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Ex-Cong,essman NJ. ID. Harter. Of
| Philadelphia, shot and killed himself
at fostoria. O. Insomnia was said to
have been the cause. lie was n member
OF the Fifty-second and Fifty-third con-
crosses from the Fourteenth Ohio dis
trict.
| The skeletons OF four human beings
were discovered in an abandoned soai
mine mile east of Golfers. w. Va.
The oldest Baptist preacher in Ken
lucky, Rev. Henry Maher, Of Powcll's
Valley. committed suicide. He would
have been 100 years old In June.
| Peter Angle and wife. an aged couple
living near Beverly. o.. were burned 20
death by fire that destroyed their
home.
| Henry Maui. farmer residing near
Afillstadt. ILL.,. who had acquired an un-
enviable reputation as a wife beaten,
was terribly whipped by white cnps.
The board of education OF Eust Liver
pool O.. was petitioned TO restore
the Bible reading in the schools. and
two teachers declared they would read
IL anyhow.
James Sarran and Pearl Kimms were
found dead aear Keystone. w. Va,
where general fight occurred among
200 colorcd miners.
Judge Badger decided at Cleveland
that receiving money in Ohio 10 be sent
to poolroom In Kentucky 70 pay rae
ing bets was In violation of the laws of
Ohio.
Rev. II. G. Eggleston, colored minis
ter. was elected a member OF the board
of school commissioners of Baltimore
being the first colored man TO hold such
position in that city.
The funeral services ofTheodore Run
yon, late ambassador to Germany, were
held In Newark, N. ].
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the Gath was: Wheat.
o5,010,0O0 bushels; corn, ,I,576, 900
bushels; oats, 6,9is,000 bushels: rye,
1.b4l,o00 bushels; barley. 2,130. 900
bushels,
An ordinance prohibiting the use Of
cigarettes. cigars or tobacco by per-
sons under is years within the city
limits OF Lincoln. Neb.. was passed by
the council.
Ballington Booth was offered the
leadership of an independent Ameri-
can Salvation Army by the brigadIers.
hdjutants and majors whom he had
created in all parts of the country, but
ne declined. and he and his wife left
the headquarters In New York for good.
Prominent citizens of Mitchell. .. d.,
purchased the Office OF the Mail and
then dumped the contents into the
street and burned them. The paper had
become obnoxious.
a lamp exploded in the home of Mrs.
Frederick Rose at Canton, Md, ami
three of her children were fatally
burned.
John Millen. 1G-year-old boy OF
Edinburg. Ind. shot and killed himself
because of parental interference in a
love affair.
The total fire losses In the United
States for the seven days ended on the
2sth amounted 10 $2.6l5,o00. Since jan
uary the fire loss has reached Si6.210.-
500, an average of $3i1 TAO dey.
The Grace Street Baptist church at
Richmond, Va. valued at $4,000. and
the female seminary building, worth
$4,000. were burned.
James Reed shot himself and his wife
at their home IN Sheffield. Ill. Reed was
dead and his wife could not recover.
Family trouble was the cause.
Fire destroyed the main building OF
the Kurtz & Bulrer Foundry company's
plant in Chicago, the loss being SiO0UUn
Fire that broke out i'm the block oc-
cupied by the Bingbamton Furnishing
company at Binghamton. N. Y, caused
loss Of $3.50. 900.
The New York. Pennsylvania e. Ohio
railway was sold at Akron. o.. to the
Erie railway for Si0,000.000.
M. Il. urisette, 4 desperate at Iris
;ol, Fla, was killed, after shooting
three men.
Agents Of the Liberian government
are at work In Guthrie, O. r., securing
colored immigrants to that country.
Elizabeth Flagler, daughter of Gen.
IlagIer, pleaded guilty In the criminal
court at Washington of involuntary
manslaughter and was fined $500 and
sentenced to Jail for three hours.
Jesse II. lacey, aged 81, and his son,
Jesse, aged 81. were shocked 20 death
by electricity in their door yard at
Thornton. II. /. Both had taken hold
OF wire that was crossed half mile
away with the feed wire OF the electric
lighting company.
An ice gorge In the Platte river nt
Schuyler, Neb., was doing immense
damage.
A. w. Patterson, a retired business
man, shot his wife in the brain ~ Mad
ison, Wis, and then lodged bullet in
his own skull The cause OF the deed
was a mystery.
The north half OF tho draw span OF
the government bridge across the Mis-
sissiipI Mt Davenport, Ia, collapsed,
and all traffic between Rock Island md
Davenport 10y rail cor wagon was entire
ly suspended.