Fair play., 1896-04-25

AT central City, Col, during n case
i'll court, on the 18th, Smauel Owing.
ton, visitor charged with endeavor.
| ing to int!nidate witness, denied tho
assertion hotly, and being threatened
with arrest, pulled n gun and killed
ex-Mayor Williams and mortully
wounded City Marshal Keller. Cow
ington while endeavoring to escape,
was shot dead by Henry Leamar.
BURGLARS looted the private bank in
Pioneer o., Oh the night of the 18th.
They succeeded in opening the vault
without the use of explosives, and
then, after probably taking all that it
! contained. changed the combination SO
shat the vault could not be opened.
Two EXPLOSIONS of powder in one Of
the buildings of the Chicago Fireworks
Co.. near Crosse Point, ILL.,, on the
18th, killed three employees and in jured
number of others. The building
was badly wrecked, and the ruins were
| almost entirely destroyed by fire.
IT is said to he impossible to estimate
the numbers of the telligerent Mata-
bclcs in South Africa. The whole
country is now in the hands of the
rebellious natives, and they are mass
ing in great force.
A LANDSLIDE occurred at Trubbach,
Switzerland. on the 10th, as the re-
suit of continuous rains. The damage
TO property is very heavy.
GAIT. JoHN CALHOUN SHEPHERD, a
veteran of the Mexican war, n Califor.
MIA forty-niner, and one of the most
noted characters in Montana died in
the county poor house at Butte on the
18th.
REV. GEORGE T. KNAPP. the Amcri.
can missionary who was recently ex.
PEELED from Bitlis by the Turkish az
thorities, arrived at Aleppc in good
health on the 10th.
A DESPATCH from Havana to the
Madrid !mrarclal, on the 10Th, said
that the insurgents had hanged 22
Spa aniards in the Sagua district
A WARRANT for the surrender to the
Dominion authorities of Charles RYAN.
under arrest at Easton, Pa. charged
with robbery, WAS issucd by the prcsi.
dent on the Eth.
DvElSG a fire in the Clifton house,
Chicago hotel, on the night ofrhc 10th,
while the employees were opening the
rooms to he sure that no one was
asleep in them, they discovered Il would
t'c suicide unconscious .ou the bel in
one of the rooms. the windows closed
and the gas turned on. He WAS res
cued and may recover.
IN consequence of the great salts
faction given by street-car mail scrricc
in ST. Louis, the pioneer city, New
York. Boston, Philadelphia, Washing
ton, baltimore, Chic.go and Cincin-
natl, it is said that at the beginning of
the next fiscal year similar service will
he inauguratcd in a number of cities
having rapid transit.
In IA tencricnt-houSc fire at Turner's
Falls, Mass, carly on the morning of
the 18th, five French children were suf-
focated. The property loss was small.
UroN the order of Gov. Morrill, the
Kansas state pcnitentiary has been
4uarantined against Shawnee and
Wyandotte counties, cases Of small
pnx having been reported in both
counties.
TIE Corcan envoy to Japan has gone
to Russia, under the authority of the
king OF Corca, to ncgotiatc Il loan of
5000. 900, giving the Corean province
of Hamgying Is security.
Ed PARDKrDGE, the Chicago wheat
spcculator, who had been i'll for sew
eial weeks with Hright'o disease. died,
on the 18th, leaving a fortune of at
least a million dollars.