The Globe-republican., 1897-02-18
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

Fire in the Western Department
block. Ottawa, Ont. did $3.50, 900 dam
age.
Richard Croker will probably be
Tammany's candidate for MAYOR Of
Greater New York.
Senator Sherman says that reporta
that he would back out of going into
the cabinet are ridiculous.
Marion. President Cleveland's young
est, was christened Thursday, Rev. Dr..
Sunderland officiating.
Postmaster General Wilson has been
elected psesident of the Washington
and Lee university, Lexington. Va.
Andy Wilson, Preston Hall and
Harry Brown, three horsemen. were
drowned in Pike county, KY, while on
a spree.
House committee on elections unani.
mously authorized a report in the Wat
son-Black contest in favor of the
latter.
Reports coming to the state depart
ment from Europe show that the
American apple made an enormous
market for itself there last year.
Stuart says Corbett and Fitz will
Fight at Carson, New, March II. Gov
ernor Sadler weut to the train to meet
Corbett when the latter passed through
Reno.
Illinois appellate court has affirmed
the decision removing the Farmers
Loan and trust company as co-trustee
of the Lake Street railway first mort
gage for failure to deposit $500, 900
with the state auditor of Illinois.
Beginning at Hayden, 1. T., Febru-
airy 16, about 81 ZOO, 900 will be dis
tributed to freedmen by James G.
Dickson, representing the government.
Captain Philo McGiffen, who COM
handed a Chinese ironclad during the
late war, went crazy from wounds and
killed himself in New York.
Lower House of the Nebraska Leg
islature voted down woman Suffrage,
Sc to &c.
The Carnegie and other great plants
shout Pittsbusg are resuming opera
tons.
Editor A. B. Clark. aged 70. of the
Newark CO., American, was killed by
the cars
Frank May, who was removed as
cashier of the Bank of England in 1898,
is dead in london.
United States Judge Leonard Wales
is dead at Wilmington, Del, aged 73,
from pneumonia.
Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell of Idaho Falls
was elected chaplain of the Idaho state
legislature.
A motion to disestablish the Church
of England was voted down in the
British House of Commons.
A boiler in the county Jail at Frank.
fort, KY, exploded, wrecking the office
and fatally injuring three men.
Southern cattle are quarantlned from
February Is to November Is on line
drawn from California to Maryland.
Mrs. DIR. S. N. Burnham, n news
paper woman of Chicsgo, committed
suicide at the Commercial hotel, jack
Fla.
Major George Armes has traded
city property for Apo
mattoX battlefield and will turn it into
q sheep farm.
The steel rail pool, the most success
full trade organization ever formed,
has collapsed and prices dropped IS to
9.75 per ton in one day.
At Holman, Ark., Sam Leigh, aged
Is, shot and killed Adam Cartwright,
his stepfather, after the latter had IA
tally dubbed the boys mother.
John B. Clancy, a dairy employee,
poisoned the milk supply of $50 people
1t Norfolk, Va, but the crime was
discovered in time to prevent use of
milk
Messenger Summers of the Santa Fe
California express shot train rObber
dead near Nelson, Ariz. A pal escaped
with some registered mail packages.
DIR. John B. Gorrell of Tyler county,
West Virginia. on his death bed con-
fessed to the murder, eight years ago,
of Alex. Campbell, wealthy farmer,
whom he owed.
An open letter to the women of the
United States, urging them to use all
means in their power to further the
passage OF the arbitration treaty with
Great Britain. has been issued.
Havana advices contradict Weyler's !
statement that Pinar del Rio is paci- |
fed. 1t is stated the insurgents have
), 900 we'll armed men in the province.
Spaniards in Havana are sick of the |
war.
Fifty soldiers from Louisville guard |
ed William Black. a negro, who as
saulted Mrs j. D Clark at Lebanon,
KY, and he was tried, convicted and
to seven years in the ''oen,"
I'll in one hour.
The rbett-Fitzsimmons fight will |
occur at Carson City, New. Pete Maher |
wants to fight Sharkey.
The murderous king of Benin de6es
England.
Monroe Johnson. a negro burglar, |
was hanged at Charlotte, n. c., for
burglary.
Bourke Cochran called on Mark |
Hanna at Cleveland and held an ex.
tended conscience.
The plague has reached Afghanis
an.
Owing to the czarins's i'll health
there will be no court balls in st.
this winter.
Ben Harrison and John Bigheart,
Full blood Usage Indians, married
Minnie Harvey and Ethel Stokely,