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30
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September
Year
1885
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Efforts woi-o making on the S3d to ilrive Chineso laborera out of Washington Territory, aud a convention to deyUi 1 1 1 :irjs for that purpuso would boou b held Ut Ki'ilttli'. 1 1 .' twenty-one thousand head of cattla belonging to white men remnined on the Cheyenuo and Arapahoe resorvations ia Indien 'lVrritory ou tho 22d. At Lcwistou, Idaho, fivo Chinamen who W'-ii1 locked ap l"r marder aud arson were taken trom tho jail by citizens and lynchod on the SSd. iHinxii the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, the total number of acres of public landi diiposed of was 20,113,003, of the rIue of 17,486,11480. Th uumber of original humestead entries was 50,877, ineluding 7,410,668 acres. The people of Campsville, Conn., were much excitoS on the 22d over the discovery of a quantity of gilvor ore, which gavo promise of a rich yiold. A SEVERE storm visited Tuscarawas County, O., oa the 22d, infliotlBg niucU damage upon corn-fields and orchar.U. A. Mehiull, teller . tho Wanvu (,l3a.) Savings Bank, shot himself dead on the Sid. No causo for the act was known. Hoo-choleba in a virulont form was on the 2Sd sai.l to be provalent in many portions of the Weit, At Pittsburgh, Po., on the 22d the Coroner held an iuquest on a piece of bone one inch long, all that was left of the body of John üstermeir, a lad of fourteen, who was ground to pieces in a rock-crusher. Wii.liam Winter and bis wife, of Point Pleagant, W. Va., left homeonthe 221 and locked their two children, aged three and iii, in the house. They returned in tho eveninff and fouud the house in ashes and the ohlldren tmrued to death. THE ]'."n]ile of Kt. Thomas, Can., decided on the 22d to raise $30,000 for the purpose of erecting a monument to Jumbo, the famoua elephant, killed at that place by the cars. A SEVEjiE northerly als swept Lake Miiliigan ou the 2".'d, doiug much damage to (hipping at vnrious poiuts. At Johnston, K. C, au alleged murderer was taken from the Sheriff ou the 22d by a mob, shot severnl times and left for dead. Ho lubsoquently revived, made a statement inipiicatiug several of the lynchers, und died. IMi'.iNOthe afternoon performance of a circus at Titusville, Pa., on the "Ji'd a tornado teveled tho tents and created a general panic among the 10,000 sight-seers. A largo number of people were hurt - some of them quite seriously. Joii.n' Graiíle, a traveling photographer from l'emisylvania, while exhibiting a panorama in a chorch in Wetie) Couuty, V". Va., the other night was taken out aud lynched by a party of manked meu for leading astray Mis,s Elfie Moore under ¦ promiee of marriay;e two yéara ago. 'l'i:s convicts escaped the other morniug from a plautation near liearne, Tex., visiird tlu latter town, and entoring a hotel porlolned the garments of the malo mamif a theatrical troupe, leaviug their ¦triped Miits bebind. Os the 21 Johu MeJian, Peter Folk, Josuph Heamper aud Johu Forsythe, minéis, wero drowned in the Frankhu mine at Hootidale, Pa., by water running in from an old mine on a lower lovel. It was estimated on the 38d that the loss of wheat in North Dakota from recent prairia lires would be nearly a million dollar-, lii-AVY snow-squalls OCCOJTed iu the Catsklll (N. Y.) Mouutains on the 23d. At East Aurora, Erio County, N. Y., a torned out on the 2Bd which id 8,800 poandg. Tho milk used iu ita nanafaotaM woiyhed Nixteontons. A Kr. Lm i.; polioeman who had beou whlpped Beveral ctmea by people who obÍ to b.iiiL; arrostcd killed himsolf on Mie insane from injuries aud lVar. All the iusurance conipanies doing business in Georgia announcod on the '.'iM that they would withdraw trom thu Stato if the "valuo-poücj " bilí, pending & 'the ittire, bocama a Uiw. The three humlrel mile race between the English cntter Qeneata and the American scuooner Dau:;tless, for the lirentou's reef challenge cup, was wou on tho "J3d by the former iu 4S hours 7 minutes and 50 jeconds. Five colored men wore drownod a fow eveniugs ago on the Kentucky Kiver, near Frankfort, by tho upsetting of a boat. A TEKKiFic gale prevailed on the 23d ou the New England coast, and it was feared that much daruage was dono to shipping. Snow feil to a depth of several inches in portions of Maine, New Hampshire land Vermant, and growiug crops wore ruiued i ti tn o n r iï o raa Sevekal buildings viere deatroyed by fire a few rl.iys ago at Eldorado, Kan., including a livery stable, iu which thirtoeu - perished. (iOLi'sinn Maid, the once fanious trottiug mars, dted ou tho 24th at the Fashion stad farm, noar Trenton, N. J., aged tui ii!y-cilit yoars aud four months. Her fustest time waa a milo iu 2:14. Sthoxg oppositiou to the proposed sale of the l.inds known as the "Oldahoma and Cherokoo strips" doveloped on the 24th amoug tho Seminóle, Creek aud Cherokee Iuiliaus. The order for thoremoval of settlers on the liue of tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas llailway was suspended ou the 21th, pending a further investigatiou into the legal questions involved. TiiitEE iuchoa 3Í suow feil on the 24th iu tho Derby I.ine (Vt.) section. Frairie fRa; were still raginjj on the 'J4th in Dakota, doíng immenso damage. Aktkii twenty-flve years Thomas Garrity, wliu hna wou a fortune in the West, found bis two children on the 21th at Pawtucket, R. I., who were stolen frota him iu 1860, tind vvhom he never expected to seo agaiu. Two BOYS under sixteen were arrested at Mansfleld, O., on the 24th for tho murder of Miss Huff. They confessed that a compauion about the same age killed the woman, uftor making a criminal asgault on her. lx Pendleton County, Kentueky, a moh ou the 24.th killed seventeea head of cattla bolonglng to Mr. D. N. Brannock, wbicb. wero Bupposed to bo infeeted with pleuropneumonia. BMrs. Thomas N. Thompson, who had been an abaudoned woman before her marriage, decapitated her husband with au axe on tho 2"ith at Hilltown, Pa., and then committeil suicide by cuttiug her -, -- , . ... A oiiEAT flre visited the lumbor district in Chicago on the 2Jth, destroying $100,000 worth of stock in the yards of C. B. Flinn & Co. and the C. S. Gardner Company. A peiímanknt exposition building, to cost $200,000, is to beerectod atPittsburgh, Pa. The Italian bark Excelsior, from Mar8eilles, was detaiued at qnarantine below New York on the 2")th, one of the vessei's crow haring died from cholera three days after she left port. lXPORTfl of merchandlse for the year ended August 31 reachod (671,28,60, against .'H-')7,t!Tl,:;i(i for the previous year. TiiitEE cars of a passenger train were thrown over an embankmont on the 25th near Warm fiprings, N. C, twenty persons beiug injured, three fatally. On the ïüthtwo hundred and fifty freshmen entered Yale University - the largest Bombar ou record. After a strike la&ting gix months flve hundred mea employed in the uail-works at Bridgetou, N. J., resuuied work on the 25th at the oíd wages. Advices of the 25th to Bradstrerl's from various business centers throughout the e iiiutry report no material change in the ljusintiss situation. The Unitod States vessels Swatara and Yantlc, engaged in transportiTiffKi,400,000 ín silver from the New Orleaus miut to the Treasui-y In Washington, arrired at the Washington navy-yard on the 25th. On tho 25th the valuo of greenbacks outstaiKÜng iu tho eouuti ,681,016, UUBINU the ci;:hl. ïiionths ended Ammi 'II, 241,03.-1 immlgrants' " arrlved ia ine l'iiited Btate, exclusive of those comin by way uf Candila and Muxlco, a decrease of 01,1)89 as compared with the arrivala for the eorresindiug perlod of 1884. In drilling out a bola on the 25th at York Haveu, Fa., in which unexploded dynaiuite remaiued, the charge was flred by a spark f rom the drill, the explosión killmg one mau and fatally wounding tliri'i' ntlicrs. I.v the t.'niteil States and Canada thsra were 100 business fallurog during the seven days ended on the 25th, against 18U th previous soven days. The distributiou was as follows: Middle States, 29; Nw England States 14; Western, 61; Southern, l'J; Faciüc States and Territorios, 27; Canada, 20. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A. J. lli.ri.iNs -was oa the 22d iionilnated for Congress by the Republicana of the Fifth Illinois District. COXHODORS Semmes, Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, died suddnly on the 22d a his home in Loudoun County, Va. The New York State Republican Convent i.m in sesaiou at Saratoga Springs on the -'d nominated Hon. Ira Davenport, of Steubeu County, for Ooveruor; General Joseph B. Carr for Lleutenant-Governor; Colonel Anson 8. Wood for Becretary of State; Jam W. Wadsworth for Coraptroller; Charles F. Ulrich lor Treasurer; Edward B. Thomas for Attorney-General, and William F. Van Rensselear for State Eugineer. The platform demands the strengthening and extensión of the Civil-Serviee laws of the State and Nation and the rigid enforcement of their provisions; favors the repeal of the SU - ver-Coinage law and a protective tariff; arraigus the National and State Adnifnistratiuns for liypucritical pretensas; iuslsts tbat the right of suffrage must be maiutained free and untrammeled in all of the States, and recommends the passage of various mensures for the benoflt of the laboi ing classes. EX-CONGRESSMAN S. M. STOCKSLAOZR, of Indiana, was on the 23d appointed Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Uflice at Washington. Colonel Absalom Baird was on the ¦_';. 1 appointed Inspector-General of the Army by the President. The Prohibitionists of lowa met at Cedar Rapids on the 23d and nominated James Mickelwalte, of Mills County, for Governor; W. H. Sterr, of Cedar, for Lieutenant-Govemor; Jacob Rogers, of Fayotte, for Supreme Judge, and William II. Taft, of Mills, lor Superintendent of Schools. The elerenth annual cpnvention of the American Bankers' Association assembled in Chicago on the 23d, with a larga attendance. The President, Lyman J. Gage, delivered his annual address, and papers on the silver question were read and discussed. At Boston on the 24th Warren Higley, of New York, was electod President of the American ForestryCongress for the coming year. Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, was on the '24th re-elected President of the American Bankers1 Asiociation. A resolutiou was adopted demanding the suspension of silver coinage, after which the conveution adjourned sine die. The Dakota Convention, in session on the 24th at Sioux City, decided to let th flrst Legislatura arrange for submltting the qnestion of woinan suffrage to the people. SupERVistNO-ARCQiTECT Bell tendered his res gnation to the President on the 24th, to take effect November 1. The New York Democratie 8tate Convention met at Saratoga Springs on the - 't ti, George Raines acting as both temporary and permanent Chairman. David B. Hill, the present incumbent, was nominal... 1 for Govemor on the flrst ballot. Further proceediugs were postponed until the 2.th. The Republicans of Maryland met ia State Convoution at Baltimore on the 24th and nominated Francis Jliller for Coraptroller aud William M. Marine for Clerk of the Court of Appeals. Resolutions were adopted paying a tribute to the memory of General Grant, demanding a protective tariff and eomrnênding Civil-Serviee reform. Tuk Colorado República met in Stat Convention at Denver on the 24th and nominated Samuel H. Klburt, of Denver, for Judge of the Supreme Court Rugolutlous were adopted deuounclng the importatiou of contract labor, favoring arbltration in labor troubles, and demandinga strict enforcement of the Civil-Servic laws. Georgb Wilkks, founder of Wüket' Spirit of the Times, died on the 24th at hl residence in New York, aged slxty-eight years. The New York Democratie State Couvention completed the State ticket at its session in Saratoga Springs on the J6th, which is as follows: For Governor, David B. Hill ; Lieutenant-Ooveruor, Roíveil P. Flower; Comptroller, Alfred C Chapín (renomiuated); Treasurer, L. J. Fitzgerald; Secretary of State, Fredericlt Cook; General, Denis O'Brien (renominated); State Engineer, Klnathan Sweet (renominated). The platform indorsesthe President's Adminitration; approvea the spirit of the National and State laws for the regulation of civil service, but demands that tb commission be reorganizad so that iti majority sliall be in sympathy with the Administration; advocates the repeal of the Compulsory coinage act; calis for a revisión of the tariff ; expresses opposition to contract eonvict labor in any form; urges the enactment of Sunday laws fpr the baneiit of the working classes, and denounces sumptuary legislation. Twelve thousand school children of Allegheny City, Pa., held memorial services on the 25th in honor of General Orant. Moses Maiikenellah, a Christian Jew, died in a poor-house at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on the 25th, at the age of 100. He cama from Germany seventy years ago. The Kepublicans of the Nineteenth Fcnnsylvanla District on the 25th nominated John Bain for Congressman. As eartbquake shock was feit in the Chartiers Valley, thirty miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 29th. Another prairie fire started on the 2Gth near Traverse, D. T. A wide extent ot country had been burned over and housei and crops destroyed. Tbere were 692 now cases of cholera and 217 deaths reported throughout Spain on the 2Cth. In Palermo there were 100 new cases and 74 deaths, and a smaller number of new cases and deaths in other Italian cities where tha plague bad obtaiued a foothold. Roswell P. Flower, nominated for Lieutenaut-Governor by the Democrats of New York, declinad on the 26tli to accept the nomination. Jüdge Wallach, of the United States ( in uit Court, New York, on the 26th dismiBsed the proceedings instituted by James A. Hinckley to remove the Civil-Service Commissioners and declare the law unconttituiioual. Thb exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 2Gth aggregated 5IkS,s.'L',IM, against $717,2(i3,889 the pravious woek. As compared with the correponding period of 1884, tho increase amounts to 1.6 per cent. A citizens' meeting on the 26th at Seattle, W. T., adopted strong resolutions in favor of the vigorous enforcoment of the Chinese Restriction act, deploring th presence of the Mongolians and nrging the use of all lawful means for their rmoval. If direct negotiations batween the Powers prove Iresultless, the Pope will act ai arbitrator ia the Carolinas difflculty. Advices of the 2üth state that a party conisting of three men, a woman and a boy were ambushed by a band of Apaches in s,„iora, two of the men beingkiUed, the boy wounded and the woman carried into captivity. In a battle in the Cananea Mountains, in Sonora, between Captain Hatfleld's command and renegad Apaches, seveu of the latter were reported to have been killed and thirty-flve, includIng wonien and children, capturad.

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