General News Summary

James W. Hyatt, bank examlner for Connecticut, was on the llth appointed Unitod States Troasurer, vice Cv N. Jordán, resignod. Brevet Major Honry P. Clarke, United Btatos Army, retired, diod in Washington City on tho lOth, aged sixty-seven years. Reports roceived at tho Treasury Department show that 0,500,436 trade dollars havo been redeemed up to May 10. The law has yet four months to run. It was originally estímate 1 that there were about 7,000,000 of theso coins in this country, and the rodemptions show that the estímate is nearly correct. Importations from China and Japan may swell the amount to $8,000,000. Justice Woods, of the United States Supreme Court, was on the llth lylng rriücally ill at his rosidonce in Washington, and thero was little or no hope of his rocovery. The committeo appointed to select the time and place for the next annual reunión of the Socieiy of the Army of tho Cumborland has docidod upon Chicago a the place and tho anniversary of tho battlo of Chickamauga as the date. The Secretary of the Interior has trans mitted to the Attornoy General the letter of Acting Commissioner Stockslagar recommending that a motion for reargument be flled in tee Unitod States Suprema Court in the Mnxwoll land grant case, wlth the requost that tho recommendations of the Acting Commissioner bo carried out. Gonoral B. V. Butler will be employed in the case. The value of exports of breadstuffs during April last aggregatcd f 12,532,431), agtiinst tl 1,959, 48 in April, 1886. The Secretary of State received a telegram from Minister Manning on the 12th contradicting the report of the execution of the Mexican army offleers on account of the Nogales incident. It is authoritatively denied at Washington that tho Government is about to sell the British fishing vessels seized in Alaskan waters, and it is asserted they have been released. Byron L. Smith, of Chicago, has been appointed commissioner to examine a portion of the Northern Pacific railroad in place of J. W. Doane, dcclined. The Secretary of tho Treasury has formally notifled James W. Hyatt of his appointment as Treasurer of the United States, and it is expected that the new appointee will file his bond and take possession of the office soon. The transfer of the office from the outgoingtothe incoming Treasurer will involve a count of all the cash and seeurities in the Treasury and an examination of the books, records and accounts of the office. It is estimated that this work will consume at least two months' time. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the total value of beef and pork products exported from the United States for six months ended April 30, $41,342,85)5; aame periodin 1886, $37,841,791; value of dairy products for twelve months ended April 30, 19,051,284; same poriod inl8Si5, $9,939,166. THE KAST. The joint resolution proposin an amendment to the constitution of Pennsylvania providing for the right of suffrage without regard to sex, was defeated in the lower house of the Legislature on the int n. General Aaron Fletcher Stevens dicd at Nashua, N. H., on the lOth from kidney difflculty, arising from wounds received in the battle before Petersburg. The freight department of the Concord railroad and a score of residences at Sun cook, N. H., wero burned on the lOth. Franklin Howell, a wealthy banker of Scranton, Pa., has been sued by a Pittsburgh lady for breach of promise, the damages asked being Y75,000. At a meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club in New York City on tho lOth, ex -Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, delivered an address against the use of the Bible in public schools. Dr. McGlynn also spoke and favored keeping the State and church entirely separate. Dr. Rainsford, of St. George's Episcopal church, opposed Mr. Hoadly's views. Tho Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor, met in secret session at Philadelphia on the lOth. Representatives were present from every State in the Union. Reports were read showing that in the fourteen years of the order's existence it has distributed twenty-six million dollars to its sick members and the widows and orphans of its members. Governor Hill, of New York, has vetoed the Constitutional Convention bill. A strike occurred on the lOth at the Novelty Works at Jacobus Station, Pa., by which one hundred brass and iron molders are made idle. Two new men were hired by the firm who were not members of the nnion. The old hands declined to work with tho new-comers and a strike resulted, shutting down the establishment. At the Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddocks, Pa., on the lOth, while a gang of men were cleaning a furnace, an arch composed of coke, limestone and other material, and which was at a red