Telegraphic Briefs, p. 4
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Telegraphic Briefs, p. 4
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"Coal has gone up in New York.
The sugar trust has failed in its efforts to raise prices.
It is announced the W.J. Campbell will decline the Republican national chairmanship.
Elections in England on Monday and Tuesday show Liberal gains, and presage Mr. Gladstone's return to power.
Chris L. Magee, of Pittsburgh, denies the report published in some of the Eastern papers, the president Harrison had requested him to induce the iron masters to recede from their stand taken on the wages question.
The people's party in convention at Omaha nominated General James B. Weaver, of Iowa, for president on the [ill.]. The platform declares for the government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, etc., free silver, civil service reform, and government reclamation of lands [ill.] by railroads and aliens
The Tammany Society celebrated the Fourth of July in the usual manner in New York. Speeches were delivered by Congressmen Bryau, Bourke Cockran, and others. Letters were read from Mr. Cleveland, Senator Hill, and Governors Flower, Boies and Pattison. An incident was the tremendous cheering for Cleveland, while Hill’s name was greeted with mingled hisses and cheers.
The celebration of Fourth of July did not bring as large a chapter of accidents and fires as usual this year. Boston had a sensational incident of her celebration. Three men went up in a balloon, which drifted out over the harbor and collapsed. Prof. Rodgers and his assistant, Fenton, were both drowned. The third occupant of the balloon was saved. In Detroit, Mich., a fight occurred between union and non-union men at a picnic in which two men were shot and over 100 arrests made. In general, the country enjoyed a patriotic and peaceable holiday.
The president has appointed Hon. John W. Foster Secretary of State to succeed Mr. Blaiue.
Drexel, Morgan, & Co. have failed in their efforts to reorganize the Richmond Terminal.
The World’s Fair is one of money. The last cent in the hands of the Columbian Commission was used to buy a postage stamp.
The latest trick of the “green goods” operators is to send out genuine dollar bills with their circulars.
Charles N. Preston, New York state superintendent of banking has taken charge of the national savings banks insolvent.
While playing tramp along the railway two frighten two of his pupils school teacher B. L. Richie of Convoy. O., was shot dead by Shirley Longsworth, one of the scared boys.
Horatio Greenough’s widow has been bequeathed the Boston Museum all the examples of her husband’s sculptures that remained in her possession, which were numerous.
Dr. S. Fleet Spicer having recovered from Brooklyn a verdict of $12,000 for damages wrought by fireworks in the campaign of 1888, that city will permit very little fireworks hereafter.
The National Rifle Association of America has abandoned Creedmoor and will hereafter hold its matches for the Hilton Shield, the interstate trophy, the Wimbledon cup and the Judd trophy upon the range at Seagirt, N. J.
Stephen Duffy, a painter, 33 years old. Fell from the top of north tower on the Canadian side of the new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, and was dashed to pieces on the stone foundation. It was a fearful fall, a distance of 100 feet.
The steel-clad battleship Texas has been launched at the Norfolk navy yard. The vessel is a very powerful one, having turrets armored with 12 inch steel armor and carrying 12 inch guns weighing 47 tons each and a dozen guns of less calibre.
The Olympic Club of New Orleans is getting everything in shape for the big fight to take place in September. The bills before the Louisiana Legislature to prevent glove contests have been killed, and it now looks as if the fight will not be interfered with.
A New York jury tried Dr. John A. Irwin on a charge of performing an illegal autopsy on the remains of Bishop the mind reader, whose friends have always claimed that he was not dead when the autopsy was made. The jury stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal.
At a Sunday- School entertainment a Patoka, Ind., ice cream was served and a short time afterwards the children became deathly sick. Twenty- five of them it is thought were poisoned by the ice cream. They are all in critical condition and it is feared that many will die.
During the ten years between 1880 and 1890 the total mileage of the telephone wire in the country increased from 34,305 miles to 240,412 miles, while the number of subscribers rose from 48,414 to 226,357, The census Bureau expert who compiled these figures puts the number of telephone conversations in 18990 at 453,200,000."
