The Bourbon news., 1897-02-05
NEWS ITEMS.

duchess of Montpensier, is dead. She
was 65 years of age.
Thomas Batemah, who was twice
president of the Primitive Methodist
conference, is dead in London.
The tug Van Ralte, which was i'm
prisoned in the ice off SD street,
Chicago, all night, arrived safely at
dock Tuesday morning.
Sims Reeves, the celebrated English
tenor singer, has been declared a
bankrupt and receiving order has
been issued against his property.
The First national bank of Oaksdale,
Spokane county, Wash, has gone into
voluntary liquidation. Depositors are
notified to come and get their money.
1t is announced that Emperor Fran
els Joseph, accompanied by Count
Goluchowski, Austrian minister of for
eight affairs, will visit st. Petersburg
on April 80.
The towboat II. M. Townsend, valued
at $40, 900, sank in IL feet of water at
Memphis, Tenn, Monday morning.
Floating ice cut the hull and caused
the boat to sink
The vote Tuesday in the joint ses-
sion of the South Dakota legislature
stood as follows: Pickler, As; Kyle,
2S; Goodykoontz, -; Plowman, 10:
Loucks, 10; Bowler, 4; Palmer, 1; Kel-
lar, l.
During January the coinage exc
cuted at the United States mints
amounted in value to 50, S51, ,22O. The
gold coined aggregated $7,SO3, 42O. Sill
yer dollars numbering 1872, 600 was
coined.
The high school building at Kalama-
zoo. Mich. was destroyed by fire at six
o'clock Monday morning. The cause
of the fire was an explosion of furnace
gas. The loss is estimated at $40, 900;
insurance $4,000.
1t was announced Tuesday that the
big works of the Case Threshing Ma
chine Co., Racine, Wis, will resume
operations on Monday next. They
have been closed for six months. Sew
eral hundred men will be given en-
ployment
In court of common pleas, Pitts
burgh, Tuesday morning, George S.
Griscom and 81. E. Anderson, were ap-
pointed receivers for the Pennsylvania
Lead company of Pittsburgh. Judg-
ment was confessed to trustee Griscom
tor $949, 900.
The condition of Senator George
Monday morning, is slightly improved.
1t is hoped that in week or two he
will have sufficiently recovered to be
able to go to his home in Mississippi,
where the climate is more conducive
to his health.
Edward r. Taylor, alias Arthur w.
Platt; who is under arrest in London
for killing Jesse Tyree in kentucky in
1885, was formally eXtradited in the
Bow street police court Tuesday and
will be broug ht to America at once by
the Kentucky officials who went there
to secure his extradition.
The remains of Gen. Andrew Jack
son Smith, who died Saturday last at
his home in St Louis, were buried
Monday in Calvary cemetery with mil
itary honors Services were held at
the church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, Jefferson avenue and Locust
street. by Rev. G. d. Power.
The temporary organization of the
lower house Of the legislature of Ore
gon held its regular Sunday meeting
at o'clock Sunday evening. This
makes 20 DAYS this body has gone
through the formality of meeting and
adiOurring. The usual length of the
meeting Of the legislature is 10 days
The extensive works of the keystone
Manufacturing Co., Sterling, Ill,
Thomas A. Gait, president, were clos
ed by the sheriff Tuesday, leaving the
plant in the hands of Addison j. Platt
as custodian. A levy was made in favor
of Mr.. Gait for $50, OS5. 80, and the Firs
national bank of Sterling for $9,996.
The supreme court of Wisconsin
Tuesday handed down a decision
which declares unconstitutional the
law under which many county courts
have committed to Kelley Institute
throughout the state INDECENT inebri
ates for treatment at the expense o
the county from which they were com
mitted.
All hope has been abandoned for th
rescue of the four men caught in the
burning Tamarack mine Houghton
Mich. The necessity of forcing al
into the burning level in order to sup
ply the entombed men has also addeC
to the fury OF the flames and Tuesday
night orders were issued to seal up th
shaft
Eight bandits made an attack on tn
store at the Los Angeles ranch, nea
Cordova Mex. Manuel RouX and
young Spaniard defended the stor
and fired on the bandits, killing two o
them. The bandits returned the fire
and killed the Spaniard. They the
withdrew and were pursued by a com
pany of rurals.
There is no longer any doubt in tn
minds of the Massachusetts delegatio
that eX-Gov. John b. Long of Boston
has received a formal tender of tn
naval portfolio. If Mr.. Longs healt
permits he will enter the cabinet.
is understood that this will not affeC
Congressman Drapers prospects TO
securing foreign mission.
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