Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE situation at Brunswick, Ga., on the night of the 2d, was worse than at any time since the outbreak of the yellow fever, if that were possible. Twelve new cases had developed up to 5 p. m. There were two new cases on St. Simon's island, off Brunswick and four at Jekyll island. The total number of cases reported since the epidemie began was 122.
SECRETARY HESTER'S New Orleans cotton exchange statement, issued on the 3d. shows the smallest movement of cotton into sight for September since 1888, the total amounting to 505,249, against 506,178 last year, 832,317 the year before and 856,438 for September. 1890.
A SOUTH-BOUND fast freight train on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis road ran into some heavily loaded flat cars which had been carelessly left by a local freight crew near Edgemont, O., on the 3d, causing an ugly wreck and killing two tramps and fatally injuring two others.
JOHN B. KOETTING, cashier of the failed South Side savings bank of Milwaukee, under indictment for illegal banking, failed to appear in court on the 2d, and his bond of $15,000 was declared forfeited. Koetting was recently taken back from Denver, after much trouble, and put under bonds to appear.
THE president and Mrs. Cleveland, Ruth and little Esther will become-comfortably settled in their beautiful country home in Woodley Lane, just outside of the city of Washington, within a few days. It is one of the finest locations in the District of Columbia.
DORA PETERS, a 16-year-old girl living near Lafayette, Ind., committed suicide by hanging herself in a barn on the 1st. Her body was discovered on the morning of the 2d. She was a bright, vivacious girl and no reason can be given for her rash act.
THE town of Baku, capital of the Russian government of that name on the west shore of the Caspian sea, has become practically bankrupt owing to the costly anti-cholera regulations enforced by the government.
TELEGRAPHIC communication with the island of Santa Catharina, which is reported to have fallen into the hands of the insurgent Brazilians, has been suspended.
Two men entered the depot at Divide, Col., on the evening of the 2d, and held up the agent and operator and robbed the office of $150. The robbers crawled through the ticket office window and used the agent's rifle, which stood ready for his use in anticipation of a possible attack.
THE province of Santa Fe has been pacified, and the whole of the Argentine republic is now quiet.
PAID admissions to the World's fair on the 5th were 154.755.
PAID admissions to the World's fair on the 6th were 179.965.
THE missing furs, valued at $10,000, stolen from the exhibit of Pavel Greenwaldt, of Russia, at the World's fair were found by a detective, on the 4th, nicely rolled up and placed in a chest found standing against a wall in Manufactures building. Five employes of the Russian section were arrested on suspicion of complicity in the theft.
THE contract of Wells, Fargo & Co. with the Southern Express Co., will expire in little more than a month. Half a dozen express companies are preparing bids for the contract, among them the Adams Express Co. The Wells, Fargo Co. have for nearly half a century had the control of the business of the Pacific coast.
THE Newshy infantry barracks at Roslavl, province of Smolensk, Russia, were burned on the night of the 4th. About 400 men ran out in their night clothes. Of sixty who were driven to the roof and were obliged to jump for their lives, eleven were killed and eight were injured so that they will die. Twenty-three men and five non-commissioned officers were burned to death and many others are missing.
