The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-07-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Z. Asa Francis & Co., pound fishery,
at Spring Lake, N. j., upon lifting
their nets, on the s7th, discovered the
| bodies of two drowned men. The
crew attempted to put the men in
their boat, but the undertow was too
strong and they were washed to sea.
The drowned men were Swedish fish
| ermen.
THE strike at the Brown Hosting
Co. at Cleveland, O., involving 500 men,
has been in progress five weeks, and
no settlement is in sight. The brutal
| treatment by the strikers of those
| who have returned to work has alien
ated all public sympathy for the men.
Martin Schautz, one of the men who
returned to work, was set upon as he
left the works, on the Goth, and beaten
SO that he will die.
THE trial of John b. Hart, Emile
Nunez, Capt. John ID. O'Brien and
Mate Edward Murphy, accused of aid
| ing a military expedition to Cuba in
the steamship Burmuda, came up in
| the United States circuit court of New
York city on the Goth.
MORE than /, 400, ,O0O spihdles at Fall
River, Mass. are pledged to shut down
for four weeks, either consecutively or
alternately, during July and August,
and it is considered probable that every
plain cotton goods and print cloth fac-
tory in that city will enter the agree
ment to curtail production by sus-
pension of operations.
ALETTER received by Superintendent
Wishon of the county infirmary at
Portsmouth, O., on the Goth, from an
Ohio man in the Cuban army, stated
that his son, Capt. Ralph Wishon, was
killed in a fight with the Spaniards.
He went to Cuba a year ago.
AFFIDAvITs were fled in Justice
Tancey's court at Fort Wayne, Ind, +,
on the Goth, against the players of the
Fort Wayne and Saginaw baseball
clubs, charging them with engaging
in game of baseball on Sunday in vi
olation of the Indiana state law. The
complaining witness was Rev. J. S.
Ainsile, of the Congregational church.
Rev. Mr.. Ainslie is backed by the Min
isterial association.
A NOTICE was posted in the Pember-
ton mills, at Lawrence, Mass, on the
3Oth, informing 200 operatives that the
plant would shut down on Friday, July
3, and remain closed until September
.. Agent F. Clark explained that u
was intended to make important re-
pairs, and advantage is taken of the
times to do this.
AT Newport, KY, on the goth, Judge
Helm overruled the motion for a new
trial for Alonzo Walling, convicted as
an accomplice of Scott Jackson, in the
murder of Pearl Bryan. The appeals
of Walling and jackson can not be
heard by the appellate court at Frank
fort before the September term.
In Judge Hanecy's court in Chicago,
on the 10Th, a decree was entered pro-
viding for the sale to the highest bid
der Of the Chicago & South Side Rapid
Transit railroad, better known as
the "Alley L." under foreclosure of
mortgage.
JOHN MCGINNER and John O'Brien,
both men of many aliases and both no.
torious bank robbers, were captured in
Vancouver, B. c., on the 2sth, by
Portland (Ore.) detective, and were
housed in the Clark county Jail. A
man giving his name as Fred Martin,
who was with the pair, was also ar
rested.
THREE unknown men near Meksu-
key, l. T., early on the morning of the
ran it to Choctaw City, where they
abandoned the engine and took to the
woods. The railroad company has
offered reward for the capture of the
robbers.
APARIY of berry pickers consisting
of Alexander Anger, aged 40, his
cousin Gene LaForme and two nieces,
Liza and Annie Anger, three girls of
ten or twelve years, were struck by
train on the Massachusetts, Central
road near Worcester, Mass, on the
3Oth. They saw the train coming and
ran for their lives, and had almost
reached a place of safety when the
engine struck them. The Anger girls
were instantly killed, the LaForme
girls leg was broken and the mans
head was badly injured.
FRANK IVES, the champion billiard
player of the world, has made a will,
In which he bequeaths his right arm to
his physician for dissection. He does
this in order that men of science may
determine why he strikes a billiard
ball harder than any other man living
Corbett, Fitzsimmons, S1ndow and
other athletes and strong men ha7e
competed with him and he has not
been beaten yet
WORK on tho largest fire engine In
tho world was completed. on the 3oth,
1t the shops Of Cincinnati fire en-
gine company. The boiler is 20 inches
long and 40 inches in diameter. The
two steam cylinders and two pumps
are each, respectively, 10 inches long
and inches in diameter. The stroke
is inches. At full speed the engines
capacity is 1900 gallons per minute.
It was built for the Grand Rapids
(Mich.) FIRE department.
THERE was no change in the situa-
ton in the Twin Shaft mine at Pitts
ton, Pa. on the 3oth. The rescuers
continued to work hard in their en-
deavor to reach the entombed miners,
and rapid Pregrsss was being made.