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11
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May
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1883
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Everytliing about the Treasury examination L fiuished, and the United States owes ei.reasurer Uilflllan three cents. Ex-Senator Dorseydenies all of Judge Lüley's illegatious, and says he is wllling to uubmit ;he case to twelvo "disiuterested men." CoHgrcssman Murch of Maine, who is inter?steü in tbc charges ag?inst Architect liill, in i letter to Secretary Folger suggests the name af SolleUor Kaynor of the treusury departuient. s a member of the committte of iuvestigatlon. The appointment of Kelm as cliief examiner 3Í the civil service commiesion is scverely criti:ised tnd may be withdrawrn. The president das not yet signed hls commission. Complaints have been received at the Ueneral Land Ofllce in Washington that large trúcta of public lands in Nebraska are beiug fenced iu by cattle raiaers iu violation of the rules of the" Department of the Interior. Commlsbioner Mact'arlaud says this practice is beeoming quite grneral in the West and Northwest, and that steps iro being taken to overthrow lt, President Arthur has appointed VVm. S. Wood district judge for the seveuth. district of Indiana. The postion made vacant by the appointment of W. O. Gresham as postmastergeneral. Secretary Teller scys he shall not take any notiee cf Senator Ilill's etter, althougr. it is fuli.ol errora and ïnisrepresentations. The rumor that our governuiunt had conseated to the extradition oL Tynan, Walsh and Sheridan ie without foundation. Ño eömmunnication has been received by the state department upon the subject. But should their citradltion be demauded, which w ill probably be the cate bcfore many days, it must be granted in contormity with the law upon that subject, which reads as follows: It is agreed that the United States and her Britannie majoety Bball, upon mutual requlEltions by thoui or their ministers, officers or authorities rospectively made, deliver np to jnetice all persems who, being charged wi'h the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murdor, or piracy, or arson, or robberj, or lorgery, or uttcrauce of forged paper committwl withiu the jurisdicción of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other. Proviiied that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as according to the laws of the place where the fugitiye or persons so eharged shull bo i'ound, would justify lila apprehension and couimitment for trial if the crime or olfense had there been comrnitted, and the respective judges and other magristrates of the two eovernuients Bhall have power, jurisdiction and autkoiity, upon complaint made under oath, to issue a warrant for the apprehension of the fugitiye or persons 80 eharged that he may be brougut before such judges or magistrate6 respectively, to the ond that evidence oL crimiuality may be heard and considerid ; and if on such hearing the evidence be deemed sutncitnt to sustaia the charge, it shall be the duty of the examiniug judge or magistrate to certify the same to the proper executlve authorities, that a warrant may Issue for the surreud :r of such f ugitivee. The civil service commission have alreadj bcgun work. The Ha'vaüan minister demes that his government lias forbiden the landing of Chinese m that country, but admits that steps wlll soon be taken to prevent their landing. Gen. McClellan has been obligea to send regret8 to the managers of the reunión oí the army of the Potomac. An important matter of business calis him hundreds of miles iwav. Col. Jfarker, chiel inspector oí tnc postoflice departtnent, estiinates that tbe gov crnment has been loslng about $1,000 daily by the operatiou ol the private letter offices raided in New York a few days ago. There are similar offices iu other large cities but the government is determined to eíose tunm without delay. Gen. Crook has been hearii frorn. He says lt is not his intentiou to viólate the treaty between the Mexican aud the home government. At present Crook is iu the southeasteru corner oL the territory of Arizona and doing good work in tryiug to put dowu the Indiau iruubles. R. J. Creighton, Postal Conimissioner of New Zealaod, lias repreeeuted to the Seeretary of State the imporUnc-e to American cummerce of continuiog direct mail cornmunieation with New Zealaml aud Australia by way of San