The true northerner., 1897-01-06

Brunswick owned by the fenhsyivania
Railway company. was burned to the
waters edge at New York. Loss about
$780, 900.
fishing smack belonging to Malaga,
Spain, has been wrecked, drowning 4
twelve men and several children.
Mary Gilfillan. aged about 30 year
who went TO Osceola. Ia, from Brad
ford. Ills about two weeks ago; mar
ried. but separated from her husband.
was brutally murdered by an unknown
man at Osceola.
Wednesday, Dec. 80.
Famine is prevailing in the province
of Kherson, Russia. 1t Is estimated
that 75O, 900 rubles will be required for
the relief of the sufferers.
Christian scientists will erect CHI
cago meeting house.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has purchased
a house in Boston's fashionable resi-
dence suburb, Brookline, the richest
town per capita In the United States
The state labor commissioner OF OHIO
estimates that this year $19,2l4,44s less
than in 1895 was paid out to laborers In
the fcrty-siv states and territories
Isaac fucker. a wealthy real estate
owner of New York, has been convicted
OF arson.
The Graham & Morton Transporta-
ton company has purchased the $l25.-
900 steamer City of Milwaukee to take
the place OF the lost Chicora.
William Waldorf Astor has not yet
become a naturalized Englishman.
A report comes from Rome that
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, Is
to be made a cardinal.
Thursday, Dec. 81.
The pope, according to private ad-
vices is failing rapidly and his condi-
tion is so serious that the question OF
succession is being discussed at the
Vatican.
Lansing w. Bancker. who enjoyed
the distinction of being the Oldest liv-
ing clown except Dan Rice, died at the
Philadelphia almshouse. He was about
IS years old.
The San Francisco police are satis-
fed that they have succeeded in tracing
Robert j. Mueller, a young medical stu
dent into a suicides grave. The pa
rents of the young man reside in Phila-
delphia.
A warrant has been issued at Osceola,
Ia, for the arrest of Joseph Wilverton,
son of local physician. He is
charged with having been connected
with the death of Mrs. Mary Gilfllian.
OF the thirty y-eight sultans who have
ruled the Ottoman empire since the
conquest of Constantinople by the
Turks. thirty-four have died violent
deaths.
Friday, Jan. 4.
The famous pacing 4-year-old Sui
phde is very sick at Denver from
blood poisoning, following an attack Of
influenza and her recovery is doubtful.
The attempt of Mrs. Jessie Loner-
gan, of st. Louis, TO break the will of
her father, A. II. Lohlker, has failed.
The estate amounted to 1000, and the
ST. Louis daughter was cut off with q
bequest of IS.
Old d-timers say that more snow has
fallen this winter in the Sangre de
Christie mountains in Colorado than
has been known for years.
Amos Davenport of Howard county,
Ind, had an affiiction of the eye since
the war. When he arose the other
morning the diseased eyeball was miss
ing. The ball was found in bed where
it had dropped from the socket while
he slept. Mr.. Davenport is now free
from pain for the first time in thirty
years.
At Hartshorne, /. T., an Italian who
had suit for divorce instituted. urged
haste upon his attorney, saying that he
wanted to marry Choctaw squaw be-
fore the land allotment
Saturday, Jan, 9.
Alderman Charles gibbs and Patrol
man L. Wagner of Peru. Ills. were at
tackled by a gang of thugs and badly
beaten.
Ano 10 for
France at New Orleans. has been made
a chevalier Of the Legion of Honor.
Forty-one filibusters from the steam
er Three Friends. having in their pos
session $50 rifles. and sailing I'm two
boats. were capsized off Jaruco, Cuba,
on the north coast Of Havana province,
and all were drowned, according to
Havana dispatch.
statue of the late Count Ferdinand
de Lesseps Is about to be erected at
Port Said at q point overlooking the
harbor and the entrance to the Suez
canal.
Alexander Fl. Caldwell. a pioneer of
GAINESVILLE, Wis, is dead, aged II. He
went to Rock county. Wis. from Scot
land in 1S43
II. p. Miller, proprietor of the South
ern Pacific hotel at Milan, Tenn. was
assaulted In his own home by some un-
known person and fatally injured.
Monday. Jan. 4.
Mayor Pennoyer, of Portland, Or,
regularly turns over half his 5000 sal
ary to the city board of charities. He
thinks the salary too high.
Miss Emma Spreckels, the daughter
Of Claus Spreckels. sugar king and
multimillionaire. was secretly married
at San Jose last Wednesday
to Thomas Watson, an Englishman
and well-known grain broker of San
Francisco
John Kazda. an intimate OF the coun-
ty insane asylum at Manitowac, Wis,
became very violent and attacked Su-
perintendent Mueller with knife and
stabbed him in the breast. Kazda over
powered and. after being locked i'm his
cell. committed suicide by hanging.
Mrs. A. K. Rinehart an enthusiastic
bicyclist of Denver. rode 116 centuries
during the past year. 4