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28
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September
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1887
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At MiMiipHis, Tenn., on tbe 2()tu Charlo Talbou was oatenoed to four yoars in th pcniteutiarv tor stoaling Fanny Paven port' diamomU last February, Thb second-story Boor of tho Consoli datoi strest r.iilway stublo at Cincinnat gave way on the 2ltli ander iu he:wy load of grain, umi ten borsis woresuffoeatod. ASOTBIR oollUlon occnrred on tho St. Paul rail way on the anth noar Cantón, D. T., killing live omployos of the company. Tuk intoinal revcnue collcctions for July and August were O0,953,088, an incrcase of H,QU7,L oyer the correspoudlng months of last ycar. J. R. TnOHPSON's tosl-works in Jersey City wero damaged by lire on tho 2)th to tho amount of flOO.O.H). Along-uanur dynanni I gun was tosted on the 3üth at Fort Lafayatte, bear New York, in tho presence of Secretar? Wtütney and representativos of sovoral foroign nations. 'i'ho larjiit wai an eighty-ton Bcbooncr and the distancc a m.lo and a half, and whon tho t st was ovor tho schooncr had been raiuced to slivors. Nkah BrainerJ, Minm, lorest lires had on tho -JOtli swrpt over ni.iny larms, causing heavy losso,. HiuiD men on tho ÜOth robbed the through exprets frona Ban Francisco on the Teas A. Puc ü road mar ISonurook Station, Tex. Thoy took out Ihe safe and every registcred btter in the mail car, but did not miili'si Ui ■ imsm' igers. Tluumount carried off was placed it ftU.OOl At Heu lerson, Minn., on ilio 20th the Catholie chur.h and Si. Joseph's ara lemy wero burned. Is Cl iveland, O., on the 20th two womon wero discover id wlio bad itarve 1 todoath. The claimsmade fordamagM bytho vloUmi of Uu' ( halsworth (111.) railroad wieek aagrugated iajO.000 oo tho L'Otb, The report of the rail way oflieials to the stat i Rallway Commlsaloaers saya that ejlity pera lied un t oue hundred and Hfty-one miuroi, A OKNIKAL li;llt tooi; pi 806 On tho 23th aiiioní? a Larffe gang ol rallro&d neroes neai Wilton, Ky , ia which man y wero wounded mul on" man was killed. The Bovorolgn Grand Lodge of the world, Independent Order of Odd-Fnllows,assemblcil ut Denver on tbe ÜOtn with an altondance of al out t'n thousand. Alaiuii: qaantlty of dyn m.te was dlscovored on the ÜOth in the wi oda nearKoy West, Kla. It was supi osod to havo bcon placed thoro by Cutían filibustera. At Plttsburgh, Pa., on theSHhthe fiftieth anniversiry of the intioduction of homeopathy west of Iho AlU'iíheny Mountains by Gustavui Ueiolihehn was celebratod in an Bpproprlate nutnner, VViiit.i: dellrli m troineSeeisivodrinking on the 2Uth Phlaaaa Chimbarla n, a prominent lawyer of Bradfor 1, Vt., jnmped from the third story of a hotel Wlndow at Minneapolis, Miun., anl w.is killcil. Bn cltiiens of M naapolla, Mimi., met accidental deaths on the 2lth and Iwo others commltto 1 suic de. The Michigan State fair opened at Jackson on the ÏJth. The display was "very flne. J. J. Lori ro.-marljr supcrintendeat in the employ of the Dslaware & Hudson Canal Lompanv at l Inc.igo, aeknowledged on the -Oili tli.u in the past six months ho had stolen $12,000 from tho company. He was sent to prUon for two yean and a half. Thuee psrsonslost tlieir Uves on the 21st in a burnine buil hng m New York City. Aloxzo Whioiit, h wealthy furmer living near Loekport, N. Y., hanged himsolf on the 21st on nee iuiit of fainily troubles. The apple erop throughout the cjuntry was on t!ie ülst sai 1 to be the poorest known in nraiv vears. Caphon & Win.vr.itroN's flour-mill at Albany, N. Y., was burnei on the 21st, with ono hundred thouaand bushels of grain. Lois, HfiO,OO3; Insurance, ?10(),000. A fike was ra-g ng on the Sist In the oilfields of Wooil ('ounty, (_)., au I had involved the loss of two lives an l ïUO.OOO worth of proporty. A. R. Paksoks, one of the convicted