Francisco. lic askcd that the oceau transportation of the American mail be lalu-n to offset the land transportaüonof the Colonial mail. Mr. Sarden t writes to the Department of State fróra Berlin, i)udcr date of April 13, that In consequence of reporta in the Continental prees that an alarmlng outbreak of trichlnoBls, liatabed by eatlñg Ainmcau pork, had occurrerl among the garrison at Tilsit, Gcrmany, bc had tnstnected the uearest Con(.ular üffleer to make an lnvi-stigatlou. Ihe published Btatements were positiye as to the souree of the disease, aud stated that thirteen deatbs had already occurred. It was found tbat fourteen capes of trichincsis had occurred amona ihe eoliüers of the garrÍBon at T. ïlsit, all verv light, aud that all Éne persons attacked had heen restored to health. The meat wbich bad produced the disease was not issuedto the goldiors in thcir garrison rations, aud bi-yond that there was no evidence whatuver as to it origin. The court en bañe has sustained one of Howgate's appealf, and dismis6ed another. The one which va? sustalncd was where property had been attached by the governmeLt which it waa alleged Uowgate had disposed -A to other parties. The one dismissed v. as an appeal frora a lower court, where the defeudant had resisted an attachment on his property becausc the action had been brought by other than the United States district attorney. 1 he court en banc held that the goveinmeut had a right to employ such prolessional aid as it deemed necessai y. A decisión renclered hy the United States eupreme court holds that the directors of a railroad company cannot adopt any bylaw fixiug rate? of Uve and freight which are in conflict with the Uws of tbe stato relating to tke sanie suhject. t ;,, nnl Tlfroa. IShh infantrv. iigns his commissiou, to take effect next Janïary, but Secretary Lincoln decides that if the tuignatlon is to take, effect immediattly it will je accepted, otherwise Ilgcs will betried by rourt martial for duplicatiug pay accounta. Therc were 157,000 standard silver iollafs issued for the week ending May 5. It has been decided that the readjustment of tbe salaries of postmasters of the fourth class under tbc ncw law should date [rom March 3 tnstead of October 1. Thts will tucessitate an increase of from eight to forty tente in the salaries of about 43,000 postmaeters, and will cause a largo deñciency iu the appropriations for the current fiscal year. Charles W. Folgef, soa of the Secretary of the Treasury, üas been appointed clerk in charge of supplies and proposals al the Bureau of Engarving and Printing. It is statedat he Treasury Department that tüe appointmeut is only tempoary, and was made at the urgent request of Mr. Burrill. The new civil service rules have all been approved bv the President and the commission will leave Washington in a few days for tbe purpose of establishing examiMng boards in all the lavger eities. Tne provisions of the new law relating to appointments takefl effect .luly 16, and the examinations will all bc held bef ore that date. The President has issued an order extendingthe boundaries of the Zuni Indian reBervation in New Mexico, so as to embrace tíie springs from which they derive their water eupply. For some time there has been before the departmeat of the interior a case involving 160 aereo of valuablelaud near Biemarck, Dakofa. Tbe coutestants were Plumtner va. Jiwslctnan aud the grouud of contest was that Jaokman, had not entered the land in goodfaith.but had ed it íor the purpose oL speculating, bclieviDg that the Northern Pacific road would cross the Missouri rivir at that polnt and form the nucleus of a towu. The case was decided in favor of Jackman, and in rendering his deelaion, Teller said : The statute referred to cannot be eonstrued to mean that persona goingto the front ier or along the Iine6 of projected rallways and anticipatlng centers of population ehall'not eujoy the b'nefits of their euterprise and foreslght though they believe thcir claims would become of sreat value on account of proximlty of villages or cities would even be built upon such claims and therebv enable them to ultimately rcalize large prices for such lands. That is not the spcculation the statute intended to prohibit. GENERAL ITEMS. The Supremo Court of Ohio, rcfused to fjiaut a writ of error in the case of J. D. Watson, convicted of bribine members of the Legislatura. The sentence of tbe court to iuiprisonment wlll now be carriedout. Advices from the Red