The Globe-republican., 1896-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Memphis. Editor E. w. Carmack of
the Commercial Appeal, aud Attorney
General Patterson had q fist fight on
the stage.
Eighty-five silver miners were buried
alive by a cavern in the Santa Eulalia
district in Northern Mexico Eighteen
escaped, thirty-seven have been taken
out, seven of whom are dead and
thirty seriously crushed. and many
will not live. There is very little
chance of recovering alive the thirty
men yet under the earth.
E. T. Jaeger of Shenandoah, Iowa,
went crazy, killed his sister, Mary c.
johnson, and attempted suicide.
Bob Chambers, a negro robber and
barn burner, was taken from officers,
tied to a tree and shot near Cranberry.
n. C.
Baron Won Hammerstein, a German
editor, was sent up for three years,
disfranchised and heavily fined for
fraud.
Bay conference of Congregational
ministers voted 40 10 s.: to suspend
Rev. c. o. Brown of San Francisco for
ungentlemanly conduct.
LCOu C0y, rIcuCu DO1ltAC1A CCOuO>
mist and financier, is dead.
Editor Frank Coleman of the Hunts.
Vile, Ala, Argus, was shot and badly
wounded by r. E. Spriggins in a street
duel.
DR.. Frank Starkweather is in jail at
Bridgeport, Conn, for abandoning his
wife, although he has an Oklahoma
divorce in his pocket.
Blues resolution for the iavestiga-
tiou of Governor Smith and the Sol
diers' home at Leavenworth has been
favorab!y reported to the House.
Fort Marcy military reservation,
New Mexico. will be given to the
American Invalid Aid society. to be
converted into home for consump-
tives.
Linford C. Biles, foreman of the
Holmes jury, was killed and his son
fatally injured by an electric light
wire on the roof of their house in
Philadelphia.
Thirty-eight Pittsburg people were
poisoned by eating impure food and
sweetmeats. Chocolate cake from a
bakery poisoned twenty-five south
side people
Private George A. Parkhurst. ephew
of the New York preacher, was killed
and three other soldiers injured by
premature explosion of shell at Fort
Sam Houston, Texas.
Bob Kennedy, sheriff of Dallas
county, Alabama. opened fire at the
depot in Montgomery with double
barrelled shotgun on two brothers,
delegates to the State Democratic
convention, Percy and Mardis Wood,
wounding both Of them dangerously.
Trouble rose over Kennedy's wife.
The Greater New York bill has
passed both branches of the State Leg
islature over the vetoes of the mayors
of New York and Brooklyn.
Judge johnson has accepted Mrs.
Warner, a milliner. as juror in the
District court at Denver, being the
first woman to serve in Colorado.
A plan is on foot to connect the va
rious State delegations of the Repub-
lican convention to be held at St.
Louis. June l6. with the speakers
desk by telephone.
James Culberson. ex-city employee.
Chicago, killed his wife and then
A8I0IAy ouOt 0IuoSlA OcC0 use UIS WIG
made so much trouble" She was
formerly Lillian Mccormick of juno
ton City, Kan.
One Of President Cleveland's horses
slipped and fell and the other became
50 frightened it reared and plunged
and fell over the carriage pole on top
of his mate. The incident gave rise to
sensational rumors.
Rev. DIR. John j. Glennon has been
made cosdjutor to Bishop Hogan of
Kansas City.
The trial of Scott jackson for the
murder of Pearl Bryan was begun at
Newport. KY.
President Cleveland returned two
pension bills to the Senate with spe-
cisl veto messages
Consul General p. O. Williams has
notified tho department of State that
the cases OF Dygert and Diaz are be-
ing pushed and their release is ex-
pected soon.
Father Hippolite. of Lehigh, Ind.
Ter. was robbed of his pocketbock
and watch by highwaymeu.