heat, gave way. The red hot matter was thrown in all directions, knocking men down and insomc instan ces almost burying tliem. Few of the men in the vicinity eseaped uninjured, and five were so hombly burned that they can not recover. Calvin Graves, who was recently convicted of shooting and killing game wardens Nilrs and Uills, at Calais, Me., has been seutenced to life at hard labor. The verdict was murder in the seoond degree. The High Liccnse bilí has passed both branches of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and is now ready for the Governor's signature. Master Workman Powderly denies that there are any dissensions among the Knight a of Labor, and says that all the talk about ousting liim comes from a handful of anarchists who failed to gain admission to the order. The Pennsylvania Democratie State Convention will be held at Allentowa on August 31. Fire at Calais, Me., on the llth destroyed Shaw Bros.' tannery and several other buildings. Loss, 1125,000. Daniel Hand, of Connecticut, has made a will providing that at his death the interest of $100,000 shall be devoted perpetually to the education of colored children of the South. Mr. Hand is the gentleman who recently received $700,000 from Mr. Williams, of Charleston, S. C, to cancel a debt of honor. He is eighty-eight years old. The Western Nail Association met at Pittsburgh on the llth and reaffirmed the present card rate. Trade was reported dull. P. T. Barnum has instructed his agents In Paris to purchase the French Crown jewels if thoy can be obtained for fifteen per cent. in advance of their actual value. Mrs. Eunice Veltman, over seventy years of age, was killed at Howell's Station, N. Y., on the llth by an Erie train. She was the mother of nine children. Walter Vrooman, of Kansas City, Mo., Socialist editor and labor organizer, who was arrested in Allegheny City, Pa., a few nights ago, was fined $25 for disorderly conduct. The real estáte sales in New York City for the first four months of 1887 foot up in round numbers $50,000,000. At Pittsburgh on the 12th Andrew Maloney, employed on the new court house, stepped from a stone elevator when 155 feet from the ground. When pickcd up there was scarcely a whole bone in his body, but he was conscious and sent a message to his wifeand family. He died soon after being removed to the hospital. The Ives pool bill, permitting pool-selling at race courses, passed the New York State Senate on the lüth by vote of 17 to 14. Rev. Dr. Talmago has been chosen orator of the day by ihe New York offleers having charge of tho Decoration day ceremonies. At a meeting of the Southern Society of New York City on the 12th it was voted to erect a tablet to mark tho spot on the Battery where General Washington bade farewell to his offleers on leaving for Annapolis to resign his command of the army. The tablet is to be dedicated with public ceremonies. The fact was made public on the 13th that Mrs. General U. 8. Urant has for several dayspast been dangerously ill of diphtheria, and at one time her recovery was believed o be doubtful, but she ia now improviag. Business íailuros during the seven dart ended May 13 numbor for tho United States 135, for Canada 32; total 167, against 182 tho provious week, and 17(5 tho corresponding week last ycar. Failure9 aro decroasíng in all parts of tho country, except perhaps Canada and the Provincos. The import of dry goods at Now York for the weck ended May 13 amounted to $1,605,443. Amountthrown on to the market, $1,(560,100. James Kearney, the New York lawyor, surrondered himself to tho authorities on the 13th. He pleadcd notguiltv to a charge of forgery on which a warrant was out for his arrest. He is said to havo defrauded various persons out of $60,000. At Coal Valley, near McKeesport, Pa., on the 12th Mrs. Cook, tho wife of a miner, was using kerosene to kindie a flra when the contents of the can were ignited and an explosión followed. The woman rushod out of the house with herclothing in flamcs and perished in tho yard. The house took flre and was consumed, and two little children who woro in it perishod in the flames. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has signod the High License biü. The act clasifies liquor liccnses according to the naturo of the community in which business is to be carrled on instead of according to the volume of sales, which is the existing basis of claiflcation. There is a $500 license for citios of 30,000 population and over; $400 for smaller cities; $200 for boroughs, and $100 for township hotels. The Suprome Court of New York on the 13th reversed the decisión oí the lower courts granting aforeclosuroof tho $300,000 divisional mortgago on the property of the Bankers' and Merchants' Telepraph Company, situatcd between New York and Washington, and ordered a new trial of the suit. On tho night of tho 12th threo men broke into James Porter's farmhouse near Harrington, Del., overpowered Porter and his wife, tied them to the bod posts and went through the premisos, securing $8,300 in cash and bonds. Then, taking Porter' horse and carriage, they drove away. Edward McGrath, Uavid Lowry and Kdward Harrison while walkinj on the track near Eaton, Pa., on the i:sth, woro struck by a passenger train. McGrath was instantly killed and Lowry probably fatally injured. Harrison escaped with few bruises. Tho trio were molders f rom New York City looking for work. At Pittsburgh on tho 13th three colored men were overeóme by sewer gas while cleaning a vault in Winter & Bros.' brewery. Peter Farrell and Kobert Bass, who wentto Woodman' assistance feil unconscious. Farrell is beyond medical aid, but Bass may possibly recover. The Patcrson Iron Company's works ut Paterson, N. J., were totally destroyed by flre on the night of the 12th, entailing an estimated loss of $250,000; insurance, $75,000. WEST AND SOUTH. The residence of Andrew Poarson near Seafford C. H., Va., was struck by lightning during a storm on the 9th. The three children of Mr. Pearson, who were playing on the floor, and a Mr. Wright, who had gtopped at the house for shelter, were instantly killed. Mrs. Pearson and several other persons abouttho premises were stunned. While offleers were taking John Devino and George Barton to the penitentiary on the Baltimore & Ohio train a few days ago, the men broke away from the offleers, jumped from the train and escaped. The prisoners were under a two years' sentence for robbery, but were not handcuffed. The twenty-third annual session of the Homeopathie Medical Society of Ohio met at Cleveland on the lOth. Many interesting papers were read by prominent lights in the profession, and the exercisos closed with a banquet in the evening. The supreme delegates of the Catholic Knights of America met in biennial session at Chicago on the lOth. The organization is one of the strongest Catholic organizations in the United States and numbers among its members fuüy 180,000 believers in that faith. The supreme delegates represent the State societies and two from each State and Terntory are in attendanceat the meeting. Dan Bristow, the famous Arkansas trapper, was murdered at Bayou Bartholomew a few days ago, while setting his traps. A party laid in ambush for him and after killing the old man robbed him of $400. There is no trace of the perpetrators. The National Luniber Dealers' Association, in session at St. Louis, elected C. P. Haskins, of Charlton, Ia., president, and E. P. McFarlan, of Cincinuati, vice president. W. B. Todhunter, the cattle owner of Sacramento, who owns one hun'dred and seventy thousand acres of land in Oregon and flfty thousand in Nevada, has assigned. His liabilities are $450,000. The Kentueky Republican State Convention at Louisville on the llth nominated Hon. W. O. Bradley, of Lancaster, for Governor; Mat O'Doherty, of Louisville, for Lieutenant Governor; John Felan, of Hopkinsville, for Attorney General, and R. D. Davis, of Carter, for Auditor. Tho executive committee of the United Labor party at Cincinnati held a meeting on the llth and resolved to adopt the name of "Union Labor" and enter upon a vigorous campuign this fall. James Bmlth, of Freeport, 111., probably the oldest man in that State, died at his home on the llth, aged 102 years. He cast his flrst presidential vote for James Madison and his last for Grover Cleveland, and has always been a Democrat. He never rode on a railroad and never ate a meal at a hotel. The new smeltyig works of the Calumet and Heclacopper mine atGroverton, Mich., started up on the llth. The works are the largest in the country and give employment to a small army of men. The flrst sheet of tin piale ever made in the United States was manufactured at Hnbbard, O., on the llth. The company's best workman was injured at the time, and the works will have to close until his re;overy. It is statpd that six persons at Tucson, A. T. are known tohave lost their reason since the recent earthquake, and physicians report many more cases of mental disturbance. The fear and terror among the ignorant classes is still at a high pitch. The Cherokee Council met in extra session at Tahlequah, I. T., on the llth. The only recommendation made by the prinaipal chief was that of rebuilding the female seminary, which burned down a few weeks since. News reached Murphy, Cal., on the llth that J. B. Fruchier, an American citizen who left that place last October to visit Franco, was seized on hisarrival thero, imyrisoned, denied counsel, and forced to serve in the French army. John Ake, second baseman of the Duluth (Minu.l base ball club, was drowned