Times-promoter., 1898-11-19

TWENTY-FIVE strikers, armed with
new Winchester rifles were found drill
ing near Pana, Ill.
Rev Il. +. Howell, of Decatur. ILL.,.
who eloped with married woman,
committed suicide ut OIathe, Kan.
Forest and prairie fires were raging
all over the Seminole nation in Oklaho-
ma and property valued at Sl50,OOO had
been destroyed.
The state factory inspector has Or
dercd over 800 children of school age
out of local factories in East Liver
pool. o.
At Alva. 0. T.. George Lout, n farmer.
became insane and killed his wife with
an AK and cut his own throat.
Fred Grumme, president of the Mar
shalltown Qa.) state bank and one OF
the leading citizens, dropped dead from
heart disease.
A corporation. capitalized at about
$50 100000. will take in all the local
breweries at Pittsburgh. Pa.
Burglars. who left no clew to their
identity. cleaned out the little village Of
Danforth, Ill.
President Mckinley went to Canton.
O.. to vote and returned to Washington
soon after he cast his ballot.
Associate Justice Silas u. Pinney, OF
the Wisconsin supreme court resigned
because OF poor health.
Four negroes were lynched by mob
near Phoenix, S. c., for shooting a
white man.
Norman Cole shot and killed Mathilde
Lavigueur. his sweetheart, in Montreal,
and then sent bullet through his own
brain. Jealousy was the cause.
Six men were killed and five wounded
ia brawls in various counties in Texas
on election day.
White citizens of Wilmington, n. c..
in mass meeting declared that negroes
must find another place of residence.
The worlds ten-shot pistol record
was broken in Philadelphia by c. II
Taylor, of the Massachusetts Rifle acco-
citation, who made the limit of 100.
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada for the month of October shows
a total of S7,53o, 400, against 81 1897, 500
in October 1897.
The agricultural departments No
vember crop report estimates the total
cotton crop at 100000 bales and the
corn crop at 1927 100000 bushels.
White citizens wrecked negro news
raper office in Wilmington, N. c.. and
il the fight that followed nine negroes
were killed and three white men
wounded.
Fire destroyed the Great Western tin
plate mill at Joliei, Ill.,, the loss being
| $l5000O
Seven schooners were wrecked in a
terrific storm on Lake Michigan, but
| the crews were saved.
The people of Pana, III. were again
alarmed at the critical situation among
| the locked out miners and the negroes
who were imported from Alabama to
take their places.
The annual report of Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster-General Bristow for
| the fiscal year ended June 80, 1898
shows there were at the close of the
fiscal year 1850 post offices in the
United States, an increase during the
year of 2.54S.
The schooner S. Thai was wrecked
off Glencoe, H., and Capt. August
Schoenemann and crew of four wert
| lost.
A Great Northern through train was
held up and robbed five miles west OF
Fergus Falls, Mimi, by eight men.
More than $1,OOO,00O changed hands
on election results in New York.
Mrs. Merrie L. Abbott, who has beer
elected prosecuting attorney of Oge
nav county, Mich, bears the distinc
ton of being the only woman in th'
world, as far as known, who has beef
elected to that Office.