Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
Sherlock struck the pier of a railroad bridge just after leaving Cincinnatti for New Orleans and sank. Three lives were lost. The Union Investment Company, of Kansas City, filed an assignment on Wednesday at Boston. Gen. H. H. Sibley, the first Governor af Minnesota, died Wednesday morning in his home at St. Paul. The Illinois senate, on Wednesday passed the bill making the contract rate of interest 7 per cent, and the legal rate 5 per cent. John D. Knox & Co., bankers of Topeka, Kas., have assigned. Liabilities, $250,000; assets, $400,000. The American Loan and Trust Company closed its doors in New York with liabilities of $2,234,874. The apparent deficit is $656,789. The investigation committee found that at the end of the first term of Treasurer Woodruff of Arkansas the state owed him $19.
Feb. 19. A drought prevails in Springfield, Ill. The Western wires are badly damaged by reason of the severe sleet storms. Additional discoveries of gold and silver are reported in Montague county, Tex. The separate coach bill has been sent to the governor of Arkansas for approval. John C. New has written to his son that he is satisfied with his present position and doesn't want the treasury portfolio. Interpreter Primeau, who accompanied the Sioux delegation to Washington, predicts another uprising in the spring on account of the little attention showed the chiefs by the government. Funeral services over Gen. Sherman were held in New York, after which the body, followed by an imposing procession, was conveyed to the train at Jersey City, which started for St. Louis.
Feb. 20. Rev. James H. Ash, general state missioneary for the Baptist publishing company of Philadelphia, dropped dead from heart disease at Emporia, Kas. The ballots for U. S. Senator at Springfield, Ill., to-day resulted as follows: Palmer, 101; Streeter, 96; Oglesby 8.
A sleet storm paralyzed wires in the west. Dr. Fisher, acting president of the Missouri State University, died at Columbia, Mo. A war between the conservative and radical element of the Turners has started in Chicago. A railroad collision in the Fourth avenue tunnel, New York, caused the loss of six lives and the injury of several persons. United States revenue officials made a general raid on Chicago cigar dealers who were counterfeiting the government import stamp. Sheriff Timberlake, who hunted down the James gang and employed Bob Ford in the matter, died at Liberty, Mo. At Leigh, Neb., William McCubbin shot Frank Yob, his hostler, dead; also his wife, and then cut his own throat, dying across her body. Scandal connecting his victims is the supposed cause.