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A snow, sleet and windstorm in m
| diam, Ohio. Pennsylvania, New York,
Massachusetts, and Maryland did great
damage 10 property. In Baltimore 500
houses were uL rooted and telegraph
poles and trees were leveled.
Town Marshal C. c. Runyon and Al
fred Allen killed each other in a fight
at Jackson. KY. An old quarrel was the
cause.
Nearly the whole business portion of
Eufaula, l. T., was destroyed by fire.
William Kent murdered his brother,
Noble Kent. al Girard, Ill. Both
were prominent. and a quarrel over
property was the cause.
Link Thayer convicted of train rob
berry AZ Fergus Falls, Mimi, was SEN
fenced TO 20 years in prison.
The annual report of Charles q.
Dawes, comptroller of the currency, for
the year ended October 81, 1898, shows
that there were 3.50s national banks in
the country with authorized capital Of
| S624 552, 1876. aud 5,145 state banks with
capital OF s37o,073, 7ss.
For the first time in our history the
United States in 1898 exported manu-
featured articles Of greater value than
were imported.
4 flour trust has been formed I'm New
York TO control nearly all the product
in this country and also the supply Of
three-fourths OF the world.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 9Th was: Wheat
24,09s, 900 bushels corn, %, 800, 600 BUSH
els; oats, 5,54600O bushels rye. 1929
600 bushels; barley. 2,s3s, 600 bushels.
During windstorm the breaker OF
the Enterprise colliery was blown down
at Shamokin, Pa, causing 100000 dam
age.
Mostof the business portion Of Frank
ton. Ind, town Of 1000 population.
was destroyed by fire.
The nitroglycerin house OF the Hud-
son Powder company blew up at Pnole,
Cal, killing Superintendent Charles
Kennedy and four worlmen
at Charleston, S. c., the American
savings bank was placed in the hands
Of receiver with liabilities Of 500. 900
Willis L. Bssell, a teacher in Can
ten, y. y, committed suicide by Jump
ing from the new suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls.
\ snowstorm which swept over De-
troit. Mich, and vicinity was the worst
experienced in ~ years, and caused an
immense amount Of damage
Simonson, Whiteson a. Co. owners al
the largest department store in Louis
vile, Ky, failed for $4,000.
The secretary Of the treasury traus-
mitted TO congress the estimates of APP
preparations required for the service
OF the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900
They aggregate $5o3 O4s.37s
Three coal barges from Bay City
Mich, were lost in gale off Portland,
Me, and 70 men and two women were
drowned.
Frank Waller, Of Boston, broke the
worlds bicycle record in New York !cr
continuous riding. going 3l4 miles and
s laps i'm 10 hours and 10 minutes with
out dismounting.
Frank Brush murdered his wife Al
Fort Madison, Ia, and then committed
suicide. They had lived unhappily for
several years.
A storm at Hamilton, Ont, damaged
property 70 the extent of $4,000.
The Farmers National congress be-
gan it's annual session at Fort Worth,
Tex, with several hundred delegates
present
Four men were killed at Fort 1nde-
pendence. in Boston harbor, by the ex-
plosion Of a mine.
In his annual report Secretary Of the
Treasury Gage discusses the need of
banking reform and the necessity Of
meeting new conditions.
The Michigan supreme court has de-
clarod the state oleomargarine anti
coloring law null and void
The village Of Weyauwega. Waupaca
county, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
Powell Clayton, minister 10 Mexico,
has been raised 10 the rank OF am
bassador by President Mckinley,
V. X. and A. II. Jones, boot and shoe
manufacturers at Boston and Lynn.
Mass. failed for S130,000.
Two negroes, Hearn and Richardson,
under arrest at Benton, La, for the
murder OF Larry Vance, were tried by
citizens, found guilty and hanged.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles In his report 10
Secretary Alger says that n standing
army Of 100000 men is public neces-
sity.
The ninth convention of the Non
partisan Womeu's National Christian
Temperance union began in Cleve-
land, O.
The report OF the Hawaiian commits
sion TO the president provides for the
erection OF the islands into a territory
Of the United States 10 be styled the
territory OF Hawaii and contains pro-
visions for the government OF the terri
tory, giving il executive, Legislative and
judicial officers.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Barnes Compton, for three terms
member OF congress from Maryland,
died at Laurel, aged Gs years.
THE nNi.tal rofurpe IF tho late o1aC-