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yellow fever.
Adrian Braun, convict in Sing Sing
IN. " prison, murdered his wife, who
was paying him visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Justin Alexander. an
aged couple residing at Mentor, o., were
asphyxiated by gas from a coal stove.
The receipts of the government for
the fiscal year up to the 9TH have been
$3.50, 39s, 4sl; expenditures, $3.50, pa, S26;
excess of receipts over expenditures,
$2.t52,655.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 7th was; Wheat,
33,012, 900 bushels; corn, Al, All 900 bush
els; oats, 10, 1s4, 900 bushels; rye, 1885,
bushels; barley, 1891, 900 bushels.
Ex-State Auditor Eugene Moore was
arrested in Lincoln. Neb., charged with
stealing $4,000 in fees from insurance
companies while in office.
This country has asked the British
ambassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote, to
explain why the British flag has been
planted on the summit OF Chilkat
pass.
Negotiations have been begun look
ing TO the purchase by the navy de-
partment of several ironclads and some
OF the larger class of torpedo boat de-
stroyers.
Spain has withdrawn her request for
the recall Of Consul-General Lee, and IL
Is believed that the incident is prac-
tically closed. 1t has been decided by
the navy department to send the cruiser
Montgomery TO Havana TO take the
place left vacant by the destruction of
the Maine.
Three members of the Robbers
Roost'r band OF outlaws were captured
in the mountains near the Wyoming
Colorado boundary line and lynched.
Mabel Heating, the queen OF pick
pockets" was shot and fatally wounded
in San Francisco by Jerry Sullivan.
The fire loss Of the United States and
Canada during the month of February
amounted to $12, 6e9. 300, against $500
T50 in the same month last year.
The schooner Dauntless WIS seized by
the government at Jacksonville, Fla,
on charge OF filibustering.
The United States supreme court has
declared unconstitutional the Ne
brnslxa maximum freight rate act.
Fire in the Brownell g. Field COM
pany's wholesale coffee and spice
house in Providence, r. l., caused a loss
of $4,000.
In fire panic in Germania hall in
Hartford, Conn, nine persons were Sc
riously Injured.
Joseph Cature, William Sutton and
William Mafiit were arrested at De Soto,
Mo-, on a charge OF making and circu-
lating counterfeit money.
Andrew Holly, mayor Of Jacksonville,
H., was found dead in bed at hotel
in Springfield Heart disease was the
cause.
Commander Brownson, OF the navy,
sailed from New York for Europe with
authority to buy warships in Europe
for this government.
Charles Cutten. night agent of the
Adams Express at orrville, o., and n
package containing $4,000 are missing.
About 400 persons are affected by a
strike at the BeclSman wooden mills in
Cleveland, o., for an increase of ten
per cent. in wages. The company had
agreed TO grant the increase April 1.
Gov. Pingree has issued call conven-
ing the Michigan legislature in special
session on Tuesday, March %, TO consid-
err the taxation question.
President Mckinley has appointed
William j. Calhoun, of Illinois, inter
state commerce commissioner.
The United States cruiser Montgom-
cry sailed from Key West for Havana
TO take the place OF the Maine.
In Chicago Henry Leveson lifted two
ten-pound dumbbells above his head
$500 times in two hours and 40 minutes,
breaking the record, which was three
| hours.
Rev. Frank Bristol, OF Evanston, H.,
has accepted n call TO the pastorate OF
the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
church in Washington, ID. c.
| President Mckinley has signed the
bill providing for two additional regi-
ments of artillery to man the coast de
| lenses.
Indications at Washington are that
the tension between the United States
and Spain has been relaxed by the nc
ton of congress in placing $50,00o,o0C
at the disposal of the president.
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