The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-12-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


apartment house fire in Prospect place.
Brooklyn, Sunday night
The Kentucky State League of To-
bacco Growers has taken legal steps
against the Tobacco trust.
The government has increased the
force of inspectors on duty at the Car
negie mills in Homestead, Pa.
Samoan chiefs have lodged a caveat,
which was upheld by the chief justice,
against the election of Mataafa as king.
Frank Dean. an escaped bank burr
glar from the state prison at Jackson
Mich, has been captured at Newark,
N. Y
Antonio Faraquisi a banker was
murdered on his own doorstep in
BroQme street New York, Sunday
night.
company with $1.0OO,000 capital is
being formed in New York to manufac-
ture automobiles. The factory is to be
in Orange. N. j.
Rev. DIR. DE Costa declared in his pull
p It in New York Sunday that Protes
tantism is passing away because of the
multiplication of sects.
Thomas Sharlxey and Kid" Mccoy
were matched Thursday to meet in
20 round bout on Jan. 10 before the
Lenox Athletic club, New York.
The purchase of the San Francisco.
and San Joaquin Valley railroad stock
by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad company has been completed.
Rufus L. Perry. a colored lawyer of
Brooklyn, has obtained an option on
big tract of land ON Long Island with
the design of forming a negro settle
ment.
The Yerkes street railway franchise
extension ordinances were killed in the
Chicago city council Monday night by
a vote of S8 to % No violence oc-
Cured.
Two bulldogs fought in a classroom
in Princeton university and terrified the
students, who imagined the beasts were
mad. They We're separated after big
rumpus.
The United states brewers conven-
tion met in New York Wednesday and
decided to present memorial to con-
gress praying for repeal of the war tax
on beer
1t has been decided in Boston that
divers will be employed to remove bod
les and personal effects from the wreck
ed steamer Portland if the vessel can
be located
James Mcdonald, a we'll known horse
man, while driving on the Speedway in
New York Sunday chose to throw his
runaway animal to avoid injuring 9TH
ers and was killed.
Forty five of the crew of the aban-
doned steamship Londonian We're land
ed at Baltimore by the steamer yeda-
more Friday The remaining IS were
lost with the ship.
Russell A. Alger, Jr., son of the secre-
tary of war and manager of his fathers
pulp company at Grand Mere. Que, was
seriously injured there by being thrown
from his toboggan.
The Paris exposition commission has
received a letter stating that French Of
ficials decided upon the garden Of the
Tuileries as site for the Lafayette
memorial monument
The main building Of the Kutztown
(Pa.) Foundry and Machine company
was totally destroyed by fire Saturday
entailing loss of $4,000 The building
was 80 by 100 feet and contained valua-
Bile patterns.
William H. Lynn, brother -in-law of
President Iglesias of Costa Rica, was
arrested in New York and gave $500
cash ball. suit having been entered
against him in connection with rail-
way scheme.
The hat factory of John w Green &
Co, one of the largest in Danbury,
Conn, was completely destroyed by fire
Thursday night. Loss, $4,000; insur
ance, $4,000 Four hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
The will of Edwin F. Knowlton, who
committed suicide at West Upton,
Mass, has been admitted to probate-
in Kings county, n. Y. 1t bequeaths
over s1,000,000, the largest sum of
which goes to his daughter, a German
countess.
A break in a big water main at Cen
trail avenue and Covert street. Brook
lyn, yesterday flooded the cellars of
hundreds of houses. caused the street
to cave in and rendered two buildings
so unsafe that they had to be evacuated
and shored up.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Cody, on
trial in Albany for alleged biackmail
of the heirs of Jay Gould, failed to
reach a verdict after being out "a hours
and was discharged Thursday night.
Mrs. Cody was remanded to jail, and
second trial will be held soon.
Mrs. Samuel Colgate of New York is
now the bride of the Earl of Strafford.
The marriage, which was celebrated in
the chantry of Grace church, New
York, Tuesday, was exceedingly simple
and quiet. and only a few of the brides
relatives were present Rev. Dr. Hunt
ington officiated.
Four men We're killed by an explosion
in the Dupont powder works, near Will
mington, Del, Friday. Five mills in the
lower yard of the Dupont works explod
ed at 1905. Robert Ilihanny, John
Moore, John Wright and another man
named Stewart were killed. Several 9TH
ers were badly burned.
Riotous members of the French
chamber OF deputies led mob Monday
to the Jail in which Colonel Picquart Is
confined and made demonstration
there. They bitterly denounced the
Dreyfusites. There were wild scenes
in the chamber of deputies concerning
the Picquart and Dreyfus affairs.