Chicago Anarehisis, issue 1 an address to the public on the Slist denyuig hjS guilt and saying he was convicted on spaeches he never wrote. He saya he doesu't want a commutation of sentonce, but libjrty or deatli. At a meetin? of the mastor job-printers of Chicago on the 21st it was unanimously resolved to refuse the demanda of the Typoxrapliic.il Union for a nine-hour working day. A STKONO vein of natural gas was struck on the Sist at Groentown, Ind., at a depth of nine hundrod an 1 foi-ty feet, eight feet in Trenton rtek. Tli:s makea eighty-eight largo wulls in Howard County. A tunnel civjJ in on the Dayton & Ironton road, thirteen milos from Williston, O., on the 2lst and a number of section men wore caught Two men wero killed and one s i?ht!y injured. Ansii: and Jamis ]í(;an-, or St. Louis, word playing with a toy pistol on tho 21st when t was ncci icntal.y discliargeJ, the contents lo Ig ng i i Ihe giri's body, killing her in i tan Uy. Pbof JIi7.z:ihht addreaaed a moeüng of Inshmen m N w Vorlf on th: 21st, an 1 advocate. 1 the ue of dyuainitj to injure En■fland an l help Ireland. A coNsTiifcTioN tram and a hght engine, both moving at a h g i r.,t,e of speed, colltded on the 21st il. ]. T., killing ten men and wrocking a di . ra cars. Zi.ke Pboctob, h notoiious Cherokeo desperado, who is known to havo committed twentv ïnurders, was lolged in tha ünitej Btatos jail at Fort Bmith, Ark., on tho 21st. WlLL A. SnioNr,, 8eerory of State of Louisiana from 1S70 to 13 4, was convicted on tho 21st at liatón Kouge of emb v.zlinz ,000. Tuk Stat3 Department nt Washington on tho 'Jlst i r .unulicated the as;i-oement male bet ween Spvin and tli l'nit 'd States for the reciproc 1 suspension of all discrtmlnatlng dntles apon tonnasce on imports in the United Ma' es and the ïslands of Cuba and Purto Rico and ah eountries belonglng t the Crown of Spain upon vessels of tho respoitive couutries and their cargoes. The last Ohio Lofrislature repealed the statute authorizing tho ostaLilishment of separate schools for colored puiils. Tho attempts of th; colored ttuldren to secure admission to th3 white schools havo created great commotion in various parts of the State, and in some platos the schools were closed on tlio 'Jlst. The Supremo Council of Scottish Bite Masons of tho Unitöd States convened in annual sesslon at Provideuoe. R. I on the ÏUt An estire bami of [ndiana was arrested on the '22d by civil ofHcers of Arizona for horseBteallng. The arrests wuro mad.: without any teHintan The Georgia Sen.ite on the 2'Jil passed a bilí tij which the Statu raoney i.s withdrawn trom educatlonal institntions where the races ar mixed, and grailuatuB are made in. eligible for teachers' pla The stiifre bet ween Comfort and FrederIcsburg, in Tex:ui, was robbed on the 22d by two masked highwaymen, who went through the pockets oí the passengen and rifled the maiK at'ter which they niiulu tholr lblY tho Bntire bastneM ]ortion of Sanford, huw destroyed iy lire on the 22d. Loss, !fcioo,o. Tin: strike in tho Lohlgh (Pa.) coal reglón, which embraces twentj twt thousand men, threatened on the 22d to be a prolongad one. Thkkk m great exoltement at ilicksvillo, O., on the 23d otw the expulsión of thirtythree memben (rom the ünited Brethren church becnuse of thcir afflllaUon wlth tho O. A. 11 mul Othei secret socleties, In oppoBitlon tn tbe lawa OÍ the chnroh. Citizicnh who antived at TboBon, A. T., on Che 22d ífom San Pedro stated that uil the crops on the bottom lands betwsen Mainmoth nul Bcneon bad besn entiroly deetroyed by Bi Adviids of the 22d say that a wind and :.rin of great fnry had wept llrownsville andadjaoent country Ln Texas, crouting havoe. The IHo Grande rlvttt rose rapldly and raged l'ke a sea over the fertlle ticld. The loss ras estlinated at $1,000,000, Thk Coniniissioncr of Indian Affairs at Washington declarad on tlic -lid that tho order forblddlftg the teaohlng of any langua ngllsh in the