The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-02-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

postoilicc robbery Mt Chillicothe.
Mo. was averted by the bravery Of
Thomas w. Baugh. who sleeps in the
postofiice and was nearly murdered.
While Peter l.. Atkins and Maud
Kelly of Middletown, ~ y. were out
driving they got off the road in the
darkness, and both were drowned in
nine feet of water.
England, France and Japan refused
to participate in a celebration in honor
Of the provisional government OF
The chimney OF burned building
fell, killing two childt m and Seriously
iniuring young mau who were view
ing the ruins of y .brc in brooklyn,
New York. -
The New York Times and Recorder
are 70 be consolidated.
Venezuela IL now DISPOSED to treat
with England in u friendly spirit
Texas has ordered out the rangers
to prevent the proposedirizo fight at
III Paso.
Harrison is talked of as dclegatc-at-
large from Indiana To the St LOUIS
convention
Russian papers are instructed to
publish nothing concerning alleged
administration reforms.
Sporting men say the Mailer Fitz-
simmons fight will occur on Mexican
soil by evasion of the troops
Mr. Frye of Maine was unanimously
chosen to act as president OF the SEN
ate in Mr. Stevenson absence
by u close decision in the supreme
court OF Ohio the right Of women TO
vote at school elections was upheld.
Timothy IIealey and twenty-cight
supporters bolted from the Irish Ma
tional federation at its meeting in
Dublin Friday
The statemcntthat the Government
has information that the Venezuelan
dispute is soon to bc settled is rciter-
ated.
senator Cullom says that he doesn't t
see any reason why he should not he
the Republican candidate fo.' rrcsi-
dent
Joe Merrifeld aged L.. killed his
brother, aged :, with Winchester
rifle and then shot himself dead be-
cause of a quarrel, at lIedrick, Iowa.
o. II. Hyatt, the Kansas peniten-
tiary coal contractor, is loaded down
with coal, because Of the mild
weather. and asks the board OF prison
directors to modify his contract.
Miss Frieda NJ: IIethcmann, Bos-
ton kindergartner, has been engaged
to teach Ruth and Esther Cleveland.
Mary : Mahara sued George :.
Kendall of Guthrie. Oh. for 5000
| damages for eiec,mcnt and then set
tied for s15.
London Athletic club will not issue
/ its proposed challenge to NEE, team
from the New York Athletic cluD dur
! ing 1896
A buried bullet was found in Toson
! Cummings leg, ut McGilll university,
Montreal, by means of cathode pho.
Biography.
! Attorney General Maloney has de
cided that the proposed consolidation
OF Chicago gas companies is illegal
under the trust law.
Friends of Ex- Marshal Nix make
damaging charges against his exam
incrs alleging they fixed price al
which they could be bought oil
The Walter A. Wood Moving ant
Reaping Machine company of lIoosi,
Falls will borrow S3,0OJ, 900 on receiv
ers' certificates and resume operations
shortly.
A Cuban expedition on the j. n
Veasey left Norfolk surrcptitiously or
the night Of the 18th, but is being
chased by the United States cruiser
Raleigh.
Beniamiu. Radcliff. slayer of the en-
4. Il l. Al.
Park county, Colorado. was hanged u
the Canon City penitentiary.
A. G. Burns, Holmes Cohorts ant
Governor William Guy have been sen
to Washington by the Chickasaw leg
islature To protest against a change IL
Cover nment.
A successful test has been made of
new armor for battlcship turrets b,
the Navy department.
Father John NJ. Fitzgerald, con
victed at Rochester, \. Y, of arson
was sentenced to serve ten years il
prison.
w. II. English, who was the Demo
cratic candidate. for vice presiden
with General Hancock in 1880, died u
his home in indianapolis lie left III
estate valued at between 5000, 90
and 81, ,000. 900
Cory Sappington, II lj-year-old boy
committed suicide at Alton, Ill. II
preferred death to idleness
Thomas Sexton has been asked l.
become leader of the Irish Parlia
mentary party, but he is unwilling T.
do so.
Birdie Sutherland, London 6allc
dancer, has sued the Hon. Dude
Majorlbanlss for 500, 900 FOR breach %
promise.
III is said senator Vest will not be
candidate for delegatc-at-lnrgc to TN
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