The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-06-30
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F.
cree suspenoiny the corte-.
Fridays statement of the co ,dition
OF the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, $3.50. l5s,ssl; gold reserve,
sle5, e7s,O97.
The secretary of state for the col.
onies, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, EN-.
phatically denies the rumors that he
contemplates retirement from the cab.
met.
According to the new city directory
which will be issued in few days, Chi.
cago now has population of 1. 500, 600.
This is an increase of $4,000 over the
a. ures for 1897.
Joseph jefferson Friday night un.
veiled a memorial window erected by
the Players club in memory of the late
Edwin Booth in the Little Church
Around the Corner.'
According to special dis patch from
Gibraltar it is reported there fr m San
Fernando. near Cy,diz, that the CORR
spondcnt of the New York Herald has
been thrown into prison.
DR.. Won Schweningen, Prince Bis.
marcks physician. has married in Hell.
igoland. in the North sea, the divorced
wife of Herr Franz Won Len bach. the
distinguished German portrait painter,
who is also one of Bismarcl's oldest
and most trusted friends.
An almost total stoppage of money
order business on July 1, it is said,
has been averted BY an agreement be.
tween the officials of the treasury AMI
post office departme nts that the law
does not require stamps to be affixed
to domestic money orders
Two firemen were killed and a mum.
Der injure late Friday night at fire
at Thomas Potter Sons & Co.. OIL
cloth works in the extreme northeast.
ern section of Phila lelphia. The fire.
men were on ladder when the wall
fell, throwing them into the burning
bu lding.
The house of commons petroleum
committee has resolved to raise the
Hash point from 70 to 100 degrees.
This is the outcome of the newspaper
cam! airn against American petroleum,
which, it is charged, is responsible for
numerous fatalities due to explosions
of lamps
The records of the adjutant generals
ofice OF the war department show
that the actual mum ber of officers and
men mustered into the United States
service under the presidents first call
for l!5,O0O men amounted to la4, ,a41.
OF these 1884 were officers and lis. o57
were enlisted men.
1t is now stated on good authority
that Maj. Gen. Merritt will sail for the
Philippine islands next Wednesday on
the steamer Newport, following the
third fleet of transports which will
probably get away on Monday. The
7th California regiment hopes to be as
signed to go on the Newport with Gen.
Merritt.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Morning Post says: "The
government, it is reported. has author
lied its agents throughout the country
to ascertain the opinion of the people
as to the desirability of terminating
the war. Senior Sagasta will announce
the result after the cortes is pro-
rogued."
A special dispatch from Algiers says
that the British steamer Hampton re-
ports that she passed Adm. Camaras
squadron, including five or six cruis-
ers and about twelve transports We'd
nesday morning, sailing at half speed
to the eastward. The ships showed no
colors. The cruisers were towing tor
pedo boats.
Thursday night, in little room in
the rear Of Ola Twcnty-second street
N. W., Washington, William H. Brooke,
veteran of the civil war, pensioner,
and. until recently. watchman in the
navy department, was killed by his
wife, Martha, with hatchet. she in
tnrn being fatally injured with the
same weapon.
At Trenton, Ia, Percy Elliott shot
and instantly killed Fife Kelly and
then shot himself They lived on op-
posite sides of the road Elliott saw
Miss Kelly sitting with young man
in front of her house and shot her
with rifle from his doorway. His dead
body was found shortly afterward
in an inner room