Indian schools would lic riiridly adhered I" The wesl bouml expresa on tne Fort Wayne road ran Into tb mail earof an cant-bonnd train on Ihe 82d at Elida, O., and Enfriavr McGlcnri was ReriouRly In Jurad and ninr saoks ol regtotered muil wero daitroyod. TasEPB Bavm A ('o., wholesale dealers in general merehiindiso at Meridian. Miss., as■igned on the TJA. The rlabflitíei and aseetB were $360,000. A boat loaded witli teven hundred bales of cotton cauffht tire at New York on tho 22d and was deslro ed Bi the bnrning of ■ four-rtory building in Brooklvn, N Y , on ths 22d two mun and a girl lont their Uves. Qeoi;:i Wii i.h.ms (coloTed) when arrested on the -LM at (mi-innali oonfMSad that he, with Georjie llood, of ('otunibus. Miss., and WiHiani Carrol!, ot Nashvillo, Tcnn., both colorcd, had ïumdiivda family of ix near llamphia last February. BülATOB Stami)i;i said on the '23d tho uuivci'MtN lic was tonnding in California would ábsorb all his wrallli, and would bo for the exclusive benefit of the jioor. Km, Lucí Paxsom, fc of the condrmncd Anarcliist, was arrested in Chicago on the 'S, d for dintrlbutliiB ciiculais uontaimng her hunband's tóxlrose, In violation of the city ordinanoa Tlic tiuu is trom five dollars to tiftcen dollars The tax on whisky dedeassd from iflfiO,002,266 m 1880 0 to $3,829,321 in 18867, wlule the t:i on lieer inore isod from Y19,070,731 in 1885 (i to f21,022,187 in 1 886 7 Mii.h of the boi r sold was said on the L':id to be bad, and a ( i irei nmant ohemist wonld analyse It Wii.i.iam Bbowebi, ane tvl Rome weeks ago on a ohargv of murderlng his two prandchildrcn at Lebanon, Pa., confeaved to the crime i ni i he L'ÍKL The Bteamship Alesia, whloh nrrived at New York on the 'SM from Maiseilles and Naples, had Asiatic oholera on Board Eight persona dled on the paasafre, and on her arrival at quarantine tbe bealth offloer found lom cacea. No fearn vrere entsrtalned Of the spread of the disease John Kebnauhan wat hangedon the 23d at San Franeiaco tot the tourder of his sister-in-law In Ootober l1'.". Aitei: a conference in New York on the "lid with Captain Black, General RogeiA. J'ryor aniMumi cd tliat lic had bocome connectedwith the Chioago Anarch st case, and preditaú that the applloat.on for a writ of error to the Suprsme (duit would b' irranted in time to prevent the cxecution of nis cliente. Tuk One hundredih annivorsary of the in. Corporation of York, Pa , was celcbrated in that city on the 23d JüDGK ( Ai.iiwKix, of Cincinnati, on the 23d fined 0. M. Johnson, a usurer, one thousanil dollars and costa for charging two hundred per cent on muuII loans to pooi dihtors. Thbki were 1 "t! buRlness failures ln the i States during the seven days ended on the 'S.hl, agalnst 168 the previouB seven days. Thomas MtKexna, n l'ittslmrffh laborer, agedsixtv seren yean, murilered his wife ln that city on the '23a liile she was Rleeping. He said he killed her because Rhe had been unfaithful, and that he had long contemplated the deed. The thermomotor refristered only two degrees at Aberoombrie, -Minn , on the evening of the 23 d. At Haverhill, Mass.. on the 23dJ. H. Abbott, while dronk, shot and killed his daughter, Hii Manuel CuinniiiigH, and then snot himself, dying instantly. At Middlctown, O., on the 'J3d John Glendennlng, while lntoxloated, shot and killed John Nolan and then simt himself, dying an bour later. Canse, an oíd grudge. On the farm of Jumes Andrews, ncar Rylvania, 0., on the ÜSd .lames Andrews, nine years oíd, discharged a gun, supposed io be unloaded. instantly killin' his sisier, aged eleven vearR. PERSONAL, AND POLITICAL. M. D. Bm, United Stat-, Attorney for AlagltA, ümil uu bmird a sleamer on the aoth -.vlnlo en rente fee öeattle, V'. T. .Mus. Ki.inu.ni Mkkiii.vm ITinam died on thotJlh at Danvers, Slass., Hged one l. u ii In I and nv i yean and ten raonths. 