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24
Month
June
Year
1885
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John Hakriman, a youug nuurted man, drowned himsolf ia New Pari, Iud., ou the lililí, and Frank Stimsou haugcil himelf at South Band on account of despondency. Mbs. Martin Eddins, of Hamburg, O., arrested for the murder of her husband, made a confession on the Hith, sayiag that he adrainistered poison at the instigation of a man with whom she was intimaTr. The iron iudustry in Michigan was on the lüth reported in a bad way. The strikes in the East had seriously afftoted the niarket, large mines -ndfuruaoes wera closlng down ona after auotber, and the outlook was on the wholo a disnial one. A wind and rain-storm on thf Pitli dil considerable danïage nt Knuxvilh, Ark. The Baptist Church and R. A. Tay's storehouse were totally destroyed. No lives were lost. Thb post-offlce art White Sprints, Fia., was bumed the other night, and all the stampg and funds in the office wore destroyed. Hankins, a truckraan, shot and killeil his wife at Portland, Oro., a few eveninga ago, and, while under arrest and in the hands of the pólice, cut his own throat. Four violent deaths and three casos of Insanity had up to the l(ith occurr.'d ainong the def auded depositors of tin Erie County (Pa.) Savings Bank. The defaulting cashier is engagüd in mercautile business at Chatham, Unt. A oompromise was effoctod on the lfith between the iron manufacturera and the operators at Pittsburgh, Pa., and a general resumption of work would take place immediately. Tïn persons were sun-struck in New York City on the löth, two of whom died. The coal mines at West Elizabeth, Pa., suspended operations on the Kith, throwing oue thousand mon out of employmont. An oil well recently sunk at Lima, ()., was on the Kith flowing at the rate of six barrels an hour. The special train conveying the Liberty bell from New Orleans arrived at Philadelphia on the 17th, and was received by Mayor Smith, the city officials and a vast numl er of citizeus. The oíd relie was placed on a decorated truck and conveyed to Independence Hall, the sidewalks along the route being lined with cheering thousands. The bell was placed in its foriner i situiii in the lobby of the hall. By the explosión of a powder magazine the other day at Pueblo, Col., two lives were lost and considerable property destroyed. The packing and provisión establishment of Washington Butcher's Sons, in Philadelphia, was burned on the 17th. Loss, $lf0,OUO; insurance, $100,000. A nuhber of prominent citizens of Charlestown, W. Va., having been indicted for playing cards in private apartments, waited upon the foreinan of the Grand Jury on the 17th and requested hiin to leave the country. Price Weathekly (colored) was hauged by a mob a few days ago near Yazoo, Miss., for an attempted outrage on a white girl. The one hundred and thtrty-eighth anual commencementexercisesof Princeton College were concluded at Princetou, N, J., on the lTtli. Admihal Jouett reported to the Navy Depurtment at Washington on the 17th that his efforts to bring about an adjustment of the troubles in Colombia had proved fruitless. The Government forces were uow marching on Barranquilla. Bartholdi's statueof "Liberty Enlightening tbo World" arrived on the lTth in New York harbor on board the Fronch steamer Isere. Gkoroe Morgan, Pete Moore and Bill Williams, desperadoes and cattle-thiovos, were lynched a few days ago by vigilantes at Healton, Ind. T. Samuel Anderson, who murdered ty years ago, was diseovered and arrested on the lïth. The epidemie at Plymouth, Pa., had on the lïth spent its force, and the Helief Committee announeed that it was in need of no more fuutte. Job Barbour and Horaee Terrill (both colored) were hanged at Charlottesville, Va., on the 18th, the former for killinu Randall Jackson and the latter for the murder of Mary Foster. Meredith Workman, who was on the 18th committed to the West Virginia Penitentiary under a three years' sentonce, has spent twenty-seven of his fiftyfour years behind prison walls. Buddensiek, the buiMer of man-traps in New York, was found guilty on the 18th of manslaughter, and remanded for sentence. At Cleveland, O., on the 18th Henry Sauerbier sold his wife and baby to a man named McFafland for one hundred dollars. The purchaser left with the woman and infant for his home in Logan, O., and Llauerbiar i( fr Phiraaro. Twenty-five iron-mills in Pittsburgh, Pa., have