river valley and northern Minnesota, and Dakota report seeding considerably in advance of last year. If the present favorable weather continúes the. area of wheat sown in those sections will be much larger than last year. A dispatch has been received bj' the friends of Prof. Baudelier.whowassupposed to have becu murdered by indians in Mexico, saying that he is safe at Fort Apache. The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bilí prohiblting any attempt to personate or represent any being recognized as a Divinity in the old or New Testament in any public performance. Hattie Thornton, aged 12, who five times set fire to the hotel Olendon, Boston, has been arrested. She labors under a manía ca'ised by an interest in a fire escape exhlbition recently at the hotel. The father of Hon. Phil. B. Thompson, the cougressman who shot Walter H. Davis at Harrodsburg, Ky., a few days ago, will defend his son. The eider Thompson ia said to be one of the ablest lawyers in "Old Kentucky," At a conference of the Executive Com mlttee of the Iowa State Temperance Alliance at Des Moines, resolutions were adopted to the effect that the ratification of the prohibitory amendments rests as a moral obligation on legislators, regardless of the technical objection on thè opinión of the Supreme. Court, and that the next General Asseinbly should re-cnact a prohibitory -law in harmony with the expressed will of the'pcople. The opening of the great Brooklyn bridge has boen postponed until the 30th int. It was at lirst decided to have the ceremonies on the 24th inst.. Qneen Victoria's birthday, but it was thought botter to postpone it nntil the latter date. The Mexican government has made a contract with Buette, Casee & Co., France, for harbor iuiprovements at Vera Cruz. The northwest breakwater will be completed in five years, and all the work will be finiehed in 12 years. The government will pay the contractor $10,047,000 in Mexican silver dollurs, in weekly payim-nts oí ÏIO.OUO as the worK ' ceeds. The official Journal, la connection with ' the proposeil foreigu loan, defends vigoronsly ' thc financial policy of the governtnent, maintainlng that lt would be falso economy to ( pend produetive public works, especially thc , Tchauntepec railroad, which is of national , portance aDd making Batisfactory progresa , slnce the governmuut undertook lta construcÜflBwi i i iwi ii i : The bilí prohibiting free passes being granted tó any one but railroad officials and employés has passed the New York asscmbly. Threatening' letters continue to be sent to the Dukes jurors signed by vigilence coumtitteee, Molly Magulres, etc, but uo voi lence has as yet bten oríered. II any viligenee committees i-xlst they are of the most gnarded and secret kind and wül do thcir work in such a way as to render det'.ction very ditflcult. The Connecticut legislature has adjourned aftcr the longest session on record. The closiug act of thiü august body was to pass the coustitutional amendment providing lor blennial seesions. This will require a twothirds vote ot tlie next legislature, and the approval of tüe people. Mvra Clark Gaines has gained a iudgènn'ut in the United States circuit eourt in New Orleans for f 1,035.667, with live per cent. iutcrest aud costs, against the city of New Orleans. By sonio tniscalculations in surveying the lands for Zuui Iudhxns in New Mexico, the ludians have been cheated out of a good raany aeres oí land. Several speculators have taken uu land iu that section of New Mexico, aud fchould thiir claims be sustained by the general laúd office, the water supplies of the Zunia would be cntirely cut off. A auníber of high officials of the Japani.se Empire are dolnc Washington. Frederick M. Ker, tho confidential clerk of the banking house of Preston, Kean & I Co., of Chicago, who stole 820,500 from the bank and $32,250 from special deposita and government bonds, has been arrestcd in Lima, Peru. David Preston, of Detroit, the senior member of the firm says that the 6tealings of the prisoner have becu varlouslv Btated and eiaggerated at different times. The ¦ abovo amount is correct. The extradition was effected through Senator John Logan. When Ker fied it was placed in the hauds of tje l'inkerton Deteeiie Ageccy, who, af ter a careful search, learned that thé prisoner was in Panama, under the name of Alf red Perrott. A detective was sent there and learned that Ker had gone f urther, under the name of Warren Stuart. The olfiecr had