Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Thomas E. Edison has taken up the study of air ships. He says ready invented are wrong meeting The twenty-ninth in of principle. those the So- alciety of the Army of the Tennessee will e held in Milwaukee October 27 and John L. Sullivan announces that he will run for mayor of Boston and that this platform will be to license gambling places and disorderly houses. Rev. Scott Hyatt and wife, Royal McQueen and Miss Mae Tibbetts were drowned in the Cedar river near Waverly, Ia. President McKinley has returned to Washington in good health and spirits from his summer vacation. "Rev." G. F. B. Howard, a noted federal convict, escaped from the state prison at Columbus, O. In an interview in Washington Consul General Lee said that in his opinion the insurgents would eventually win their independence in Cuba without assistance from any outside sources. Trouble broke out at Coxe Bros. colliery at Eckley, Pa., and troops were sent to the scene. F A tornado struck Port Arthur, Tex., and six people were known to have been killed and many others injured. Buildings were blown down and great damage was wrought. At Sabine Pass ten persons were killed and at other points some lives were lost. Large numbers of coal miners in Pennsylvania and Ohio were returning to work. Paper mills at Appleton, Wis., received orders from Japan for 2,000 tons of print paper. This opens up a market new to American paper manufacturers. A fire at Iron Mountain, Cal., destroyed property belonging to the Mountain Copper company valued at nearly $200,000. The reports as to the condition of the crops throughout the country say that hot weather has given corn a big boost. Ten dead and many injured and the destruction of property and crops worth $250,000 sum up the losses by the hurricane at Port Arthur and Sabine Pass, Tex. S. H. Lanyon, one of the most widelyknown men of dead on dropped southeastern the street in Kansas, Pittsburg. The Bank of Durand, Ill., closed its doors. The mill situation in Rhode Island is better than it has been for five years. Mills are running on full time. The Midland national bank of Kansas City, Mo., went into voluntary liquidation by resolution of its stockholders. The second national congress of colored women met in Nashville, Tenn. The salmon catch of the past season has been the largest ever known in the northwest. The eleventh annual convention of the National Association of Builders met in Detroit. It has been decided to change the color of the current two-cent postage stamp from carmine to green of the shade now used on government notes. 1 Yellow fever was said to be spreading in New Orleans and other southern cities. Michael broke the world's 20-mile bicycle record at Springfield, Mass, going the distance in 38:11. President Ratchford has sent out a circular address to the miners declaring the great strike off. 1 It is estimated that the recent hailstorm in the vicinity of Washington, Ia., caused a damage of $300,000. at Tramps caused an $80,000 fire Moorhead, Minn. By the fall of a cage in a mine at Nanticoke, Pa., four men were fatally injured and eight others seriously hurt. A mob of 400 mer lynched Lyle Levi, Bert Andrews, Clifford Gordon, William Jenkins and Hiney Shuler at Versailles, Ind. The men had been arrested for burglary. The steamer Excelsior arrived in San Francisco from Alaska with 63 passengers and about $2,500,000 in gold. An investigation made by Commissioner Jones, of the Indian bureau, shows that there are only 68 insane Indians in the country. Postmaster General Gary is devoting considerable attention to an investigation of the wisdom of establishing postal savings banks. Domestic exports for the eight months ended August 31 last amounted to $629,434,371, an increase of $62,217, 387 over last year. The farmers along Taylor's bayou in Jefferson county, Tex., lost $150,000 by the destruction of the rice crop in the recent hurricane. Seymour Bros., stock brokers in New York, with offices in various cities in the country, failed for $1,000,000. Reports reaching the Marine hospital service in Washington from officials in Louisiana and Mississippi leave no further doubt as to the fact that yellow fever exists at several points in those states.