resumed operations since the signing of the scale. Prominent members of the Salt Lake (Utah) pólice forcé were arrested on the 18th for polygamy. The flrst railway car on the new Broadway road in New York passed over the lower half of the line on the 18th, drawn by four gayly caparisoned horses. The schooner Austin D. Knighv sailed from Philielphia on the lSth for Vigo, Spain, where she is to be engaged in raising the Spanish treasure galleons sunk in Vigo Bay ii 1702. On Chicoteague Island, nearTasley, Va., William Freeman, aged eighteeu years, on the löth fatally shot Timothy Hills, his wife and daughter, because the latter re - jected his suit, and then killed himself. Colonel Bradlet, stationed at Santa Fe, telegraphed on the 18th to the War Department at Washington that there were no hostile Indians in New Mexiro. It was thought that the Apaches had also left Arizona. Masked men on the 19th took Henry Howard (colored) from jail at Coshocton, O., and hanged him to a tree for assaulting two young white women. He confessed the crime. AT Plymouth, Pa., there were 280 cases of f ever on the 19th; at Sugar Noten and Warrior Run a total of twenty-four cases was reported. Many of the cases at Plymouth were in a dangerous conditio n. In the encounters between the Hall and Jonei factions in Knox County, Ky., during the past few days nine men have been kille Ueorge A. Pyers, a wife-beater, rece ived fifteen lashes at the hands of the Sheriff at Baltimore, Md., on the 19th He was the flrst white man whipped iu Mary land for that offense. Thi War Department at Washington was officially advised on the 19th that there were now no "boomers" in Oklaboma. Thi Frenen war-ship Isere with the Bartuoldi statue on board was escorted up the barbor to Bedloe's Island on the 19th by an imposing naval procession, one hundred steamers and yachts being in line. The shipping in the harbor was gayly decorated, and enthusiastic multitudes lined the shores of Long Island aud New Jersey. The Isere dropped anchor amidst the thundering of cannon, the blowing of whistles and the playing of bands. The Governor of South Carolina on the 19th ordered an investigation of the barbarous treatmentof colored convicts working on the railroad in Abbevillo County. It was said tbat the prisoners were inhumanly whipped, nine having died from cruel flogging. PïRRY and Willlain Melton, father and son, were hanged on the 19th at Farinersville, La., for the unprovoked murder of John W. Cherry, an old farmer, a year ago; Charles Campbell was exfeuted at Pointe ala Hache, La., for killing Theodore Tuplevlch last August; George Schneider was hanged at Hamilton, O., for the murder of his inothnr, and William Morrow was executed at Clarksville Tenn., for killing a colored man named 1 Spicial telegram at the 19th to Bradttrwt'ê from the larger cities throughout the United States continued the record of almost uniform dullness in general businesa. Beven hundred men and girls emlloyed by a shoe company at South Framin li.-mi, Mass., went on astrikeonthelötti in rapport of the strikiug makers. Tiiiktekn hundred cars were required for the transportaron on the l'Jth of the Government exhibit from the New Orleans Exposition to Washington. I At Whitesburg, Ky., Link Banks, a notorious outlaw, who had killed three men this year, was shot dead a few days ago by a citizen whose lite he was attempting. Upon petition of prominent citizens Judge Gardner on the 19th granted a temporary injunction restraining Sunday racing and othor amusements in the Chitago Driving-pitrk. Mary Kleman, aged about twenty-two years, eoatlned in jail in Chicago on the tharge of attemptiug to poison the f umily of Mr. Michael Freres, her sister, with whom she had made her home for a short time, confessed on the 19th that she was guilty, not only of the attempt upon their lives, but of causing the deaths of her mother, father and another sister in Dubuque, Ia. She was considered insane. After flve trials Frank Burkman wai on the 19th sentenced at Fredericksburg, Va., to thirty-six years' iinprisonnient f'-r the murder of two men. A hot-ajr balloon at Charleston," W . Va., on the 19th caught fire while being inilated, and shot several hundred fet into the air, when it collapsed, William Patterson, the "aeronaut," falling to th eaith a lif eless mass. It was hls flrst ascensión. In the United States and Canada there were 193 business failures during the seveu days ended on the 19th, against 214 the previous seven days. The distributiou was ai follows: Middle States, 32; New England States, J2; Western, 03; Southern, 34; Pacific States and Territorios, 29; Canada, 23. