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23
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July
Year
1884
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Compiled from Late Dispatches. DOMESTIC. The summer trotting-maetingat the Chicago Driving l'ark wound up on the l.'ith with a victory over the best stallion record, a mile being made by Phallas in 2:13'. Captain W. B. Chew, one of the bestknown conductors on the Baltimore & Ohio Road, was arrestad at Baltimore on the 15th for smbeszllng fares, and held for trial. Dawson BliOTHEIts, riminiiacturors ot mili machinery at Wilmington, Del., feiled on the lStb for f(W,OX, and the senior memberof the lirm had absconded. The estimated loss by June rains on the w heat erop in California was on the 15th ]laced at 186,000 tons, and of barley 80,(XM tons. The hay erop was injured forty per cent. Fite men wens buriod under A mass of oarth at Brooklyn, N. Y., a few days ago, and Mkhaol MiDonough and Patrick Quinlan were cru-hed to death. Fletciier & Sharpe, bankers at Indianapolis, closed their doors on the löth, owing to inability to realiza, but claimed that the assets wore ampie to pay all claimsThe failure caused runs on other banks. The receiver placed the liabilities at $1,S,000, with assets of about $2,000,000. Three masked men at Mitchell's Station near Culpepper, Va., the other night bound and gagged Frank Somerville, took him to the cellar of bis store, where they removed his clothes and tarred his limbs. They then blew open the safe and carried off $ 1,800 inmoney. Bubglars on the l(itli blew the safe in the post-office at Swanton, Vt., securing $800 in cash and 37,OOO in notes. The wife of Kev. T. S. Strong, a Methodist prearher at Dublin, Ua., has caused a sensation by ocoupying the pulpit on altérnate Sundays with her husband. Bish op Pierce said she should not be allowed to preach, and Mrs. Strong was praying for the Bishop's conversión. Warrants for ths payment of pensions ageregating $9,000,000 were issued by the Treasury Department at Washington on the 16th. There died on the lGth in the penitentiary of New Jersey a convict who was formerly janitor in a bank at Elizabeth, where he was caught fishing up bilis from a teller's desk with a cord, sinker and slioemaker's wax, through a hole in the. second floor. Edward Yard, Jr. & Co., lace chants, of New York, failed 011 the lGthfoi il, 000,000. Albert Miles, a negro, was hanged on the 16th at Natchez, Miss., for the inurder of his wife. Hiram Campbell fc Sons, iron manufacturers at Ironton, O., have failed for 5300,000. A special Trensury agent reported nt Washington on the löth that rags froni the cholera distriots of Egy pt and Turke y were being brought into the United State through Canadian ports. According to the assessraont rolls the taxable value of the State of Texas shows an incrcase this year over last of $60,000,000. At Edgard, La., the other day Amos Seaton (colored) was sentenced to death for murder. He was so overeóme by his fear of the gallows that he died in his cell Uuring the night with fright. George Wicks, with his wife and daughter, aged five years, were drowned near Dunkirk, N. Y., a few days ago by the upsetting of a skiff. Ex-Minister Sarge.vt said on the 16th, at Washington, that the efforts made by him to protect German-American citizens in their rights accounted for the hostile attitude assumed by Bismarck. D. E. Swan, chief clerk in the Treasurer's office of the Northern Pacific, at St. Paul, was on the 16th discovered to have embezzled several thousand dollars. He had fled. Oer two hundred clerks in the Pension Bureau at Washington received promotion on the 16th, the average advance In salary being two hundred dollars. The flrst car-load of beer ever sent East from California was shipped on the 16th from San Francisco to Chicago. Reports reached Ottawa, Uut., on the lGth that the foot-and-mouth disease prevailed ainong cattle at Helena, M. T., and an investigation would be made. The Postal, Baltimore & Ohio and Bankeis' & lloichants' Companies agreed on the ITth to pool their earnings and expenses for a period of twenty-five years, and lu-reafter the lines of the threo companies will be under one management. .Sewell & Erickso.v, jobbers in millinery goods at New York, have failed for 1800,000. While in the wools recently nesr Fritztown, Pa., William Seachrist was attacked by seven polecats, who scratched and bit him for twenty minutes. He killed six of rliem with a club, and lay helpless when iound by his neighbors. Fraxk R. Sherman, the noted