photcgraphs of the .ugitive in his posaesslon, aud sliowing them ;o the purser of the steamship Bauta Kosaon whieh lt was ascfrta,ined Ker had taken passage, was told that a man apparently the subject of the photoeraphs. was 6topplng at the Hotel de granee et Angleterre in Lima, whcre he thought of remaintug. Ker waj found engageU in studyipg the Spanishlan guaee. It was found that uo extradition process" could be teadily had, and the detective concluded to keep a watch of the fugitive until he should hear from home. He made his quaintanee without disclosing hts identity, and the two became apparently warm, personal friends. In the meantimc the necessary steps were taken to extradite the thief . Papers were eotten out andiorwarded, aud Gen. Lynch, commandlng the Chilian forces which capturtd the Peruvian Capital; hODored them. The identity of the prisoner being duly establlshed nuuiber of soldiere were detailed to make the arrest, and êurprised Ker in his room, aud escorted hini to the United steamer Easex, where he was locked up to awalt the sailmg of the steamer f or home; How much of the stolen money was recovered ie not known. The prisoner is 36 ycará oíd, and Mr. Preston says, en terecl thoiremploy in. Chicago in 1SÏ3. He Í8 the son of Rev. Peter Ker, a Presbyterian minister of Brantford, Ont., who has been deadfor tenyears. The detective who tracked him to l'eru Is H. G. Julián, who will receive a large portion of the $10,000 reward offered for the prisoner's apprehenslon. Advices from VaD Buren county, Ark., say that tha,t section of the. country is beiug held in terror by two eseaped couvlets nanied Jamos Miller and Thomas Katharin, whohave made the alroost inaccesible Bo6ton mountains thHr refuge, and fiom which tbey emerge to eommit all manner of depredations on property, not even stopping at murder. Theser ets have contiuued uutil alniost the entire population of that . región have become aroused and at last accounts a party of 20 men, including some of the best citizeus of Van Buren eounty under the command of Col. Richard Poe, have started to nunt down the outlaw?. Should they be found thev will be killed on sigut, but as MlUer and Katharin are well armed and most desperate men, it is fcared some of their pursner will be ilaiu beforc they are exterminated. . . , Rev. Josiah Henson, the oriLinal 'Tncle Tem" 'm Mra. Stowt's "Uncle Tom'f Cabin," died at üresden, Ont., (l few days ago, aged 9S. Threo llttle dausrh'ters of Jacob Morowise, of Wlnona, Miun., aged respectively 11. 9 and 6 years, were playing in (he etreet under an umbrella during a sliuht thunder shower, and were 6truck by liíhtniue. The two okler girls wcre instautly killed, and the youngest partially paralyzed in hcr rigbt side Capt Wade.chief of ]oliee of Boston, w as shot hy a crank wliom he waa trying to arrest, and It is feared fatally injured. John Callaban, oí Wiuchestcr, Mass., bought a gallon of whiskey and went on a spree. He took wlth himhls Htt!e6onof three years, and after íorcing tlie little one to rirluk all he coukl, threw the rest of the liquor in his face. The chikl went into eonvulsious and died in a short time. Strikes in all the trades are of daily occurrence, thougli thecoal and iron manufacturen suffer rr.osï. The6c strikes have beconie alarmiagly frequent, and b le no good for the future of the industries of our country. The New York legislature has adjourncd sinc die. Several important mensures were left untouched, and the adjournment, is considered premature. Work on the Mereed Canal, which was projected to irrigue a vast traet of land in the San Joaquín Valley, is beini; rapidly pushed forward. When the work is completed a quarter of a inillion acres of poor wheat land MH beturued into good fruit and vegetable land. Should the scheme prove a íiuaneial success, other like canals will be begun, which will inake the San Joaquiu Valley the heaviest wheat raising región on the continent. After an absence of over eighteen months, Moody and Sankey have returned to Aoierica. Later news in relation to the burning of the steamer Orappler, neir Puett Souuil, inereascs the calamity. At least seveuty Uves were lobt. Only two "bodies have been discovered. Gov. Butler of Massachusetts, has written a citer t Secretary Foliïer protesting against the great pauper immixratiou from In land, and urging the secretary toinvnst.igutu and do eomething in the premisos. Butler's letter ba.s been the means of urousing aa interest In