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Tu k report of the Court of Inquiry on the lütu in the case of Paymaster-Uenbral J. A. Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing in the Navy Department, flml8 him guilty of numerous oölcial clolinquencles, and a court-martial would be ordered. James J. Bbooks, Chlef of the Secret Service Divisiou of the Treasury Department, resigned on the 16th, by request o) Secretary Manning, to take effect Ju iy 1. Henbt W. Ui. air was on the ltíth reelected United States Senator from New Hampshire by the Republicans. General Grant left New York on th morningof the ltith on a special train íd Mr. Vanderbilt'i private car, accompanied by members of his family and medical attendants. Reaching Saratoga at 1 :55 p. m., he was greeted ut the railway station by an enthusiaslic assemblage. The General walked unassisted tbrough the car and down the steps, and was lifted to the Mount BicGregor traiu, which made the run of ten miles up the inountaiuiu thirtyfive minutes. In the evening he was very comfor: able. The Michigan Legislature adjourned sint die on the 17th. The Iowa Greenback Convention will be held at Des Meines, July 7. The President on the 17th appoiuted John B. Stalio, of Ohio, Minister to Italy. Baylesa W. Hanna, of Indiana, was given the Argentiue instead of the Persian ïnission. KitXKST Redburo, the oldest member of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Uuited States, died on the 17th at Vancouver, Wy. T., aged uiuety-one years. President Andrew Whiti, of Cornell Uuiveraity, at Ithaca, N. Y., presented his resiguation to the trustees on the 17th. Cuauncey M. Depew has been elected President of the New York Central Road. Ex-Senator James W. Nesmith, of Oregon, died at Portland on the 17th. The President on the 18th appointed Israel Lawtou to le Superintendent of the TTnitM'l Stut ¦¦ Mint at San Francisco. Ai TH' i i ii tii ¦! was no imniediate danger of death, the vitality of General Grant on the 18th was on the wane, and the sor on bis tongue and throat was taking deeper root. The sulïerer was taken with coughing spells during the eveuing, resulting iu severe irritation of his throat. Wii.liam E. Woodruff, Sr., the flrst State Treasurer of Arkansas, diedon th 19th at the age of eighty-uine years. FORE1GN. Isaac M. Hibbs, tneabscondingex-postinaster of Lewiston, I. T., was arrestod on the lüih in British Coluinbia. He had over $10,000 in his possession. Advices of the 16th state that shocks of earthquake continued with increased violence in the Vale of Cashmere, India. The town of Muzuffurabad was reported to have been almost entlrely destroyed and 2,300 persons were said to have been killed. Fishino vessels arriving on the löth at Gloucester, Mass., reyort that the past winter in Iceland vas the worst ever knowu thar-t. Almost all the cattlv perislied, and up to the middle of May heavy 8now-storms were stül raging. Londox advices of the ltíth announes the deflnite acceptance of the Premiership by Lord Salisbury. The ravages of cholera in the provinces of Valencia, Castellón de la Plana and Murcia, Spain, and in the city of Madrid were increasing on the ICth. Thirty thousand people had fled from Murcia to escape th plague. Nine prisoners of war recently captured by anative Chief on the Brass River, ín West África, were killed and eaten by the tribe because their ransoin wa not forthcoming. Field-Marshal Baron von ManteufFEL, the distinguisbed Germán Commander and Governor of Alsace-Lorraiue, died ïuddenly on thel7thof congestión of tha lungs. A fire on the 17th destroyed the greal bazaar and inercantile establishment of William Whitely, in London, causing a loss of $750,000. Therb were 238 deaths reported from cholera in Spain during the twenty-four hours ended on the 17th, and 491 new cases. The British steamerLake Manitoba.with flve hundred head of cattle, was recently wrecked off the Newfoundland coast. It was discovered on the 17th that Robert Laing, an official of the Canadian Interior Department, had been issuing boguj land patents to settlers in the Northweut Territories and pocketing the proceeds. The towns of Ayrnau and Leutscban, in Hungary, wore recently destroyed by flre, over flve hundred houses being burned. Fourteen persons lost their lives. During