The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Kedneadax. Feb. IL.


At conference of the leading Pennsyl-
yania Republicans it was decided to pre-
sent the name of Senator Quay at St.
Louis for president.
Dennis O'Hearn, 80, was arraigned be-
fore Justice Tighe in Brooklyn on the
charge of assaulting his mother, Bridget
O'Hearn, 63 years old.
Fire did great damage in the town Of
Bethel, Conn. Fox's hotel together with
small fish store was destroyed, and the
Nichols Opera House was gutted
Governor Griggs of New Jersey wrote q
letter to Judge Thomas s Henry, counsel
for Kohl, the Newark murderer, refusing
to reconvene the board of pardons.
Fire swept along portion OF the river
front in Washington, destroying the Home
Ice company's plant, Neipze's hshhouse
and a number of lighthouses, boats and
yachts; loss. $2O. 900.
Thursday, Feb. IS.
The death is announced in Paris OIL
Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, the Gel
ebrated musical composer.
The directors of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railroad have elected Mr.. A. q. Blair
Of Toledo president of that company.
The Somerset Stove Foundry company 8
works in Somerset, Mass, were totally
destroyed by fire. The loss Is $25, 600
Grant Atterbury was taken from the
iail at Sullivan, Ills, by mob, dragged
to the courthouse and hanged to tree,
The president has pardoned, on account
of broken health, Samuel d. Brown, SEN
fenced in. Pennsylvania to four years I'M
nrisonment and fine for breaking into a
postoffice.
William Sayers, a secret service agent,
while assisting in flying switch IN the
Pennsylvania railroad yards in Camden, N.
]. fell in front of the cars, and the train
severed his head from his body.
Attorney General Hancock of New York
state has denied the application OF Fit
Barrow to begin an action to restrain the
Central Trust company of New York from
selling the consolidated stock certificates
OF the Chicago Gas trust.
Friday, Feb. Ia.
Ten prisoners made dash for liberty
at the county jail in Carlinville, his, and
only one has been captured
The American line steamship Paris,
from New York, sunk the local steamer
Her Majesty while docking at Southamp-
ton.
The main building of Charlotte Hall
school at Bowie, one of the oldest educa-
tonal institutions in Maryland, has been
burned
Israel Goodman, prominent farmer OF
North Lyons, n. Y, fell dead from heart
disease while jumping out of his sleigh in
front of his harm.
While a small steamer was crossing the
Brisbane river, in Queensland, with about
80 passengers on board, she was capsized,
and only "a persons were saved.
The largest failure OF the year at Mont
rei,l is tr suspension Of r. :. vipond,
Son {. Co, X a esaIc produce merchants.
The Tia lite. arc believed to be about
$9aaiip0.
The t.aas > Shipbuilding company Of
Pin ,e9isl,i, axe hen awarded the oon-
trs in q i ~ revenue cuttcr No for
t..o i'ar tc .s-. The new cutter is to be
>,eurtlay. Feb. 10.
.fo-.4.l il ,oohue. the champion fast
si>i,ser is;,- I'd sa5O in the county court
at N,'w urz ). y. for assault in the sec
ond tIesr.,
Gnvcrit,; Morton has signed the bill
transferring the Palisades of the Hudson
river tu the national government for ma
tional park.
A dispatch from Santiago tle Cuba says
that the insurgent leader Felix Denis has
been killed in an engagement with the
Spanish troops.
A bequest of $50, 900 has been made to
the college for women of the Western Re
serve university in Ohio by Mrs. $. Y.
Hardness of New York
Prince Boris. eldest sou of Prince Fer
diDand of Bulgaria. was baptized with
great ceremony according to the rites of
the Greek church at Sofia.
Judge Morton, in the supreme court.
granted temporary Injunction restrain
ing the Rev. G. Z. Kennaott from preach
ing in tho First Congregational church at
Lowell Mass
Monday, Feb. II.
Mrs Eliza j. Nicholson. proprietress OF
The Picayune, died in New Orleans.
Thomas Hewes Hinckloy, anaartist Of
wide fame, died at his home in Milton,
Mass.
Tie big oilcloth plant of Fair ~ Bailey,
nj CnmdeD, 4. j., was burned. Six build
in2s were destroyed.
John Wright died at his home in Santa
Rosa county, Fla. aged l2S He had been
blind for many years.
Mr.. John l., Peak. the new United
States minister to switzerland, has arrived
in Bern and presented his credentials to
the president and vice president. who re-
turned his visits.
Miss Frances NJ. Goodwin, formerly of
Newcastle, Ind, has been commissioned
ny the Governments fn make a marble hugt