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29
Month
October
Year
1884
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Public Domain
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Oompiled from Late Dispatches DOMESTIC. Thk rccont firo at C'arthnge, N. Y. burned over soventy-five acres, Includin) the oldeft and b.'st residence portion Hondrsda of people ere made homeles; and desfcitute, and on the 2Ist appeals foi ui l were made. Factories at Augusta, (ia., employin about two thousand hands, which had beoi shut down for several weeks, started uj again on the 21st. G. B. Gebold, Conoty Judgo of Waoo Tex., adjourned his com't lor five minutes the other day for a flst flj(ht wlth au at torney named. T. A. Bíair. After friend; had stopped the content the court calmlj resumed its session. The exports of manufacturad goods anc' produce from the port of New York during the week anded on the lSth were $6,403,000, against 15,601,000 for the previou' week. A fire on the 21st at Pawtucket, K. I.. destroyed the lumber-yard of J. F. Cot trell and severnl adjacent buildings, caus ing a loss of $100,000. Two flremen were seriously injured. Braley's livery stable at Woousocket, D. T., was burne.l early the other moming. Sixteen horses were burned to death. and a number of buggies, harnesses, robes etc, were destroyod. Five hundred dogs, valued at $500,000, were on the 21st on exhibition in a New York garden. Amons them were tho Esquimaux dogs brought by the Greelj relief expodition. Arthur W. Bowha, who was confidential agont at San Francisco for $15,000,000 worth of property, failed recently for $771,000. Miss Jaxe Ward anl J. R. D rsey, in jail for complicity in a morder, were lynched by a mob a few nights ago at Center, Ala. Dorsey was postmaster at Alpine, and aged seveiity-five year-, while the woman was about sixty. A train on tho Northern Facifio Uoad brought to Fargo, D. T., a few days ag i 310 cars fiiled with whuat- the greatesf wheat train on record. The corner-stone of the new Government building at Coltimbus, O., was laid on the 21st by the oificrs of the Hasonlc Grand lxdga. Minnie Cummigs, the actress, has been awarded $25,000 daniagei agaiust a policeman and a dressmaker in New York for causing her arrest on falso charges. The Bouthern Barbed Wire Company's works at St. houis were burned the other night, the loss being $50,000. Two employés were seriously injured. AY'hjlk packing bis tritik a few evenings ago at llichinond, Va., preparatory to his honejrmoon trip, Edward O. Fitzgerald, Jr., accidentally shot himself fatally. Paymaster Gen'eral Kochester, of the army, in his amiual report, made recently, says the total amouut available for the fiscal year was $15,180, Kil; total amount disbursed, $13,250,75'); leavins a balance of $1,920,411. Show, to the deptli of írom one to three inches, feil on the 22d in the vicinity of Hurón, D. T., and Brainerd, Minn. The drought of nearly threo inonths in Central Virginia was broken up on the 21'd'by a heavy fall of rain. Fred Moetlkh, of Delphos, O., dreamod the other night that he was dead. He retired the next evening in a despondent mood, and was found acorpse in the mornIng. The VVoman's National Chrigtian Temperance Union met on tho 22d at St. Louis, Miss Francos E. Willard deliverin the Trplcom''n aHdrpj.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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