Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
which side won the victory, but it is reported ten men were killed. WIRE WAIFS. At Galesburg, Ili., eleven prisoners escaped from jail by sawing off the bars of a window. The directors of the Bank of England have reduced the rate of discount from 4 to 3 per cent. George W. Stewart, inventor of the sea telephone, died suddenly of heart disease in New York, Wednesday night. At Otterville, Mo., the boiler of Chapman's saw mill exploded, killing Engineer Henry Jennings and Sterling Coe. Three ladies, the Misses Deens of London, were nearly asphyxiated at the Grand Central hotel at Columbia, S.C Charles B. Evarts, son of Hon. Williain M. Evarts, was found dead in his bed at Windsor, Vt., Thursday morning. By an explosion of hot metal at a furnace in Pittsburg, two men were fatally and three others seriously injured. The new commercial treaties between Austro-Hungary and Switzerland and Germany and Switzerland have been signed. At Montreal the drug firm of Kenneth, Campbell & Co. has suspended, with direct liabilities of $40,000; indirect, $30,000. At Rio de Janeiro there was a panic on the bourse, Thursday, owing to a heavy fall in railway shares. It is feared the decline will entail enormous failures. Mrs. Cora Bell Smith has sued for a divorce in Chicago from T. F. Smith, to whom she was married March 10, 1890, on a tug off San Francisco. She alleges habitual ill treatment. Influenza is epidemic in Upper Austria, and an immense number of people are prostrated. Horses, too, are attacked by the disease, and many deaths of animals are reported. At Lowell, Mass., a run was commenced on the Loweil Institution for Savings Thursday morning, caused by a rumor that the bank was not safe. All demands were rapidly met. Federal officers report the capture of two illicit distilleries in Northern Alabama, which they destroyed, together with several thousand gallons of whisky. No arrests were made. At Pinos Altos, N. M., a frame building in the center of the town took fire, and as not a drop of water was accessible for fighting fire, nearly the whole town was destroyed. The losses aggregate $100,000. In retaliation for the duties imposed by Canada on Newfoundland fish, the Newfoundland government has put into force a section of the act against Canada which increases the duty on articles imported from Canada. A gale which set in Wednesday night in Great Britain has done a large amount of damage, and has been attended with a number of fatalities. A number of small coasting vessels are reported lost along the south coast of England. At a meeting of the world's fair managers of Pennsylvania, a resolution was passed recommending the closing of the exposition on Sunday,: petitions representing over 800,000 Christian people having been presented by a committee of ministers, protesting against Sunday opening.