Warren sheaf., 1896-06-25
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Two daughters of Frank p. Hipp, a
farmer living near Grinnell, Ia, commit
ted suicide by taking strychnine. No
cause was known.
A movement was started in Boston
by the colored churches for the pur-
pose of erecting 100000 monument
at Harper's Ferry to John Brown.
Seven companies of state troops left
Portland, Ore, for Astoria to suppress
lawless acts of fishermen on the Colum-
bia river. ...-.
John Conners shot and killed Mamie
Mulligan at Peoria, ILL.,, because she re-
fused to marry him and then shot him
self fatally.
Theodore Ascher & Co., one of the
Oldest wholesale millinery firms in Chi
cago, failed for 100000.
Charles Emmler, Chicago gasoline
peddler, fatally shot his wife while he
was drunk and then killed himself.
The Midd]esex woolen mill at Lowell,
Mass, employing 1000 hands, closed in
definitely. .-
Henry Rosenthal and Miss Stella Pit
kin were killed by the cars at Balls
Crossing, O..
At the seventh annual convention in
Boston of the Medal of Honor Legion
Gen. Nelson A. Miles was elected presi-
dent.
A destructive windstorm swept over
southern Kansas, wrecl1ing buildings
at Kingman, Penalosa, Anthony and
Attica.
Wilson 4. Slayback was killed by
lightning at Dayton, Ind, and his death
so affected his father, aged 70, that the
old, man dropped dead from heart dis.
ease.
The two sons of Thomas Holderfeld,
aged IS and 1s years, were killed by
lightning at Marion, III.
The international missionary conven-
ton at Clifton Springs, N. Y, adopted
resolutions asking the United States
government to protect the lives and
property of American citizens in the
Turkish empire.
In Newport, KY, the trial of Alonzo
M. Walling, jointly indicted with Scott
= jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan,
ended with conviction and penalty fixed
at death.
The final payment on account of the
per cent. loan of February last was
made at the treasury department. in
Washington. ....
A hurricane at Guthrie, o. T., wrecked
the Central high school building and
state capitol grounds and badly dam
aged many private residences.
The boiler of the steamer Titus Sheard
exploded on the canal at Little Falls:
N. Y, while an excursion party was on
board and II persons were killed and
three were fatally and six seriously in
jured. ~"
Cornell university at Ithsca, N. Y
graduated q class of 400.
The printers strike in Minneapolis
and St Paul was settled by an agreement
between the typographical union and
the publishers association to arbitrate
all differences as to wages and hours.
Fire destroyed q block of business
ing 100000.
At New Haven, Conn, the boat race
between the freshman crew of Yale
and the University of Wisconsin crew
resulted in a victory for the latter crew.
The exchanges at atthe:leading. clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
$1,o3s, 1903, against $937,Ss6,593 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 3.5.
There were 276 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 234 the week
previous and 228 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
David d. O'Brieu, one of the foremost
lawyers in Cook county, committed sui
eide by asphyxiation in his Office in Chi
go. Liquor was the cause.
In freight train collision at Friend,
Neb., F. Doane, Of San Jose, Cal, and IS
hogs were killed.
Thirty-fve of the As survivors of the
Kearsarge-Alabama naval fight cele-
brated in Boston their 18th annual re-
union and the 32d anniversary of the
battle.
The Indiana supreme court has de-
cided that the Nicholson liquor law is
valid.
Thirty people were poisoned at Down
ing, Wis, by eating pressed beef, and
some were in critical condition.
Paulo Kaumanu, a native of the Ha-
waiian islands, was hanged at Folsom,
CAL, for the murder of Mrs. Ellen Rob-
inson at Latrobe on May 6, 1894.
Albert Woods, aged 80, and Richard
Menzie, aged 20, were shocked to death
in Philadelphia by touching a wire