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16
Month
September
Year
1885
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HüOH McHknry and Ilownnl Pieree were on the 7th arrestod at Tupeka, Kan., cbarged with beiug tho príncip&ll in tli recent train-robbery on tho Chicago & Alton Railroad. Aocokdiwo to New York rsports of the 8th the visible supply of wheat in thi country was over 42,120,000 busheU, and of corn a bout 7,700, 0U0 bushels. I.MitKAsKi) activity was reported on the 8th in the iron and steel trade;at l'ittshurgh. Orders were coming iu freely, au 1 prieel generally were advanciug. It was aunouuced on tho Sth tuut tho recent ahduction from Wianipen of L;iwrence Brainenl, the abscouding M. Albam banker, tlireatonud to cause international complications. The damaca to corn, bnckwhrat and growing products ia Northern Minnesota by th recent frosts was ou tho Sth said to havo Leen very groat. Ik the steeplechass at Conuy Islan 1, N. Y.,on tho Sth Revengo foll with his jookey, William Ford, both being killed. The American Historical Associalion bagan ita seoond animal uesaion at Haratoga, N. Y., on the Slh, witU three hundred members in attendance. The whoat erop of Ohio was on ttie Sth estimated at 21,707,703 bushels, or lift y - three per cent of the averago for the paai five years. The yield of oats would bo tho largestou record, and that of corn would probably surpass that of auy furmor year except 1878. Tkains containing Sunday-school children and ministers going to a conference collided near Youngstown, O., ou the 8th, two of the employés being killed and six others badly woundad, but tho passenger egcaped serious injury. A violent easterly galo strept Lake Michigan on tbe 8th, doing much dn to shippiug in the lake. as well as to vessls In the harbor at Chicago, Tho schooaer Advanca was wreoksd tifteeu miles south of Sheboyan, Wis., and CaptaN Pnulsen and five other men were drowned. Dr. J. E. Roberts and wife, au aged couplo, were killed by the cars near LexhiKton, Ky., on the Sth. Skvbkai. attempts haviug beeu made to buru the tuwu of Port Towuaon 1, W. T., the place was ou the Sth guardad by a citizens' patrol. Nar GaineBville, Tex., Detectives Taylor and Worth surprised and killed the two Lee brothers on tho Sth, who were regarded as the moet darin roadmen that had ever infesled Indian Territory, and for whose capture, dead or alive, a rewanl of ÍH.0M each had boen bffered It was reportad on the 81h that the fraudulent warrants issued by the abscondiuj; township trustees of Daviess Couuty, Ind., amountcd to $308,000. The warrants were scattered all over tho country, and were largely in tua hands of innocont purchasers. Thk safe in the County Treasuror's office in Linn Creok, Camden County, Ho., was robbed of $7,000 tho other night. Severul stores in the place wera also visited by the burglarg. Portions of Indiana, Michigan and Missouri were gwept by cycloues on the 8th, houses being unroofed, barns blown down and crops destroyed. No loss of lifo was reported. The brig La Regina, from the West Indies, arrived iu New York on the 'Jth itu yellow fever ou board. Captain Kiene and four seamen diod of the diseaso on the voyage. Wii.larü F. McIxtyhe, aged twentytwo, tho rontid ntial manager for V. Goodrich, draiu-pipe dealor at Boston, abconded ou tho 9th with $1U,000 of his auployer's money, taking with hiiu a Chelsea belle. Advices of the !)th state that tho recent storm on the lakes resultad iu uuiuerous disasters to shippiug and tho loss of several liveg. Old seamen at Chicago said the storm was one of the mo3t severo ever known. John R. Sheltoi, of Atlanta, Ga., ou the 9th eloped with Ida Max w. -11, the sixteen-year-old daughter of John Maxwell, of that city. The couple wora married, and iu tho evening were fouud by the father and brother of tho bride, who attempted to take her home. A quarrel eubuo 1, during which the three mea were fatally injured. ÍN New York on the 9th the wife of Dr. W. P. Boyt was burned to death by a park froin a furnaco iu their home, and Marfon Norwood, au actress, met the same fate at her homo while smoking a cigarette. One person was killed, three others were fatally injured and a dozen were soriously burned in a Philadelpbia and Reading eoal-mine near Pottsvillo Pa., on the Mth. Advices of the 9th say that the storm whicli Titited Washington Court-House, O., the previous night, almost demolished the towu. Every public building and business house in the placo and about two hundred residences wero destroyed. Ten persons were known to havo been killed and over a hundred wounded, several of theiu fatally. The property loss was eatimatod at $1,000,01)0. In Laucastor County, O., the storm was severo, ten persons being iujured and many buildings wrectred. At Troy, TJpper Sandusky and other Ohlo towns th damage was extensivo. O the 9th two Chinese hop-pickers were killed and fonr wounded near Seattle, W. T., by a mob of Iudians led by