The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-08-06
NEWS OF HE WEEK.
Wednesdar. Julr 2p.

LAoHOoS hdymOHu, An dCtreS5, against
Franklin Raymond Wallace.
Three-year-o Charles Monks, while
striving to reach his home in Jersey City
during storm, fell into pool near Bald
win avenue and was drowned
The international socialist trades con.
gress met in st. Martins town hall, Lon
con The anarchist delegates forced an en-
trance into the hall Great disorder pre-
vailed, and number of fist fights occur
red
james +. Digney Of Jamaica Plain,
Mass, passenger on the Fall River
steamboat train, jumped from the cars at
the Heath street crossing, just outside OF
Boston. The train was Immediately stop
ped, and the man was found to be fatally
Injured. He died before reaching the city
Thursday, July 30
About 5000 children's jacket makers
joined the ranks Of the striking coat tai
Iors in New York
Robert Garrett former president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company,
died at Deer Park, Nd
Spain so much fears a mutiny that the
great body of re-enforcements to be dis
patched to Cuba in August will be sent
unarmed, other vessels taking their equip
ments.
William p. st. John, treasurer of the
Democratic national committee, engaged
permanent headquarters in New York for
the Bryan and Sewan campaign in the
Hotel Bartholdi
Mrs. Lillian Reynolds has brought suit
for the annulment Of her marriage with
Guy Reynolds In New York and for
$50, 600 damages 1t is alleged that he has
another wife living, and an action for big
amy may result.
Friday, July 81.
Charles A. Greene, Iineman, was kill
ed by electricity in Union square, New
York
W. E. Burt Of Austin murdered his wife
and two children, sinking their bodies in
cistern.
The Tammany Democracy has decided
to accept the nomination of Bryan and
Sewall as regular.
Secretary Hoke Smith says the story
that he is going to resign is beneath the
dignity of denial
Severe wind and rain storms did much
damage in Pittsburg and other places in
western Pennsylvania. Three lives lost.
The explosion of an empty oil still at
Eagle works, Cavan Point, Jersey City,
severely burned five men, of whom two
are likely TO die.
The preliminary step for an inquiry in
to the administration of the British South
Africa company was taken in the British
house Of commons.
Frank Wollweber, a boy burglar, was
shot and killed by Policeman Thomas r.
| Meyers, after committing burglary at 392
Pearl street New York
ATTORNEY General Harmon dismissed the
government suits against about 10000
seit Frs made defendants with the Union
| Pacific and other western railroads.
Saturday. August 1.
hslera is said to be beyond control in.
northern Egypt; 5000 deaths have al
READY been reported.
.3a.ies Cody, an alleged west side rough,
was silot in West Sixty first street, New
York BY Policeman Herman while resist
ing arrest.
Nineteen persons, two of whom are
women, have been sentenced to death in
A gram, Hungary, on the charges of brig
anci se and murder
Mrs A. 5. Rosenthal, wife of a silk
merchant in Greene street, New York, has
discovered that she is one OF the heirs &c
an estate of s25, 900, 600 in Australia.
Major Mckinley addressed a delegation
of veterans and others at Canton, O., say
ing in substance that pensions must be
paid in money as good as gold.
In New York James Butler, an old for
ner convict, confessed having committed
perjury to save his sister, who had mar
ried a policeman, the disgrace of having
her brothers. record exposed and was SEN
fenced to two years and six months in
the penitentiary-
Monday, August 3.
Four men were killed in a battle be-
tween sheepmen and cattlemen in Oregon.
Fire in the Cramps shipyard in Philadel
phia destroyed the big paintshop of the
concern with its contents.
The opposition of Lord Salisbury to
blockade of the island of Crete had a bad
effect on the Berlin and Vienna bourses.
Riots occurred on the east side in New
York as the result of efforts by tailors to
close down sweatshops started up with
nonunion labor.
According to the Berlin press, the un-
disciplined action of the recent congress
of socialists in London has been severe
blow to socialism in Germany.
Morris Connolly, 10 years old, was
caught picking a mans pocket in New
York. He says he was taught by Law
renee Luttrell, whom the police have been
unable to find.
James Cahill, while being shaved by
Nicolo Cantagnolo in New York, objected
to the razor's dullness and was attacked
by the barber, slashed and struck with
hatchet and left for dead.
fugitive steer escaped from the stock
yards at the foot of West Fifty ninth
street New York, and finally got into
Central park, where he raised panic and
was fruitlessly shot at by three policemen.
Tuesday. August A.
The Right Hon. Sir William Robert
Grove died in London.
The pope is said to be confined to his
apartments with an attack of rheuma-
tism.
The Rockefeller iron mines in Michigan
have been closed, throwing 1000 men out
of employment.
The striking tailors on the east side,
New York, were disorderly, and numerous
arrests were made
Mrs. Lenfecty, second cousin of the
Princess Colonna, was arrested in Brook
lyn on the charge of shoplifting.
Judge Calvin E. Pratt of the supreme
court, Brooklyn, died suddenly of apo
plexy at his country home in Rochester,
Mass.