Plans have been completed in Wall
street by which funds for the con
struction of the Western Pacific rail
road are absolutely Insured. On its
completion the Western Pacific will
become an integral part of the Gould'
transcontinental system.
Monday, April 24.
Captain O'Shea, whose divorced
wife became Mrs. Charles Stewart
Parnell, is dead in London.
About 300 riveters employed by the
Pressed Steel Car company of Pitts,
burg have gone on strike for an ad
vance in wages.
William G. Tiffany, sixty-three years
old, well known in social and clufc
circles of New York, was Sunday
found dead in his rooms of valvular
disease of the hea,rt.
Charles M. Schwab of the Bethle
hem works and Charles R. Flint of
New York have arrived at St: Peters-,
burg to discuss with the Russian ad
miralty the building of new warships.
Harry Sanford, well known in the
atrical circles in America and Eu
r«p«, is dead in New York city, in
recent years he acted as business
manager for many prominent perform
ers.
I
EVENTS OF A WEEK,, THROUGH­
OUT THE STATE.
Jajcob Dinsmore, an old settler of
Clay county and veteran of the Civil
war, is dead at his home at Hawley.
N. H. Miner, a prominent attorney
and twice mayor of Sauk Center, died
suddenly Friday night of heiart dis
ease.
Mrs. John Keller of St. Paul, wound
ed by William Williams at the time
her sixteen-year-old son was slain, is
dead.
Oscar Newberg, a law student at
the state university, lies at the point
of death as the result of a
friendly
encounter in the gymnasium recently.
Dr. C. W. Van Damm, charged with
performing a criminal operation on
Daisy Scadden, was found guilty by a
jury in the district court at Minneap
olis.