white men. Mrs. McIntosk, residing near Pittsburh, Pa., on the 9th requested her son James, aged twenty-fhree, to ehoot a cat. Through an inadvertent movement of bis mother, the youn man sent the bullet luto her brain, causing her death. Dispatches of the lutu from Indinnapolis say that as a risult of the swindles in towuship orders Indiana was threateued with a fiitancial panic. , A Shamokin (Pa.) dispatch of the lOth states that Mollig Maguireism is again rampant in the upper and lower Luzerne districts. Nin murders had recently occurred in the nortbern coal flelds, and mines were frequently flred. A general outbreak was confldently looked for before November. Tho familiar "coffin notioes" had beeu recaived by a number of the Law and Order Society. The September Postal Quide shows that the post-offices in the United States number 61,406, of which 71 are flrst-class. Thi Boston Board of Health on the lOth ordered quarantine against all vessels from Canuda and Nflwfnnndlnnd. fc Rkports on the lOth from important oil wells in Washington and Butler Counties, Pa., indicated the opening up of a new territory of Indefinito extent. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington States that daring the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, there were 69,150,902 gallon of distilled liquors consumed In this country and 20,508,315 gallons of wine. Lester Brothers' livery table at Nashville, Tenn., was burned on the lOth. Beventy horsus and mules perishod. The total loss was $54,000. A cloud bursc near Pantano, A. T., the other evening and washed out six miles of track and injured the bridges. Heavy raius on the lOth in the vicinity Of Jackson, Miss., dld great dnmage to erops. The fall of water was uuprecedented, overflowing and almost washing way the flelds in some places. Four more bodies of Chinese victims of the recent rioti at Rock Springs, Wy. T., were discovered ou the lOth. Nearly six hnndred Chinamen had resumed work at tbe coal mines at that place uoder military protection. AccoRDrNO to returns received on tha lOth by the Department of Agriculture at Washington the wheat erop this year will be below, and the corn erop above, the average. The harvest in Great Britain will not Tary materially Iny ield from that of last year. Mrs. Dr. Marshall and two other ladies were drowned in Lake Traverse, Hinn., the other evening, the boat having tuiat) ouuuicMil in m storm WlLi.iAM WuiTELEY and Cain Bell, rival suitors fur a woman'l hand, fought a duel with knives in Georgia on the llth, both being fatally wouuded. The United btatis steamor Swatura lelt New Orleans on the llth with $10,400,000 in silver on board, doubtless the most valuable cargo ever taken f rom that port. Accokdiko to the Michigan erop report, issued on the llth, wheat in that State will yiold .S1,J'.)1,;!1.) bushels, an increase of 1,340 busbels over the highest previous oSicial i slinkt ¦. M as ki.l, tho alloged murderer of Preller, was re-arraigned at St. Louis on the llth, and tho case was contiuued until October 19, M. C. Rockwell, an ex-banker of Union, N. Y., was arrested on the llth, charged with inisuppropriating $50,000, by Mrs. Livinia Stoue, a depositor. Advioeb of the llth to Bradstreel's stat that general trade tliroughout the country was stiil iinpiMving, and the outlook was considered eiicouraging. Owing to thu contiuuance of bad weather the directora of tho Iowa State Fair, at Des Moincs, declared tha exposition closed on the lltli. Tlio Wisconsin State Fair at Madison was also closed for the same reason. The silver clerk in the Sub-Treasury at Washington last nionth counted 250,000 of silver dollars, and found thirty-two counterfeits; $70,000 in hal vos, flnding eleven couuterfoiti, and f48,000 in quarters, in which wore four counterfeits. A nümber of miscegenationists In Fairfield Couuty, S. C, were on the llth visited at their homes by a band of masked "regulators," who whipped them severely and ordered them to leave at once for other parts. Samuel Scalks, a negro, who recently outraged a white woman near Walton, Ky., was hanged by a mob at Burlington, in that State, on the llth. A colorkd woman named Johnson, 112 I ol 1, nrrived at Loufsvilleon the llth a New Orleans, to soe a daughter froni wliom sho had boen separuted lifty years. f ' Tuk individual losses from the recent cytloné at Washington Court-House, O., ware en tho llth estimated at over $200,00J. Aliout one hundred families were reportad by tho local relief committee to lu in nood of assistance. IH the United States and Canada there were 204 business failures during the geven days emlod on the llth, against 18(5 tha pravious seveu days. The distributiou was as folio wi: Middle States, 48; New England Slates 13; Western, 59; Southern, S; Paciüc States and Territorles, 35; Canada, 21. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A National TarifT Reform Convention wlll be held in Chicago in November. Miss Ada C. Sweet, aftor a service of leven years, rosigned the position of Pension Agent at Chicago on the 9th, and Mrs. Marión Mullican was appointed as her successor. During Miss Sweet's term of oü'icu sho disburaed in pensions about $.'54,000,000. Tuk Greenbackers of New York met In Stato Couveution on the 9th at New York City and nominated a full State ticket, with George O. Jones, of Albany, for Goveruor. The New York Prohibitionists met In State Convention at Syracuse on the 9th and nominated II. Clay Bascom, of Troy, ior Governor, and a full State ticket. Th platform adopted demands the suppressiou of tho liquor tramo by the National Government and denounces both the old. partios for subsorvlency to the whisky Interes ts. Sebastian Boughner, a soldier who fought at Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie, died on tb e 9th at Suubury, Pa., aged ninety yeura. The eighteenth animal reunión of tha Society of the Army of the Tennessee began in Chicago on the üth. General Shermau, General Logan and othor notables were present. Mrs. TJ. S. Grant was made an honorary member of the society. Tn%National Auti-Monopoly party of the St;o of New York" in conveation at New York City on tho 9th resolved to cali itself by the above name, and appointed a í'imiMiii Í ¦" tO rniif.T with other political bodies rearding the nominationof a State ticket. The Jtassachusetts Pronibitionists, at their State Couventiou at Worcester on the lOlh, nominated Thomas J. Lathrop, of Tauuton, for Goveruor. The platform declares "uncompromisiní; opposition to the importation, manufacture and sale of intoxit-'ai nr li(iiors as a böverage." Kkah-Admihai, Joh.v W. Livinqstoií, of tho United States navy, died on the lüth at 1Ü3 residonce in New York, aged eiglity-one years. Commodore Ferry's statue at Newport, R. I., was unveiled on the lOth with appropriate ceremonies. Christian Cooper, of the town of Livingston, Columbia County, N. Y., died ou the lUth, aed 111 years 10 months and 16 days. Iowa Greenbackors opposed to fusión will meet at Marshalltown October 1 to nomínate a State ticket. llo.v. Juus A Rinobam. ex-Miirster to Japan, arrived at his home in Cadiz, O., on the lOth, after au absence of thirteen years. i Resoi.otions of regpoct to the memory of General Grant were adopted on the lOtb. by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, in session at Chicago. General Sherman was re-elected President, and lt was determined to hold the next meeting at Rock Island, 111., September 15 and 16, Rkv. Moses A. Hopkins, a colored man of North Carolina, and an ex-slave, has been appoiuted Uuited States Minister to Liberia. The man known as Davis, who commltted suicide in a Bowery hotel at New York k few days ago, proves to have been John Karloff, son of a Kussian nobleoian, who took bis life because of iuability to obtaln employmont. The cases of treason against Captain Conch and other Oklahoma boomer3 on trial betoro the United States Court at Wichita, Kan., were iJismis.ed on the llth by Government counsel. At a meeting held at Dansville, N. Y., on the llth Miss Clara Barton, President of the International Red Cross Society, announced her intention to vote this fall and take the voter's oath if challenged. Thruuuhuui Spain ou tlie 13th 1,464 new cases of cholera and 428 deatht were reported. At Palermo, Italy, there were ton new cases and four deaths. The total number of deaths iu Spain since September 1 is 23,044. The amouutof fraudulent order9 issued by townsblp trustees iu various parts of Indiana was ou the 12th estimated at 9200,000. Advices of the 12th from Washington state that within the past two weeks ona hmidred post-ollices have been burued or rolibed with an average loss at ach ofllce of one hundred dollars. A nïAVY wind aud rain-storm ou the 12th did great damage to crops In the vi( inity of Cantón, Miss. Ou one plantation two negroes were killed by lightning. Durixo a quarrel a few days ago at Tombstone, A. T., a Mexican named Gonrales killed two men, after wliicli he was lynched by a mob. Sevk.xteejí deaths from yellow fever PDcnraad ou the 13th at Guaymas, Mexico, two of the victims beinjj Americaus. The port hal been declarad infectad. Tijk ludían chief Big Bear was on the 12th lentMteed to throe years' imprlsonmeut tor bis participation in the recent rebelliou iu the Northwest Territory. Three men wero fatally burnod tluriug a flre ou the 12th which destroyed the oü factory and warehouse of Swau & Finch, at New York. Ths 260th anniversary of the incorporation of Concord, Mass., was'celebrated at that town on the 12th with appropriate exercises. Ministeb Keilet, whoin the Austrian Government rsfnasd to recognize, tendered his resiguation to Secretary Bayard on the lth, wlio accepted it. Charles Youno, E. S. Curtis and Arthur Wheeler, of Rockland, Mass., were drowned on the 13th by the upsstting of their sailboat. All were raarried men.

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