The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-11-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

OF jules Ferry, dled In Parf6 on the
26th.
Two LARGE grain elevators owned
by the Chicago & Pacific Elevator
Co., located on the north branch of
the Chicago river, in the locality
known as Goose island, and containing
more than million bushels of wheat,
besides corn and oats, we're destroyed
by fire, on the Goth, together with sew
eral frame dwellings adjoining. The
loss, which is fully covered by insur-
ance, is estimated at s., 100000
SECRETARY HERBERT left Washing
ton, on the 27th, to make three
speeches in the Alabama congress
sional district which he formerly rep
resented, in the interest of Palmer's
election.
TREASURER ST. JOHN of the demo-
cratic national committee is on the
sick list. Mr.. st. Johns eyes have
given out, and he is compelled to take
few days vacation.
AT three o'clock on the morning of
the Goth, the packing department of
the Acme Powder Co., located 13 miles
from Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Allegheny
river, was blown up and totally des-
troycd, and two packers, named Stoh
and Andrews, the only occupants of
the building at the time, were blown
to atoms.
THE call for the next annual meeting
of the Farmers National congress has
been issued by President B. L. Clayto
of Indianola, Ia, and Secretary John
NJ. Stahl, of Chicago. The meeting
will be held at Indianapolis, Ind, No
vember 1913.
ADvICEs from Harpoot, eastern Tur-
key, received in Boston, confirm dis
patches in regard to the extent and
barbarity Of the recent massacres at
Egin. These advices state that many
of the dead were left in the streets for
days as food for dogs.
KING HUMBERT, in honor of the mar
riage of the crown prince and Princess
Helene of Montenegro, has appointed
a6 senator's, among whom is Prince
Emanuel Ruspolf de Poggio Suasa. the
mayor of Rome, whose wife was for
merly Miss Curtis, of Boston, Mass.
The Sac and Fox Indian agency, 60
miles southeast of Guthrie, Okla, was
held up and looted, on the Goth, by the
same gang of bandits that looted the
town of Carney. The Sac and Fox
agency is only Sc miles from Carney.
ELMER CLAYTON, the 1s-year-old
youth who was convicted of murder
ing Henry Hodgetts, a farmer of
Pluckemin, was arraigned at Somer-
vile, n. j.. and sentenced by Judge
Magic to be hanged on December 16.
Two ACTIVE young women prisoners,
arrested for being drunk and disor-
derly, jumped from high barred win
dow of the Tombs prison, New York
city, on the 26th, and made their es-
cape.
Ex-CONGRESSMAN CHARLES A. Ell
BRIDGE died at his home in Fond du
Lac, Wis, on the Goth, after a pro-
longed illness.
JAMES L. HUEY, who has been a rest
dent of Arkansas City, Kas., since
1871, committed suicide on the Goth.
He locked himself in his room and
turned on the gas, dying from asphyxi-
alton.
HENRY w. CORNELL, a lawyer, and a
son of ex-Gov. A. B. Cornell, was ar
rested at Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. on the
26th, charged with grand larceny.
Cornell denies the allegation.
The police of Milwaukee,, on the
glary Minnie Gordon. aged II years,
and her step-sister, Mary Freuck, aged
81 years.
The preliminary inquiry into the
case of e. ii. Horner. the alleged Eu-
ropean lottery swindler, arrested in
Montreal, Can, recently, was con-
tinucd on the 21th. 1t is said that let
ters are being received every day,
| alleging fresh instances of Horner's
sharp practices.
Mrs. CARRIE WHALEN, wife of Daniel
Whalen, jumped from C bridge at
Rochester, N. Y, with her infant child
in her arms. She was rescued with a
rake, but the babe was dead. She said
she was moved to the act because her
husband could not support her. She
had been drinking.
The treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, on the 9th, stood at
Sis, 9,O56, PAS. The days Withdrawals
at New York We're $43l ,4OU.
The battleship Oregon arrived at
Monterey, Cal, on the 27th, to prepare
for her final acceptance trial of 4s
hours at sea.
THERE was filed in the Middlesex
COuTC OI 1uSOAVCHCy tG CdSt SdAu W iuS Cs
Mass, on the 27th, a voluntary petit
ton of insolvency on behalf of Rev.
Elmer II. Capan, d. D., president of
Tufts college. There was no state
ment of assets and liza bilities.
Gov. STONE of Missouri has offered
| a reward of $500 for the arrest and
sentence to the penitentiary of each
person who robbed the Chicago & Al
| ton train at Blue Cut, on the night OF
the cath, and $500 for each one sem
fenced to be hanged.
The Illinois state supreme court, on
the 27th. refused to grant a rehearing
in the case of Julius Mannow, the
| self-confessed murderer of Carey B.
Birch in Chicago.
THE three-year-old SON of Oscar Mar
! shall, North Bend (Wis.) farmer,
| was murdered, on the 28th, at Gales
Vile, by hired man named Palmer.
Marshall and the man had quarrel,
md to get even with his employer
| Palmer took the little boy to the barn
and deliberately crushed his skull with
! an AK.
AFTER partial hearing in the case
of Dugald Crawford, charged with at
| tempting to intimidate voters, Acting
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