this matter, and f roni the reports of different United State6 consuls in the United Kiugdom, it is Wrned that altliougli the distress and suffering ia indeed great, that the reports telegraphtd to the American press have beeu greatly exaígei-ated ; but the couUition oí the peabautry is sueh that it must act as a povíertul stímulAüt to emigratlou. Consul Barrows of Dublin writes thus conceruing the charge that the goTiTnruent had planned to send the paupers to this country: "I kuovr of no organized eilort for any luri;eexportatiou of sufferers or paupers to the United ritates. No doubt many will 11 ud their waj there by aid of friends, and often iu a measure by eharilable lunds. It is to be feared that most of such emigrants are without nnau?, and what is worse, without skill iu trades or other oceupations, and with so little mouey as to afford no promise of auy respectable support on their arrival iu America." A Plattsburg-, N. Y., íirm has elosed a contract for the labor of 430 eonvicts iu Clinton prison for five years at 35 cents a day. They will be employed in manufacturing elothing for the vholesale trade. One huudred inilnra will hi1' t.rnTwfHrrijil frnm ritlici' nriüninj to Clinton and 300 sewing machines used. An eugine, temler, and six freight cars on the JÍUwáukee and St. Paul road went off a bridge near Lamoille, 11 miles) from La Crosse, WÍ9., and engincer Furgerson wa droH-ned. Malieiuus tainperins vvitb. the switch is supposed to be the cause oí the accident. Tnere is troublo in Miiwaukoe, Wis., beeause of the order of the Mayor orderiug all 6aloons closed at minnight; and forbiduing pollcemen to drink irat.e on duty. ïüe M yor received a lstter a few days ago threateuing Int life. Quite a sensation was oreated in Sau Antonio, Texas, by the confession of Major Wasson, Paymaster, allegeü to have been robbed of $24,000 on a traiu ncar Fort Worth, that the whole transacliun was a fraud to cover up his short accouut with t!ie government. Wasson is now under arrest, having failed to obtain a e!ae of the robbers. Wassou was ordered to San Antonio to turu over the balance of the fuuds in lus hands to Chu-i Payniaster Terrell and settie accounts. An xam iuation by Col. Turrell exhibited a shoriage of about $5,500. Wasson cjufessed bii dtflult, but claimed to have made up the ain.mnt and been robbed of $1,000. Further quesiioned he ünally made a clean breast of the whple alïair; that he had put up the job to cover his evil doiugs. He was immodiatelv placed under arrest at headquartero aud hcavily gu„rded by soldiers. It is said his Ioiva bóndoineu are good for the Indebteduess to the gowrnmeut of 45,500. He has desigoated thehiiing place of the remaining $18,500, and the offleers went for it. OTHER LANDS. The cab-driverFitzharris,on trial on tlie charge of being one of the principale in the Phoenix Parkmurders, was acnuitted. No wltneesea were called by the defense. The evidcuce against Fitzharris vfas that givcn hy the informers. He wae, besides, identifled by the defendaiits' wítneasee, who swore they savr hiin in the park May 6. Mclnerny opened the argument for the defense. Ue dwelt on the facttbatthe accusatiuii that tlie prisouer was inthe{-k with kuowledgf of the erraud ol of the murderer rested on the evidencc ot the iuforoier alone. He particulariy pointed out thut although Peter Cary swore that the prisoner had recouuted the circumstancesof tbe ïAurderto hiin,hie narrativeof the assassination had difiered irom theasetrtained faets. He clo6ed with a patriotie appeal to the jury to restore the ooor inau to his etarvlng faruily, with a good name, which was his sole poeêeseion Thí jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Fitzharris was at once re-arrested on the charge of conspiracy to murder, and taken back to jail to await trial. There Is a code of the Euglieh criminal law whicl) gives tl.e Drosecutor the rlght toask for a uciv trial, and trepeat this request until a couviction is seeurcd Queen Victoria will not open the international flsh exhibition, but will lo.ave tliat honor to the Prince and Pnncess of Wales. Many awards are made to persons who have suftered hy reasoa of vlolations ot law in IrelamJ. Lady Mount Morris and Mr?. Blake each receive L3,000 for the murder of a husband. A riot brokc out at Port Said, in Eeypt, a few days ago bettveen Greeks and Araos on account of religiou3 ceremonies. Several persons Tvcre killed andmanyuuudfd ineluding a uuuiber of pólice. Hritish