The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-07-18
LATE NEWS NOTES.

'N'hc0S NNiihk FNHNtihbtis
New York Republican convention
will bc held Mt Saratoga August IS.
National party of Kansas will hold
convention at Emporla, July 20
Shortage of Ex-City Attorney
Morcland of Pittsburg and his assist
ant, House, foots up $4,000.
Over 900 employees of the United
States Car company ut IIcgewisch, n
suburb OF Chicago, are out on "a strike
At 1ronwood, Mich all the mines OF
the Metropolitan Iron company were
shut down and 1900 men arc idle.
Dullness is the cause.
Captain j. H. : Wiborg OF the fli-
clustering steamer lIorsa has surren-
dered Mt Philadelphia to serve sixteen
months in prison for carrying an cx.
pcdition to Cuba.
OF the 2si Republican papers in
Kansas 265 have declared uncquivo.
cally for the national platform adopted
ut St Louis Twelve express them
selves dissatisfied but will support the
nominees. Two have bolted and will
not support the ticket.
A cloudburst at Wegee Creek, O.,
near Bellaire, drowned James Bcrey,
wife and child, and destroyed the
Bcllaire, GAINESVILLE a Cincinnati rail-
way bridge, the largest trestlc on the
Pittsburg s. Ohio Valley railroad. u
Pres terian church and other build
ings
Bill Doo.lin and Dynamite Dick, :"
prisoners who escaped from Guthrie
jail, are robbing and shooting as of
old. They took horse and buggy
from a couple out riding from Guthrie.
then rode to Morrison and robbed
Grant Owens saloon, shooting the
bartender
The Venezuelan government intends
to donate to the city OF New York an
| equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar,
and has commissioned the work TO the
Italian sculptor, Giovanni Turini of
Staten island. The cost of the statue
will be about SO. 900
a special from Kingston, Jamaica,
| says: An officially recognized rumor
has been current in Kingston that a
Spanish warship recently secretly
landed force at Dry Harbor TO kid
nap Cuban alleged to be the chief
mover in filibustering expeditions,
and break up an organized system for
sending arms and supplies to Cuba.
Natural gas product is decreasing
Sixteen prisoners broke Jail at To.
| cumseh. ok.
The coddling moth has begun an at
tack on Kansas orchards.
| Massachusetts cotton mills will re-
main closed during July and August,
Dick Younger and II. II. Harmon.
marshall Of Adairville, KY, shot each
other dead on the highway.
Arkansas prohibitionists decided to
support the Bentley-free silver pro-
hibition wing of the party.
Keolsus Preobytery suspended Rev.
William y. Nelson, late of Montrosc,
Iowa, for unministerial conduct.
| General Felix A. Robertson, charged
with the murder of Captain c. Il. Bew-
ley. was aquitted at Waco, Texas.
Sidney Randolph, n negro charged
with assault, vas taken from Jail and
hung by mob at Rockville, Md.
| J. Il. Isenman and William llaskins,
mining engineers, were killed by
their Mexican servants. near Winnie.
gas, Mexico
| a. Il. Cady OF st. Paul has been
nominated by the Sixth Nebraska
Republicans to run against q. NJ.
Keim, the Populist
| Professor James G. Foye of Armour
institute, Chicago, was overcome by
the heat while bicycling, and died In
the street.
Charles Mack, who killed his wife,
two miles east of Little Rock. Ark,
was captured near Pine Bluff lie
confessed his guilt
William Haas, who worked for
William Broder, Covedale, o., us
saulted his employers wife, then Gu,
her throat and fired the house.
At Chicago, in the suit of o. W.
Holmes, jr., againsta u publishing firm
the court decides that he has no prop
erty rights In DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes "Autocrat Of the Breakfas,
Table"
A mob at Powell, Tex, took jim
Powell, n negro ravisher, away from
officers and started TO lynch him. bu,
relented and after two hours con
cluded to let the law take it's course
Assistant Attorney General Newell
Of Illinois is of the opinion that green
backs, and all circulating notes o
national banking associations or the
general government are subject u
taxation.
Ex-senator ingalls, pronounces E,
forgery the letter purported to have
been written by him wherein the de
feat of Mckinley is predicted on ac
count Of the gold sentiment control
ing the ST. Louis convention.
Mutes association of Missouri, Kan
sas and Iowa held reunion Mt Law
renee July 4. Charles Curtis of Law
renee was elected chairman and Lin
coin Eller of Watson secretary. Mex
reunion will be hold at Topeka July 0
July there were in the Missour
State penitentiary, 9,225 prisoners, O
whom fifty-two were females. Aver
age maintenance Of these prisoner
was $50 cents per head. Includin,
clothing and all other necessaries eacl
convict costs the State about thirty
cents per day.
Ned Riordan, aged 90, an inmate o
the Soldiers home, Leavenworth, ha
just made application for naturaliza
tion papers. lie was born in Ireland
but came to America when u younJ
man and served through the late wa
In tho Seventh Missouri regimen
under Colonel John +. Philips. nov
The United States Judge at Kansa
Cry.
over hundred shots were ey
changed by deputy shcrffs and striker
at tie Berea stone quarries, Westvicw
Ohio. The union men had formed
mob to drive ont the non-union ones
! Ninth Iowa Republicans have re