Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-02
TELEGRApHIC nREyITIEs.


Cairo. ILL.,. felt a slight earthquake shock.
Senator Hale expects the Dingey bill to
pass at the coming session
Admiral Walker has gone to Portland Ore.
to arrange for the completion of lightshlp
No. q.
Lewis b. Hasbrook has been appointed re-
ceiver for Bishoff & Adler New York cloak
manufacturers.
Interest in the Ohio Southern first morr-
gage 6's, due yesterday. has been defauted,
owing to coal strike.
Mayor ]. S. Brown of Somervillo was Sc
verely burned in a fire in his home and his
wife was burned to death.
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
is in session at Louisville. Samuel Grab
fielder of Louisville is chairman.
Smith & Gaylor, manufacturers of blinds
and doors, New York City, have assigned
to j. S. Davenport without preferences.
National convention of lumbermen is called
to meet in Cincinnati on December 10 to urge
upon congress restoration OF the tarin on
lumber.
In view of the supreme courts decision in
the Chapman case the cases against Have
meyer & Searles of the Sugar trust and
others will not be pressed
Fire destroyed the coal sheds of the Bos-
ton & Maine road at Charlestown, Mass
and Fireman Ryan sustained fracture Of
the leg by slipping on the ice.
commissioner General Stu1npI OF the I'M
migration bureau has returned from Europe,
where he went to acquaint European govern
ments with our immigration laws.
New York state canals were officially
closed by order of the superintendent OF
public works. Active work on the i'm
provements is to be begun at once.
Henry L. Abbey, the operate manager,
left 5000 in personally and no realty. His
widows application for letters of admins
tration on the estate has been granted.
Thomas p. Fenlon, lawyer of Leaven-
worth, Kan, was stricken with paralysis
while arguing in the supreme court at To-
peka in a Santa Fe damage suit 1t is
thought he will recover.
John Rosch's suit for $4,000 reward for
finding DR.. Cronin's body in the sewer has
been dismissed on the ground that the re-
ward was offered for evidence which would
convict, and not for the discovery OF the
body.
Fred Matthews, Chicago laboring man,
was shot and killed by Alexander Hersch-
berger, a 16-year-old boy who saw him
fighting with his father Joe Herschberger
over the price of drinks and took him for
a robber.
President Cooper of the California Fruit
Growers association urges further importa-
tion OF lady bugs from Australia to destroy
insect pests. He says the annual less by
insect pests in the United States is over
SO, 900 900
Fire gutted the four-story building at
TAI Broadway. New York City, occupied by
E. Rothschilds' Sons, the manufacturers OF
bar fixtures; Leo Goodman & Bros, necktie
makers, and David CARRIER. photographer.
Loss $780, 1000
j. w. Van Wye's sentence OF two years
Imprisonment for selling the Kansas City
Sunday Sun, scurrilous weekly which sus-
pended recently, on the streets OF st. Jo-
seph has been confirmed by the Missouri
supreme court.
contract for tho construction of a bridge
over the Hudson river to connect New York
and New Jersey has been signed. The con-
tract calls for the expenditure of not more
than $25,O00.000. Construction bonds will
soon bo offered to investors.
Senator Cannon of Utah says he will surely
vote against the Dingley bill for the reason
that some interests that favored it before
are now opposed to it, and he mentions the
wool industry especially. He does not eX-
pect the bill will be pressed.
w. ID. Bynum has issued a call for a meet
ing of the executive committee of the ma
tional democratic party to be held in Indi-
annapolis December TO- 1t is probable it will
then be decided to continue the organiza-
tion as long as the silver agitation is kept
uD.
Chairman Cannon of the appropriations
committee expects considerable progress will
be made in analyzing the estimates before
congress meets next Monday. The Treas
ury department has furnished advance
copies of these estimates to the members
of the committee