The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-08-06
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! The great ship-building yards of
| HARLAN & Wolff, and Workman Clark,
g. Co., at Belfast, Ireland, were the
scene of an extensive conf1agration on
the 27th. The firm was the builders
of several of the best known of the
Transatlantic steamer; loss ST ,25O, ,OOO
j On his way to the depot, on tho
night of the 10th, l. N. Coffee, of
Cairo. ILL.,, president of the Illinois
state board of pharmacy. was killed
by DIR. Crabtree, also a prominent
druggist of Cairo Crabtree stabbed
Coffee twice, the tragedy occurring in
front of the murderer's store.
In the Wood county CO., oil field, on
the eth, Orlie c. Brown, G. e. Clark
and Samuel Miller were killed by the
explosion of boiler used in pumping
q we'll.
Mrs. MAHLoN SANDS, formerly of
New York, died at her residence in
London, on the eth, of fatty degener-
alton of the heart. Mrs. Sands bore a
striking likeness to the princess of
| Wales, with whom she was on very
friendly terms.
ALEXANDER BELL, an habitual often
der, in Jail at Columbus, Ind, charged
with horse-stealing, made his escape,
knocking down the guard who opened
the door to his cell to hand him his
| dinner.
A NUMBER of claims against Spain
are accommodating in the state depart
ment on account of American citizens
who have suffered in property and per-
son from the operations of Spanish
troops in Cuba.
DURING recent skirmishes in the
provinces of Pinar del Rio and Santa
Clara, Cuba, the insurgents left IS
killed on the field, among the dead
being an American, and retired with
their wounded.
DESTRUCTIVE hailstorm struck Clay
county, Mimi, on the 27th, passing
northwesterly across Sabin and as far
north as Glydon on the west and Stock
wood on the east. In many cases the
destruction was complete.
ONLY SO many of the strikers at the
Brown Hoist works at Cleveland,
O., as could be used after retaining
over three hundred non-union men
were taken back, on the 2eth, but
others were promised employment as
fast as the company could find places
for them.
A TERRIFIC hail-storm, on the 9th,
destroyed nearly all the corn and uncut
small grain in a strip of territory 20
miles long and three miles wide in
Preston, Grant, Fredonia and Meadow
townships. in the north part of Plym-
outh county, Ia.
WHILE watching q game of ball at
Youngstown, o., Oscar Gilchrist was
struck in the eye by foul fly with
such force that the eye was knocked
into pulp and fell out of his head.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, late general
manager of the Associated Press, died
at his home in Lake Forest, Chicago,
on the 27th. He had been sick for sew
eral days with pneumonia.
JAMES BYERs, agent for the Van
dalia railroad and Adams Express Co.,
at Moran, Ind, committed suicide on
counts with the express company $500,
and with the. railroad company, SIS.
The correspondent of the United
Press at Honolulu, writing under date
of the 21st, says that the volcano XII
lauea renewed its activity, during the
night of the II tn, and was worse than
ever.
THE destruction of crops, live stock
and farm property in Yankton county,
s. D., by the recent hail storm is now
estimated to amount to 500. 900.
IT is rumored in Constantinople that
the Turkish government contemplates
the issue of paper money.
A DISPATCH from Buluwayo, on the
2sth, said: "a force of imperial troops
is being hrrriedly pushed to the front
from Maolutsie and Mangwe and Fort
Tuli. The situation is becoming more
serious every day."
BEING found guilty in the British
high court of justice, on the 2sth, of
violation of the foreign enlistment act,
DR.. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen
months imprisonment without labor;
Maj Sir John Willoughby to ten
months; Maj. r. Wright to seven
months, and Capt. Henry +. Coventry
(son Of the earl of Coventry, Col. r.
Grey and Col. f. II. White to five
months imprisonment each. They
were taken at once to Holloway prison.
CHARLES COREY and Miss Kate Fill
mann, both of Boston, We're drowned
in the Niagara river, between Grand
Niagara falls, on the 2sth. The young
couple had hired a small boat for
row, and in the rough water the boat
became unmanageable.
The gold standard democrats of Ken
lucky will hold state convention ON
August 20, in Louisville, to perfect a
thorough organization of their forces
and select delegates to she national
convention decided upon at the recent
conference held in Chicago.
THE United States consuls at Vera
Cruz and Acapulco telegra phi the sur
geon general of the United States
marine hospital service the existence
of yellow fever at those points.
The fact has become known that the
recent flood in Colorado entirely de-
stroyed the Catskil1 br:inch of the
Union Pacific, Denver q Gulf road, 40
miles in length.
PART of the town of Ilfracombe,
Devonshire, one of the fashionable and
most attractive seaside resorts in En-
gland, was burned on the 29th.
ONE of the three men who partici-
pated in the recent Colorado Springs
and Cripple Creek tCol. stage robbery,
was captured by a deputy sheriff while
leavinr a Denver train at Colorado