The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-17
CURRENT EVENTS.

George johnson, worth s5,OoO.OOo. died
after living 80 years as a hermit on his
Scottish estate
The first number Of w. ]. Bryan's new
weekly paper. The Commoner, will APP
pear on January %.
Janet Perfe. an American actress at
the Paris exposition, fought a duel with
French swordsman, wounding him.
+. w. Bipper, of Chicago who wished
to wed his niece, Miss Carrie Dikeman,
died before she could reach his side. He
gave her $4,000.
Senator Fairbanks, in letters to Indiana
friends, declares Addison G. Harris, min
lister 70 Austria, is toebe appointed At
torney general to succeed Griggs.
Porch climbers broke open a private
safe at the residence of Aaron Kehn, an
attorney of Louisville, KY, and robbed
1t of 5000 worth OF jewelry and money
Hiram w. Sibley, of Rochester. N. Y.
sold IS, 100000 feet OF standing white pine
in Lake county, Mimi, to Richardson &c
Avery, of Duluth, for. $4,000. 1t will be
sawed in Duluth.
No legislative business of importance
was transacted by the senate Saturday.
The session was devoted to services held
in memory of the late Senator Cushman
X. Davis, of Minnesota "a
The state department has been Official
treaty is now under consideration at Lon
don with view to returning final an
swer to this government.
Friends of Prof. +. G. Garner, the IA
nous explorer, scientist and author, are
anxious over his possible fate in the
wilds of Africa. Grave fears as to the
possibility of his death are entertained.
The bank of weare 6 Allison and the
Iowa State national bank at Sioux City,
bpp do tad ND mill dn
business under the latter name. The
Weare & Allison bank was established in
1856
Lord Salisbury has called the British
cabinet to meet January Is to arrange a
programme for parliament. Settlement
with France over Newfoundland is like
ly, with free hand in Morocco as Eng
lands concession.
Louis Currier, aged 40 years, of Albany,
N Y, cut his wife's throat, broke his
son Arches head with baseball bat,
took a dose of paris green and then cut
his own throat from ear to ear with
razor. All three are dead.
Gov. Alva Adams, of Colorado, issued
a letter in which he withdraws from the
senatorial contest and urges his support
ers to vote for Thomas NJ. Patterson.
This is regarded by the Patterson follow
ers as insuring his election.
if James Lucas was shot from ambush
and instantly killed by Andrew Caylor.
The officer had warrant for Csylor's
arrest for Illicit whisky selling and was
on his way to serve it when waylaid.
Hon. Frederick Wickham, of the Nor
walk (O) Reflector, the Oldest editor in
Ohio, died after long illness. He was
SO years of age. He leaves a family Of
II children, of whom Hon. Charles p.
Wickham, ex-member of congress, is one.
Gov. Mount on Saturday pardoned Will
liam w. Kennedy, who was sentenced
to prison for life in 1885 for the murder
of David Baker at Greensburg, Ind. Ken
nedy was pardoned in 1897 and has for
several months been attached to the san
itary service in Havana.
A specia lfrom Newport, r. l., says: It
has been given out unofficially by a close
friend of the Vanderbilt and French fam
lilies that Alfred Vanderbilt has settled
on Elsie French, as her marriage por-
ton, One-tenth of his enormous fortune
namely, $3,700,0O0.
dispatch from London says: A rumor
has just got started, said to emanate
from well-informed sources, that Lord
Curzon is going to resign the viceroyalty
of India, owing to the failing health of
Lady Curzon, with whom the climate is
said not to have agreed.
In the annual report of the state board
of assessors, which has just been SUBJ
mitted to the New Jersey legislature it
is stated that G,065 corporations organized
under the laws of the state of New Jer-
sey have paid into the treasury during
the last year the sum of $2,05l, 200.
A serious freight wreck occurred at
Belleville, ILL.,, on the Illinois Central Sat-
urday, resulting in the death of Con-
ductor W. A. Wing, of Coulterville, and
w. E. Ring, of Duquoin. A double-header
extra ran into the rear of a through
freight, telescoping six cars of merchan-
disc and telescoping two engines.
President Johnson, of the Lehigh Trac-
ton company, at Bethlehem, Pa, an
nounces that the wages of the motormen
and conductors of that system, 200 in
have been advanced on an equal
basis of $l.S5 per week. The scale gives
new men Is cents an hour and one cent
an hour advance per year, five~year men
receiving 20 cents.