The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-09-09
GENERAL NEWS.

Henry III. Holt, former lieutenant
governor Of Michigan. died at Muskegou.
The Republicans of the Third Ne
braska district nominated n. r. Norris of
Wayne for Congress
The President has appointed John W.
Finney to be assistant United States
treasurer at Philadelphia.
The deadlock in the Ninth Repub
lican convention at Council Bluffs was
by the nomination of Smith Mcpherson
Of Montgomery county.
The tugboat Marian of the PennsyI-
vania railroad sunk at South Amb0y this
morning. All the crew escaped exc&pt
the pilot, James Hennesey. who wns
Herman r. Winkler. a trusted car
rier Of the Burlington na.l postoaice de-
ters today by United States Inspector
Mayer of Chicago. r =
The United States transport Vieifan-
eia passed Sandy Hook, bound out. She
has the Twenty third regiment Of coIored
infantry from Topeka, Kas., On board,
bound for Santiago = =
"A sensation has been caused at Wen
pa; by the arrest of Ischl of the well
known Dutch pianist Sieveking, for fail
Ing to salute priest who was CARRYING
the yiaticum TO a dying person.
George Wagner, alias George Whit
ney, ex-convict and expert SAT blower, ii
under arrest at Chicago charged With rob
bling the Bank of Richland, Mich, of
$50 500. The robbery occurred August 5.
The National Ex-Slaves' Home as
ISOLATION began three days session here
to-day. Delegates from FIVE states are in
attendance. The object of the coDveu-
ton is to provide for support of national
ex-siaves' home here and to extend it.
AT Garlinville, ILL.,, Emmett Mills and
Lee Darnell of Louisiana, Mo-. and
Frank Owens of this place were painting
bridge on the Chicago & Alton railroad
when the swinging trestle, Jared by a
passing train, gave way and threw the
men into the creek below. Mills was in
stantly killed and the others were severe
~ injured.
News comes from Chandler. O. T.
of the killing of John Thompson by Leon
ard Bridge, the latter having mistaken
|4im for another man. Alexander Bridge
was shot some time ago by young man
Of the neighborhood of the name of Brr-
ant HE Was never arrested. Leonard
Bridge threatened to kill Bryant if eyer
the opportunity appeared
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford, Conservative member of Parliament
for York, recently commissioned by the
Associated Chambers of Commerce on a
special mission to China. started from
LONDON on MS eastern Journey. he will
Investigate the prospects of commerce and
report particularly as to the extent to
which the Chinese government will guar-
antee@ the safety of British capital.
"A, triennial convention of weather Ipl-
reau meteorologists will be held at Omaha
in the middle of October The convention
will be opened by Prof Willis L. Moore.
chief Of the bureau.
The acting secretary of the navy has
notified the President that the fish com
mission steamer AIbatross and the revenue
cutter. Mclean are no longer needed for
naval purposes. He recommends their re-
turn to the establishments to which They
belong. -;
The paper mills of H. H. Childs. two
miles from Rockford. Mich. burned en-
failing loss of 5000. One hundred
men are thrown out of employment. The
cause of the fire is not known.
-Mathcr Bros, coal dealers at Rich
mond, Ind. surrendered their property TO
creditors after notifying them of their en-
barrassed condition, due to Improbable in
vestment in real estate. Liabilities. $40
600; assets about the same
The secretary of state has appointed
Henry Turner Bailey of Massachusetts
and Thomas w. Wood of New York dele
gates on the part of the United States
to the international Congress of Public
Art, which is to meet at Brussels from
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