Western man, who had for a long time been conflned in Wie Albany (N. Y.) County Jail for contemptof court, was on the 17th admitted to bail in the sum of $3,000. Improvements now making on the Capitul at Washington will cost JTOO.OOX Work was suspended on the 17tk at the cotton-mills of William Parks & Son, at St. John, N. B., and an extensión was asked on liabilities of $:!25,000. It is announced that the United States is now the wealthiest nation in tho world, the increase in wealth having been sorenly per cent. betweon 1870 and 18S0. Oxk flieman was killed and several others were seriously injured by the falli tig in of the roof of a burning stable at Toronto, Out., a fewdaysago. It is expected that the number of letters mailed in the United States will be greater by twenty per cent. this year than it was in 1880. That year 1,04Ü,000,000 letters were mailed. The closing exercises of the National Teachers' Association were held at Madison, Wis., on the 17th. Fifty of the teachers had arranged for a trip to Alaska. A HRE destroyed the business quarter of i'ainted Post, N. Y., a few days ago. FrankE. Everett, well-known throughout Colorado as a successful banker at Golden, lost his reason from the effects of r hlorai, and on the 17th killed himself with a rer&ivnr. Creditors representing $250,000 agreed on the 18th to the reorganizaron of Fietcher Sc Bharpe's Bank at Indtanapolis on the basis that the principal crelitors take stock for thelr claims, the smaller depositors to recei78 flfty por cent. cash am'l the luíanos in six and twel vo monthf. Valentine Fritz, of Baltlmore, was recently prostrated by heat. His idiotie son slipped into tha room where he lay and droye a long nail into hia head, a fact whieh was only discovered by accident two days afterward. The privats banking-house of A. & J. C. S. Harrison, at Iudianapolis, suspended on the 18th, and by order of the local court was placed in the hands of the Sheriff. The liabilities were estimated at $500,000. John Weldon, a convict in the penitentiary of New Jersey, for three weeks had bsen trying to starve. The physicians on the 18th administered liquid food with a stomach-purap, desplte his struggles. Thomas Johnso.v was about to whip his step-son at Clifton Forgp, Va., the other day, and had tied the boy's hands behind his back preparatory to the castigation. The boy loosed [himself and rushed to a river close by, into which ho plunged. His step-father .followod, and both were drowned. Foür men have in the past few years been sent from New York to the penitentiary for robbing the dry-goods house of Arnold, Constable & Co. And now Henry O. Pedder, the manager, has transferred to the flrra a costly residence at Orange, N. J., and Herbert Seymour, the confidential book-keeper, was on the 18th said to be a defaulter for Ï50.0ÜO. I "míaxy lias boAn organizod nt ï'itts I 'irgh, Pa., to erect and opérate a crematory on the outskirts of that city. ïhe furnace will ba heated by natural gas. The boiler In Wilsou's saw-mill, near Ellenboro, W. Va., exploded the other niorning, killing a boy, and fatally wounding n young man and wonian. The engine was thrown forty feet and the mili strueture destroyed by flre. He.vry Bloom, the Baltiinore & Ohio express messenger at Pittsburgh, Pa., was arrested on the 18th for steaüng a money package containing $10,000. A skssion of the Cabinet was held at Washington on the 18Lh to consider the best method oL preventing the introduction of cholera into the United States. Counterfeit Treasury ten-dollar notes wore in circulation on the 18th ac Rockaway, N. Y. The following executions for murder took place on the 18th: Robert Hunt and Daniel Parker, both colored, at Greenville, Miss.; C. Nelson, at Mouma, La., and Samuel Williams (colored) at Waynesboro, Ga. Ai.i.eged cases of cbolera in a New York tenement proved on the 18th to be simply summer complaint. Thk completion of the Cantón, Aberdeen & Nashville Road from the Illinois Central was celebrated at'Aberdeen, Miss., on the 18th, a gold spike being driven, with a banquet, speech making and a military parade. The Treasury Department at Washington on the Í8th purchased 055,000 ounces of silver for delivery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco mints. In the United States and Canada there were 232 business failures during the seven days ended on the lSth, against 209 the previous seven days. The distribution was as follows: Middle States, öt; New England States, 2fi; Western, 88; Soutliern, 22; Pacific States and Territories, 11; Canada, 