The Monitor-register., 1896-02-07
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


w NLIidIn LdpOrGe, william k1erer and
Roy Vesey were killed by an exploding
boiler in stave mill at Freeport, o.
The national senate elections committee
reported in favor of Dupont, Republican,
In the Delaware senatorship contest.
The national senate today passed the
free coinage substitute to the house bond /
bill by vote of ~ to So. 1t will doubtless
be killed in the house.
The report of the New York Yacht club
committee on Lord Dunraven's charges of !
unfairness in the Defender Valkyrie races
proves the charges utterly unfounded
A Madrid dispatch says: 1t is stated that |
overtures which the United States has |
made to the powers to recognize the Cuban
insurgents as belligerents have failed.
Monday, Feb. 8.
Dr. Arthur Duestrow, the millionaire
wife and child slayer of St. Louis, was
convicted of murder in the first degree.
Minnie Swanger, 13 years old, confessed
TO placing poison in the food which killed
ner uncle, William McGregor, at Altoona,
Pa.
A New York express on the Wabash road
colIded with freight train at Oakley
Ills. Engineer Rose, of the express, was
killed.
Aresolution censuring Ambassador Bay.
ard for recent utterances in England was
adoped by the national house foreign af-
fairs committee
Justin Mccarthy will resign the leader
ship of the Irish parliamentary party on
account of ill health. Thomas Sexton
may succeed him.
A Sunday fire in Philadelphia destroyed
fhn ef,N Ia,
five story building of the American Bap-
tist Publication society, and damaged ad-
| joining buildings. Loss, 81, 100000
Tuesday, Feb. A.
Reavel Savage United States consul at
Nantes, France, died yesterday.
New jerseys state convention for the
selection of delegates to the Republican
national convention will be held April 10.
Stephen B. French, ex-commissioner of
police in New York, committed suicide by
| shooting at his home in that city. Business
reverses was the cause.
In letter to Chairman Gowdy, of the
Indiana Republican state central commit
tee ex-President Harrison positively an
nounces that he is not a candidate for the
presidential nomination.
"A Dl5 iuttSS IlSoulIIS Ill NEW l. 1Ork, pre-
sided over by Chauncey NJ Depew, adopted
resolutions protesting against the recall
of Ballington Booth as commander of the
Salvation Army in America
Wednesday, Feb. 5.
The italian warship Christopher Co
lombo, having on board the Duke of ABB
ruzzi, nephew of the king of Italy, has ar
rived at San Francisco.
New Jersey Republican senators have
decided to reduce to a salary basis (S6. 900
per annum) the present offices of the clerk
of chancery and the clerk OF the supreme
court.
Governor Bushnell and staff left Column
bus this morning for Hartford, Conn, to
ask that state to take part in the centen-
nial anniversary of the settlement of the
Western Reserve of Ohio.
Thursday, Feb. 6.
Rev. Michael J. Hoban has been ap-
pointed by the pope as coadiutor to Bishop
O'Hara, of Scranton, Pa.
Lady Wilde, widow of Robert Wells
Wilde, M. D., and mother of Oscar and
Willie Wilde died in London.
At the meeting of the London Athletic
club last night no mention was made of
race for the Americas cup this year..
The report of the foreign relations COM
mittee to the national senate urges the
recognition of the Cuban insurgents, with
strict neutrality on our part
Krout, the Wells-F Fargo express agent at
Colorado Springs. Colo, who robbed the
company of $4,000, was last night SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment. All but
Sla5 of the money was recovered.
Friday, Jan. J.
Harry Howard former chief of the old
New York volunteer fire department., died
in New York yesterday, aged a.
A heavy snowstorm has ragged for two
days in the Black Hills, South Dakota. II
is Godsend to cattle rangers and farmers.
Cable dispatches announce these deaths
in London: General Charles Patton Keyes,
K. c. B.. Henry Leslie, musical composer:
Marius, the actor
William Sage, freight traffic agent of
the Rock Island railroad, died at his home
in Chicago last night. Mr.. Sage was
stricken with paralysis Wednesday night.
News received at St. Johns, n. f., from
Fortune Bays western ports says awful
destitution among the people exists. The
failure of the herring fisheries has reduced
them to absolute poverty.