The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-09-03
FORSYTH, MO-, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1896
CONGRESSMAN d. D. WoopMANsEE, OF

| tional League of Republican clubs at
Milwaukee, on the 26th. The ballot
resulted in vote of SO for him and
S04.for Charles Ulysses Gordon, of Chi
| cago. The league will meet next year
| in Detroit, Mich.
The Michigan gold democratic state
convention met at Lansing. on the
| Goth, and nominated full state ticket
headed by Rufus Sprague, of Green.
vile, for governor.
THE annual report of United States
shipping commissioners for the year
ended June 80, 1886, show total ship.
| ments and dlscha rges of seamen for
American seagoing vessels to have been
129, 4s5, compared with lis, ,4s3 for the
previous year.
The death at Atlantic City, N. j., of
Judge Arthur Macarthur, retired, of
the District of Columbia supreme
court, aged 81 years, was announced
on the Goth.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, an old resident OF
Wichita, Kas., fell from the window of
his room to the pavement, Ion the Goth,
and was instantly killed. His neck
was broken.
FIFTY Armenians took possession OF
on the 26th, killing several soldiers.
The Armenians resisted efforts OF
troops to dislodge them. The rioting
became general. 1t was believed to be
the result Of a revolutionary plot.
ACCORDING to cablegrams. the steam.
err Laurada, which sailed from Phila.
of the most formidable flibustering
e1> - r,,1> Il
then touched ut Port Antonio, Jamaica.
CAPT. L. r. ROEMER, who went tc
Cuba to fight for the insurgents, re.
turned to ST. Louis on the Goth. Capt.
Roemer secured three months fur.
Tough from the Cuban army, and with
a few comrades eluded the Spaniards
along the coast and escaped from the
island. Capt. Roemer succeeded in
reaching New York, and went direct
to st. Louis.
The Canadian yacht Canada defeated
the challenger Vencedor at Toledo, O..
on the Goth, apd won the international
race, by &c seconds, time allowance,
after as pretty contest as was ever
sailed on Lake Erie. 1t was hard
race for the Yankee yacht to lose, for
she had the race well won, but lost by
an error. ne course was uVc miles
raightaway to leeward and return
and repeat.
On the 27th Secretary Smith of the
interior department approved patents
for 9SS, ,2O6 acres of land to the Union
Pacific Railroad Co. The lard is all in
Nebraska, being situated in the North
Platte, Grand Island, Bloomington
and McCook land districts. The pat
ents were issued in pursuance of the
resolution of Representative Mcndel,
of Wyoming, which provided that
lands should be patented to bond-aided
roads which had been sold to bona fide
purchasers.
THE st. Rosalie hotel at Long
Branch, n. j., was destroyed by fire
at three o'clock on the morning of the
27th. Twenty guests were asleep in
the hotel when the fire was discovered
and many of them were forced to
make their escape in their night
clothes. Miss Alberta Underhill,
guest, jumped from window and
broke her left leg.
The New York Herald heads SUBJ
scription list which it proposes &c
start in order to pay the expenses of
Mr.. Henry Watterson in the event of
his nomination by the sound-money
democrats at the coming Indianapolis
convention. The Herald heads the
list with $1,000.