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AN explosion of fireworks on the 17th at a political meeting in Fort Wayne, Ind., fatally injured R. L. Smith and Lorenzo Bouse, Oxtman held up the stage from Jerome, A.T., on the 17th near Sanderson station, and the passengers were robbed. Mountz Lester took poison on the 17th at Harrodsburg, Ky., because her lover married another. Oris Presser and Mack Cook were both killed in a duel on the 18th near Atlanta, Ga. A VIOLENT hail storm broke over Chi cago on the 18th, and skylights where shat tered in many buildings, pedestrians were driven from the streets, and in several places hailstones as large as walnuts were seen to fall. A FIRE destroyed Wakefield Long’s extensive livery and transfer stables at Washington, Ind., on the 18th, and twenty two valuable mules and horses were cre mated. On the 18th Charles S. Redfield, for twenty-one years treasurer of McVicker’s Theater in Chicago, died at Bozeman, M. T., of a dose of morphine taken with suicid al intent. Near Yellow Creek Station, IL, freight trains collided on the 18th on the Chicago, St. Paul Kansas City road, and three stockmen, Edward Hickey, of Fairbanks, Minn.; James Orr, of Larrimore, Minn., and John Brown, of St. Paul, Minn., were killed. On the 18th Mrs. Catharine McMahon died at Green Castle, Ind., aged one hun dred and three years. A MEETING of representative farmers was held at Princeton, Ky., on the 18th, any resolutions were adopted in favor of planting no tobacco next year, owing to over-production. On the 18th Charles B. Wilson (colored) was nominated for Congress by the Re publicans of the First Louisiana district, Mr. Pinchback declining to run. Rain on the 1Sth completed the discour agement of the ex-strikers of the Chicago North Side Street Car Company, and they acknowledged defeat and said that an other tie-up would not be attempted. The new men still found barricades on the tracks and were much abused and insulted. Snow fell at various places in Northern Michigan on the 19th. Cuaries and William Weller, miners, while digging their way through the snow from La Juta basin to Telluride, Col., on the 19th were caught in a snow slide, car ried fifteen hundred feet down the mountain and buried under twenty feet of snow and rocks. H. M. Upnam, agent for an express com pany at Coffeyville, Kan., received a pack age of dynamite on the lth marked “glass,” which exploded, tearing a hole in his house and fatally injuring his wife and another lady. A DYNAMITE explosion on the 19th in a quarry at Frankfort, Ky., fatally injured Hassan Graham, Jobtn Glenn, Robert Glore and W. H. Williams. In a sugar-house at Houma, La., a boiler exploded on the 19th, killing one white man and three negroes. STuHrovanear Northern Iowa and at Ne braska City, Neb., snow fell quite heavily on the 21st. It was the earliest snow storm within the memory of old settlers. A statue of General Ulysses SS. Grant, presented to the city of St. Louis by the Grant Monument Association of Missouri, was unvailed on the 20th. Gap assaying ten thousand dollars to the ton was discovered on the 20th near Bozeman, M. T. C.soups in the American Base Ball Asso ciation closed the season in the following order: St. Louis, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Cleveland, Louis ville, Kansas City. The following was the order at the close of the Western Associa tion: Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Paul, Omaha, Milwaukee, Sioux City, Chicago, Davenport.
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New Philadelphia Times
New Philadelphia, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 25, 1888
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