The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-04-30
NEWS STATED BRIEFLY

cleveland capitalists are building 9
wagon factory at Piqua.
Miss Cordelia clymer, Of Bucyrns,
will teach music in Honolulu.
Hundreds of bogus so and Is ceat
coins are in circulation in Omaha
Fire destroyed the Lima steel casting
works. Loss. $4,000; insurance IS, 900.
It is reported that oil has been struch
In quantity near Tuxpan, Mexico.
Six hundred delegates are present al
the State Council Of Red Men at New
ark
Ms. Abram Mitchell was fatally in.
jured by natural gas explosion near
Piqua.
Congressman Grow declines to be
candidate for trustee Of Amherst COB
.eQe.
Tie annual Yale chess tourney was
won BY harles @. Bonsall, of Chicago,
ILL.,, from j. c. Ross.
The British bark Drumeltan, from
Shanghai April II for Tacoma, ran
ashore at Nakashima.
Sir John Thompson 6eries that he
has said Canada will remove the duty
on coal if the United States does.
The Alpha Delta Phi society Of Yale,
Has bought site for a club house on
Iii, house avenue, New Haven, Conn.
The Canadian government will moi
make display at the Antwerp exposi.
ton, owing to the charges for space.
Herman Stockell, Of iuba City. wis.
was Wednesday held for grand Jury
for forging notes amounting to $1,000
Mr.. Theodore Runyon. United States
ambassador to GermGny, arrived in
Rome THURSDAY on his way to Naples.
Fire at the arsenal at Monrillon.
France, Thursday night, destroyed the
great saw mills, causing a loss Of
sl,2i0.
At Chester Park, England, Thursday
the Chester cup was won by Qugsitum,
Dare Devil second and Spindle Leg
third.
Joseph Lawton, the Springfield (Ill.l
manager Of the New York Installmen;
company, Is missing, with accounts
/ short,
Floyd +. Peresett, on trial at Rome,
n. u, for manslaughter, was Friday
adjudged guilty Of assault in the second
degree.
The thirty.eighth annual convention
Of Heptasophs, or the Order of Seven
Wise Men, began in Baltimore, Nd,
Tuesday.
The Ontario supreme court IL consid-
erIng the constitutional case referred
TO it to decide the right Of prohibition
In the provinces
| The estate Of the late Hoadley B.
ives, president Of the New Haven
Comm Horse Railway company, Is
worth nearly $500, 900.
| Nearly five hundred ingram weayers
OF the Lowell lsfass.l Carpet company
struck Friday for longer hours and a 10
per cent advance.
i Proceedings to GUST the Illinois Cen.
trail from land Illegally occupied on the
lake front Of Chicago, Ill, are TO be In
stituted at once.
Eight miles Of coal land near Ash
land. Pa, owned by the Locust Noun.
tain Coal and Iron company, has been
sold 70 L. A. Riley 4 Co.
Governor Flower has appointed Chat.
field Leonard, of Cooperstown, surro.
gate Of otsego county, vice Hon. Al
bert G. remnant, resigned.
The Cologne Gazette says the Rm-
peror Of Germany may not be present
ct the marriage OF the Czarewitch 20
Princess Alice Of Hesse.
Princess Clementine, youngest daugh-
Ger Of King Leopold, is III with serious
bronchial affection. She is In her
twenty-second year.
The case Of The liability Of the Yacht
Conqueror 10 import duties goes over 10
the next term Of the United States
court, beginning MayIL
DR.. Ahlwardt, the German Jew-bait.
ing deputy, has been condemned "a
three months imprisonment for alan.
. 'lering government officials.
! A fireman was killed and $4,000
damage done In freight collision In
/ The yards Of the ST. Louis, Keoluk and
Northwestern At 81. Louis. Mo.
The British bark Ruth Palmer. from
, Belfast April for Miramichi, was sunk
u sea BY collision with an iceborg
Yer crew have arrived Al ST piarpa
SHE SIZES THE PEOPLE W.
II
| a Fruit seller Tens why she somstims<
Sets Erorbitaat Prices on Her wares.
/ While waiting for q cross-town car "a
the ferry the other day, said lady
according 70 . Chicago paper, saw I
, well-dresscd woman stop az fruit
stand on the corner andask the woman
IN charge the price Of ounces. ! did
. not hear the response, but heard the
, inquirer's exclamation a. she Gounee6
, away.
'0h, you are exorbitantf"
, Two italian laborers stopped 70 price
, the tempting-iooking fruit
Fifty cents apiece for quinces,'
, said the fruit seller, and the astonisksd
men passed on almost at q run, talking
, excitedly together In their native
, tongue and evidently feeling that they
|. had barely escaped serious financial
, peril
Curious 10 learn the reason for her
, high valuations timidly advanced In
my turn and inquired the price Of
!, ounces Her terms, courteously given,
i were moderate, which emboldened me 70
ask why she had named 30 high prics
70 The person who had como before me.
II have been selling fruit at this
: sNard o.. tays a.. " a.. Ia -