troope and saiiors, with Uatling guns, surrounded the Greek church to protect it. It is sald that the European reaidents were suved f rom agen eral massacre by the landing of Briü&ü sail ore. A young man named Sobbc, whó was charged witn murdering and robbing in Mareh a inoney-letter carrier iu Berlín, whoee bodj was found in;the apartments of the prisoner. ha heen fouud guilty and senttnced tq deatb. The greateetexcitement was occasioned in thfc Dublin court the other day wlm, Patricl: Delaney and Thomas Caffrey wert arrigned for the murder of ljord Frederick Cieudish. These men waived trial and plead d guilty of the murder. Delaney said he wat m the park but. did not comniit the murder The murders were coinmitted by Joe lirady and Tim Kellev. Both the prieoners, in plead ing guilty, said thi'v were forced to leave theii work and go to tbê park upon pain of death The judge sentenced them to be hauged. That hot-bedof excitement.Uubliu wu thrown iuto the wildest alarm a few davs agi when the crown presentid to thi grauïl jur bilis for murder against Peter Tynan, "nurnljei one," John Walsh and V. 1. Sheridan and : blll as accessory to the umrder after the fací acaiust Fitzharris. Walsh and Sheridau art n Ameriea, and Tyuau is supposed to b thero. The grand jury have fouud true bill agaiust Lawreuce Haulon, James and Josepl Mullett and Daniel Delanev on a eharge of al tempting to murder juror üenuls Field" The' have al80 found true bill for eouepiiacy t murder against the two Mulletts. Lawrenci Hanlon, Edward McCaffrey. Edward O'Brien. ïeorge 8mitb, Peter Doyle, Thomas Doyle, WtUiam Moronevand Danitl Delaney. The blu against thomas Martin, charged with the same fl. nse, was rejected. The grand jury wer pent back to reconsider the case of Thomas Mrtin, and af kt again dcliberatlng ior some time rcturned a true bilí against hím. The grand ury have also found true billa against Edward D'Bricu and Edward McCaffrey for partlcipatiou in the murders of Cavandlsh and Burke. Atonntiine it waa rumored that Parnell was ncluded in the indictment, but later dis patehes contradicl this report. The government of New Soutli Wales, Victoria and Houth Australia approve the &nnexatlon of New Guiaea to Queensland. A telegram has been receivcd from Sol. Hicks at Cairo, Egypt, reporting that on the 29th uit. he had an engagement wlth 5,000 rebels. The battle, which lasted half an hour, reiultcd in the defeat of the rebels with 680 dliud, ineluiliug the lleutenant general of El Vlahdi, tbe falte prophet, and mauv iounded. Tlie Egypttao loas was slight. "Col. Hicks praiees tbe gallantry of the Egvptian txoops Six men were killed in a mino near [Ialifax,the other day. A dispatch f rom Victoria, B. C, says ;he 6teamer Grappler, plying between Puget Sound and Alaska was burned reccntly. Sbcty Uves were lost. One hundred passenzers were on board, nearly all of whom were öïilnamen. Bradlaugli has again been denied the right to take nis Beat in the House. Lawrence Hanlon, who was placod on trial on a charge of attcmpting to murder Juror Dcunis Field, was found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life. Hanlon on receiving the sentence muttered: "X won't be the last. God save Ireland from such informers." United States Miuister Morton, at a pvivato interview with President Grevy, presented him with a complimentary speech album, forwarded by eitizens of Providunce, K. I., as a souvenir of the Frenchmen who died at Vorktown rigbting for American independence. The President was deeply touched, both at the pift and the manner in which it was presentad, and requested Mr. Morton to convey to the eitizeus of Provideuce his kindly rcgards and tbauks for tbe patriotic gift. The authorities at Erzroum, Romanía, are taking vigurous uieaeures to suppress lawIeyscss andtcwify those who are banded togethcj i what is believed to be a dangerous organization for the destruction of life and proptrty. Of 50 persons lately proven to bc mem bers of the secret society, live have juBt been condemned to imprisonineut for a period of lSyears, and the remaining twenty-flve received seutenees of greater or less severity aecording to the weight of evidence implicating them. Bradlaugh is disgusted with the procecdiugs in the House of Commons, and syi that he wiü visit his constituents, &nd then resign. A fatal explosión oceurred in the eovernment powder magazine in Portsmouth Harbor, Eog. Nine persons were killed, and a good many scriously injured. ïiiili