The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-07-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE.NEWs IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
ROBERT ISAAC MORRIS, the veteran
enrineer who took the first engine to
Wheeling upon the completion of the
Baltimore & Ohio extension from Cum
berland to that point, died in Cumber-
land, Md, on the 18th, aged nearly
seventy years. ~
| AT meeting of the new democratic
| national committee in Chicago it was
decided to formally apprise the candi-
dates of their nomination at meeting
to be held in Madison Square garden,
New York city, early in August. and
committees were named to perform
that duty.
AN express train on the Hazleton
bran ch of the Lehigh Valley rail-
road, while rounding a curve between
White Haven and Freeland, Pa, on
the 18th, struck a cow. The engine
| was derailed and thrown down an en-
bankment 200 feet high and the three
passenger coaches were thrown from
the tracks upon their sides. William
II. Dowd, engineer, was killed, and. a
score of persons were hurt, several Sc
riously.
THE Peoples savings bank of Lam
sing, Mich, did not open it's doors on
the 18th. The bank had been on the
ragged edge for some time, but it was
believed its difficulties could be tided
over.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at
Whitby, Ont, about one o'clock on the
morning of the 18th. Hundreds of
hr,<
which lasted about twenty seconds.
OMER GAeNo, II years old, left the
Standard building in New Bedford,
Mass. at a. m. of the 18th, on foot
for Chicago. His object is to break
the long distance pedestrian record.
On the 12th the East Side power
house of the Denver (Col. Consolidated
Electric CO. s works was burned. The
company loses 1S engines and II gen.
orators of the Westinghouse pattern,
worth, at q low estimate, $780,
Many of .the churches were compelled
to forego their evening service.
CHRISTINE AUMoND, once governess
of President Cleveland's and Secretary
Lamonts children, died of delirium
tremens in the New York hospital on
the 18th.
The June statement of the bureau of
statistics shows that the exports of
breadstuffs during the month were
S11. .693, 164, as compared with So, 945 ,O4O
for June, 1895. For the 12 months
the exports amounted to $133, ,92O, 800,
gain of nearly $24, ,OOO, 900 over the same
period of 1895. The cotton exports or
June aggregated SIS, ,21O, 16O, which is
only a slight decrease from June last
year. For the ten months, however,
the loss was about S11 5000
AN appeal for the observance of
''bird day" in the schools throughout
the country has been made by the ag
ricultural department. The object is
to devote the day, to be set apart once
a year, or to be combined with ''Arbor
day." to instructions in the value of
native birds and the means of protect
ing them from wanton destruction.
IT is learned that the insurgent ex-
pedition under Gen. Rafael Portuondo
effected landing at Tamayo, Cuba.
This expedition carried to the insur-
gents a large quantity of ammunition
and dynamite, two cannons and 5000
other expeditions have landed. one
qua beach.
The report of the navigation bureau
shows that during the year ended June
80, 1896, 700 vessels, of 800, 600 gross tons,
were built in the United States and
officially numbered by the bureau Of
navigation, compared with 6S2 vessels,
of 249, 900 tons, for last year, an in
crease of 1000 tons. Steam vessels
built numbered 322, of 1885, 900 tons,
compared with 2s3. of Is, 700 tons, for
the previous year.
AN extensive robbery was reported
At st. Joseph's hospital $4,000 in
money and jewelry were stolen from
Mr.. and Mrs. Moore, patients at the in
stitution. VIM. II. Thompson, pro-
fessional nurse at the hospital, sus-
pected of the robbery, has disappeared.
The steamer Colombia, of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co., Capt. Clark, went
ashore, during a thick fog on the 14th,
at Pigeon point, a rocky projection
about half way between San Francisco
and Santa Cruz, Cal. The latest ad-
vices from the scene of the accident
stated that the Colombia was in a
dangerous position.
BURGLARS visited ST. Paul's Episco-
pal church at Cleveland, O., on the
I4th, for the third time within year.
The plate and other valua bles, amount
ing to $500, were stolen.
The treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 14th amounted
to S9s, 271 ,s55. The days withdrawals
were Sal. 900.
The Minnesota populist state conven-
tion has been called to meet August 16.
A SINGLE road agent, unmasked and
under the light of a midday sun, col
lected toll from a half dozen travellers
along the north San Juan road in Cali
fornia, on the 14tl1, two of his victims
contributing considera bic sums. When
he had secured enough to satisfy his
desire, he disappeared, and search was
made for him in vain.
CHARLES RoLOFF, secretary OF war
of the Cuban rebel government, was
in New York city on the 18th. He
was travelling under an assumed
name, and expected to remain only a
few days, returning to Key West, Fla,
to attend to some business with which
he had been intrusted by his govern
ment.
A DISPATCH to Lloyd's, on the 18th.
said that the British steamer Curfew,