The Globe-republican., 1896-03-05
NEWS in BRIEF.

king6sher. Okla. is to have Con-
gregatiOnal college. -
Evening News, Washington daily,
has suspended.
Detroit white lead works were dam
aged S65, 900 by fire.
Prohibition in Iowa is dead for Eve
years, the constitutional amendment
being defeated in the legislature.
Business portion of Florence, S. c.,
burned; loss 500, 900. half insured.
George Williams. a printer, was ere
mated.
Body snatching seems epidemic.
Seattle's cemeteries are depopulated
to I'LL the watts of San Francisco med
zeal colleges.
A gasoline stove explosion at Eureka,
S. d.. killed Mrs. Frank Pickett and
two children, Hattie aged and Clar-
ence aged 4.
Rev. Ferdinand Bergmeyer, Fran
ciscan priest, was fatally shot at Santa
Barbara, Cal, by a demented employee,
Ii. ii. e. krusemeyer.
Two indictments against j. O. T.
Burnside for embezzling $4,000 from
the POstoffic< department at Washing
ton in 1855 have been dismissed.
Funds sufficient to complete the
Grant monument have been secured
and it will be dedicated April -. 1897,
the anniversary of his birthday.
Scores OF people are dying in Sgd
ney, Australia, from sunstroke Ter
rifle storms have occurred, crops are
ruined and stock is starving.
Mics ,o~ ~, <l,o
ness stand in San Francisco that she
had entered into a plot with Mrs. Da-
wilson to blackmail Rev. Mr.. Brown.
F. l. Woodward of the Lawrence
scientific school at Harvard has de-
vised lamp by which cathode shadow
graphs are obtained in five seconds.
General Lewis Merrill. who COM
manded a brigade known as ''Merrill's
horse" in North Missouri during the
civil war, is dead in Philadelphia,
aged 81.
Administration Democrats refused
to submit the free silver question to
primaries in Nebraska and abide by
the result in sending delegates to
Chicago.
A favorable report has been ordered
in Congress on the bill to abolish the
fee system and put United States dis
trict attorneys and marshals on salary.
Six thousand garment workers in
Baltimore are on strike.
The revolution in Nicaragua is TO-
mented by priests and is plot to
overthrow the liberal administration
and to prevent friendly relations with
the United States. Government troops
have already captured the town of
Nagarate. The war has become gen
eral and the whole country is wild
with enthusiasm. Nicaraguan sol
diers wear jean jumpers and pants
and straw hats, go barefOOted and
few beens and plantain makes big
meal for one of them.
Bill West, q noted desperado, vino
escaped from the Fort Scott Jail about
a year ago, has been recap:ured in
South Dakota.
Thomas Davenport. who was jailed
at LeavenwOrth charged vi:h com
piicity liz the murder OF j. Z. Lambosa
at Fall Leaf, was released.
William SimmOnds, a confessed horse
thief from Joplin, Mo-, was shot in the
thigh while attempting to escape from
officers at Fort Scott
Rev. Thomas Grace has been made
Bishop of Sacramento.
Arabkir Armenians to tne number
of 1000 have been murdered recently.
The Indiana Prohibit:onists nomi-
mated ticket and adopted a platform.
Captain ID. Z. Shea of Mexico. Mo-,
who made a gallant record in the Civil
war, is dead.
Ex-Representative Bevier of Indiana
committed suicide at Niles by sending
bullet into his brain.
Nick Crews. student. was publicly
disgraced at the State Normal ut War.
rensburg for drunkenness.
The State Department is informed
that Germany is fighting American
grain OF the ground that it contains
| bacteria.
General Manager Hays is introduce
ing a system of rigid economy on the
Grand Trunk, and continues to make
many changes.
The kentucky Legislature threw
out bill providing for the forfeiture
of the Southern Pacific's charter. The
vote was a decisive one.
1t is predicted that the bitter fight
between Teller and Sherman in the
Senate will result in a formal with
drawal of the free coinage Republi-
cans at the st. Louis convention next
June.
Postmaster Krebs, Indian Territory.
is short $3.50, and his bOndsnch S-e in
charge.
Samuel Edison, father Of The inven-
COR, died at Milan, Ohio. aged 81.
Twenty counties in Alabama SO far
(, out of sixty-six have chosen Mckinley
delegates.
McKinley's friends claim 443 votes
| for him on the first ballot in the VA
| tiOnal convention.
w. F. Yardley, negro lawyer. will
run as an independent candidate for
governor of Tennessee.
New YORK; chamber of commerce has
decided to make g vigorous campaign
for sound money.
Ice in the Missouri river at Omaha
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