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tai on the 9th.
A Wholesale Jail delivery was foiled
by one of the Cook county jailers at
Chicago on the 5th.
The Press Knickerboclxer Express,
of Albany, n. V, was burned out on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000
Five inches of snow, the beautiful
still falling and the wind blowing a
gale, was reported from New Rich
mond, Wis, on the 9TH.
Quarrels over politics and gambling
resulted in five men being shot to
death and one fatally wounded on cleo
ton night in Kentucky.
Presents sent from China by Ameri-
can soldiers To friends in this country
are admitted free of duty.
The population Of the state of Maine,
as announced by the census bureau, is
GOA, 400, as against 661, 0s6 in 1890.
Several arrests were made in Chicago
on the 5th, MS a result of what is al
legged to be an election fraud conspir
acy.
The first blizzard of the season at
Minneapolis, Mimi, was reported on
the 18th. Heavy snow storms were also
reported in several places in the state
Standard Oil Co, certificates made a
new record price on the 5th. They
touched 625, or l. points higher than
the previous highest price ever quoted
According to private dispatches re-
ceived at st. Petersburg on the 9Th, ty-
plus and other fevcrs are beginning to
abate in the Russian army in Man
churia.
The storm of the eth was very severe
on the lakes, three consorts went adrift
on Lake Superior and others parted
their tow lines. No loss of life was
reported.
The movement of iron ore on the
lakes up to Nov. / was 17,2s7, 952 tons,
gain of / ,G93, 654 tons over last year
October shipments, however, show a
falling off.
The Japanese battleship Mikasa,
said to be the most formidable vessel
of its kind in the world, was launched
on the sth at the Vickers- Maxim works
at Barrow, England.
The Russian government intends
sending an agent to the United States
to study homestead legislation with
the view of its partial application to
the peasant communities.
The Democratic presidential nomi-
nee, VIM. j. Bryan, is not talking for
publication at present, but says it is
his intention to remain in Nebraska
until he is thoroughly rested
Jas. A. Norton, one of the jurymen
who convicted Youtsey of the Goebel
murder, was burned to death in Jail al
Georgetown, KY, on the 9th, where
he was confined for drunkenness.
Geo. NJ. Harding, a well-known citi-
zen of Reynoldsville, Pa, on the sth
attempted to kill his wife and then com
mitted suicide by blowing his brains
out. The wife VIII propaoIy recover.
The telegraph service in and about
New York was badly crippled during a
gale on the Sth and 9th. Some of the
time the wind blew at the rate of 70
miles an hour. No loss of life is re-
| ported.
John A. Burr, Jr., night transfer
agent of the United States Express Co.
at Green Bay, Wis, is missing Burr
! is accused by Gen.-Supt f. 5. Averill
of the express company of having APP
propriated between S14 900 and ST., 900.
A fatal fight between deputy sheriffs
1 -, a
of the polls in one of the precincts in
Denver, Col, on the 9th, and as a re-
suit one deputy was killed and four
| policemen were wounded.
The result of the elections in the U.
5. was quietly received in Manila. So
far as the Filipinos are concerned no
noticeable change in the situation as
ensued, nor is any likely to occur in
the immediate future. They are for
the greater part non-committal.
More than 1000 hosting engineers
and 1000 mi . RS in the state of Indi-
ana went out on a strike on the 18th as
the result of the failure of the Indiana
block and bituminous coal operators to
sign the scale presented to them by the
/ engineers.
A dispatch from Barcelona, dated
the 18th, has the following: The gov.
eminent troops have captured band
of so Carlsts near Villa Franco del
Panades, % miles west of Barcelona.
They seized a quantity of arms and
ammunition.
An open switch caused the north
bound Missouri Pacific passenger rain
/ to take siding in the yards at Leav-
enworth, Kas., on the 11th, collidinp
with switch engine. Application OF
the air brake checked the speed, but
several passengers were injured none
fatally
Plans have been made by the Amer
lean Bridge Co, of Pittsburg, Pa, for
the erection and operation at an early
date in the Pittsburg district of the
largest and most complete bridge build
ing and structural plant in the world.
Mammoth works to cover tract of 4C
acres with river frontage of at least
half mile, is the general plan. The
great bridge building plant will employ
about 1000 men and it's erection Is
4 ast,nnatad IN cost 81 noO ooo