in the Mississippi river on the llth, by being capsized in a boat by the swell of a passing steamer. Two companions, Earle and Barnes, swam ashore. Peter Tripp and Alexander Caldwell, farmers of Oatlettsburg, Ky., recently quarreled about a fence and parted, threatening to kill each other on sight. Meeting on a road near town on the lOth they at once opened fire on each other. Tripp was instantly killed and Caldwell lived until morning. It is believed their sons will continue the feud. The International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, at its session in San Francisco, on the 12th, elected Hon. 8. H. Blake, of Toronto, Ont., president. General O. O. Howard heads the list of vice presidents, and George T. Coxhead tho list of secretaries. During the last sixteen months one hundred and eighty-lwo natural gas and oil companies have been incorporated in ühio, with an aggregatc capital stock of $9,262, 975. Up to the 13th not a single man has been found who, as juror, would be acceptable to but h the prosecution and defense in the Chicago bood le cases. The grand división of the Order of Railway Conductors held its nineteenth annual session at New Orleans on the 12tb. Twenty-one new divisions have been formed since the last annual meeting and 2,38(1 new members have been added to the order, which now has a total membership of 10,330. Dangerous forest fires were raging on the 12th uear Austrain, Alger County, along the line of the South Shore railroad In the Menominee district, and in parts of Marquette County, Mich. A great deal of damagc had been done, and lumbermen are alarmed. The schoonor Laura Madlson, recently arrivod at UniiM]ua, Ore., report soeingthe ¦hip Ocoan King, on May , thirty-five DlilM west of Cape Arago, on fire and abaudonod. Tho Madison lay by until sbe sank. Nothing known of tho fato of tho crew. Tlio Ucean King was bound from Nanaimo, B. C, to San Pedro, Cal., with coal, was valucd at $75,000, and owned in Boston. The monument to General Sedgwick, whichhas boen eroctod by the survivors of the Sixth Army Corps on the spot vvhero th Oenoral feil at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., was dedicated with appropriato ceremonies on tho 12th. Over ono thousand members of the old corps were preseut, including many prominent men from the New Kngland States, Pennsylvania and New York. Natural gas was strvick at Fort Scott, Kan., on the 12th at a depth of 280 feet. Theflow was simply fabulous, and il is said to be the strongost woll yet obtained by more than doublé. Ex-Governor H. A. Algor, of Michigan, has bought Munkaczy's famous picture, "The Last Days of Mozart," and will present it to tho Detroit Art Museum. The price paid was $50,000. John Frame, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Dover township, Athens County, O., was fatally shot on the night of the lltu by his servant girl, who mistook him for a burglar. He was attempting to enter his house at a late hour, having returned home from Nolsonvillo, unknown to his servaut. All the crew of the Ocean King, burned and abandoned off the Oregon coast a few days ago, have safely landed. By the capsizing of a boat in tho bay at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 13th August Strelow and Ferdinand Rusch, youug men, were drowned. Near Grand Lodge, Mich., on the 13th John Clay, Jr., and GrantChandler had a dispute over land boundaries, during which Chaniller shot Clay in the head fatally. Chandler gave himself up and alleges ielf defense. A lbert Turner, one of the murderors of Jennie Bowman, has been indicted by the grand jury at Louisville, tried under his confession of guilt, and genteneed to be hanged on Friday, July 1; all within three weeks from the time of the conimission of the crime. A few days ago J. H. N. Patrick, of Omaha, sold 615 acres of land, adjolning the city of Omaha on the north, toparties from Kansas City, for $615,000. This is the largest real estáte transfer which ever took place in Nebraska. Tho purchasers intend to plat the tract and sell it for residence property. The business portion of Earlville, Ia., a town of 1,000 inhabitants, was swept by flre on the 13th. Twonty business house, four dwelling, one church and several barns were dostroyed. Loss, $150,000; insuranco $55,000. An attachment suit for $1,000,000, brought by Clinton J. Farrell, receiver of the Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph Company, was sorved upon the Western Union Telegraph Company at the local office in Hartford, Conn., on the 13th. The suit is for damages caused by the outtingof the Bankers' and Merchants' wires in July, lStö, by agents of the Western Union. Thomas Kenton, a descendant of Simon Kenton, the Indian flgtiter, died at bis homo near Mount Olivet, Ky., on the 