The Taney County republican., 1896-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEr.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
FORTY bishops, representing the
house of bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal church of the United States,
met in New York, on the Goth, to elect
two bishops to preside over the next
missionary jurisdictions at Duluth,
him., and Asheville, N. C.
The Protestant Episcopal church OF
the United States is about to organize
an army of uniformed evangelists,
who will be under military discipline,
and compete with the Salvation Army
and the American Volunteers in the
field of Christian work among the
poor.
WASHINGTON gossip states Postmas-
ter-General Wilson for the vacancy
created by the death Of Chief Justice
Richardson of the court of claims.
Ar Somerville, n. Y, on the 18th,
Orrin d. Kinnie, aged 81, killed his IA.
ther, Daniel Kinnie, and then ended
his own life by hanging. The tragedy
occurred in a barn and is supposed to
have resulted from an attempt of the
father to prevent his son from COM
mitting suicide. The younger Kinnie
had been acting very strangely for
some time, and it is believed he was
insane.
THE steamer Alsenborn. which plies
between Baltimore and New York,
collided with the fishing steamer Pc
comic in the Narrows on the 10Th.
The Alsenborn's bow was badly stove,
and she was beached ut the Red dock,
a short distance north of Fort Hamil-
ton, N. Y, where she lay with bow
submerged and her. hold full of water
L. w. YEOMANs & Co. g drug store
ut Belleville, Ont, was burned on the
10Th. L. w. Yeomans, the head of the
firm, who slept in an adjoining room
to the store, perished in the flames
He was about SO years of age.
THE body of a man supposed to be
Henry Schumacher, of Spring field,
Mo. was taken from the Chicago river
at Chicago on the 10th. The police be-
lieve he was murdered, as his pockets
had been tampered with.
THE comptroller of the currency, on
the 10th, declared a final dividend of
~ per cent. on the City national bank
of Hastings, Neb., making in all s41f
per cent.
RICHARD HAYES and his sister, Mary
Ann Hayes, who resided on a farm
near st. Mary's, Ont, were struck by
q train. on the 10th, while driving
over crossing. Both were instantly
killed.
b. F. FOSTER, grand secretary of the
grand lodge of odd fellows, died at his
home in Indianapolis, Ind, on the 10Th.
THE steamer Peru arrived at San
Francisco, on the 10Th, from Hong
Kong, Yokohama and Honolulu
Dr. VIM. CAMPIoN, president of
Queens college, Cambridge, England,
died on the Goth.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland
attended the Sesqui celebration of
Princeton IN. J.) college. On the ED
the president delivered an address.
THE first carload of this seasons
crop of oranges was shipped from Los
Angeles, Cal, on the 10Th, to Chicago,
four weeks earlier than ever before.
The Exchange Telegraph Co. of
London announced, on the Goth, that
the British parliament will reassemble
on January Is.
FUNERAL services over the late
Henry E. Abbey, the theatrical man
ager. were held in the Church of the
Paulist fathers, New York city. on the
Goth. The church was crowded with
friends and acquaintances of the dead.
The steamer Arago, owned by the
Oregon Coal & Navigation Co., from
Coos Bay, for San Francisco, was car
ried by the current and driven on the
rocks of the jetty at Coos Head. Ore,
on the Goth. In an attempt to land q
- nd
boat was capsized and IL were
drowned.
SUPr. RICHARD RUSH, in charge of
the publication of the naval war rec
ords, says that during the past year
war records have been published. The
printer, and it is hoped that two more
volumes will be ready for the press
during the current fiscal year.
THE International typographical
union by voting down a motion to the
effect that only printers, members of
the union, shall be allowed to work as
repairers or machinists on the linotype
machines, left the matter precisely
where it was before the annual session
Of the typographical union.
Two LUMBER-LADEN SchoOnerS winch
were believed by their owners to have
been wrecked during the recent storm,
with their entire crews, numbering in
all 13 men, arrived at Philadelphia, on
the Goth, both with loss of deck loads
and sails and one with cabins flooded,
and kept afoat only by the buoyancy
Of her cargo.
HARRIET BLAINE BEALE, with her at
torney, appeared quietly before Judge
Whitehouse, of the supreme court of
Maine, at Augusta, on the Goth. and
asked for divorce from her husband,
Truxton Beale. Mr.. Cornish made =
brief talk aud the divorce was decreed.
In the case of Miss Celia Rose, on
trial at Mansfield, O.. for having caused
the death OF her father, mother and
brother with poison. the jury returned
. verdict acquitting the accused on
the ground of insanity. She will prob
ably be adjudged insane and sent to an
asylum.
A COMPARATIVE statement OF the re-
ceipts from internal revenue. issued on
the Goth, shows the total receipts for
September were $12. .009, ,1sA slight
Oain over September. 1906. For three