The Taney County republican., 1896-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS III BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Gov. MATTHEW'S. of Indiana, and a
distinguished party, among whom
vas ex-President Harrison, on the 21st,
presented a silver service and library
S so the battleship Indiana in honor of
{ her name.
OLIVER w. WINTHROP, who was con-
sicted in San Francisco, of abducting
and robbing James Campbell, the
Hawaiian millionaire, was, on the 21st,
Sentenced TO imprisonment for life.
The democratic committee an
nounces that Mr.. Bryan's Brooklyn
speech has been postponed from Sep
! tember % to September %. This will
entail a change of his other eastern
dates.
The monthly statement of collections
of internal revenues shows the total
receipts for the month of August to
have been sl1, ,527, ,O74, as compared with
412. l6t.. s55 during August, 1898.
IRWIN GRANDIN, a poor man. Is
months ago bought farm of 20 acres
on Broad run, near st. Mary's, w. Va,
for $50 He has now five producing
oil wells, bringing him $500 a day roy
Alties.
= RIoTINe by striking miners at Lead
vile, Col, began, soon after midnight
on the morning of the 21st, by an at
tack upon the Coronado mine, where
. desperate engagement was fought be-
tween the strikers and the men in
! trenched in the mine. The strikers
nsed dynamite and the torch, and de-
stroyed the shaft houses and outbuild-
ings, losing three of their number
killed and one mortally wounded.
The strikers then moved on to other
mines, where the employees, being pre-
pared for the attack, gave them a
warm reception. A call for state aid
was made, and troops were soon hur-
rying to the scene.
BANKER FRANCIS A. COFFIN, of
indianapolis. Ind. was sent to prison,
on the 21st, to serve his term for
wrecking national bank.
i THE expected and officially predicted
improvement in the condition of the
national treasury has not yet come to
pass In fact, the condition is steadily
growing worse. The receipts for the
first 20 days of September were S16,>
6s6, ala against receipts in the same
days of September, 1895, of Sis, $50, SIT.
= Gov. HASTINGS of Pennsylvania, on
the 21st, pardoned John Bardsley,
formerly treasurer of Philadelphia,
who, on July 2, 1891, was sentenced to
Is years in the eastern penitentiary
for misappropriating over $500, 200 of
city and state money while occupying
his official position.
WHAT is believed to be genuine case
of leprosy was accidentally discovered
In the waiting-room at Bellevue hos
pital, New York, on the 21st. The vic
tim is George Fleming. 40 years old,
German baker.
SPEAKER REED, Senators Frye and
Hale, and congressman Dingley, Mil
liken and Boutelle will leave Maine to
take the stump for the republican
party in the middle and western states.
The London Times expresses the be-
lief that Russia and japan have agreed
to joint protectorate in Corea, Rus
sia, virtually taking the position there
that China had before the war.
JOHN COINS was sentenced at Frank
lin, Ind, on the 2Ist, to four years i'm
prisonmcnt IN the penitentiary for lar
ceny. Coins offense was stealing Eve
chickens.
PRINCESS OLGA of Montenegro, niece
of Nicholas l., the reigning prince of
Montenegro, died on the 21st. She was
born at Cettinje on March 10. 1859, and
was not married.
JULIA BRADLEY, an aged woman of
Peoria, ILL.,, has bestowed all her for
tune, estimated at Sc. 2O0, 600, upon the
University of Chicago, on condition
that branch school shall be built at
Peoria. Mrs. Bradley has planned for
the gift for Is years, but the fact has
only now leaked out.
n. A. CRAIG. city marshal Of Table
Rock. Neb., was killed, on the 22d, by
one of two tramps whom he sought to
arrest as suspected post Office burglars.
The deputy marshal tripped over the
body of his fallen chief and both
tramps escaped.
A PRIVATE telegram received in
Washington, on the 22d, by United
States Treasurer Morgan stated that
Calls Bey, husband of P. T. Barnum's
widow, died, on the 21st, in Conssan-
tnople.
The artillery department. of the
Turkish war Office has on exhibition
40 Armenian bombs from five to nine
inches in length, which the authori-
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factory in Constantinople.
The official report of the trial trip
81 the cruiser Brooklyn gives the ves-
EeeFs speed at 81. 9117 knots, which earns
nor the Cramps. her builders, pre-
nium Of $3.50. 1000
TIE boiler of a cotton, ten-wheel
locomotive on the Big Four railroad
y eufst Ut Pekin, H., on the 22d, hurl-
Nng the enormous engine more than
ssoo feet, partially demolishing large
aetory, killing the fireman and break
#Mg nearly all the glass within a quar-
~ OF mile of the scene of the re-
saxkable accident. Pieces of the
3 eyine were picked up 1000 feet away.
xHK directors of the American Bell
4elephone Co. met in Boston, on the
and declared the regular quarter
aividend Of three per cent This
Mos 101s per cent. declared SO far
~ year.
AAxRE was n severe frost, on the
s I = sning Of the 23d, all over north
pa and Indian territory. The top
Of cotton was injured.
unBERr Louis DUPREEz. the cele-
- esed French tenor, died ae Passy
- The Esd. He was 80 years of age.