The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-11-19
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
OFFICIAL returns from a majority of
the counties in Pennsylvania and COM
plete returns from those in which the
official count has not yet beer COM
pleted, give Mckinley u plurality of
3O1 600.
j. Hermann s. Co.'s jewelry store on
the tenth floor of the Masonic temple
in Chicago, was entered by two armed
robbers, on the 9th, who, after gag
ging and binding the owner and a
clerk, secured about SIS, 900 worth of
diamonds, q gold watch and chain and
800 in money, and escaped.
EDWARD T. BENNETT, formerly man
sger of the Bay City iMich.) Tribune,
was arrested in Chicago, on the 9th, on
2 charge of embezzlement. The war
rant for the arrest was sworn out by
John F. Eddy and Edward T. Caring
ton, both stockholders in the paper.
ANTICIPATING the early evacuation
of Cuba by Spain, insurgent leaders in
New York are taking steps to evolve q
constitution for the republic. pre-
liminary organization with this work
In hand had already been formed.
e On the 9th ex-Chief-Justice w. E.
Miller, of Iowa, died at his home in
Des Moines, aged 73 years. He was
born in Pennsylvania. He was a men,
Der Of the supreme court from 1870 to
1876. Afterward he wrote and pub
,c4 - ,r1,; ~,
standard work.
CAPT. GEN. WEYLER has taken the
6eld in person against the insurgents
under Antonio Maceo in the province
of Pinar del Rio. and news received
from the front indicates that the Span
ish columns are approaching close to
the enemy.
THE town of Spencer, w. Va, was
almost destroyed by fire on the MORN
ing of the 9th. Thirty-nine stores and
houses were burned. The fire started
In a room over Simmons s. Co.'S gener-
sal store, and swept along the main
business street, leaving destruction in
sita path.
A GOLDEN torrent has been submerg-
Ing the United States sub-treasuries
since the 5th inst, which has risen so
high that some of the sub-treasuries
are begging for time within which to
count the gold and get the paper money
to ply for it. =
OFFICIAL advices from Manila, the
capital of the Philippine islands, say
that the Spanish troops have defeated
. force of 1000 rebels at Montaloan.
The insurgents lost TO men killed, while
The hoA nrIv nno L;1loi
PREPARATIONS have begun in WASH
ington for the greatest inaugural fete,
upon the occastpHsok the installation
Of President McKinley. March 4 next.
that has ever taken place in the his
tory Of the national capital Local
republicans and gold democrats are
slready at work making strange
ments.
DIR. JARED d. WETMoRE, Who had
been in jail at Grand Hav0n, Mich.
for three months, charged with COM
plicity in the murder of Enos Law
renee, at Holland, for which Ray
Coates is serving life imprisonment
and Mrs. Lawrence a 20-yenr sentence,
was discharged, on the 10Th, on Mrs.
Lawrence admitting that her testi-
mony against him was perjured.
AT Bonner Springs, Kss., Peter j.
Greenwald. former preacher in the
Reformed church, was found hanging
from the rafters in his barn on the
9th. He had become despondcnt over
business affairs. Greenwald was 4S
years old, and had wife and eight
children.
THE Lowell astronomical observa-
tory is to be removed from Flagstaff.
Ariz., to the City of Mexico.
BELLEFoNTAINE, the famous local
option. town in Ohio. which was re-
sently compelled to discharge its Po-
lice force, is now on the eve of giving
mp its electric lights. The electric
light trustees have notified the city
council TINT they must have at least
1900 immed lately or shut the works
down.
A TRAMP discovered dynamite on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern track
Dast of Washington, Ind, at one o'clock
on the morning Of the 10th. He sig
nailed q passenger train with 800 peoA
pie aboard. The train wreckers fired
at the tramp, shooting him through
the leg. The engineer saw the signal
and stopped his train just in time.
The train wreckers escaped.
Ok the 10th the secretary of the in
terror approved q schedule of allot-
ments of lands te 304 Chippewa In
dams in Minnesota.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster oc-
Cured at Sokolka, in the Russian gov
ernment of Grodno, on the l1th. The
St. Petersburg and Warsaw express,
while running at high rate Of speed.