Times-promoter., 1898-12-17


the largest department store in LOUIS :.
vile. Ky. failed for $l5o,ooO.
The secretary of the treasury trans
mitted TO congress the estimates of ep'
preparations required for the serv' c
OF the fiscal year ending June 80, 1900
They aggregate $500, 3,0iS.37S.
Three coal barges from Bay City
Mich. were lost in gale off Portla'd d
Me-. and 10 men and two women were
drowned.
Frank Waller. of Boston. broke the
world's bicycle record in New York !.r
continuous riding. going 3l4 miles and
S laps in 16 hours and 10 minutes witt.
out dismounting.
Frank Brush murdered his wife a!
Fort Madison, Ia, and then committed
suicide. They had lived unhappily for
several years.
a storm at Hamilton. Ont, damaged
property 10 the extent of $5C0,000.
The Farmers National congress be-
gan its annual session at Fort Worth,
Tex, with several hundred delegates
present.
Four men were killed at Fort Inde-
pendence, in Boston harbor, by the cx-
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 &C.
clared the state oleomargarine anti
coloring law null and void.
Powell Clayton, minister to Mexico,
has been raised to the rank OF an
bassador by President Mckinley.
V. X. and A. II. Jones, boot and sho,
manufacturers at Boston and Lynn.
Mass, failed for $13o,00o.
Two negroes, Hearn and Richardson.
under arrest at Benton, La, for the
murder of Larry Vance, we're tried BY
citizens, found guilty and hanged
Gen. Nelson A. Miles in his report to
Secretary Alger says that standing
army of 100000 men is public neces-
sity.
The ninth convention of the Non
partisan Women's National Christian
Temperance union began in Cleye-
land, o.
The report Of the Hawaiian commits
sion TO the president provides for the
erection of the islands into territory
of the United States to be styled the
territory OF Hawaii and contains pro-
visions for the government of the terri
tory, giving it executive, legislative and
judicial officers.
The total receipts Of the United
States patent Office during the past year
We're $1.253,9+S.44. The expenditures
were Sl.os1, ,633.70. leaving a surplus of
$172.314.65.
The Cuban Educa tional Association
of the United States has been orga nizeC
in New York to carry out offers made
by American colleges to give free tut.
tion to Cubans.
The dock of coal company at West
Superior, Wis, caught fire and caved in
and four men we're buried under thou.
fands of tons of burning coal.
The hat factory Of John w. Green &
Co. at Danbury, Conn, was destroyed
by fire. Loss. $l25.0O0.
City Marshal A. d. Bryant, of McKen.
zie, Tenn, was shot and killed by Hugh
Mccall, mere boy, who afterwarc
committed suicide.
At the annual meeting in Cleveland
O., of the National Nonpartisan Wom
ans Christian Temperance union Mrs
Howard NJ. Ingham, of Jefferson, O..
was elected president.
On her trial trip at San Francisco the
torpedo boat destroyer Farragut made
30.G knots IN hour. and she Is the fastest
vessel flying the American flag.
Jake Glover (colored) was taken
from the Jail at Monticello. Ca. by a
mob and hanged for murder.
The report that Wcyauwega. Wis,
had been destroyed by fire was prema-
ture. Only hotel was burned.
An explosion of gas in the mines near
Ala. killed three men
and fatally wounded three others.
-A',oiHSs ecuClal vi ISES III LIS an
nuai report says the amount realized |
from The sale of captured vessels and
rargoes condemned as prize in the
Spanish war is $70l,O34.
The Central house at Walena. Mimi.
was burned and two men lost their |
lives.
Mrs. Frank Brooks killed her nine.
year-old daughter and herself in De.
troit, Mich. No cause was known for |
the deed.
The report of the commissioner OF
fish and fisheries shows an expenditure
Of $1S7,s00 for the propagation of food
fisheries during the last fiscal year
The private bank of Taylor d. Nc
Clure at Arrowsmith. H., was entered
by robbers who secured $4,000 worth of
negotiable paper and escaped.
Ernest Clcvenger. of Missouri City.
NO., shot and instantly killed George
Allen and fatally wounded his cousin.
Della Clevenger. Jealousy was the
cause.
The office of the Daily Morning Pos,
1t Pekin, H.. was almost destroyed by
Ire.
SafebIowers wrecked the big safe in
he Bank of Antioch. Ill.,. with dyna.
mite and robbed it of $500 and some
papers and escaped
Mai Gen, Wheeler has decided tn re-