THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Telegraphic Notes of Interest Briefly Told. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. Email lint Kutrltlom The Kewe of the World From Pole to role Carefully fnllril and Rollril Down for Duir Kradri. Throughout h Country, , Thar.rtar, ItMi 10. Tho American Homo nt Waukesha, Mich., was burned Wednesday. E. E. Meredith, (lom.) was elected to Congress yesterday in the Eighth district of Virginia. Ercd Bohanan, aged eighty-six, and Miss Amoricus Legff, nRod eighteen, were married at English, Iud., re cently. Tallon Hall, nrrested nt Memphis, Tenn., for nrson nt Boonovlllo, Ky., confessed that he had killed ninety nine men. II. R. Jacobs Cleveland (Ohio) Theatre was destroyed by flro early Wednesday morning, entailing a loss of about $73,000, Durwln J. Meserole, who shot nnd killed Theodore Larblg in Brooklyn, N. Y., last June, was acquitted by a jury Wednesday night. Five girls were killed in a candy fac tory lire in Louisville, Ky., Wednes day morning. Four llromcn lost their lives in another flro a few hours earlier.- Joseph L. Tlco, wife murderer, was sentenced by Justice Davy at Roches ter, X. Y., on Wednesday, to bo elec trocuted nt Auburn prison during the week beginning January 18. Estes & Laurlnt, publishers, of Bos ton, havo sued General Butler for $50,000 for libel contained in nn In terview recently published in connec tion with tho lawsuit over Butler's book. A demand has been made on the stockholders of tho Spring Garden Bank of Philadelphia for a 100 per cent, assessment on each share of tho capital stock held by them at the time of the bank's failure. Friday, Dee. 11. Oliver Wilson Doud, the actor, died at Mount Hope Retreat, near Balti more, Thursday of paresis. He was thirty-seven years old. The wholesale drug firm of Kenneth Campbell & Co. of Montreal has sus pended. Direct liabilities, $40,000 ; in direct liabilities, $30,000. Thomas Walker was arrested at Leadvillo Thursday night, charged with complicity In the robbery of the Denver and Rio Grande express train. Tho World's Fair managers of Pennsylvania have adopted a resolu tion by unanimous vote, recommend ing the closing of the gates on Bun day. Kit Carson, Jr., a son of the famous scout, killed his father-in-law and mother-in-law, near La Junta, Col., Thursday, and then made good his escape. Eleven prisoners escaped from the Gulcsburg, 111., jail Wednesday night, by cutting the window bars, and climbing out on ropes mado of bed ticking. An unknown man, a peddler, aged about twenty, was killed at Fish kill Landing Thursday morning by the Empire State express on the Hud sou River road. Tho United States District Court at Jacksonville, Fin., has declared the Florida Southern Railway insolvent, and the road is to be sold March 7, 1892, to satisfy claims. A natural gas explosion caused a $20,000 fire at Frankton. Ind., Thurs day. Half a square of business prop erty was burned, including the ofllce of the Frankton Leader, George Starkey and John Brown have been convicted of the murder of ex-State Senatar D. B. Glllam at Ed wardsville, 111., and sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary. ' Maggie Mains, sixteen years of ago, brought suit Thursday against the Newark, N. J. Passenger Railroad Co., for $50,000 damages lor the loss of a limb by being thrown from a car. F. Welnhagen, local agent of the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company at San Antonio, Tex., kaa been in dicted on the charge of swindling th.t city out of $32,000 on bridge con tracts. The brewery of Christian Schmidt in Clormuntown, Fa., took lire at an early hour Thursday from the explo sion of an ammonia pipe, And a part of tie building was entirely gutted. Loss, $25,000. Tha necks of tho ten negroes who were sentenced to die In Laurens County, 8. C, for the murder of Thornton Nance have been saved by the confession of Henry Suber, a negro, that he nlono murdered Nance. The National Bar Association on Thursday selected Washington as the permnnent place for holding its nnnuul sessions, and fixed the Wed nesday after the second Monday in each year as the timo. Tho following officers 're elected: Fresident, James C. Carter, Now York; Vice Presidents, Sherman Hoar of Mas sachusetts; ex-Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont; ex-SocretBry T. F. liuyurd of Delaware; C. M. Blanchnrd of Virginia; F. G. Brom bery of Alabama; Senator John G. Cuilisle of Kentucky; A. C. Harris of Indiana; G. A. Finkelesberg; J. R. Fiulayson; Secretary J. M. Wright of Kentucky; Treasurer, Henry L. Davis, District of Columbia. Saturday, Dec. 14. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cowles celebrated their sixty-seventh wedding anniver sary at Belolt, Wis., Wednesday. Two masked men robbed the Wells Furp3 "Express agent of $100 Thurs day night nt Shingle Springs, Cul. Tho express ngent at. Linwood, Ark., was robbed of packages containing $700 by a band of negroes Thursday night. William J. Gibbons was found guilty Friday in his trial for having burned tho Dupont bulldiugs in Wil mington, Del. A New York syndicate has decided to erect n system of beet sugar facto ries throughout Nebraska and neigh boring State?. Advices from rekln state that the Mongolian Insurrection Is nt an end, nnd that forty-two Insurgents hnve been beheaded. The stock of the Louisville, New Albany nud Chlcngo Railroad Com pany has been Increased from $6,000 000 to $12,000,000. Francis Baker & Co., dry goods commission merchants in New York, made an assignment Friday. Liabili ties about $250,000. John L. Sullivan, at Los Angeles, has Indignantly denied thnt he will try Dr. Keeley's blchlorido of gold treatment for drunkenness. A crowd of citizens gathered around Charles Stephens's saloon In Stiles ville, Ind., lato Thursday night nnd toro it down, pouring the liquor Into the gutter. The man who threw tho dynamlto bomb in the ofilco of Russoll Sage, tho New York millionaire, has been Identified ns Henry L. Norcross, a Boston noto broker. Albert Hope, actor, playwright nnd poet, who was convicted of forging a draft, was sentenced nt Memphis, Tenn., Friday, to four years in the penitentiary. The Bristol, Conn., copper mines havo started this week with a capital of $500,000, It is believed that tho surfaco of tho mines hns just been reached, and that there is an immenso bed of ore below. At present there nro 100 miners at work in tho Tony, fifty nnd sixty fathom levols. The Supremo Court of Texas hns de cided the Alien Land law unconstitu tional. The law prevented any foreigner holding titlo to land in Texas, thus preventing loans being made upon real estate as security by any man or by any company with so much as ono foreigner as a stock holder. Gustaf Greenland, publisher of a Finnish newspaper in Now York, is the defendant in a $100,000 libel suit nt Ishpeming, Mich., brought by Sakri3 Silvola, tho President, and nine others, composing tho Alavaska Mining Company of Butte City, Mon. The plaintiffs were accused in the newspaper of having robbed Gustaf WIckals of valuable mining lands after making him a prisoner and threatening his life. Monday, Dee. 14. Denver is suffering from an epl demio of grip. A child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Raff, of Reading, Pa., that weighs but two pounds and fifteen ounces. Judge Dewey, of the Supreme Court, Boston, hns enjoined the Order of the Golden Fleece from doing further business. The President has recognized Jose Mnnool Cardozo De Ollvira, as Consul of the United States of Brazil at New Orloans, for tho State of Louisiana. The Chicago police are looking for Burton Ford, aged ten, who was kld nnppcd from his father's home in Crystal township, Mich., last Friday. Hugh Jones, foreman of tho Hill man Vein Coal Company at Wllkes barre, Pa., was fatally burned by a gas explosion Saturday, and a miner named James Kitterick killed. E. H. Wells, the Alaskan explorer, has denied in substance the story published recently to the effect that Americans employed In the canneries of the Northern Packing Company are committing outrages upon the natives. At a social danco at Boston, Pa., Saturday night, John Law, nnd his friend, J. W. McCrackon quarrelled over who should dance with a young woman. They renewed the quarrel on the street, nnd Law crushed Mc cracken's skull with a cobble stone. Both men are well connected. Hobart Cloland, 'a well-to-do farmer of Union Lake, Minn., was beaten un til nearly dead by his brothers Andrew and Charles. Tho three brothers worked a farm together. They had differed over money matters and quarreled over the divsion of a largo ' sum of money realized by the sale of hogs. j The Buenos Ayres papers report j that the recent purchaso by Baron Hirsch of 3,001 square leagues of land in the northern part of the Argentine Rt,)ublio for 200,000 sovereigns mnkes him tho possessor of a territory larger than Is owned by any other man. It exceeds in area the kingdom of Montenegro. Miss A. H. Bruce, Master Frank Packwood, Mrs. L. D. Hatch and her son were found murdered Into Satur day evening in a house occupied by the Packwood family six miles south of Now Smyrna, In Volusia county, Fla. The victims bad gone there to spend the winter, having arrived a week ngo, some of them from Now York State. There Is no clue to the murderers, but tramps are suspected. Tneaday, Dee, 1.1. Nashville, Tenn., reports 8,000 cases of the grip. Governor-elect McKlnley, of Ohio, is ill with the influenza at his home In Canton, that State. . The $18,000 worth of diamonds stolen from a train at Dayton, Ohio, a few days ago have been recovered. Milwaukee wants the . Democratic convention, and citizens have sub scribed a fund of $100,000 toward se curing it. Convict Henry Hardyj who escaped' from Clinton Prison, N. X., in Octo bor and was recaptured, escaped again Monday morning. Andrew Carneglo hns purchased fifty-four acres of land nt Duquesno, Fa., upon whleh nn armor pinto mill will be erected nt once. Tho South