The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-09-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ster is surrounded and, as the Greme1
feared some part of the city will b;
destroyed by the oncoming flames il
| spite of them.
IT vas stated in London. on the cath
upon official authority, that DIR. Gal
| lagher, the Irish-American, would bt
released in the course of the next ter
days, and would sail for the United
States without delay.
VIM. MCDoEL, of Chicago, was ap
pointed, on the cath, by Judge Woods
of indianapolis. Ind, receiver of the
! entire Monon railroad system. Hi.
bond was placed at $4,000
THE first batch of reinforcement.
for the Spanish forces in Cuba to be
| sent from Barcelona sailed for the
island On the cath.
SENATOR BUTLER said, on the cath
that he had received requests to have
MIR. Watson speak during the cam
paign in two different cities in Ne
braska, Mr.. Bryan's own state. He
looked upon this as favorable sign
indicating that the west was chang
ing its opinion about the candidate TO,
the second place on the ticket.
FRANK BARAkER, 25 years old, ao1
Pleasant Plain, Ia, was killed by the
accidental discharge of revolver.
CHARLES FREDERICK COOPER PON-
SONNY, second baron de Maury, died at
his seat, Langford house, Lechlade
Gloucester, England, on the gath. He
was born in 1915.
j. MCCULLA failed in his second at.
tempt, undertaken within three weeks,
to lower the bicycle record between
Chicago and New York. He got as far
as Buffalo, on the gath, where a bad
fall injured him so severely that he
could not proceed.
j. F. H. MCKIBBEN, auditor of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system,
was killed near Newcastle, Col, on
the 25th. Mr.. McKibben was on a
hunting trip, and while changing sad
dies pack horse fell on him. He
lived long enough to be taken to New
castle, but died shortly after his ar
rival there.
The roller mill and warehouse
Co., at Waseca, Minn., was burned
Loss, S75, 1000; insured for one-half
AO Ahili w III NC lCouIlC oOOh. lis Is
the third fire started in Waseca with
in a week. and it is supposed to have
been the work of tramps.
CLOSELY pursued by Chicago police
officers. on the cath, with arrest inevi-
table, and after fruitless attempt to
shoot his pursuers, an unknown bur-
glar turned his revolver upon himself
and fell dead in the street.
THE stagecoach between Grande and
Arapahoe, in Day county, Okla, was
held up by four highwaymen, on the
25th, and the four occupants were or
aered to stand and deliver. Mrs. Amy
Childs, of Philadelphia, refused to dis
mount, and was shot dead.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar, on the
26th. said: "This evening an ultimatum
was sent to Said Kalid informing him
that unless he strikes his flag and
makes a complete surrender by nine
o'clock tomorrow the palace will be
bombarded. All the British residents
of the town have been requested to go
on board the war ships lying in the
harbor by eight o'clock in the morn
ing"
On the Goth dry house of the Ohio
Powder Co.'S mill at Goes station, six
miles from Xenia, O., blew up, killing
two men, Charles Higgins and Frank
Eiche. Both men were married, and
Higgins leaves, besides his wife, two
children, aged 1s and 16 years. A
house on the same spot blew up ten
years ago, killing three men.
THOMAS C. PLATT refused to be
candidate for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation by the republican state conven-
tion at Saratoga, n. Y, on the Goth,
and Hon. Frank S. Black, of Troy, con-
gresham from the Nineteenth district,
was nominated on the fourth ballot.
On the 25th body of Turks made
an attack upon the Cretans at Male
vyzi, but were repulsed, losing 40 of
their number killed and 20 wounded.
HILTON, HUGHES & Co., the extensive
New York dry goods firm, formerly A.
Il. Stewart & Co. assigned onthe 26th. .
PAUL 7. BROWN, trading in Philadel
phia as J. w. Brown & Co., wholesale
grocer, made an assignment on the
Goth. The failure was due to the
tightness of the money market. The
liabilities will exceed 500. 900; assets
not stated.
OrIs HALL, prominent jeweler of
nOChVlllcs Ihu.f Willie al AAoo0S'
on the Goth, on business, took a dose
of antipyrene for relief from head
ache, and died an hour later from
paralysis OF the heart, caused by the
drug.
The body of Bill Doolin was official
ly identified by the government Off
cials at Guthrie, Okla, on the goth,
and proof fled for the So. 500 reward.
The body was embalmed and taken to
Fort Smith, Ark, to claim another
81 700 reward; thence it was taken to
Missouri for similar purpose.
FIRE consumed the milling plant and
-four house of Everett Aughenbaugh
& Co. at Waseca, Minn.. on the Goth.
Estimated loss, SIS 200; insurance, $685.
coo. The plant will be rebuilt.
The FIRE at Octonagon, Mich. has left
scarcely vestige of once thriving
village of 1000 inhabitants except a
hungry, shivering horde OF sufferers,
who have not yet been able to find ac-
commodations Of any kind, either food
or lodging, since they were driven
from their homes.
HUNDREDS, including a large num-
her of college mem and professors,
viewed fish at Bar Harbor. Me-, on