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were charged with having outraged and
murdered Mrs. Jane Simmons, wife OLA
farmer In Oklahoma. near Wewoka.
For the IL months ended November
30, 1896, the exports from the United
States amounted to $3.50, ,s74, gain
of nearly $s6,000.O0o over the same time
In 1896.
The boiler OF the towboat Percy KEEL
sey exploded near Glenfield. Pa. and
five OF the crew were killed and four
others were injured.
Secretary Sherman has issued an APP
peal for aid for the destitute in Cuba.
Gov. Bushnell was inaugurated as
chief executive Of Ohio.
Fire nearly wiped out the business
portion Of the village of Ruthton, MINI.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
IS, $4,000 bushels; corn, 30,5iso00 bush
els; oats, 14,772, 900 bushels rye, 4.1oo,-
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
Hadley a. Sutherland. n negro muir
derer. was elec;rocuted at Sing Sing
NY.
William Putnam and Parrish John
son were frozen 70 death near Coulee
City. Wash.
After lying in n trance for three years
and two months William Gipp, who
killed his mother In Buffalo, n. Il, came
to his senses.
Harry 4. Cagwin, proprietor Of the
Joliet tIll) city bark, private institu-
ton. assigned with liabilities Of S4s,0o0
Mrs. Augusta Mack. jointly charged
with Martin Thorn Of the murder Of
William Guldensuppe in New York, has
been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Francis y. Newton, a prosperous
farmer OF Brookficld. Mass, and his
wife and ten-year-old adopted daugh-
ter were found murdered in their beds.
a hired man was suspected Of the crime.
Rev. Thomas T.. Moore fell dead from
an apoplectic stroke in the midst Of his
sermon at the Baptist church in Har-
per, Kan. lie was one of the five young
men who, in 1865, originated the Saliva
ton Army movement in London.
The Twenty-seventh general assem-
bly, Of Iowa convened In Des Moines.
David Hall, of Hubbard, o., a pioneer
iron manufacturer of the Mahoning
valley, dropped dead.
The big Port OF Chalmette below New
Orleans, with it's hundreds Of thousands
Of dollars invested in cotton congresses,
vharves, etc, went into the hands OF
receiver with liabilities of 100000.
The one hundredth anniversary OF the
occupation Of the old statehouse In Bos-
ton was duly observed.
The eighth annual banquet Of the
Hamilton club was held at the Audito-
rum in Chicago Loren A. Thurston,
cN-mnister from Hawaii to the United
States, being the principal speaker.
Thomas A. Edison denies the story
that he has discovered a new metal.
Commissioner Martin A. Knapp has
been elected chairman Of the interstate
commerce commission to succeed w. Il.
Morrison.
Fourteen business houses in Shawnee,
o. r., were destroyed by fire.
Patrick A. Largey, president OF the
State savings bank and wealthy mine
owner, was shot and killed at Butte.
Mont. by Thomas Riley.
Dispatches say that Seminole Indians
burned the town OF Maud o. r., and
massacred % men, women and children,
and their march through the country
was marked at every point by blood
shed and fire.
James England and his wife were suf-
located by coal gas in their home at
Burlington, la.
A ledge Of quartz has been struck in
the Klondike that assays from 100000
to $250,0oo per ton.
In riot al the opening trial Of Will
liam lludley at Mount Vernon, Ky
for killing John Lawrence, two men
were shot
IL is definitely announced that the
Rothschilds will build railroad into
the Yukon country in Alaska over the
Dalton trail
Justice a. w Newman. Of the supreme
court, fell on an icy sidewalk in Madi-
son, Wis, and fractured his skull. His
recovery was doubtful
The St. Louis & New Orleans Anchor
line Of steamers made an assignment in
81. Louis.
In the Ohio legislature Mr. Hanna got
SO votes in the house and IL in tire SEN
ate, enough TO elect him United States
senator on a joint ballot IL no changes
occur