The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-01-16
FORSYTH, MO, THURSDAY, JANUARY Is, 1876

CHESTER McCoRxLD, aged Is, and
Reuben Fisher, 10, living near Dorsey
VILE. Pa, found . can Of blasting
powder, ON the 9TH, and accidentally
exploded it. McCorlrle died several
hours later, and there was no hope for
Fishers recovery.
AT prayer meeting at South Pasa-
dena, CAL, man known as Charles
Crawford arose, under deep excite
ment, and stated he could not hold his
secret any longer. He then announced
that he was Albert Deffendorfer, son
of wealthy merchant Of Huntington,
Pa, and fugitive from justice, under
sentence for burglary and larceny in
Pcnnsylvania. He went to Los Ange-
les, on the 7th. and gave himself up to
the sheriff.
THE secretary of the treasury has sent
to the house of representatives list Of
officers of the government coming un-
der his department. who are now delin-
quent In rendering their accounts or
In the payment of balances due from
them for the last fiscal year.
The delegation of the Cuban repub-
lie, Gen. Thomas Estrada Palma, Sec
retary Gonza1a Querada and Treasurer
Horatio Rubens, reached Washington,
on the 7th, after an absence of ten
days, to resume their efforts to secure
recognition and an accordance of bel
ligerent rights to their government.
CAPT. ALLEN, of the University of
Chicago football team of 1895, an
nounced, on the 9Th, that he had left
the university and started east to
study for the ministry.
UNKNOWN men called at the home of
Ed. Welsh, at Holton, Kas., on the
night of the 7th, blindfolded him,
threw him to the floor, cut off his left
hand with an AK and robbed him. The
community was aroused and blood
hounds were put on the trail of his as
sailants, who carried away the severed
hand with them.
SEVERAL men were injured in Win
terset, Ia, on the 7th. by the collapse
of building occupied by the C. d.
Beverington Hardware Co., on the
south side of the square. The stock
and building were ruined, as was the
stock and building next west, also car
ried down by the crash.
A PRIVATE bank at Fayette, o., was
entered by burglars on the night of
the 7th, the safe blown open and every
thing of value taken. The robbers
probably got ten thousand dollars.
THE republican senatorial caucus, on
the Sth, decided to have the tariff bill
reported to the senate as it came from
the house, without amendment.
On the sth, Acting Portuguese Min
lister Senior Taveir, at Washington re-
ceived cablegram conveying the in
telligence of the capture of Gungun-
guese troops.
THE Akron, Bedford & Cleveland In.
ter-Urban Railway Co. IS bridge which
spanned Tinker's creek, just southeast
of Bedford, O., went down under the
weight of a 1OO-horse power motor and
heavy cr-lQad of coal on the 9th
Three trainmcn went down with the
bridge, one Of whom Wa. killed out
right and the other two fatally in
jured.
In the tank of the steamer Her.
mann, which arrived at Hull, England,
on the 9th, from Buenos Ayres, were
found fifteen stowaways. Six of them
were dead, and the remaining nine
were in an insens;ble condition, and
would have died in few hours.
PERSISTENT rumors were in circula-
tion in Madrid, on the 9th, that Capt.
Gen. Campos will be succeeded by Gen.
Polavieja or by Gen. Weller, in COM
mand of the Spanish forces in Cuba,
but the cabinet council decided not to
accept Campos' resignation.