21. Carhap.t, Whitford & Co., of New York, wholnsale clothiers, failed on the lSth for $1,186,487. PERSONAL AÑD POLITICA!. The Democrats made the followiug Congressional nominations on the 15th: Illinois, Seventeeth District, John R. Eden; Indiana, Eleventh District, M. II. idd; Arkansas, Tnird District, James K. Jones, renominated. The Illinois Prohibitionists nominated W. P. Randolph in the Fourteenth District and Rev. John lnghain in the Fifteanth. The Michigan Democratie State Convention will beheld at Detroit, August 19, and the Ureenbackers will meet at Grand Ripids August 27. LutherHarrison, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington. The following Congressional nominations were made on the lüth: P.epublican - Illinois, Tenth District, Julián S. StaiT; Sixteenth District, ex-Attorney-General McCartney; Mississippi, Sixth District, D. E. Robinson; Indiana, Fifth District, George W. Grubbs. Democratie - Arkansas, Third District, James J. Jones; Mississippi, First District, J. M. Allen. The New York State Greenback Conven tion has been called to meet in New York City August 27. During the recent session of'Congress thirteen bilis wore passed restoring to the public domain 52,072,030 acres oL land earned by railway corporations. Six ! ers, aggregating 49,34S,800 acres, were i Torably reported, but no action was taken. Rev. Dr. E. N. Potter, President of j Hobart College, at Geneva, N. Y., has ; clined the Bishopric of Nebraska, to which he was recently unanimously elected. Advices were received at Washington on the 17th of the rescue of Lieutenant i Greely and a portion of his expedition at t Cape Sabine by the steatners Bear and Thetis, which sailed about two mouths go uiuler direction of the Navy and War Department in search of them. It was reported that seven of the expedition were alive and seventeen dead by starvation. The Greely expedition left St. Johns July . 7, 1881, aud won the honor of teaching the fartbest known point to the ijrrthward. The New Hampshire RepoV.iei State Convention will be held at Concord September 2. H. C. Glenn bas been nominated by the Republicans of the Sixth Ohio District for C'ongressman. The Kansas Republicans met in State Convention at Topoka on the 17th and nominated Colonel John A. Martin for Governor; A. P. Riddle for LieutenantGovernor, and Albert H. Horton for Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court. The platform recalls the triumphs of the Republican party, indorses the nomiuatinn of Blaine and Logan, and commends the platform adopted by the National Republican Convention. On the extreme point of Long Island a monument was unveiled on the 17th in honor of Nathaniel Sylvester, the first settier, wlio settled there in Iö6ti, under a patent from Charles II. O. C. Merriam has been nominated for Congressmau by the Damoorats of thp Fourth Minnesota District. Mrs. C. E. Brow.ve, the motber of Artemus Ward, died recently at Waterford, Me., in her seventy-eighth year. With assistance from several citizens of Niágara Falls, the widow of Captain Webb has purehased a granito monument to b placed orer thegraye of herhusband in Oakwood Cemetery. C. P. Snyder has been renominated for Congressman by the Democrat of the Third West Virginia District. Prof. Louis Soldau, of St. Louis, was elected President of the National Educational Association at its recent session in Madison, Wis. 1t is reported that " Adirondack" Murray, a once noted Boston preacher, is now keeping a restaurant at Montreal, Can. Mr. Blaine's letter accepting the Republican nomination :for the Presidency was made public on the] morning of the l'Jth. FOREIGH. It was reported on the lOth that Egyptian rebels to the number of thirty thousand were marching on Dongola. There were fifty-three deaths from cholera at Marseilles on the lGth and twentytwo at Toulon. The total number of death since the outbreak of the epidemie in Marseilles was 578. It was rumored that the disease had appeared at Alexandria, Egypt. An express train on the Manchester & Sheffleld Railway was wrecked on the ICth near Penniston, a small town in ! shire, Eng., and five persons were killed and forty others were seriously injured. It was announced on the ICth that China had rejected the deraands of France to nithdraw her troops from the frontiers ol Tonquin, and warfippearedto be'inevitable. The sugar warehouses of Delpino ét j Belgrado, in Cuba, containing two thousand hogsheads of sugar, were btirned on the l(ith. The loss was put at $500,000. The pólice of Vienna, Austria, have been instructed to arrest Mormon