People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1898-01-21
GENERAL GLEANINGs.

GENERAL GLEANINGS,
DIES MONIES, Jan. Ex-Governor Les.
lie M. Shaw was inaugurated here.
ROME, Jan. ID. - Senior Tabbarina.
president of the counsel of state. is
dead
PEORIA, His, Jan. 14-The Peoria
waterworks have bean sold under de-
cree to bondholders' committee for ST..
500, 900.
LONDON, Jan. t5.-Sir Polydore De
Keyser. who was lord mayor of London
during the year 1888. is dead. He
was born in 1882.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 16.-Mr john A.
GanO, well known citizen, formerly
one of the proprietors of the Cincinnati
Commercial, died here.
COLUMBUS, O.. Jan. 1S-John Mitch
ell of Illinois has been elected vice pres
ident of the United Mine Workers of
America. vice John Kane deceased.
New YORK, Jan. 14-Eleven rein.
deer arrived on board the Wilson
lime steamer Martello from Hull, and
will be shipped to the Klondike region.
New YORK, Jan. 15.-General Will
liam Booth, the head of the Salvation
Army. reached this city on board the
steamer st. Paul from Southampton.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Commander
Mccall of the United States steamship
Marbiehead has reported to the navy
department. from Port Tampa that while
at small arms target practice four men
of the Marblehead were injured by an
explosion, two of them very seriously.
SAN FARNCIsCo Jan. ia petition
protesting against the annexation OF
Hawaii, signed by 100 sugar beet raisers
of Ventura county. has been forwarded
to Washington.
Boston, Jan. 18-Scott Leighton, the
well known Boston artist died ut the
Mclean Insane asylum at Waverly.
Leighton's fame rested ON his talent in
animal painting.
CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. L. - Four
Americans have been arrested and are
vigorously incommunicado, being sus-
pected of completely in robberies of
great magnitude.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1S-Boxing is
to be revived during the month of Feb
ruary. The board Of supervisors have
granted the Empire club permit for a
boxing show some time next naonth.
New YORK, Jan. 16-Ofioers of the
Atlas line steamer Andres which vessel
has just arrived from Haytie ports, say
that 800 buildings were destroyed by
fire which devastated Port au PgiMce on
Dec. 80.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ia special train
from New York. enreHte to Jackson
vile, Fla, via the Atlantic Coast line,
passed through this city with about 500
help for the various hotels in the Land
Of Flowers.
LANCASTER, Pa, Jan. AB.--Professor
John H. Haldeman, who from 1869 to
1889 was principal of the department of
observation of the state normal school
at Westf1eld. Mass, is dead at Marietta.
Pa, aged 65 years.
BOMBAY, India, Jan. R - Messrs
Hickie and Prunty, who escaped the
massacre of the British survey party,
which was attacked by natives at Mex
ran on Jan. 10, have reached Ormara,
on the Arabian sea.
Fort SCOTT, Kan, jan. ia herd
of 1000 starving cattle from the low
lands of Mississippi and Alabama,
where the crops were destroyed by the
Mississippi food last spring, has arrived
here to be fed on Kansas hay and corn.
.suasGsSNoA. - Jan. 17.-Tndictments
ainst the lynohers of
ssuem IoT 9s"dge Mack Smith says
-4umDe4> 3Ged will be six or seven
and District Attorney Virgin concurs
with the judge.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. II. - George
Green, the pugilist, is out with chal-
lenge for another match with Joe Wal
colt, at catchweights, and the largest
purse offered. He stipulates that the
winner of the match shall challenge
Mccoy for the middleweight champion
ship
CINCINNATI, Jan. 1A-Louis Alfeld, a
compositor at The Enquirer office, shot
his sweetheart, Minnie Palmer, at her
home on Bremen street, inflicting a
fatal wound and then shot and killed
himself Jealousy is supposed to be
the cause. They had had brief quar-
rel just before the shooting.
READING, Pa, Jan. 49, Frank Will
lard Ohildress. hypnotist and Sallie
Muldrew of Wheeling. W. Va, are un-
der arrest here charged with stealing
rings from trays i'll jewelry stores i'll
this city, Newark, N. j., Philadelphia.
Harrisburg, Allentown. Lancaster and
other cities. The woman has confessed
ST. HELENA, CAL, Jan. 15-Robert
Pithie, bridge contractor, has discov-
cred deposit of natural cement near
here, which he says is much superior to
the imported article and which can be
procured at a much smaller cost Mr.
Pithie says the deposit is found in large
quantities and can be easily prepared
for shipment
MEADvILLE. Pa, Jan. 14-In Bloom
field township Joseph Bromley, a far
mer, shot his nephew. Charles Brom-
ley, with a smooth bore rife, tearing
away SO much of his neck that the
young man will die The man quar-.
relied regarding the ownership Of a
wagon. The murderer was arrested
after fierce encounter.
CHICAGO, Jan. t3.-The big verdict
given Engineer Fred R Ketoham
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