the twenty-four hours ended at six p. m. on the 18th there were (32 new cases of cholera in Murcia, Castellón de la Plana and Valencia, in Spain, and 151 deaihs. The Germán bark Margarethe arrived at Quebec on the 18th from Granton, Scotland, after a passage of eighty-flve daya, the delay having been caused by innumerable icebergs. An explosión caused by flre-damp occurred on the 18th at the Chifton colliery, near Manchester, Eng., where 349 minera were at work. The number of lives lost was believed to have been 100. Dispatches received on the 18th at Paris conflrmod the reported loss recently of the Franch man-of-war Renard. Tha vessel foundered in the Indian Ocean during a cyclone and every one on board, 131 souIr in nll, periahed. An earthquake shock lastiug several seconds caused great alarm at York, Eng., on the 18th. Mr. Gladstonb on the 18th surrendered the Prime Minister' official seals to the Queen. H.iM.iS, the oarsman, was nearly drowned in Toronto Bay on the 18th by the falliug to pieces of a new boat he was testing. Wheu rescued by some sailors he was completely exhaustsd. ÜWINO to the closenegs of the vote on the foreign estimates in the Italian Chamber of Deputies the Ministry tendered its resignation on th 18th. ECOUTs rrom Colonel Otter' camp on the 18th found portions of Big Bear's outfit in the Turtle Lake región. Tho Indiana decamped hurrieJly, pursuinl byColonel Herchmer. Kiel had reqnogtod his friends to apply for a trial ia the provinco oí Quebeo. Hu was hopeful 13 to t.h r.nnlt. One iidndred housps in thenaiiveqii'irter oí Lagos, West Airica, have rereutly been destroyed by flro. Advicks of the 19th state that over ICO persons were killed by the recent explosión in the Peudlebury colliery, noar Manchester, Eug. Thfre were 2S4 ileaths from cholera and 098 new cases in Spain durlug the twentyfoar hours ended at six p. m. on the lllth. Bt a vote of 296 to 120 the Frenen Chamber of Deputies has refused to expmpt jn-icot s from service in tho ariny reservt ¦. LATER NEWS. Dr. Douglas statod on the 21st that General Grant was decidedly better, and that all the ymptoms were greatly iuf proved over the previous day. The patient's voice was not so clear as when b awoke in the morning, but it was quil audible. Bevere earthquak shocks were feit on the 20th at Berne and Oeneva, Switzerland. At Ross Ford agency, I. T., four Indian pólice wtro killed on the '-'üth and a third wounded by a brace of Bannock stockthieves, who were in turn riddled with bullcts. Six Iutlians had been killed by wlntus in the Dalores Valley, and the Chief of the tribe was inuch enraged and demanded satisfaction. The Michigan Legislature adjourned sine die on the 20th. A cyclonk on the 20th blew away Sherbrook, tho county seat of Steele County, Dakota, with the exception of the courthouse. No lives were lost. Ten miners were killed by a recent explosión in a pit at Spedale, Eng. A strike of liuilders' laborera at Toronto on the 20th threw between four thousand and five thousand menout of eraployment. ADVIOE9 of the 2Üth say that tho recent storm on the Newfoundland coast was the most severe that had visited the island in forty years. Many vossels were wrecked, and thu destruction of property was enormous. The loss of Ufe was believed to have been very great. A tornado on the 21st wrecked many buildings in Leavenworth, Kan., and wrought much destruction iu the surrounding country. Five uegroes charged with assaulting and murdering a white woman at Eikhart, Tex., were hanged by a raob on the 21st. Foktions of Iowa, Missouri and Illinois were visitad by a heavy wind -storm on the 21st. At Sibley, Mo., a number of buildings were destroyed. General Middleton was on the 20th encamped at Beaver River Mission in tha Northwest Territory. His programme was to p)ac! a garrison at important pointsand let atarvation tinish the campaign with Big BearDurinu the twenty-fonr hours ended at Bil p. m. on the 2Oth there were 316 deaths from cholera in Spain and 719 new cases. TnsMarquisof Salisbury had not succeeded uptothe21st in forming a Miuistry, and it was rumored that Mr. Gladst ne would resume the Premiership. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clcaring-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggregated $771,023,258, against !J638,462,124 the previuus week. As coinpared with the corresponding .period of 1884, the falliug off amounts to 12.1 per cent.

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