missionariei who are found endeavoring to make converts. A warrant was out for the hension of Paul Hammer, of Nevada. Twelve fishermen were brought to Bt. Pierre, N. F., ou the 17th who had been picked up at the point of death from hunger, having been fourdays and nights j out food or water. Their Captain and anotber man had drifted out to sea. A plot to blow up tho palac'O at Warsaw during the Czar's sojourn was disc-overed on the 17th, anda Justice named Baibovski was arrested for complicity. An attempt : was made to explode with gunpowder the monument to Lord Hubert at Salitbury, England. Cod-fishino off the coast of New Foundland and Labrador has been a comparativo failure thus far this season. It was reported on the ]"th that China was preparing for war with Franee, and was taking measures for the protection ol her merchant marine. Knight & Wilson's foundry, machine shop, and eight other buildings, at AUiston, Ont., were burned a few days ago, causine a loss of $109.000. There wor twonty-one rieatlia ïrom cholera in Marseilles on the 17th mul lom teen at Toulon. In the former city the situation was bocomir.iï more gravo. The lieat was unbearable, and nn wind f slirring. The epidemie was spreading and the luortality daily iiicreasing. There were fifty-eight dentha from cholera at Marseilles during the twentyfour hoon ondetl at nin o'cloek on the night of the ]8th and thirty at Toulon. The plague had made its appoarance at Khars and other stations in llussia. Advices of the 18th from China indicated that the Chinese tioops had been withdrawn from the Tonquin frontier, as was demanded by France. 'i his, it was thought, woukl avert war between the two countries. Genekal Walker, United States Consul at Paris, stated on the 18th that the oity was unusually healthy. There bad ben no cholera there as yet. He promissd to use every precaution to preyeut the introduction of the contagión into the lJnitad States. 1ATER NEWS. President Arthur, in view of th cholera epidemie in France, on the 19th issued a proclamation calling upon all officials in the United States intriMted with th execution of quarantine regulations to be diligent and on the alert, In order to prevent the introduction of the pestilenee iu this conntry, and further directa the Consuls of the United States in the port where tho pestilence has made or may j make its appearance to exeroll i vigilance ín tlie carrying out of the inst.ructions heretofore given. At Chicago early on the momiag of the 20ih Clement Sudkemp kille! Ada Harvey and then took bis own life. Jealousy was the cause. Ten counterfeit flfty-dollar bilis on the National Broadway Bank of New York were discovered in that city on the HHb. j Tbey were made in Germany. Tuk cholera swept off fifty-seven sons ui MarsetUei and forty-six at Toulon duriug tlie twenty-four hours eitded at eiht oVlock on the evening of the 2'Mh. i j Patients to the nuinber of 17 were re j I ceived at the hnsiiials in tho latter city. Two deiitlis n Paiis (rom t..e di-íease wer raported. A Disi'ATCH of tlie l!).h from Siianghai stated that there would be no fighting between thu Prench and Chinese. A vior.ENT hail and rain-storm swept through Easter Xpbraska the other night. i The rain did serious damage at Omaha, i nnd at North FUitte hail-stones a-i lai'ge as hea'i egs feil. Arailway wreek near Cantón, O., a few ! evenings ago caused serious injuries to ! twentj' persons, but none of the passengers ere killed, Admiral Niohols on the 19th sent orders to Commander Bchley that, when all was [ ready, he prooeed with the Bear, Thetis and Alert, canyiug the' Greely party, to ' Portsmouth, N. H., there to await further instructions. L eutenant Greely and the ¦ survivors of bis expedition wei'e the guesls of the city of St. John, N. F., and were progressing favorably. Th i; C'oxe Brothers extensivo collit'ry at Derrlng", Pa., was destroyed by lire on the 2tfth, causing a los-i of $200,0:. It was discovered at Washington on the j lOth that an error n the ludían atlon bill gives the Cheyennes and Arapahoes aaO,OUO,000 instead of $.0,000 as intended by Congress. It was anuounced on tho ]0th that one hundred and fifty bridges were swept away by the recent great ï'ain and i storm in the counti_-s of Lancast vr, Chester and York, in Ponnsylvania, and In the adjoining Jluiyla'.id counties of Cecil, Hartford, Fie lerick and Carrol. The total loss by thedestruction of bridges was : puted at $:),."' 10,000. The loss to crops and other propwty was al o viry grea'i.

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