The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-01-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tharsday. Jan. go.


Mrs Goodwin. wife OF the comedian
Nat Goodwin, was granted an absolute
divorce in New York
Henry w Nudge Of Glen Cove, N. Y,
who had domestic and financial trou-
bles, committed suicide in the Conti-
/ mental hotel New York.
The Denver department stores. have
lost their fight against the newspapers
for a cut of 80 per cent in advertising
rates and have accepted an advance
over the rates previously established.
Henry e. Straight, who is said to be
an all around crook, succeeded in max
ing his escape from the Gregory street
police station. Jersey City. f7is wife is
under arrest charged with having aided
him to obtain his freedom
friday, Jan. ri.
David Platt Osborne has begun suit
against his father-in-law John d. Kim
lmey. a millionaire, of Newark, N j.,
for alienation Of his wifes affections.
/ Supreme Court Justice Garrison, in
charging the grand jury in Camden, N.
No.. declared that embracery stopped the
shaw trial and that Prosecutor Jenkins
would step aside and Attorney General
! Grey take charge of the investigation.
The Japanese warship Kasaei was
! launched at Cramps shfpyard, Phiia-
delphia Miss Helen Long, daughter OF
the secretary of the navy, christened
the ship in accordance with a Japanese
custom by releasing a number OF doves
! from the bow and scattered flowers over
the deck.
Erich A. Prisman, disgraced lieuten-
ant in the Volunteers of America, was
arrested in New York charged with fe-
lonious assault upon Miss Anna Hughes,
private secretary to Commander Bal
lington Booth, at Orange. N. J. 1t is
charged that he struck hers with
sandbag, nlistaking her for her sister.
with whom he is in love.
Saturday, Jan. ez.
Mrs. Mary Wolf. helpless and 5S years
old. was burned in her apartments at
412 East Fifteenth street. New York,
and died in Bellevue hospital
Five hundred mechanics employed in
the Globe Iron Works company's ship
yard, in Cleveland, Of which Senator
Hanna is a principal owner. struck be-
cause nonunion men were employed in
another yard recently purchased by the
company.
The New York Life Insurance compa
ny has settled the Hillmon claim, which
had been in litigation in Kansas for
| nearly 20 years, and which was a prom
inent factor in the trouble between the
state insurance department and east
ern insurance companies.
Anthony Comstock, with a New York
postoffice inspector and deputy mar
shaI, sprang trap on gang of green
goods operators at Portchester, N. Y,
and arrested George Morris, who is APP
parently the leader. John Reedy, sta
tion agent of the New York and Putt
nam railroad and telegraph operator,
tax collector and postmaster at Pecan
tico Hills, N. Y J. was arrested as an ac<
/ complice.
Monday, Jan. "a.
Rev T. De Witt !Talnage has been
married to Mrs. Eleanor Collier of Alle<
ghany City, Pa. The wedding was very
quiet.
1t is said that Miss Adelaide Mason.
daughter of Marion Manola, is engaged
to c. ID. Burrows, nephew of Speaker
Thomas B. Reed.
The solar eclipse in India caused ma
tive astrologers to predict terrible ca
lamtes. There was rapid fall OF
temperature noted
Mrs Witthaus. who secured limited
divorce from Professor Witthaus, the
well known toxicologist of New York
accused him of having tried to poison
her.
MI. Cramer, ex-minister to Denmark
and Switzerland, and brother-in-law to
General u s. Grant, a professor at
Dickinson college, Carlisle. Pa, died at
that place.
Explorer Nansen, who has been lec-
turing through the country, intends tJ
start for Norway at once. and his man
ayers are suing him for $4,000 for
breach of contract.
Tuesday. Jan. 25.
The celebration of the golden jubiles
of California was begun.
Charles E Willard. retired insur-
ance man, was killed by a fan down an
elevated railroad stairway in New York.
In the session of the French chamber
of deputies the members, by vote Of
S76 to 1873, expressed confidence in the
government
Lord William Nevill, fourth son Of
the Marquis of Abergavenny, was ar
raigned in a London police court on
charge of fraud.
The Italian armored cruiser Marco
Polo has been ordered to China. King
Humbert told the captain that Italys
interests are akin to those of England.
Martial law was proclaimed at Fort
Yukon. and the soldiers protected
warehouse of an Alaska trading COM
pany from an attacking party of $50
miners.
Baron Won Buelow the German for
eign minister declared before the bud
get committee of the reichstag that
there never had been relations of any
kind between German representatives
or agents and Dreyfus. General Billot,
the French minister of war, will pro-
hibit all officers from testifying at the
trial Of Emile Zola.
Wednesday, Jan. %6.
President Dole of Hawaii left Chicago
for Washington by special train.
The annual meeting of the National
Association ofManufacturers was open
ed in Masonic temple in New York.
Mrs. Burt Griffith. the wife of Long
Island fireman. testified that her former
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