The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-18
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Richmond, Ind.-Jacob Harlan died Yesterday
as the result of nervous shock nroduced nv
horrible dream. - :
Kalamazoo, Mich.-Miss Hazel Lester. we'll.
known society girl, has eloped with Harley Nor
ris. colored coachman.
Colorado Springs; Col..Colonel John n. Bacon,
10 years old, killed himself because of his
suffering from rheumatism.
Ch1ca go-E1ght fremen had narrow escapes
from death In a fire in the Chicago Consolidated
Milling and Mating companys plant.
Hope. Ark.-Governor JEFF Davis and Judge
Wood were fined $40 each as the result of fist
fight following their joint debate here last
Wheeling. W. Va-Three men were compelled
to jump for their lives last night to escape a
IRE which destroyed "a full block in the bust
ness district.
thrown out of employment thru the burning Of
the OltphGnt breaker and washery Of the Della.
ware Hudson company.
New 1ork-Members Of the executive com
mlttee OF the candy trust pleaded guilty to
charge of conspiracy. The combine has been
broken and SO sentence was suspended.
Pensacola Fla.-An attempt was made to
wreck passenger train on the Louisville &
Nashville last night by piling ties on the track
but the obstruction was discovered in time.
Cincinnati, Ohio-Navigation of the Ohio and
because Of ice. Towns on the river and with
out railroad facilities are said to be suffering for
provisions s;>s;, -:
chicago-Friends Of William P Inglis. treas.
urer of the Illinois st. Andrews society, who has
been mystertously missing since Dec e. indig-
nantly deny the rumors that the missing treas
urer may be defaulter.
Chfcago-Thirty five hundred employees of the
illinois Steel company, at South Chicago re.
turn turned TO work to-day with the opening of the
been idle since before Christmas.
Chicago-A addressed man, about 40 years
old was found unconscious last night by the
police. card and discharge papers bearily
the name Of Ziese showed he had seen service
IN the Cuban war. His throat had been cut.
Wabash Ind.-Great Indignation. prevails over
the discovery that James NJ. Key, the wrecker of
the Commercial bank at Andrews, has been
of looting the institution and sentenced to from
two to fourteen years in the pen.
San Francisco-The police have secured .eyi-
dence which tends to show that Leon Soeder
now under arrest is but one of band Of con
splrators In this city who sought to swindle In
surance companies by the murder of q victim
Chicago-Miss Esther Riley, cashier of the
congress Hotel company yesterday morning
while on her way to church, attacked by
swell-dressed stranger, In Harrison street
knocked down and her face and lips badly
bruised where her assailant struck her
Cleveland, Ohio-Mrs. May Baker. who comes
from well-to-do family, took carbolic acid i'll
room In a house here on ST. Clair street this
afternoon because John Rooney. her sweetheart.
rejected her proposal Of marriage. Rooney is
married man, althO the woman did not know
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Atlanta. Ga.--The failure of Collector of Gus
toms H. A. Rucker, the negro office holder who
has received SO much adverse criticism here to
lower the flag on the federal building during the
hours Of the funeral of General John B. Gordon,
has caused him to again become target for