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ton of American missionary property.
John Bull, an old resident of Prairie
du Chen, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head with a re-
volver. He was a veteran Of the civil
war.
1t is believed that the president will
recommend a form of government for
the Hawaiian islands similar to that
in operation in the District Of Col
umbia
An Intellectual ballot for United
States senator was taken by the
Oregon legislature, H. W. Corbett
leading, but not having votes enough
to elect.
Brunswick, Ga, has been inundated
by a tidal wave. A thousand houses
and stores are flooded and conserva-
tive estimates place the property loss
at 100000
Henry George declined the New
York silver democratic nomination
for governor. In his place Henry
Mcdonald, a former Pierre IS. D.
banker, was nominated.
Ezra A. Tuttle of Brooklyn was
placed on the New York state demo-
cratic silver ticket as a candidate for
encouragement in place of Ole F.
| Snyder, who refused to run.
Chaplain Mcintyre testified in his
defense at his court-martial at Den
yer, and pleaded that he had been i'll
from nervous strain when he deliver
cd h ic ID -ol1ccp6
American engineers will go to
China to begin constructing for an
American syndicate a railroad from
Hankow through the valley OF the
Yang Use Kiang to Canton.
Eli Shaw was put on trial in Cam
den, n. J., for the murder of his
mother He has already been tried
twice for the murder of his grand
mother, and on the second trial &C
quilted.
Governor Budd Of California has
decided to issue extradition papers in
the case Of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, &C
cused of the poisoning of Mrs. John
P. Dunning and her sister, Mrs.
Joshua P. Deane.
Contracts for building the four
coast defense monitors will be
awarded to the Newport News COM
pany, the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco, the Bath company and
Lewis, Nixon & Co.
The troops and Indians at Bear
island had a fight whose result is I'M
known, though rumor has it that
several soldiers were killed. Rein
forcements are on the way. A gen
eral Indian uprising is talked of.
F. G. Rudolph of Paducah, KY, ad-
ministrator of the estate of Charles
Craft, a young man who committed
suicide in June, has filed suit for $10,-
900 against c. NJ. Merquoit, the drug
gist who sold Craft poison.
A West Indian hurricane, accom-
panied by terrific winds, did much
damage along the coast of Georgia
and South Carolina, running crops,
driving vessels ashore and imperil-
ling the lives of many persons.
United States Senator Quay, his
son, Richard R. Quay, and Charles H
Mckee of Pittsburg, law partner OF
Lieutenant Governor Walter Lyon
were bound over in $4,000 bail each to
answer to charges of misusing Penn
sylyania state funds.
The supreme court in Brooklyn has
decided that surface railroads which
issue transfer tickets are obliged to
accept the same even if the time limit
has expired, providing the person
holding the ticket has been unable to
secure a seat in car before the time
specified has passed.
Col Theodore Roosevelt was for
mally notified of his nomination as
the republican candidate for COVER
nor Of New York at his home, at
Oyster Bay, L. l., and Judge Angus
tus Van Wyck was formally told OF
the democratic nomination at his
Brooklyn home. Justice Van Wyck
resigned from the bench to accept the
nomination.