The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-11-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings Of the Wide world
Briefly and Tersely Told.

doing $25O00o damage.
Former Judge Sage of the United
States district court died at his home
in Lebanon, O., Tuesday.
committee Of Vermonters at Otta-
wa presented an American flag to the
Carlton Rifles of that city.
Three thousand operators in cotton
mills in Augusta, Ca, have quit work
because of a reduction in wages.
A fire from an unknown cause did
over 100000 damage to the business
section of Greenport, N T., Friday.
The transatlantic lines Of steamships
have agreed upon two outward and
two homeward bound ocean tracks
Heavy rains have quenched two
tory. 1t has done about $25O00O dam
age.
The people Of Olympia, Wash, will
present a commemorative tablet to the
flagship Olympia of Admiral Dewey 5
feet.
Prairie fires which have done damage
II the amount of $250,000 in the Indian
i erritory have been stopped by heavy
rs.ins.
The Harvard football team defeated the
Yale team in the championship game at
New Haven on Saturday by score OF
II to 0.
The Middle Village Methodist Episco-
yal church in Queens, N. T., celebrated
it's one hundred and thirtieth anniversa-
~ Sunday.
Eighteen men, the crew of the Dutch
bark Johanna, were rescued by the
steamer Peconic and brought to New
York Friday.
The national quarantine convention to
consider the best means for preventing
the spread Of yellow fever was opened
in Memphis Thursday.
Rafael Iglesias president Of Costa
Rica, arrived in New York Tuesday en-
route to Washington, where he will call
on President Mckinley.
Somewhere between New York and
Lexington, KY, a registered letter con-
tanning 81, 900 has been stolen. Its send
er was j. Madden, the horseman.
The British-American corporation has
acquired 205,000 shares of the Leroi
Mining company at $7.25 share from
Senator Turner and his associates
The clipper ship Atlanta, bound from
Tacoma to Cape Town, went ashore on
the Oregon coast on Friday. Only two
of her crew of 30 men got ashore alive.
Mrs. Henry Ledya@l, daughter of
the late General Lew~ Cass and moths
er of Lewis Cass Ledyard Of New York,
died suddenly in London on Wednesday.
Captain Johnson of the steamer Pros
per, which arrived at Spokane, Wash,
Tuesday, thinks he sighted the overdue
steamer Laurel Bank in a storm on
Oct. rs.
The Anglo-American joint high com
mission held an important meeting in
Washington Thursday. at which the
fisheries and reciprocity questions were
considered
J. A. Brandreth, who claimed to be a
nephew of the millionaire pillmaker of
that name, was found dead in a cell in
the county Jail at Fresno, Cal, Friday.
He had been arrested as a vagrant.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union, at it's national convention in ST.
Paul, last week elected Mrs. Lillian M. N
Stevens of Maine as president This
was effected on the first ballot. Mrs.
Stevens receiving 317 of the 356 votes
cast.
c. NJ. Atherton, a law student in Wis
consin university, Friday received a tel
eSTdHl4 ITOil1 Ills SiTl Wlies VINO Is d
daughter of Captain A.. T. Andreas. say
ing she had escaped from her parents
in New York and would join him in
Chicago. :
The United States steel tug Paw
tucket was launched at the Mare Island
navy yard Thursday afternoon. She was
christened by Miss Heather Baxter, the
little daughter of Naval Constructor
Do In - f,f
spectators.
Paul PHILIPPE, purser of the French
line steamship Champagne, was arrest
ed in New York Thursday, charged with
smuggling a package of dress goods adj
dressed to Mr.. Lucchetti, French consul
at St. Thomas, who is temporarily in
New York.
An enthusiastic mass meeting of coll
ored people was held in Cooper Union.
New York, Thursday night to protest
against the race war in North and
South Carolina Resolutions were adopt
ed appealing to the government for aid
in the matter.
DR.. Nancy A. Guiiford, who was
brought from London upon the charge
of numbering Emma Gill last septem-
ber, was arraigned before a special ses-
sion of the criminal superior court in
Bridgeport, Conn, Tuesday and bail
fixed at $4,000.
DR.. Stephen H. Tying, president of
the American Chamber of Commerce.
died in Paris Thursday. He was for
merly well known Protestant Episco-
pal clergyman in New York, but left
the ministry on account of dissensions
in the church of which he was pastor
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