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in-lan Head ou the sth. nrinv ten
inch armnr- piercing csprsi she'll at .
IL i-iucu plate. The latter uas nickel
stevL Harvey irel- The she'll went
through the plate and explo.isd GA the
other si'ie- the test was considered
mpst satisfactory.
~ THE result o. a wager. PROF. Ar
thur - Aulrc>s,v aud Mss Louise
charlotte Wihorg were married. ga the
uight 81 the sth. ia the den containing
the monster iiuns a.-slr r aud CLEOPATRA
at the hn>tou zpA An immense crowd
witnessed the ceremony. and eheered
ihe couple a. they emerged from the
den.
bE " " SHEFFIELD. a prominent
dentist. died at New I.onsion. Conn. on
the fih. aged - years Dr. sheffield
was oae of the be>t-knowa dentists in
the United States having acquired
considerable prominence by his tooth
erowning patents.
THE president has ordered a court
martial To try Capt Lowering. whose
undcnied brutality towards Private
Hammond has been exploited in the
press The court will at at Fort Sheri-
dan. Chicago. November p. under the
presidency Of lsr.g ten. !. T. Wade.
Mrs CEiIA WALLACE. who resides at
thc Auditorium. Chicago. and - a child
les widow, has taken 4 fancy To
bvangelina Cossio Cisnerus the Gu
ban refugee. and has offered tn adop;
the Cuban maid aud make her an heir
10 a fortune estimated by friends Of
Mrs Wallace at S5o0.Uo1.
II a book ON the Cuban war Just pub
lished in Havana, Gen. Weyler writes
the Introduction. In one place he
says; The system Of warfare carried
on by me during this campaign is not
a new one. II is the same a. pursued
10y the Anne ricans of the north when
they fought their bre,hrsa of the
SOUTH
uF the - persons who landed with
Gen. Maceo near Baracoa. Cuba. near
Is two aud half years ago. only three
survive, the Others, including zen.
Macco. have died either ON the battle
fields or in the hospitals or in prisons
in Cuba.
-AAe7- ahaFNAasHAHfN tNhhaNhAtaA- AktN
-. died at her residence in lndianapu-
liz. lnd.. ON the 5th. aud was buried
later in the day, in the same coffin
with her husband, aged -. who had
died - hours before. For Is years
Mrs Mendenhall had said that she
would not be present in life at her hus-
bands funeral. even.if he died first, for
she would join him few hours after
his death.
THE mest i'm portant iron ore dis
eOvcry ia the Menominee range in Mich
igan in several years has been made
oa the bank of the Michigamtne river.
one mile south of the Mansfield mine.
The vein j. :. feet deep and 10 feet
wide The ore assays g. per cent in
iron and .05i per CENT in phosphate,
thus putting It, aSsay within the Bcs-
semer limit.
Tue hrst annual report of Commis-
sioner Of Pensions II. Clay Evans to
the secretary of the interior was made
public On the 5th Il fails 10 show the
ufmInusluzi ssss sss-.--~'-s - r--
anticipated by former commissioners.
but discioses ne; gain of S;si. the
total number ON June 81 ls9s. being
976.0IA
MAEK TwAIS's publishers, at Hart
ford. Conn. have received a cable:ram
from the author. in which he denies
the report that he recently wrote
letter to a personal friend in this
country stating that lie had made
So. COZ in the last two years and had
,,af hi .f,.btS il. futl
Col HENRY I. RUssELI- of Chicago.
vice-president and general manager OF
the Union Drop Forge Co. died sud-
denly of heart disease. while at lunch
con on the 5th. Col. Russell was 81
years of age. lie leaves a widow.
TEMPLE Emanuel. the Jewish syna-
gogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth
and Curtis streets, Denver. Col, was
totally destroyed by fire ON the Sth;
loss. S.l5. o0a.
GREAT BRITAIN has declined to take
part IN the Florida fisheries confer
ence though greatly interested in the
/ objects of the conference
ABOUT 1000 head Of cattle arrived in
Havana, on the 5th. from the United
| States