The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-07-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
pERsoNAL AND GENERAL.

pERSONAL AND GENERAL
Tue Topeka Democratic Flambeau
club, 100 strong, will attend the ma.
tional convention at Chicago, accom-.
uanied by band The club will join
the clubs of Springfield and Kansas
City, Denver, Helena, Mont, and Of
tumwa, Ia, in grand parade in Chi
cago on the night of July q.
THE Venezuelan government has
presented to the United States Vene-
zuelan commission.the second volume
ofits certified copies OF Spanish arch
ives bearing iupon the boundary dis
pute, and has promised third and
concludingvolume in few days.
SIR LEONARD TILLEY, ex-lieutenant-
kovernor of New Brunswick and at
one time minister of finance in the Do
minion government, died in st. Johns,
N. F., on the 25th. of blood-poisoning
resulting from an injury to his foot
received a week before. He was 70
years of age.
3, A DISPATCH from Athens says that
the Turks are marking the Christian
shops in Canea, Island of Crete, with
cross. and it is feared that this
means a general pillage or massacre.
| On the 22d duel was fought at
Kummersdorf, near Berlin. between
Lieut.. Buch, of the Ninth regiment,
and Lieut.. Luehring, of the Sixth regi-
ment. The weapons used were pistols.
Lieut. Luehring was shot and almost
Instantly killed.
&. THE Miners bank at Creede, Col. was
robbed of 81 900, on the 2ad, by an un-
) known man who slipped into the room
by the private entrance and covered
the cashier with a revolver before that
official was aware that anyone was
near. The robber, with his revolver
in hand, walked over to the money
drawer and transferred all the bills to
his coat pocket. Then, backing out,
he slipped through an alley and disap-
peared.
On the 22d the British house of lords
passed the second reading of the de-
ceased wife's sister bill by vote of
142 to i13. The prince of Wales, the
duke of York. the duke of Connaught,
the duke of Fife, the duke of Devon
shire, the duke of Westminster, the
marquis of Ripon and Lord Rosebery
"CEc diuOuX tAOSc WIN FOtcu 1OC Tic
bill.
! A FALL of scull in the stack of the
converting mill at the Carnegie steel
works at Braddoch. Pa, on the 23d,
Instantly killed Albert Peterson and
seriously injured three Others. Peter
son had just returned to work after
recovery from injuries received three
months before. Peterson owned prop
erty valued at $4,000.
By the collapse of a three-story frame
building on the corner of Fifth street
and Mint avenue. San Francisco, on
the 22d, three persons were killed out
right and IL others more or less in
jured. Other victims were known to
be in the ruins.
THE trial of James b. Gentry, the
actor, for the murder of his sweet
heart. Margaret w. Drysdale (Madge
Yorke), the actress, in Philadelphia, on
February II, 1895, was begun in that
city on the 22d.
THE Bank of Salt Lake City, former
ly the American national bank, closed
its doors on the 23d. The owner, J. H.
Bacon, says that all the liabilities will
be paid in full.
THE post office department has de-
cided to discontinue is of the expert
mental free delivery offices scattered
throughout the country.
JOSEPH PREsTwICH, D. c. L., F. r.
S., the celebrated English geologist
and author, died in London on the cad.
He was "a years of age.
THE jury in the case of Mrs. Mary
Alice Almont Livingston Fleming, on
fpSo1 in Nnr1r sfvyo oho, ,f
having poisoned her mother, Mrs.
Bliss, returned a verdict, on the 23d, of
not guilty.
The cornerstone of the new Meth
odist college at London, KY, was laid
on the 23d. The exercises were con-
Quoted by Bishop Hendricks, of Kansas
City. The school will be under the
supervision of the Women's board of
missions of the NJ. E. church, south,
and when completed will cost S15, 200.
WHILE making an excavation at
Parras, Mexico, recently, subter-
ranean passage was discovered, which
waa explored and found to lead to all
parts of the city. Several large cham
bers were found, and in one of them
were several casks filed with Spanish
gold coin amounting to 500, 900.
On the 23d ex-Congressman A. T.
Walling dropped dead of heart disease
1T Circlevil1e, O., his home.
JOHN, L. CowAN. the voting lumber
merchant who disappeared from Pitts
burgh, Pa, last winter, leaving an in
aebtedness Of $4,000, and was later
arrested in Central America and
brought back to Pittsburgh, was found
guilty, on the 23d, on three charges of
forgery.
DAVID BELAsCo recovered Judgment
IN. New York city, on the Esd, after q
long trial, for $4,000 against N. 4.
Fairbank, millionaire of Chicago, for
training Mrs. Leslie Carter for the
stage. Interest ct FIVE per cent. from
1880 was allowed by the court, and mo-
uon by Fairbank for . new trial was
denied.
MRS. HANEY, the keeper of the Sec
aon crew boarding car at Rock Springs,
Idaho. and her six-months-old child
were shot and killed. on the 23d, by a
nan who was recently discharged from
sne section. The murderer then COM
mitted suicide.
TnE big pottery of Richard o. Rem
ney 4 Son. located at Kensington, Pa,
vas destroyed by fire on the 23d. The
loss on stock and buildings will
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