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News and Notes Jeremiah O’Neil, one of a gang of four white loafers who undertook to give two colored men an unprovoked thrashing in Providence, R.I., Sept. 15th, was fatally shot by one of the colored men. There was a free fight in the Westminster Presbyterian church at St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 16th, over the alleged immorality of the late pastor. The police quelled the riot. Charles Kinsel of Philadelphia is experimenting with an air-sailing ship. The mugwump bosses of New York have ordered their followers to vote against Hill for governor. A full-blooded negro testified in a rich Irish brogue before a Brooklyn court …

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During the labor parade in Cleveland, Ohio, a party of foreign anarchists in the procession refused to salute the stars and stripes with their red flag, and were soundly thrashed by the real laborers. Then five of the anarchists were arrested for riot! In a political fight at Clarendon, Ark., Sept. 3rd, three men were killed and the sheriff wounded. At Lodi, Ohio, Sep. 1st, a young girl watching a base ball game was struck behind the ear by a foul ball, and at Republic, Ohio, the same day, the catcher of a local club was struck over the heart by a ball; and both …

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The Elbe at Hamburg has crocodiles in it, thirteen having escaped from a menagerie steamer. A large paper mill at Neenah, Wis., took fire at 11:30 p.m. on the 22d inst. While it was surrounded by people the boilers exploded, shattering to atoms the building, which was of brick and three stories high, and killing eighteen persons, fatally wounding seven, and injuring many others. The money loss was $100,000; insurance $52,000. In a fight at a Baptist meeting at Monticello, Ga., Aug. 23d, two men were shot dead, one or two mortally wounded, and several badly hurt. Over thirty shots were fired. Those fellows evidently …

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According to the returns of the keepers of the Boston public baths, there were 250,000 visitors in July. Lawrence Donovan, who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge some time ago, and escaped without serious harm, on the 7th inst. jumped from the Hungerford bridge across the Thames at London, and was drowned. William Grady, a worthy young man of East Boston, aged twenty-four years, was murdered by a drunken sailor named Van Buren on the afternoon of Aug. 6th, while trying to protect his slayer from the savage attack of a drunken mate named Coleman. Edward H. Olmstead, head clerk in the bursar’s office at Harvard …

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“The navy yard is a curse to this city. We wish the plant of it were lifted up carried off and sunk into the sea. Secretary Whitney should realize how his subordinates are compromising him. The president should realize how his administratin is being compromised.” – Brooklyn Eagle A vulture, measuring nine feet from tip to tip of the wings, was lately shot near Juliet, San Diego county, Cal., as it was sailing away with a full-grown sheep in its claws. Powerful bird that. Mr. Beane, an Englishman, formerly commander at Stanley Falls, Africa, was recently killed in the Congo state in an elephant charge. …

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Rev. O.D. Kimball, formerly pastor of the Baptist church in Leominster, Mass., and now of the West Newton Baptist church, has left the latter place after putting a letter of resignation in the hands of church officers. He admits that he was guilty of gross immorality with five members of his church in Leominster, who were some time ago expelled from that church for making the charges. Alvin Hunnewell of Norridgewock, Me., is held for trial on a charge of poisoning his wife with “rough on rats.” Hunnewell’s son, aged eighteen years, and a young man named Chace, also partook of the poisoned food. All …

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