The Globe-republican., 1897-07-22
NEWS I'm BRIEF

I0ecCerlOlOgtSC Oh tue view "eiSCy
health board at "a salary of $1,000 per
rear. Dr. j. X. Hickman will be his
assistant
Nebraska National Bank Of York,
Neb., failed.
r. C. Heydlauf. an Ashland. Wis,
forger, killed himself.
President Mckinley has to cancel
his Chicago engagements.
The W. C. I. U. is in danger of los
ing its temple in Chicago for debt.
Cleveland:s order consolidating pen
sion agencies has been suspended.
Mrs Belinda Lull of Rox bury,
Mass, left $500, 900 to charitable :nsti-
tutions.
President Faure of France is now
closely guarded when he appears in
public.
Jerry Simpson Is after the sugar
trust and wants Congressional inves-
tigation.
David 3. Hill may run for Congress
next year.
American agricultural colleges will
make an exhibit ut the Paris cXposi-
ton in 1900.
The British parliamentary commit
tee censures Rhodes. the South Afri-
can magnate.
Eight tramps were killed in wreck
on the Chicago Il Northwestern near
Boone, Iowa.
Foreign relations committee of the
Senate has reported favorably on la
waiian anne Ration.
Spreckels has brought second mill
ion dollar libel suit against the San
Francisco Examiner.
Governor Drake of Iowa fell on the
capitol steps and hurt his hip, aggra
waiting an old war wound.
Two reservoirs bursted near Matte
wan and Fishkill, n. ". and five per-
sons were drowned and three are
missing.
There is talk of England. France,
Germany and the United States chip
ping in to dig and control he Panama
canal.
The Senate foreign relations com
mittee favors prompt and decisive &C
ton for release of the Competitor pris
oners by Spain.
$500 per ton for armor plate, and if no,
ment factory.
The Republican league, in session a
Detroit, elected l. j. Crawford o:
Newport, KY. president. and voted tt
meet at Omaha next year.
George +. McCulloch, chairman OF
the Republican state central tommit-
tee of Indiana, will lose his left leg
because of being burned by y rays.
Mine owner Nicholas c. Creole,
after whom Creole. Colo, was named
committed suicide to get away from
his wife. who sought reconciliation.
His friends claim death was due to ar
accidental overdose of morphine.
1t is rumored on Wall street that the
Standard Oil combine is rapidly alb
sOrbing the sugar trust.
August Wehrheim. a Chicago real
estate man, was robbed by card sharps
of 81, 900 in a brace faro game.
William Reynolds. a labo-er, was
killed by a cavern while working on q
county bridge near Joplin. Mo.
George Decker smoked seventeen
mic in New Jersey and fell over un
conscious
The Central block, the handsomes,
Office building in Pueblo, Colo, wa:
damaged $4,000 by fire, caused by
electric wires crossing.
Harry Lansing, of Lincoln. Neb.,
has replevined the presents he gave te
Grace Oakley, who announced her en-
gagement to another man.
After protracted debauch Ton
Ginger, a young farmer near Nixa
Christian county. Mo-, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the abdo
men.
A small house was blown into the
Hudson river at VerplancLs. n. j..
during a wind storm and a woman an(
two children drowned.
Another big gas we'll has beer
struck at lola, Kan. with an estimated
capacity of 5000. 900 cubic feet daily.
1t will furnish fuel for smelter o.
1,aOO retorts being built at lola
A .-year-old daughter of l.. J. Town
ley died at Atchison. Kan. from ar
overdose of patent medicine.
n ucOESl uIoD vi -.WW IuSu
the negro assaiiant of the 6-year-olS
daughter of State Senator Campbell
Texas sheriffs have raised $3.50 t.
defend ex-Sheriff Cunningham of Tay
lor county, Texas, charged with tht
killing of Mcmahon, the circus man
at Wichita. Kan.
Frank Wray, boy living near
Maryville. Mo-, was killed ny the &C
cidental discharge of shotgun in the
back of a wagon in which he wa.
driving.
Mrs. King, an aged woman living
near Bronaugh, Mo, was accidentally
shot by her son who was handling 3
gun carelessly. She will likely re
cover
A Washington. d. c.. woman mar.
ried q man named Veit, who was una
BILE to leave his work for brida
tour. and left alone for Atlantic City
N. j., on . wedding trip
Mrs. Mary Jane league whipped
John Colwell. q business man of Perry
Okla, who. she says, slandered her
She beat him severely with q stick ant
paid . $40 fine for fighting.
Ex-Coroner James McHale of Chica