The sun., 1898-12-22
DAYS EVENTS IN THIS COUNTRY


The spool silk manufacturers are said
to have formed combination.
Secretary OF the Navy Long, II is ru-
mored, will retire from the Cabinet
shortly.
Nathaniel Ellmaker, the oldest mem.
Der Of the Lancaster Bar, is dead, aged
81 years.
Traffic on the Great Lakes is being
fairly we'll maintained with the aid OF
ice crushers.
Two masked men held up an illinois
Central train near Pope's Station, Miss,
but secured nothing.
According to the proprietors of the big
stores, more sales have been made tor
this Christmas than ever before.
John Hogan, District Chief of the Jer.
sey City Fire Department, attempted
suicide after a quarrel with his wife.
The Illinois Central Railroad has se-
cured all option on real estate in Omaha,
thus insuring its entrance to that city.
Representatives OF thirty railroads met
in Chicago to consider plan for joint
exhibit at the Paris Exposition OF 1900.
Roderick Chisholm, Chicago line.
man, was roasted to death in network
of wires, while a crowd stood helplessly
below him.
A desperate mob is making an effort to
Inch Aft Sims, discharged soldier, who
killed Robert Norton at dance near
Decatur, Ala.
An unknown yacht foundered off
Coney Island early Tuesday morning in
dense Jog, and it is believed there was
some loss Of life.
David Shea, an ex.convict, committed
suicide in st. Louis, because he said he
was being bounded to death by a private
detective agency.
A fire of supposed incendiary origin
destroyed twenty-five business houses
and two dwellings at Maiden, Mo. The
loss is about $S0,00O.
A freight train ran away at Yalesville,
Pa, and, crashing into another freight
train, wrecked six cars and fatally in
iured two trainmen.
Frederick Won Hortman, son of Baron
Won Hortman, of Cologne, Germany, has
been sent to prison in Indiana for five
years for burglary.
The Western Passenger Association
will hold meeting in Chicago on Janu.
ary 10 to consider draft of the new AS
sociation agreement.
Andrew j. Smith, Governor of the
Soldiers Home at Santa Monica, CAL,
has resigned because two attempts have
been made on his life.
The Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain
Railroad will increase the salaries OF its
long-run passenger conductors about %
per cent. on January l.
Professor J. B. Hatcher, OF Princeton,
has gone back to Patagonia to continue
his search for rare fossils and to explore
the interior Of the country.
Director Thompson has made requisi.
tion for $3.50, 1000 to build new engines at
Roxborough pumping station. The old
pumps are in danger of collapsing.
Willie Collins, four years old, was shot
and seriously wounded by Harold Fred.
erick, six years old, while playing at the
home Of the latter in New York.
Catherine Sheerin attempted to swal
low strychnine in New York street car
but the poison was knocked from hel
hand by young man passenger.
Colonel Edwin S. Barrett, Nationa
President of the Sons OF the American
Revolution, was killed by falling from 6
window at his home at Concord, Mass
United States Ambassador Ethan 4.
Hitchcock, at st. Petersburg, has bee n
nominated by the President to succeed
Cornelius N. Bliss as Secretary of the
Interior.
At Boston, W. S. Jewett, formerly
President of the Wolfboro, (N H., Lake
National Bank, was convicted on a
charge Of embezzling $25, 600 of the insti-
tution's funds.
Lieutenant Colonel Miley testified be-
fore the War Commission that it would
have been more dangerous to our men
to have been half a mile in the rear Of
where they were.
During dense fog yesterday morning,
the Eastern express ran into the Chicago
and New York express on the PenEsyl.
vania Railroad, near Railway, N. j., kill.
ing colored porter, another person, and
injuring several passengers.
The court-martial OF Captains Meek
and Bleecker, of the list New York
Regiment, came to an abrupt end by the
defendants changing their plea to guilty.
Their counsel, however, made a state
ment in mitigation of their offense
, against army regulations.