The American guide., 1896-11-28
OTHERWISE UNNOTICEl

maintenance Of the gold reserve fer
some time is secure.
Robert Il. Constant, of Missouri .
clerk in the state department at Wfsh-
ington, died Tuesday.
The wire nail pool has forced be
price on nails from s,.6) down to 37s,
TO kill off competitors.
Sepoys rioted in small settleutnt
near bombay and overpowsred thSpo-
lice, looting several stores.
The wool merchants Of st. Luis
have petitionsd the United States en-
ate to pass the Dinglsy bill.
St. Louis parties are said 10 beJ in
terested in the Dudley dynamits kun
now In use by the insurgents in Ciba.
John Leslie, u Dallas (Tex.) httel
proprietor, skipped out. deserting lhis
family, after forging a score OF cheiiss.
Henry White, who murdered Po &C.
man jackson, Of Columbus, Ca has
been sentenced TO hang January Is,
1897.
Senator Chandler, OF Now Hdmp-
shire, Is In favor Of time losr to
make up the deficit in government rc-
ceipts. Ni
W. II, Grider was horsewhippet orr
the public square at Russellville, ~
for alleged remarks about his as 20
ants sister.
The secretary OF tho INTERIOR has
made requisition for sli, ,sso.oo to
make quarterly pension payments at
six agencies.
Consul. General Lee Is said to -e
submitted a report to the pres iient
recommending recognition Of Cuban
belligercncy.
Fire destroyed the livery ST. at
Auburn. H., owned by @. W. tt1n
and occupied by c. W. Levi ass,
81, 900; insurance, el,h00
Through n series II clever r,es
Drexcl 4 Co.. OF Fhiladeiph navs
been swindled out Of $500, and ther
broker OF that city out OF $500
At Dubuque, la, the seven-yeAr-old
son of Charles NJ. Mills, an ofieIal In
tho Dubuque post Office, waa fftally
injured by a wagon running owe him.
Al a populist conference in Tsi,ekn,
kas., il was decided 10 turn ~ ator
p.trer down In favor Of ChaI man
Breidenthal for the United Statt ssn'
ate.
Julius NJ. Hurst, wsll-knowr ~
/ under arrest at washingtotDs ID
with theft OF o stamp album Ht
$500. Nj.
Hon. Thomas y. Bayard, thd(, led
States ambassador, aud Mrs. iAvard
were commanded" to visit WJidsor
catles on Thursday and dine with the
queen.
Malignant diphtheria is raging in
and around Cisco. III. Sig deatha have
occurred, and all schools within "a
radius Of four miles Of town have been
closed.
A Singapore dispatch to the San
Francisco Times says that the Span
iards have been defeated by tho insur-
gents In the Philipp.ses with tho loss
Of 400 men.
Jonas Parks, who attempted to
wreck passenger train on the South
ern road, near Bristol, Tenn, recently,
has been sentenced to three years In
the state prison.
Joseph Martin, 50 years old, commit
tod suicide at kankakec. ILL.,, by swal'
lowing poison. lie was dsspondcnt
because out OF work. Fourteen chil'
dren survive him.
BY the ovcrturning Of gasolino
lamp Mrs \. A. Walker and daughter,
Mabel, Of Minneapolis, Mimi, were
severely, and Mary Overland, . do
nestle, fatally burned.
Gen. n, w. Pctlus, OF Dallas, was
elected United states senator for Ala
bama TO succeed senator Pugh on
March 4 next lilo received al votes
from the senate and 6s In the house.
Howard Perkins. superintendent OF
tho Moyamcnsing prison, Philadel.
phia. for the last 20 years. committed
suicide In his office with . pistol, after
suffering from insomnia for several
weeks
While hunting near Vernon. Tex.
with young friend named Napier the
ls.year-old sou OF Congressman-elsci
John II. stephens was killed. His
gun WAS discharged by the joltinR ol
the buggy.
The spanish torpedo- -boats Destroy
or, Furor and Terror have completed
their Official trials at Glasgow, and
will leave shortly for Spain. They are
bigger than any Of their type in the
British feet
A tabulation OF tho official vote of
Illinois for president shows the follow
ing, Mckinley, 0ot,td7 Bryan, <0s,'
e9p; Palmer, 9, 1876, lowering tprc. y 100
Middle.of-ths-road populists, i,os7
Matchctt (socialist). 1,2sa.
Gcv. elect Lon v. Stephens of Mia
souri, and wife and Paul b. Moore and
wife have gone TO Hot Springs, Ark,
whore the party will remain about
three weeks. which will glvo Mr
stephens tilnc TO recuperats.
Thirty car loads Of Ane horsss and
mules were shipped south In one train
over the Louisville a Nashville rail-
road from St. Louis Tuesday, The
whole lot 10 said TO be DESTINED fol
Havana for use by the Spanish army.
six weeks ago an old man was found
dead In the yards Of the big Four n
Pckiu, III. The body was identified q,
that of John Bippus, farmer who had
lived near Delsvan. and ~ sudh wal
buried. Bippua has turned up alive