The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-04-25
LATE NEWS NOTES

The Mississippi is sweeping away
bridges and dams in Minnesota.
Alonzo walling. one OF Pearl
Bryan's murderers, will go to trial
May s.
A Missouri Pacific freight went
through n bridge across the Gascon.
ade river.
Every window glass factory in the
United States will be closed down
May 20.
A favorable report has been made
&c the House on the Arizona state
hood bill.
South Dakota Supreme court up
held the Yanktop city ordinance
licensing saloons.
Over three-fourths of the Methodist
conferences have voted TO admit
women delegates.
Spontaneous combustion caused n
1925. 900 fire in Walton Brothers brick
block at Fairbury, Ill.
Ex-Mayor w. w. Gilreath of Green
vile, :. c., committed suicide in his
office by shooting.
New charges Of unministcrial con.
duet have been filed against Rev. c.
W. DfONn VI Nul TTuuCiStO
France has turned over to Russia
the matter of negotiating with Eng
land concerning the Nile expedition.
Insurance Inspector Gray says that
at least five of arch criminal Holmes
alleged victims were not killed by
him
4. H. Jennings OF tie United States
weather bureau says the recent rains
have put the Kansas crops IN q splen-
did condition.
w. l.. Oliver and T.. q. Powell
fought az Bassctt. Texas. Powell was
fatally wounded and two ladies on
near by veranda were shot.
A favorable report has been ordered
made TO the House on the bill to pro-
vide for n dircctor-in-chief of the sci
entific bureaus Of the Agricultural de-
partment
John Lehman. a Chicago street car
driver, went crazy over worry and
killed his three little children and
himself. One boy and girl escaped by
beirg away from home. The muir
derer had Si,5O0 IN the bank but he
continually worried for fear that some
day his savings would be swept away
and that his family would suffer.
A tin plate pool is being formed in
Pittsburg.
A dynamite explosion at Gwelo
killed 200 Matabeles.
Owing to i'll health Crisp has had to
cease public speaking in Georgia.
Electrocution will be the method of
capital punishment in Ohio after July
LIST.
Governor Mckinley will talk to the
Methodist conference at Cleveland
May 10.
A Toledo man has discovered the
original Egyptian process of making
mummics.
John Hoefs and wife, Matilda, of
Milwaukee were found dead from ar
senical poisoning.
A bill to open the publication of
Patent Office Gazette to general com.
petition passed the Senate.
r A fifty years extension is to be
given the Central and Union Pacific
railroads by the government.
A split has occurred in the Mu.
sicians' league, part of the organiza.
tion joining the Federation of Labor.
Wife and step-son of Joe HadiezalSe,
Pole ut st. Louis, fatally chopped
and beat him with a hatchet.
Five train men were killed and two
fatally injured by fall of bridge
near Bedford Junction, Ind.
The Dreibund offensive and defen.
sive agreement between Italy and
Germany, has been prolonged until
1902.
Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia has been
appointed consul general at Havana,
to succeed Ramon o. Williams, re.
signed.
The secret treaty between China
Celestial empire a dependency OF
Russia.
Five men were fatally injured by a
fire damp explosion in the Red Ash
vein of Woodward mine, Wilkesbarre,
Pa.
Mary Linnet OF Chicago formerly an
insane patient, killed Elizabeth Trow
bridge at Elgin, H., and then coro.
mitted suicide
Spanish government has ordered n
horse levy at Havana. Cubans who
refuse to sell will simply have their
horses confiscated.
William Graves OF New York, has
sued out n writ to compel Secretary
Carlisle to issue TO him 81, 800, 900 of
the new government bonds.
Patrick Finnegan of Colfax county,
Neb., killed his wife and himself, be-
cause the woman wouldn't sign deed
for sale of property.
Samuel Jones of Perry, Okla. got
| converted and gave back to the gov.
ernment n patent for u 81, 900 claim he
had obtained by false swearing.
John Dillon declares that the Irish
land bill as presented and explained
to the commons by Balfour is great
disappointment to Ireland.
Cholera, diphtheria and typhoid
fever germs succumb to the new light
according To Chicago professors who
claim the y rays are panacea.
County school superintendents oi
Kansas will meet in semi-annual con
vention at Newton May l2-li. Ed
ward Stanley, state superintendent
will deliver the address
j. Milton Turner. eX-minister 1,
Liberia, is in the city hospital at st
Louis with fractured skull, received
in q fracas with his step'daugbt
Mrs William Mason.
Italian immigrants are still coming
to America in droves. Over l5,o0t
have arrived in the last few weeks and
1000 more, many of them paupers, ar,
preparing to sail from Naples.