13th. Ho celobrated his ninety-ninth birthday on April 11 last, and until quite recently was able to travel around the country. Colonel F. P. Hord, one of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Ban Antonio, Tex., and Captain George Redmond have been indicted by the Federal grand jury on the ground of conspiracy to detraud the Government of revenue. The indictments are tlie outcome of Wholesale smuggling transactions on the Rio Grande border. Other prominent stockmeu have also been indicted. An affidavit was filed in the Stark County (O.) Probate Court a few days ago by Food Commissioner Talcott against the Bailey Cauning Company, of that county.charging it with inanuiaeturing and selling for pure inaple sirup a bogus compound of that article made of sixty-eight per cent inaple sirup and thirty-two per cent glucose. The secretary of the company pleaded guilty for it, and a fine of $500 and costs was miposcd, the lowest allowable under the law. FOREICN INTELLIQENCE. A congress of Knglish-speaking Roman Catholics will soon meet in London to discus religious progress, labor and capital, temperance, theft and other subject. It is expected that American prelates will attend. Cardinal Manning is the leading spirit In the movement. The Pall Mali Gazcttc oí the lOth published a rumor that the Government ha ordered to be prepared sixty iirst-class cslls in Millbank prison for the accommodaoion of Parnellite members of Parliament whoso arrest they may deern necessary. The report is discredited. The steamer Rio Janeiro, which arrived at San Francisco on the llth from China and Japan, brings news of a terrible marine disaster. The steamer Benton, ply.ng between Singapore, Penang and Malacca, was run into on the night of Maren 29 y the steamer Fair of Fenang, and sank within half an hour. Of two hundred persons aboard only flfty thus far are known to have been saved. Most of those loit are natives. A collision occurred on the Brighton railway, nearMelbourne, Australia, on the llth, by which the engineer, fireman and three passengers were killed outright and fifty others injured, some of whom will die. General Langiewieza, who was Dictator of Poland during the rebellion in 1862, died at Constantinople a tew days ago. A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W., states that news has been received from the Tonga Islands, ia the South Pacific, of the massacre of a party of Wesleyan missiontries by the natives. ILuArEK NEWS. A83OCIATE JtTSTICB VV1LLIAM i. W OODS, Of the United States Supreme Court, died at Washington on the 14th. He was a soldier of distinction in the late war, and had been on the Supreme bench since 1S80. Ha was bom in Newark, O. The stoamer Empire State was destroyed by flre yesterday at Bristol, R. L, with loss of $100,000. At twenty slx leading clearing-liouses In the United States tho exchanges duriu the week ended on the 14th angregated $991,870,3(3, against $1,125,075,007 the previous week. As rompared with the correspondlng week of 1SS0, the increase amouuts to 23.6 per cent. Joiin B. FaS9ett and wile, both aged sixty years, were burned to death in their home at Moretown, Vt, on the Hth. Tnn corner-stone of the Stanford UnlTersity at Mcnlo Park, Cal., was laid on the 14th. A fike at Quebec Can., on the Hth conBumed buildings valued, with their contents, at $125,000. A cTci.o?iE swept over Blue Spring, Wymore, Crete, O'Noill and Papillion, in Nebraska, on the 14th, wrecking houses and doing other damage. Three persons ¦were killed. The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Northern Indiana editorial fraternity will taka place at Warsaw June 9 and 10. Repoiits received in Chicago on the 14th on the conditlon of winter wheat wero íairly favorable. The advices from tha pring wheat belt were also encouraging, although rains were badly necded in many localiticH. The boiler in the Richmond (Va.) Paper Company's mili exploded on the 4th. demolishing the mili and killing two persons. Hammond, Ind., suffered from a disastrous flre on the 14th. A distillery, a butterine faetory, lumbor-yards and other propertv wero cousumed; the loss was about $150,000. On the Hth the availabl surplus in tha United States Troasury at Washington was $42,000,000, an increase of about $10,030,000 since the lst inst. Mus. Ellen Goldsmith, an aged lady living near Montgomery, Minn., was burned to death on the 15th in a brush flre. Ali. the saloons in New York, including the ba.-s at the principal hotels, were closed on the 15th, and tho Sunday law was also enforcod in other branches of trad e. Mus. Cathekinb Rood, of Essex, Vt, died on the 15th, aged one hundred and threo years and seven months. Dukino a thunder-storm at St. Louis on the 15th soveral persons were struck by lightning, two oí whom were killed.