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Show NEWS NOTES Harrison's plurality in Ohio was 1072 William Penn Nixon, editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, was Wednesday re-elected president of the Western Associated Press. A Rock Island train collided with a picnic party at Beayer, killing two w;.;;;.tu and f-niiiy iiijuiius' .-several ether persons, last Wednesday. Two hundred and seventy-five persons are said to have been drowned by the sinking of a Japanese schooner in co!-lision co!-lision on an inland sea in Asia. Handkerchiefs, girls' school hats, boys' suits, ladies, waists, table covers, furniture searfs, blankets. Ribbons, laces, etc., jnsl received at the Chicago Store. MmDLETON, Conn., Nov. 28. Three men and two women were burned to death in a barn on Saturday night. The victims were a party of umbrella menders, men-ders, It is supposed they set fire to the barn while drunk. Ch'igaoo, Nov. 28. The dwelling of W. L. Dessey burned this morning. Two children, aged 3 and 6 years, were burned to death. Mrs. Dessey and James Henry were seriously injured when at-t.-mptiug to rescue the children. The financial loss is insignificant. New Orleaks,Nov. Internal Revenue Inspector Horn, in charge of the Government Gov-ernment sugar-weighers under the bounty law, gives a most unsatisfactory 'eport of his observations in the parishes of St. Charles, St. John, St. James-Ascensien, James-Ascensien, East and West Baton Rouge and Livingston. He estimates that there .wiil be a falling off ol 25 per cent in the yield of sugar compared with the crop of last year. Me thinks the yield of the State will fall lrom 370,000,000 pounds to 300,000.000 pounds. The Denver express no 5, west bonud on the Rio Grande Western, due in Silt at 4:15 o'clock, ran into and wrecked a wild freight at Jordan narrows yesterday yester-day afternoon. The caboose of the freight wes demolished and one car derailed, while tbe passenger engine was so badly stove up that a week in the shops will be necessary. Fortunately Fortun-ately no one was hurt, although the passengers were shaken up severely. The freight train was running wild ahead of the passenger, aud should have made the side-track in time to allow the e-press e-press to pass. T hey lost time from Hal-stead, Hal-stead, however, and were just entering the bwitch when the express train came in sight. A flagman had been sent back to warn the passenger, but he did not get far enough. The engineer of the passenger reversed hia engine, after putting on theair.and with his fireman fire-man jumped. They escaped injury, and ' no one being in the freight caboose, no accident tr. hnmaa beings occurred. The passenger was backed to Lehi and a wreck train sent out. The track was cleared, and the passenger arrived here at 7 o'clock last night. Herald (Wednesday.) |