Carolina TiOglslnturo has passed tho Antl Freo Pass bill, fixing a lino of $500 for any publio cfllclul who shall except ft railroad pass. Jool B. Mayes, Chief of the Chero kee Nation, died at Tnhlcquah, I. T., Monday morning. Mayes was bora in tho Cherokoo reservation, Ga., October 20, 183.1. ' In tho petition of Mary Novlns Blaine versus James O. Blaine, Jr., In the Circuit Court of South Dakota, the Court has allowed her $500 as ali mony, ponding suit. A enso of poisoning from using rancid lard for frying potatoes Is re ported In West Bay City, Mich. The family, named Flynn, consisting of nine persons, will recover. Tho ravages of the "grip" nro ex tending eastward, and reports of alarming death rates come from the Missouri valley. It has also reached Ohio nnd Indiana, thcro boing over 3,000 cases in Indianapolis. At Hancoville, Blount county, Ala., Julius Griffith, a merchant, and John McNeils, a farmer, quarreled over polities Monday. Griffith hot and killed McNeils. This makes four mur ders in Blount county within ton days. A compromi80 is said to hnve been effected with the robbers who recently stopped n Son Francisco train out of St, Louis, and robbed tho express car of $100,000. Tho robbers nro said to hnvo roturncd the most of the booty, after being promised safe conduct out of tho country. Wednesday, Dec. 10. Tcckner & Frank, manufacturers of jersey goods, Philadelphia, havo as signed. j Nnthnn Matthews, Jr., Dcm., was , re-elected Mayor of Boston on Tucs- day by a pluralty of 1.",08G. I The grip is prevailing throughout Connecticut, hundreds of cases being reported in several cities and largo towns. The Levlson & Altha Company, of St. Louis, assigned Tuesday with lia bilities nnd ussets estimated at $10, 000. I Tho Alleghnny Valley Railroad was purchased by tho Pennsylvania, Tues day, for $3,000,000, tho latter assum ing tho bonded indebtedness of $20, 000,000. j Tho Had field Company, of Wauke ' sha, Wis., dealers in cement, lime and stone, capital $2,000,000, with branches in Chicago and Milwaukee, has as signed. Samuel K. Murdock, formerly an actor but for a number of years a teacher of elocution, died of pneu monia Tuesday in Philadelphia, aged seventy-five years. At Tacoma. Wash., Tuesday, Ed- j ward Albertson was sentenced to ten ! years in the penitentiary for embez zling $20,000 in monoy and $1,000,000 In securities belonging to tho Fidelity Trust Company. Thoodore B. Flcgler, an old sailor ot the Monongnhela, now living In the Soldiers' Home at Noroton, Conn., is to receive $30,000 as his share of prize money won by Admiral Farragut's squadron during the war. Edmond S. Connor, the veteran actor and manager, died Tuesday at . his homo at Wortendyke, Bergen County, N. J., agod eighty-two years. Ho was manager for some years of the Arch Street Theatre in Philadel- ! phia. Sylvester Stay, a well known col ored man of Rondout, N. Y., has brought suit for $5,000 against C. V. DuBois, manager of the Kingston opera house, for being refused admit tunce to seats for which he had tickets. " TO WATCH CONGRESS. The National Executive Silver Commit tee to Meet Jan, S. Washington, Dec. 15. The follow ing call for a meeting of the Na tional executive Silver Committee, was issued yesterday, signed by A. J, Warner, chairman, and Leo Crandall, secretary : A meeting of the National Execu the Silver Committee will be held at the rooms of the Committe, No. 1202 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, J). C, at 12 o'clock, noon, Tuesday, January 6. 1892. In view ot the probable action of Congress at its present session on the silver question, the meeting of the Committee will be an important one. It is believed the disposition of a majority in both houses of Congress is favorable to the full remonetizing of silver. On the other hand opposition to the prespntlaw lias rapidly developed in the East, while antagonism to the freo coinage oi stiver nas grown more and more demonstrative. A PETRIFIED WOMAN. In the Grave Her Weight Increaied Five Hundred Pound.. MiLi.F.nsnuno, O., Dec. 14. The vil lage undertaker nt Nashville, eleven miles west of here, was employed re cently to move tho body of Mrs. Mary Reynolds, who, at the time of her death, some years ago, weighed 300 pounds. The undertaker found that tho body had become petrified. It weighed 800 pounds, and it took a dozen men to land it into a wagon. Found III Mother F rose it to Death. pHiLMrsBima, N. J., Dec. 15. The remains of Mrs. Magdalene Hurley, of Snufftown, Pu., who disappeared over three weeks ago, were found Sunday afternoon by her son. The body was frozen stiff. It lay beside a fallen tree along the raceway leading to the paper mill near Finesville. It is thought the woman had fallen from the railroad track along whioh she bad been walking and had rolled to the spot where her body was found. mum Comes to the front with the LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND MAKING AND FITTING .-.OF THE.-. 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