The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-05-07


THE city of Cripple Creek, Col, was
visited by a second great confagra-
p tion, on the goth, in which many
casualties and loss estimated at ga
oOo, 900 were incurred.
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FoR the month OF April the excess
Of government expenditures over re-
ceipts was S4,50a, 600. For the ten
; months of the fiscal year, to May 1, the
deficit was 323, zoo. 900.
50 On the goth, Mrs. Margaret E. Drake,
widow of the late Chief-Justice Charles
D. Drake of the United States court of
claims, died at her residence in Wash.
ington city at the age of So.
NEWS of the landing of another ex-.
petition on the shores of Cuba, with
large quantity of arms and ammuni.
tion for the insurgents, was received by
the Cubans in New York city on the
8 esth.
THE London colonial Office received a
dispatch from Pretoria, on the Goth,
saying that the death sentences inn,
S posed upon the leaders of the Johan-
3
muted.
~ The president, as was expected, he
s would, allowed the agricultural bill
g become a law without his signature,
presumably because it thwarted Sec
rotary Morto1's purpose to abolish the
seed distribution.
The trial of the battleship Massa
chusetts, on the Goth, resulted so sue
cessfully that her builders will be en-
titled to S100, 900 premium on account
3 OF excess of speed developed above the
! contract requirements.
81 "A RICH vein of silver was struck by
the New York and Pennsylvania pros-
pectors at South Canaan, Wayne coun-
ty, Pa, on the 29th. How extensive it
Is cannot yet be ascertained. There is
much excitement over the discovery.
GEORGE HALLowELL, of st. Paul.
s Minn., is a wagon-maker. Five times
s within the last three years haye
hearses been taken to his shop for re-
pairs, and in every case death has
occurred in his family within week.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has purchased for
Ss5, 900 . plot of ground at Duquesne.
Pa, on (which he will erect two hand
some buildings, one for public Ii
brary, the other for gymnasium and
natatorinm. The estimated cost of the
buildings is Sl50.O0 :.
AMoNG the oldest and best-informed
members of the house the impression
is general that congress viii adjourn
some time between May Is and June
Z !. If there is no delay over the river
: and harbor bill it is expected that an
adjournment will be reached as early
& IS May IS.
THOUSANDS of people from Illinois
and adjoining states met in Galena, on
the 27th, to do honor. to the memory of
& Illinois most renowned citizen, Gen.
8 Ulysses S. Grant. The event was of
double nature, the reunion of the sur.
vivors of the Twelfth Illinois regiment
taking place at the same time.
5 w. l.. SAcuTLEBEN, of Alton, Ill,
Who went to Turkey in search of the
missing Pittsburgh (Pa0 wheelman,
Frank Lenz, and ascertained that he
9 had been murdered by Kurds, spent
xhe day, on the a7th, at the home Of
LEM mother, giving her a detailed re.
port of his search and discoveries.
On the 28th the sentence of death
4 was pronounced upon Messrs. Phillips,
Hammond, Farrer and Rhodes, of the
Johannesburg reform committee, who
recently pleaded guilty to the charge
OF high treason. Several others, among
whom are four Americans, were sem
tenced to heavy fines, Imprisonment
& and exile.
Mn C.. a.. KNIGHT. United States
Nice-consul at Cape Town, South Afri-
s 90, cabled Secretary Olney, on the
xSth, that the sentence of John Hays
If 3Hammond. the American engineer con-
deNned to death at Pretoria for high
treason In conspiriDg to overthrow the
1ransyaal government, was under-
neood to have been commuted.
FRIBUrE to the memory of their
jeenefaetor, the late baron de Hirsch,
been paid by the folk of the Rus
IAN Hebrew colony at Woodbine, N.
ss.s Al the clubs and fraternal organi-
lions have adopted resolutions favor
the erection OFT monument to the
noEy Of the baron. Mourning bsdges
s1n be worn by the nplonists for a
1ear, and all male chi Zen born in the
tticment during this year will be
eaaaed after the dead baron.
81 eyetal meetings held In Denver.
On the 3Oth, for the relief 81
rippaex Greek fire sufferers. SO. .O0o
cash -wAs' given. and tyso train.
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