tered into the slXtleth year Of her
reign. If she lives ninety days
longer she will have ruled longer
than any previous British sovereign.
The Spanish government, in view
of complications with the govern,
ment Of the United States, has rur>
chased two large lron,cIads and is
preparing to purchase others.
Last Sunday a locomotive killed
three men near Atlantic CITY. N. J.,
and fatally njured another The
men were in wagon and tried to
cross the track ahead Of an approach
ing tram.
At st, Louis last Friday night
Charles n. Lone, a colored delegate
from Texas to the St. Louis Con.
vention, was shot through the. shoal
der by young man who mistook hin
for hlghwavman.
Thrty-fve Of the forty>elght sur
= vlvors of the Kearsarge, Aabamt
naval fight celebrated their twcirtl
t annual reunion and the thlrty>SeconC
anniversary Of the battle at Boston
Mass, last Friday,
o Miss Elizabeth Gardner, an Amerl
q can artist, and M. Bou9ucrcan, "a
a nous French painter were marrict
. at Paris France last week, after
. courtship Of twenty-five years, Nh
Bouguerean is 7! years of age,
q A few nights ago two girls of tn
a Ohio Normal University al Ad
. blacked their faces, dressed in mem
attire and entered the room Of Mis-
), Kuhns, a StIdent. She was so badl
. frightened that she Is not expccte,
4 to 1--we,
e Ord, the county seat of Vale
II county Neb. was visited by cycIon
Saturday morning, 1t destroyed th
principal hotel and wrecked the tow
70 generally. Great damage was dom
n to buildings and the crops in the sur
y rounding country,
i The factory of the CONSOLIDATED
Q Steel and Wire Nail company Al
i Beaver Fail Pa, has been shut down
y for an indefinite period, throwing
7 IDLE about 600 persons. The pool i
: restricting production and prices ar,
n to be kept up,
$ More than 1000 miners at Lead
vile Col. struck Friday for highc
pay They demand SO a day, an,
arc now only receiving $50. 4
number of the mines are paying S;
a day, but many propriotors claim
that they can only nlrnrd 80 kO