The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-08-04
NEWS OF The WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

were lost and a number of persons in
jured.
A collapse in the Ohio Coal trust is
threatened owing to the detection Of
three railroads.
The viii of Joseph Banigan, the
wealthy rubber manufacturer, left $145,-
900 to charities.
Chauneey M. Depew is to deliver the
Omaha exposition.
Several New England mills closed on
Saturday on account of the low prices
prevailing in the cloth market
The National Wallpaper company has
absorbed all rivals, and is expected to
advance prices from 25 to so per cent.
Major Whittle and the Rev. G. Camp
bell Morgan made addresses before the
Bible conference at Mortified on Sun
day.
William Pepper, the well known ply
sician and former provost of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, died in Oak
land, Cal.
Colonel John Jacob Astor reached
Washington Monday with General
Skaters official report of the surrender
of Santiago.
Lewis Warner, the defaulting banker.
returned on Saturday to Northampton,
Mass, in custody, to answer for embez-
zling S6400O0.
Ex-senator Warner Miller and Sena-
tor Morgan called on President McKin-
ley Monday in the interest of the Mic
aragua canal
The convention of the League of
American Municipalities was opened
in Detroit Monday, and Governor Pin
gree addressed it.
The conference of green glass bottle
manufacturers and blowers ended at
Atlantic City Tuesday. The old wage
scale was retained.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed was re-
nominated by acclamation at the Re-
publican convention of the First
Maine district yesterday.
The battleship Texas arrived in New
York and was warmly welcomed in the
harbor. Her injuries are not serious and
can be repaired in a few days.
Edouard Taylore, the cyclist, rode
mile in practice at the Charles River
track, in Boston, Sunday, in worlds
record time of I'm. 35c., paced by two
quints.
Lightning struck the st. James Epis-
copal church of Providence Sunday aft
ernoon and set it on fire. The damage
is $4,000 or $4,000, covered by in
surance.
William H. Marston, well known in
Wall street circles and a brother of
Charles e. Marston, who recently dis
appeared committed suicide in New
York Monday
1t was announced in New York that
Maurice Grau had selected Herr Schalk
of Prague to succeed Anton Seidl and
conduct in grand opera in this country
during the coming season.
A. G. Fitch, a travelling man, whose
home was in jamestown, N. Y, fell from
a fourth story window of the Iroquois
hotel, in Buffalo, Friday, receiving in
juries from which he died.
Vice President Hobart and family and
Mrs Griggs. wife of the attorney gem
eral, arrived at Hotel Champlain, on
Lake Champlain, Saturday night and
received an enthusiastic welcome.
The borough of Millhall, Pa which
four years ago had 43 buildings destroy
ed by fire, was again visited by fire on
Friday night. Eight buildings were
burned, and nine families were left
homeless.
Martin Thorn. the accomplice of Mrs
Augusta Mack in the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe, was put to death at
Sing Sing, N. Y, Monday. Life was
pronounced extinct in 80 seconds after
the electric current was turned on.
At the Baptist temple, Brooklyn, Sun
day, Fidel G. Pierra, president of the
Cuban general bureau of information.
delivered an address on THE War With
Spain as 1t Appears From the Stand
point of International Law, of Justice
and of Humanity"
Sunday was the closing day Of the
meetings of the National Temperance
society at Ocean Grove. Bishop Fitzger-
aid announced that the Ocean Grove
Methodists on Saturday next would
raise on the camp ground the largest
American flag on the seaboard.
Rev. John Walsh, Roman Catholic
archbishop of Toronto, died Sunday
night suddenly of heart failure. He was
68 years of age and was a native of
Ireland. He was ordained in 1854 and
was appointed rector Of St. Michaeps in
1859 He became vicar general of To-
ronto diocese in 1862 and bishop in 1867.
On the death of the late Archbishop
Lynch he was made archbishop.
Fire on Saturday destroyed house
near Seneca Falls, NJ Y, occupied by
Warren Poffenberger, and caused the
death of three inmates-Mrs. Poffen-
berger wife of the tenant; Mrs George
H. Zartman mother of Mrs. Poffenber-
ger, and Chris Seward, hired man.
Andrew Schartz, Bohemian, was in
stanly killed by electricity Sunday
night on the experimental third rail
electric railway at Schenectady, N. Y.
Schartz was bathing in the canal, and
on climbing out on the BERN bank, on
which the road is built, tripped and fell
across the rails. A full current Of cleo
tricity charged the rails at the time
and Schartz's death was instantaneous.
He is the first victim of the third rail
system.