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Summary of Principal Events of General Interest. The News of the World Carefully Selected and Cut Down for Busy Readers Throughout the Country. —The gold tide is beginning to flow back from Europe. —San Francisco had a $100,000 fire Sat urday night. —A church was blown up by dynamite at Bourbon, Ind.,on Saturday. The wheat crop just harvested in North Dakota, exceeds 50,000,000 bushels. The official estimate of the damage by the Marginique cyclone is $10,000,000. —Natrone, Pa., had a big fire Sunday morning, a $100,000 conflagration also. —Two more bodies of the Park Place disaster have been recovered and identi fied. —General R. 8. Dryenforth is jubilant over his success in rain compelling in Texas. —Premier Mercier of Quebec is in poor health, and his doctors have ordered him to rest. —The building of the Sunday Observer, Troy, was destroyed by fire early Monday morning. —A Vienna dispatch states that the Empress of Austria shows symptoms of insanity. —~ —A great wave struck the steamer Etruria in mids -ocean, killing one sailor and seriously injuring others. —lt is stated the’Vanderbilts have ac quired control of the Union Pacific rail road, which is a big deal. There has been rioting in Russia, It is stated, occasioned by the people's protest against the exportation of rye. , —The most recent census bulletin shows that there are nearly 15,000,000 horses and 2,246,936 mules in this country. ~The relief fund for the families of those afflicted by the recent Park place disaster in New York now amounts to $17,000. —F. G. Tucker, the well known pro prietor of the Lake house, Lake George, Y. Yu, was found dead in bed, Sunday morning. —A great typhoon in Japan caused the oss of 250 Hives, mostly Japanese and Chinese sailors. The damage was mostly long the shore. —The inquest of the Glendale, L. L., murder cage reveals no new facts. It is a mystery how Hannah Robinson ame to her death. —The heavy rains last week Friday made bad washouts on the east side of the Hudson river, which caused a block- up on the railroads. —The American Bar Association has ndertaken the attempt to secure uniform aws in relation to marriage and divorce the different States. —The assessed valuation of all property h the United States, as reported by a casus bulletin, is about $24,249,589,804, sainst 16,902,9937542 in 1880. — brutal murder of an old couple ed urced near Blogmafield, Conn., the work fitramp it is supposed who lodged in Fi ‘ir barn. It came to light on Monday. —Ex-United States Senator Reagan has “n offered the vacant place on the in rState commission. It is not thought his friends that he will accept the itsve, —Newark, N. J., was visited by a cy ine last Friday, injuring several persons , demolishing a number of buildings, as damage is in the neighborhood of 11,000. . The Army, “our Navy Journal says at Secretary Proctor is very much grat wl with the progress being made with a troop of Sioux Indian soldiers station at Fort Niobrara. A Venice dispatch says the condition Carmen “By Ivia? Queen of Roumaznia, ” become so critical that Dr. Charcot, a celebrated Parisian physician, has a telegraphed for. . dispatch’ received in London from Ibourne, states that the steamer Easley ided with the Gambier attack, inside 't Phillip Heads, Australia, on Friday King: 25 persons were drowned. A New York enterprise has been estab ed which uses the Morganthaler type ing machines with phonograph at ment and furnishes copies of speeches, efs and similar work to the public at cost than they can be type-written. LA terrible case of starvation was hight to light in Montreal last Friday. [* women and six babies were found starving condition, at 4 house kept a Mrs. Galloway who had cleared out ing them to their fate. One of the nts was dead, and it is thought all but »will die, L Mrs. Harriet E. Beach, of Saratoga, s she was inveigled and enticed, bru v treated and dragged into the Bloom- Jale lunatic asylum, and imprisoned ough she was perfectly sane. She recently released at the instance of Lunac's Law Reform League and ai Kidnapping Union. Late advices from Shanghai state to gang of 500 armed pirates are cre ¢ havoc in the province of Wen Chou. it progress through the country has m marked by the most cruel and colli cted crimes. Villages have been ed right and left by them when re id hospitality, and the inhabitants, Women and children, slaughtered. Within the last few months the ques of heating by electricity has attracted arked degree of attention. One of largest railroad companies in the entry proposes to try the plan of heat ,its limited trains by electricity, and if s scheme is successful—and there is no payt why it should not be—the example i naturally be folowed by competing ds. The Standards Constantinople con fident says: ‘‘The Sultan has yield s all Russia’s demands respecting the anelles, which henceforth will he nd to Russian vessels when closed to it. The Sultan has abjectedly apole for the recent detention of a Rus- Vessel, has dismissed the officers re sible therefor, and has promised an inunity forthwith,”
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Keeseville Essex County Republican
Keeseville, New York, US
Thu, Sep 03, 1891
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