Warren sheaf., 1896-12-17


ing organized at Butte, Mont. to join
the insurgents in January.
Vernon White, q 13-year-old boy, was
accidentally hanged at Omaha by his
playmates while playing police.
The tobacco manufacturing plant Of
Brown Bros. at Winston, N. c., was
burned, the loss being $l50:O00.
Rev. DR.. 7. De Witt Talmnge denies
the report that he is to be married to
Miss Susie Mangam. Of Sing Sing. N. Y.
Cliff Simpson, 20 years old, stabbed
and fatally wounded his teacher, Clar-
eence Campbell, at Vaudeville, Mo-, be-
cause the latter chastised him.
Frank c. Vierling, prominent real
estate dealer in Chicago. failed for
$4,000.
The Iron Mountain fast express train
was held up within the city limits of
st. Louis by six masked men, but the
express safe could not be opened and
the bandits fed without booty.
The report that William Drury. OF
New Boston, ILL.,, the large land owner,
is dead, proves to be false.
The seventh annual convention of the
Non-Partisan National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union began in WASH
ington.
At Missouri Valley, Ia, Benny Free.
man shot his father, DR.. George Free
man, and then killed himself. No cause
is known.
Scar-Faced Charley, a notorious
Modoc chief, died of consumption on
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tory.
The Alabama legislature has taken
recess until January 20.
Rev. Samuel Bailey was arrested at
Westchester. Pa, for the murder of his
wife.
Joseph 81. Kriesel and his sister Lena,
of New Richmond, Wis.,, were struck
ard instantly killed by west-bound
passenger train.
Miss Mae Kelly, prominent young
society woman, fell dead at Catholic
fair in Duluth, Minn.. just as she had
begun singing "He Giveth His Beloved
Sleep"
The annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform league was begun
in Philadelphia.
The two children of William Bledsoe,
living near Sasakwa, 0. T., were burned
to death by a prairie fire. 9,-s
The banking house OF Jonathan Es-
terry & Go. at Columbiana, O., closed it's
doors with liabilities of $l65.OOO.
The Harlan state bank at Harlan,
Ia, closed its doors, owing deposltors
$4,000.
Attorney-General Harmon in his an
nual report to congress expresses sat
isfaction at the results of the new salary
system which displaced the old fee sys-
tenn July of the present year. Alarge
reduction is shown in every one of the
items which would naturally be affected
by the fee system. During the year the
court considered 374 cases. A new
crimes act is one of the things the at
torney-general thinks is needed.
The interstate commerce commission
has issued preliminary report of the
income and expenditures of the rail
ways in the United States for the year
ending June 80, 1896, which shows that
the net earnings on 172,3G9 miles were
$26S. .675.047.
John R. Strauchen, for many years a
mason contractor at Rochester, N. T.,
failed for $120.0o0.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
O65, ,63S,S61, against $1,2S5, ,SO4 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was SO.
There were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 379 the week
previous. and 333 in the corresponding
period of 1885,
/ Mustapha Bey, the Turkish minister,
has received peremptory instructions
from his government to secure retrac-
ton of the injurious statements made
by President Cleveland in his message
to congress. and a rupture of the dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Turkey is threatened.
The corn crop in. Illinois this year is
2Ss 100000 bushels, which is the largest
yield in the history of the state.
Marshall ]. Miller was hanged at San
Quentin, Cal. for the murder of Jo-
.seph Pierre, Of Marysville. last May.
| The Georgia legislature has passed a
bill making women eligible for state IL
brarian.
The International rhypothecate bank
was incorporated at Dubuque, Ia, with
a capital of $1O.OOO.OOO.
Walter F. Slade and Francis II.
Clough. operating the Clear River wool
en- mills at Burrellville, r. l., failed for
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