The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, March II.


Thomas f. Watson was nominated
for governor by the P9pulists Of Geor-
gia.
Aubrey BeardsIey, artist and drafts
man, who attained much fame by rea-
son of the original and unique charac-
ter of his work. died in London.
Captain William Lee, an army vet
eran. mortified because he failed to get
the appointment of postmaster in Mer-
chantville, N. J., committed suicide
John Shanaphy ran away with loco
motive near Sewaren, N. J. He was
pursued by train hands on another en-
gine and fled to the woods, but was cap
tured.
DR.. Trumbull w. Cleaveland a New
York physician, was indicted for man
slaughter in the second degree, charged
with causing the death of the infant
daughter of John L. Carhart by giving
her harmful medicines
Friday, March IS.
city Auditor John s. Fear of Burling-
ton. Ia, has fled, leaving shortage OF
50, 900, representing money he lost in
speculation.
Walter Sanger Pullman, twin son
of the late George M. Pullman, was
married in San Francisco to Miss Lou
Use Lander West.
Blanche K. Bruce, register of the
treasury, ex-United States senator and
one of the most prominent colored poll
ticians died in Washington.
The New York court of appeals gave
Newbold t. Lawrence title to 1,500 acres
of land which have been in possession
of the town of Hampstead 100 years.
Two expeditions for chronological study
in North America and Asia have bee~s
equipped at the American Museum OIL
Natural History in New York. Morris
X. Jesup is prominently connected with
the enterprise and is giving it financial
aid.
Saturday, March 10.
1t is asserted that a Russian spy has
been discovered in Lord Salisbury's en-
ploy as a footman at Hatfield.
The international chess contest for
the Newnes trophy began in this coun-
try at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Five persons were burned and three
buildings were damaged as result Of
a gasoline explosion in Morristown,
N. ].
The Spanish and Cuban commissions
ers to negotiate commercial treaty
with the United States assembled in
Washington.
DR.. Tanner, -Parnellite member
for Mid Cork, Ireland, was ordered out
of the British house of commons for vio-
lent language.
Abram Van Wyek, who left his home
in Dutchess county N. Y, is years ago
because Of a family quarrel, is heir to
SAC, 900 by his mothers will.
1t was announced in Paris that the
i ~ 41esf
be complied with in eight days under
threat of the occupation of Hainan.
An explosion in a mine at Belnaaz,
Spain, killed more than 70 persons. An
explosion of dynamite at Montego bay,
Jamaica. resulted in the loss of eight
lives.
Monday, March Fl.
DR.. J. c. zaehos, for many years Gu
rator of Cooper Union, New York, died
in that city.
The freight steamer Osborne was tow
ed into Halifax disabled by the oil tank
steamer Duffield.
Charles Bell of New York shot and
| killed himself in a cemetery in Long
Island City on the grave of his daugh-
ter, who died II years ago.
George Bryan, II years old, of Airing
ton. N. j., was blinded for life by being
burned by molten lead which he in
tended to make into cannon balls to use
against Spain.
The rebellion on the northwest from
tier of India is thought to be ended. the
rebels having given the required 70 hos
tages The Indian budget is regarded
as very favorable.
A convict named Howard, who IS
/ serving a nine years sentence in Sing
| Sing IN. Y) prison, has built two or
gans for the prison chapels. He will
now petition for pardon on the ground
that he has saved the state several
! thousand dollars.
Tuesday, March ~.
! Carolus Duran, the French portrait
painter, arrived in New York.
Four men were injured by the coll
lapse of a shed at the Fleetwood race
track, New York.
Secretary Long named the two Bra
lillian cruisers recently purchased the
1 New Orleans and the Albany.
4 Mrs E. Haughton Jackson, the prin-
4 cipal in the famous Clitheroe case, died
as a result of blood poisoning in Eng
land.
Twenty y-three men are estimated to
! nave perlSHSu anu MANY more were Ill
! jured in fire which destroyed a Iodg-
ing house at Butte, Mon.
Ex-Coroner e. B. Coombs of Kings
county. N. Y. was sentenced to serve a
| year and seven months in the peniten-
tiary and pay a fine of $1,000
An angry mob chased the Rev A.
| Gurschke of Hoboken, N. J., and man
knocked him down because~a girl said
he had insulted her. He denied that
he had insulted her and declared that
he was the victim of an outrage.
Ten seamen of the British bark An
cyra visited the British consulate in
New York and preferred charges Of
brutal treatment and starvationa against
Captain Morris and his officers during