Warren sheaf., 1897-02-04

burned to death in their home at Cur
winsville, Pa. during the absence of
their parents. I.
Melville w. Fuller, chief justice of the
United States supreme court, and David
j. Brewer, associate justice, have been
nominated as commissioners to serve on.
the arbitration tribunal to determine
the boundary line between Venezuela
and British Guiana. IS
. w. j. Morrison and Edward Denni-
son were blown to atoms by dyna-
mite explosion at Cygnet, O. .sa,4s-....ss
Thousands of cattle perished in the
Indian territory in the recent blizzard.
Gov. Bushnell has appointed COM
mission to receive funds and build a
monument to Gen. Phil Ii. Sheridan at
Somerset. o.
Joseph Boxell. 23 years old, fatally
shot Miss Ora Brotherton, 16 years old,
at Dundee. Ind, and then killed him
self. 1t was case of unrequlted love.
The two infant children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Wi]kie were burned to
death in their home at Linton, Ind,
during the absence of their parents.
For the last quarter of the year 1896
there was q net decrease of $33,379 in
the, postal receipts throughout the
country. The total receipts were $s,-
679, 800; the total for the correspond
ing quarter of 1895, $s.712,699.
The National board of trade at its
annual meeting in Washington declared
in favor of the gold standard and for
the establishment of consistent and
deliberatively planned financial system.
An explosion in the Suock mines at
Uniontown, Pa, killed Peter Houser
and Charles McQulster, and injured
eight other men.
The Teckensaw, small packet ply
ing between Evansville, Ind, and Hart
ford, Ky., was sunk by floating ice and
six lives were said TO have been lost.
Goepper's malt house in Cincinnati
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$35O.OOO.
The First national bank of Holidays
burg, Pa, which suspended payment
December II last. has resumed business.
Five men were killed by freight
train near the East NorwaIk Comm
railway station.
The National Association of Manu-
tacturers at its annual meeting in Phil
adelphia adopted resolutions favoring
pl otection and reciprocity.
In a collision between steamers at
New Orleans h. P. Hester and F. Bios
SIM. newspaper reporters, were
drowned.
The National Association of Manufac-
trrers at their annual meeting in Phila-
delphia reelected as president Theodore
C.: Search, Of Pennsylvania.
The Van Emster block in Bay City,
Mich. was burned and Mr.. Van Emster,
aged 56, and Theodore During. aged 6s,
perished in the flames.
More than 1000 head of horses and
CATTLE .perished in Lyman county. S. D.,
in the recent blizzard. ~ .~
" The four children of Mrs. Lee Wade
re<burned to- death in their home at
Centerview, Mo, during the absence of
their parents..
1t is announced that the Corbett-
Fitzsimnlons fight will take place in the
state of Nevada on the nth OF March
next. -
C. K. Rash, farmer near Wayne, Neb.,
in fit Of insanity Drained his wife and
three children with an ak and then
hacked the bodies to pieces.
James':R X. Hawkins, proprietor of the
iron works at Springfield, Mass, failed
for 100000. 80:
Lyman }. Gage; president of the First
national bank Of Chicago, was formally
rendered the treasury portfolio by
President-elect Mckinley and accepted
the same. 81.
:. Morris Jackson, of Little Falls, N. Y,
shot Fred Mcintosh and Miss Ella M.
Ausman and then shot himself. Miss
Ausman's wounds were probably fatal.
Michael. McDermott, an attendant,
and Joseph Hall, patient at the state
hospital for the insane. in Morristown,
Pa, were killed by the cars.
A family named Norton, consisting of
father, mother and three children, were
frozen to death in their home near Mt.
Ida, Ark. -:
Eleven men were injured, one. Louis
Folger, fatally, by an explosion in coal
mine at Foster, la. *'S'
The recent cold snap will cost the
truck and vegetable growers of Florida
100000.
The ''Tomboy" mine in Colorado has
been bought by the Rothschilds of Lon
don for $1,5OO,OOO.
The Wautauga bank of johnson City,
Tenn, closed its doors with liabilities
of $28,OOO.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Goth aggregated
$061, ,245, ,22S. against $1.O42.412.18O the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was rs. ...