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of st. Andrew opened at Buffalo, N V,
with 1000 brotherhood men in attend
i ance.
A BIG meeting of full-bloods of the
Cherokee and several other tribes COM
menced at Chelsea, l. T., on the 18th
The reason of the meeting was to set
tie the question whether they would
emigrate to Mexico or remain and take
the consequences of their tribal gov
ernment being abolished
| ELI SHAW was taken into custody at
Camden, n. j., on the charge of having
killed his mother and grandmother in
order to inherit their wealth so that
he could get married.
! THOMAS BOLTE, a negro leader, was
| lynched at a settlement on BAYOU
Barataria, La, for running the quar-
antine gauntlet.
AS the result of the orchestra at a
colored dance at Chicago refusing to
play until they had been paid for their
services six men, including a police
man, were dangerously slashed with
raZorS.
IT was announced that a pay car
would start over the Rock Island sys-
/ OOlh "CoI VI Vic river on Gn6
18th for the first time in five years.
The company has resorted to this plan
of checking the pay rolls, and in rail
way circles at Omaha, Neb., it was
said suspicious of lot of straw men
and padded pay rolls existed in the
minds of the Chicago officials.
ABOUT 12 miles south of Muskogee,
l. T., two supposed cattle thieves were
asked their business by John and Joe
Jourden, respectable farmers, when
one shot Joe through the heart. John
then shot both strangers dead
AT the Baptist church under con-
struction at Plano, Tex, a scaffold
gave way and five men were killed.
WHILE Ruth Turner, five years old,
and her cousin, Howard Bagby, aged
five, were playing at Newkirk, Ok,
the other day the boy shot and in
stantly killed the girl with a revolver.
MORTON f. Ericsson, young recluse,
hanged himself at Chicago because he
could not solve the problem of perpet-
ual motion.
FIRE the other evening damaged the
United States steam mills in St Louis
to the extent of $25, ,OOO
| III uoA AnCCLluS Ol LIle w heSLorD
Union Telegraph company was held
on the 18th at New York. Nearly all
the old directors were reelected. Pres
ident Eckert gave the amount of capi-
tai stock outstanding as $97, ,37O, 900.
The revenues for the year were 81
63S, ,S59. 16; expenses, SIC, 906. .656. o. The
assets and liabilities were placed at
$12S, 40, 49S. AZ each.
RECENT New York dispatch said
that whisky trust of tremendous pro-
portions was about to be formed. II
all the distillers who have been asked
to join it do SO, it will represent more
that $50, 900, 600 capital and will in the
future be in position to dictate prices
of all the whiskies made in Kentucky
and all of the higher class brands made
in other states.
CHARLES POLLOCK started in balloon
from Eastbourne, Eng. one morning in
an attempt to cross the English chan
mel. The balloon descended safely in
the afternoon near Domart. in France.
The trip was great success.
AN Abyssinian army of 3, 900 men was
raiding in Africa when the Somalis
overwhelmed them with large num-
bers and slaughtered all but 80, whom
they allowed to go back with the news
of their defeat.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from Con-
stantinople the sultan of Turkey is
making strenuous efforts to obtain the
withdrawal of American missionaries
from Asia Minor.
The international & Great Northern
cannon ball train was held up on the
afternoon of the 18th near Austin.
lex, by four men and the passengers
robbed. The bandits were unsuccess-
full in rifing the express car
A FIRE broke out in the Sherman
house at Chicago at l:2O a. m, and al
though there was no loss of life there
was the liveliest kind of a panic. The
damage done only amounted to about
S., 900.
AT Chicago Florence Gleason. aged
10. fired bullet into the brain of her
lover. John Peters, and then committed
suicide. The shooting was caused
through jealousy.
1T is stated on authority in the French
capital that an association has been
formed in the United States with the
object OF securing the escape from his
prison off the coast of French Guiana
of Capt. Albert Dreyfus, who was
drummed out of the French army Jan.
uary 5, 1895, after having been convict.
ed OF having sold war department plans
to representatives of foreign govern
ment
A SHEPHERD has been arrested near
Lyons, France, on the charge of com.
mitting series of Jack the Ripper,
murders. He has confessed to killing
three shepherds, three girls and two
old women.
The National Horseshoers' Protec-
tive association convened at st. Louis
on the 11th, 141 cities east of the Mis-
sissippi river and % west being repre-.
sented.
WHILE Robert Ingle was hunting in
the woods near Holgate. O., he ran
across an eagle in the act of carrying
OF young child who had become sep
arated from his older brothers Ingle
struck the bird over the head and
stunned it and then took it into town.
1t measured nine feet four inches from
tip to tip.
An epidemic of scarlet fever was re.
ported in Burlington. Ia, there being
| 80 cases on the I2th
A WIDOW, named Mrs. Emma vane,
and her daughter were shot and killed
by burglars at Camden, N. J., early
the other morning. A son was sick in
bed with typhoid fever and it was
feared that the shock will have a fatal
termination.
THERE were nine deaths from yellow