ill fpplïnir oirit.! in cnnii nf tliA muüu in ieenng exists in some 01 tne eginient.t of the Russiau army owinj to the act that rewards are bcing ofíered to men to uduce them to denouuce anv of their eomades who are known to be nihilista. An. earthquake occnrred In Tabreezo, 'ersia, destroi ing a great many housee, and ui6ing the death of a large number of pOrOIli. Instead of giving a pension to Lords Volseley and Alcastcr for thcir services In the At: Egyptian cumpaign, they wtU be glven a um ot iiiomj. This cbange in the manner of ewarúMtig tbeée military men is due to anoutiv made against the pruvisions of the pension iil, which provides that on the. death of the eneficlaries the pension shall revert to their learest heirs. The Amer'can consul at 'l'oronto, iVm. C. HowpII, father of the novelist, will íhortly resigu and retire to private Hfe. The report that Tyuan, the "No. 1.' f "lnviucible" fame, is in London and wantug to turn iuformer Í8 deuied. Bismacok has issued a circular to 5russiaii provincial officials ordering an iuluinr" into the mfluence on the national wealth )f fire insurauee businees which is in the hands f private companies. Germán dealers liave not yet replied o the charge made by the United States conul at Licge that oil, lard, fiour, etc., imponed rom América are adulterated after their arrivil iu Gerinanr. In the Germán reichstag the asser:ion has been made that the existence of a ropublic in Europe was an impossibüity, and that i'ays of the Frenth republic w ere numbered. " The death eentence of Patrick Delanty, Phffinix Park murderer, has been comaiuted to imprisonment lor Hfe. CRIME Capt. Phil B. Thompson, member of Congre6s from the eighth Kentucky district, shot Walter Davis at Harrodsburg, Ky, a few days atro. The cause is undue intimacy witü Mr? 'l'liompson. The f act6 are abeut asfollow. Wh;" Puil Thompson Btarted for AVashington last November Mrs. Thompeon accjmpanii'd him to Ciucinnati, but was to go home the unie night. 8he ïnet Davis in the street. He supplied hfr with liquer and took her to St. Clair üotel to nis room. Later in the nlght the watchmau found her lylng tn the corridor. TIio proprietor would have put her in the t-treet but for recojinitinn by his wife. Ncxt morning sbe was overwhelmed with filíame o discovering her disgrace and left the liotcl. Miss Buckner au innato of the house wrote to Thompson telliug of his wif e's disgraeo bnt sald nothiug of Bavit' eonduct, whereupou Thuinpsou refUBed t fnrther recognuie her aa his wife. The two inen hpd not met until tb. ilay the fatal shot was fired. Thompson at once gave himself up, and was held by the judge in the sum of $5,000 to answer to thö grand jury. Advices from Indian territory say: John i. Neol of Boston, tthosebrother is among the heaviest hlde dealers in Massachusetts, was nurdercd on the ranch of the Kansas City cattle eompauy some days ago. He was in the territory for hls health and living in a dugout with two cattle herders. On the morning ol his murder his companions left the duaout a usual to attond their cattle, Icaviug Mr. Neal readlng. fu a couple of hours one of the men returntd and found Neal dead. The man immediHUlr started for a camp six miles away for liolp and when he returned it was found that Neal had been killed with a hatchet, the poll of which had been suqk in lits head, and that he had boon robbed of $ÍÍ50, a watcU and other vaiuablcs. Thore is co (jue to the murderer, but thi matter was reported to the authoiitie and Neal'ö relativos advised of the sad occurrence. The dispatch does not state when or precisely where the murdir occurred. Major Wesson, army pajmaster, was robbed of his valise, containing $24,000 in currency while oecupylng a sloeper on the Texas & i'aciflc railroad. Wesson was on his way to pay the troopjirtRMp "Don't )uu cuUiuiumu' mei"1 "Can't ¦ay that I ever sawyou before." "Why, 'lon't you remember little Sammy Bambry, wlio used to steal your peachos, and break your windows twenty years igo, right 'here in Austin?" "Why, .iertainly, I remember you now. And 1 anned your little hide for you when caughtyou." "You bet you did. Ah, ihose happy days will never oonie again." - Texas Siftings. A religious sect in Switzerland con?emplates cmigration in mass to th Ararentiue Republic for the pur pose of escaping military service ai borne, it being contrary to their doo trines to bear anus or taks part in wai fere.

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