The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-08-27

ericlk Faulkner, at Lowell, Mass, was
burned, on the 18th, while the famil y
were away at the beach. The con.
tents of the house are total wreck,
and the loss will exceed $4,000. The
fire was undoubtedly the work of an
incendiary.
l. FIRE at Lancaster, KY, on the 18th,
destroyed all the buildings on the east
side of the public square, including
the post Office. Loss, $4,000, two.
thirds of which is covered by insur-
ance.
A DISPATCH from Athens, on the
10th, said that insurgents in Macedo-
MIA had burned two villages in the
Kosoni district and massacred eighty
| persons.
| AMONG the passengers on the steamer
st. Paul, which sailed from New York,
on the 10Th, for Europe, were Senator
elect Joseph B. Foraker and Postmas-
t ter-General Wilson.
THE democratic state convention as
sembled in Pueblo, Col, on the 10Th.
| There was large attendance. George
| Thomas, who had been looked upon as
the probable candidate for governor,
| created a sensation by sending a
formal letter TO the chairman posi-.
| lively declining to accept any nomina-
| tion from the convention.
MAJ. MCKINLEY denied himself to
all callers, on the 10Th, and devoted
| the hours to the work of reading the
proof of that part of his letter of ac-
ceptance which had been put into type.
Almost one-haif the letter had been
revised.
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missioner posted notice on the closed
doors of the Argentine Ckas.) bank,
announcing that he had taken posses
sion and that application for receiver
would be made.
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion took
place in Rocl1land park, Rochester, n
Y..on the 18th, where new sewer was
being constructed. Contractor VIM.
Fuller was blown 100 feet and prob
ably fatally injured. John Holiday
ard John A. Metzger were Terribly
hurt, and 20 others were slightly in
jured.
A FRAUD order was, on the Goth, is
sued by the post office depar tment
against the Creditors Beneficial asso-
ciati on of Rockford, Ill.
The treasury gold reserve declined,
on the Goth, to S1O3, 932, I'll. The days
Withdrawals were S1a9, 700 and for the
month they aggregated $3.50. 900.
PROF. NJ. A. GREEN, NJ. A, professor
of geology of the University of Oxford,
died in London on the Goth.
A HEAD-oN collision occurred, on the
Goth, on the Detroit, Lansing & North
e1n railroad, near powlerville, Mich,
between two passenger trains. Both
engines were ditched and one fireman
was seriously injured. Several cars
were derailcd. The accident was
caused by the west-bound train fail
ing to make siding to let the east
bound train pass.
FIRE of an unknown origin, on The
night of the 10Th, destroyed the resi-.
dence of John Felbach in Watertown,
S. D. MIR. Felbach and two daugh-
ters, Tillie, aged 10, and Hattie, aged
Is, were burned to death. The mother
and another daughter escaped.
THE Tomhicken Powder Co. q mills
at Derringer, Pa, exploded, on the
Goth, killing E. j. White broad and in
juring Peter Shell, Oliver Ross and
John Kisbach. The mills were COM
pletely wrecked, and the country sur
rounding was alarmed by the shock.
The funeral of Sir John Millais,
president of the Royal academy, who
died in London on August 13, took
place in st. Paul's cathedral ON the
Goth