The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-07-22
NEWS NOTES.

GEORGE III. Spry, one of the best law.
yers in the Northwest, while atfempfinp
to pass in front of a trolley-car at Min.
neapolls was instantly killed, the body
being rightly mangied. z I. -
Tom Hayden, cOiored, was hanged Al
Hartford, Ky. Everything passed of n
quietly. Hayden's crime was the killing
Of q Young colored girl near McHenry
last October. He made talk on the
gcaffold ! '"'
by the capsizing of catboat in Port
land Me harbOr five persons lost Their
lives. They were: William O,Donnell.
aged ~; Charles Sullivan, Is: William
MifeheN =; Edward Yayo, 1G; James
The condition Of Gen. John S. (Cerrc
Gordon) Yilliams, ex-United States sen
ator and veteran of two wars, who haa
been sinking at his home in Mount Ster-
ling, kyy is such that the end is only q
question of a few hours. -
City Auditor Thomas C.. Belle, aged
80 years. is dead of typhoid fever nj
kansas City, Mo-, after two months
illness. Before entering politics in the
last campaign Mr.. Belle was q member
OF the Journal reportorial staff.
"A general fight in q disreputable
house at Washington resulted. i'm the
shooting of Charles Chunn and William
Whitfield, priyates in Go. a, Fourth Mis-
souri, Volunteer infantry. Doctors fear
the men cannot recover.
Mrs. }. n. Nulson, wife of J. C.. Null
son, president of the Missouri MalIeahIe
Iron works, who celebrated their golden
wedding Two months ago, committed sui
eide at st. Louis by haf1ging herself. The
reason assigned is temporary Insanity.
-Fire destroyed the plant of the. West
ern Starch Manufacturers association Mt
"psf Ia I'M ~
cred seventeen acres of ground and had
a capacity of 100000 pounds of starch a
day, The loss is $250,00O; well in
sured.a%} s:s.t- eg.ar. .-.
Mrs. Lizzie A. Gage, wife of Edward
II. Gage, the proprietor of cafe in
Brooklyn, died from the effects of Iauda
mum, taken with suicidal intent. Melan-
choiia, brought ON by nervous trouble, was
given as the cause. Mrs. Gage was the
daughter of a prominent hotelkeeper IN
Chicago. eSa
First Assistant Postmastar-G General
Heath says that the postotfice department
is experiencing considerable trouble in for
warding. mail to the army and navy be
cause pf letters being improperly ad-
dressed; Many letters are found which
do not Indicate the company or regiment
of the ADDRESSED
The schooner Hattie 1. Phillips ar
rived at San Francisco from st. Michael.
and brings the news of the death on the
:Manook trail of Victor f. Maidhof of
New York, who was United States consul
to Annaburg. SaXOny, during the first ad-
ADMINISTRATION of President Cleveland. Maid
hof attempted to cross the portage from
Unalakik to Kaltag.
The village of Antelope, sixty miles
south of the Dallcs. Or. has been de-
stroycd by fire. The loss is not known.
IA Two men. both named Michael Fla
vim, v'er. killed and three were seriously
injured by the giving way of a number of
piles CT the bridge which is being built
between the Charles river and Warren
bridges III Boston. The Flavins were
relatives.
On account of high winds the river
steamer Regulator has been wrecked on
the rocks just below the cascades in the
Columbia, while attempting to enter the
government locks, near Bonneville. Or.
Joseph Bapnigah, ex-president of the
National Rubber company. lies ut his
home i'll Providence, r. l., in a critical
conditions. He gave generous endow-
ment to the Catholic university of Amer
Coy. Tanner Of Illinois his Issued a
| repuisition on the governor of Iowa for
the extradition of William II. Brow ii: I'm.
| der arrest at Clinton, Ia, and wanted al
Chicago on charge of embezzling 5000
from Mary L. Cone, in June.
In fit of jealousy Charles Able
| aged 19. living near Union. shot and
Killed his cousin. Miss Lula Wrill. aged
Is. Abe attempted to shoot himself. bu,
was prevented. 9 He is now. a. raying ma
MAC. The boy had asked the girl to mar
ry him and she had refused.
The Lehigh Carriage company as.
| stoned to Charles 7 Mckee at DAYTON
q = ESTIMATED liabilities, $115OO0: as.
sests, $4,000; preferences, $35. 600
The company has stocked up with 800,
600 worth of raw material and the ex
pected orders for the finished tf6duc,
| were not forthcoming.