The sugar trust has failed in its efforts to raise prices.
It is announced the W.J. Campbell will decline the Republican national chairmanship.
Elections in England on Monday and Tuesday show Liberal gains, and presage Mr. Gladstone's return to power.
Chris L. Magee, of Pittsburgh, denies the report published in some of the Eastern papers, the president Harrison had requested him to induce the iron masters to recede from their stand taken on the wages question.
The people's party in convention at Omaha nominated General James B. Weaver, of Iowa, for president on the [ill.]. The platform declares for the government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, etc., free silver, civil service reform, and government reclamation of lands [ill.] by railroads and aliens
The Tammany Society celebrated the Fourth of July in the usual manner in New York. Speeches were delivered by Congressmen Bryau, Bourke Cockran, and others. Letters were read from Mr. Cleveland, Senator Hill, and Governors Flower, Boies and Pattison. An incident was the tremendous cheering for Cleveland, while Hill’s name was greeted with mingled hisses and cheers.
The celebration of Fourth of July did not bring as large a chapter of accidents and fires as usual this year. Boston had a sensational incident of her celebration. Three men went up in a balloon, which drifted out over the harbor and collapsed. Prof. Rodgers and his assistant, Fenton, were both drowned. The third occupant of the balloon was saved. In Detroit, Mich., a fight occurred between union and non-union men at a picnic in which two men were shot and over 100 arrests made. In general, the country enjoyed a patriotic and peaceable holiday.
The president has appointed Hon. John W. Foster Secretary of State to succeed Mr. Blaiue.
Drexel, Morgan, & Co. have failed in their efforts to reorganize the Richmond Terminal.
The World’s Fair is one of money. The last cent in the hands of the Columbian Commission was used to buy a postage stamp.
The latest trick of the “green goods” operators is to send out genuine dollar bills with their circulars.
Charles N. Preston, New York state superintendent of banking has taken charge of the national savings banks insolvent.
While playing tramp along the railway two frighten two of his pupils school teacher B. L. Richie of Convoy. O., was shot dead by Shirley Longsworth, one of the scared boys.
Horatio Greenough’s widow has been bequeathed the Boston Museum all the examples of her husband’s sculptures that remained in her possession, which were numerous.
Dr. S. Fleet Spicer having recovered from Brooklyn a verdict of $12,000 for damages wrought by fireworks in the campaign of 1888, that city will permit very little fireworks hereafter.
The National Rifle Association of America has abandoned Creedmoor and will hereafter hold its matches for the Hilton Shield, the interstate trophy, the Wimbledon cup and the Judd trophy upon the range at Seagirt, N. J.
Stephen Duffy, a painter, 33 years old. Fell from the top of north tower on the Canadian side of the new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, and was dashed to pieces on the stone foundation. It was a fearful fall, a distance of 100 feet.
The steel-clad battleship Texas has been launched at the Norfolk navy yard. The vessel is a very powerful one, having turrets armored with 12 inch steel armor and carrying 12 inch guns weighing 47 tons each and a dozen guns of less calibre.
The Olympic Club of New Orleans is getting everything in shape for the big fight to take place in September. The bills before the Louisiana Legislature to prevent glove contests have been killed, and it now looks as if the fight will not be interfered with.
A New York jury tried Dr. John A. Irwin on a charge of performing an illegal autopsy on the remains of Bishop the mind reader, whose friends have always claimed that he was not dead when the autopsy was made. The jury stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal.
At a Sunday- School entertainment a Patoka, Ind., ice cream was served and a short time afterwards the children became deathly sick. Twenty- five of them it is thought were poisoned by the ice cream. They are all in critical condition and it is feared that many will die.
During the ten years between 1880 and 1890 the total mileage of the telephone wire in the country increased from 34,305 miles to 240,412 miles, while the number of subscribers rose from 48,414 to 226,357, The census Bureau expert who compiled these figures puts the number of telephone conversations in 18990 at 453,200,000."
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Washington Bee
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1892-7-9
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