'i'in: Oeorglá Prohibition electlon will be held en November 2t, the proper lavv ofücsr havmg dec.deJ t'.iat thoro was no Ie ir al objections. The M.astachu(ett? Demócrata raat at Woroestar on the Juth and nominuted a full Stato ticket, with Heury B. J.overing for Governor. A platform was adopteJ indorsing tho Presiden I's AUmiuistration, aemauling a revisión ot the tariff, favoringthe restriction of immigration, and declaring that all ofllcas in tho civil-sorvioe should bo tillod bv Dcinncrats. Bnnrr Hhewstek, the notod carrlage mauufucturer, diod in New York on tho 21st, sg'd aixiy-threo years. He was a iirect descendant of tho Browster who came over in thï llayflower. GnxEHM. Yii.i.iam Pluufos died at LexIngton, Ky., on the Sist Mr. Amasa Allen, a native of Pennsylranla, died at Terra Haute, Ind, on the22d, iged ninety-nine years and ten montha His every faeulty was unimpaired up to the iay of his death. Hokaue Ali.en, aged eighty-three, a [xaadnephew of Ethan Allen, of revoludonary famn, arrived in Albany, N. Y., on ;he 22d, haring pushed a wheelbarrow trom hi home in Delaware, O., a distanco if 889 miles, lic started June 18. The Bepnbüoan State Central Committee )f New York met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel n the 22d and effeoted a permanent orranization by the election of Cornelius N." 31ÍH8 a ohalrman iioi' I.ixoy, of New Orleans, died ln' France on the 2IU1, at the age of sixty-two reara Mks. Angii: I'. i .wmax, of Lincoln, Neb., vas on the 23d tuianimoúsly elacted a delerato to the General Conti renoe of the M. E. Ihnroh, to be luid at Brooklvn, N. Y., next iay. She is the first lady on whoui that ïonor has been confurrcd. Tm i"id . .t : ii. i .-i t iudnoo Fitzpatrlok, who iin'd .Minisi 'f lo iiiili. arrlvedln New York on tl' -öd trom ValparaUo. The èngsgeninnt as announced on the LHd of Senator llawley, oi Connoctlcut, and Miss Edl( i Horncr, ol Ph ladelphla, ho aequlred wide repttou as a avise wltb the Engllnh annles daring ih Zuluand Egypttanwatm FORF.ICN, Orr:riM. Btatlstle on tbo l'.Hh from Cairo, Egyri, show Ui.it oight hundrod families have baon rondere 1 disütutoby tho ree int II"" Is of Uio Nik-, and proporty worth L3i)i.üJJ liiu boon destrova I. Tehkv DBL Fl'IOO luis been cxplored moro llioi-.Milil.v Uiun Bi nny provious time, and, coatrury to rommon belief, it has been McerUlnad Ihat Ihi anlüpelaeo contalns va'.uablo farmlng lnn.U, foresta and mineral deponlta, An' explosión of roojcatl on tin 19th on the Brilisli war-siiip Bellerophon, ui Qujbcc, seriously Injurad tort A PBOCLAMAT1ON Wils Hsu il on tho 20th supprossinff the lrlsn Leairtu and iii lts bram ! rtaln sporifiid dlstr.rts of Ireland. The Trafnljrur, in Iron-clad of 11,0-0 tona and 18,000 hors ■power, tho largnst ever constrncted, wa laonohed at Portimtfüth, Eng., on the aOth. i Tuk Salvation avmy, whlch was pstablished at Kingston, Out., four year ago, Is now poverty strick in, and on tho 20th tho offleors appealed tor holp, as thoy we ra Btarving. Tur, bush Brei which liad been rnging for tbe last. few iiaM a'ronn 1 Daoby, Quobeo, oxtendc I to ilmt viling) on tho 21st, and twonty-two housjs mil th") railway station woro consunjed. Mnny families lost overv tlnng. Mr. Kii.iiiiidi'. who ace mpanlod Wllliam O'Brien on liis Canadlan toir, was on the 2Ist elcctcd without oppoillion to represent Botlth Kendry ,n the British House of Commotu. I The cholera returns trom Italy dnring the twenty-fonr honn ended on the S32d were: Catania, 18 new oans and 18 death; Paterno, 8 niw mm and s dratlis; Jlrssina, 133 new oases and 82 deal lis. A ■ilfn of rwirnlto. irhn had sarknl a village on tbe Irawaddjr rivcr, in ünrinah, w sn pnnuod bj the Brlttah tooepi and oaptnrecl on the laad, ban ol the band belng killed and the ohlel uonnd.'d. Dispatc iir.s oí Un' L'L'd hay that tho liritish tcaiiK'r Bomeo, trom Now Orinan to llourn, capaUad ai Villegnen, wtth a loaeel neven t.Tii livi's. Tbe nwl VU a total wreek. Thiiek Paris poJipe ottirials wvn dlsmïssedonthe 22d for havlng pnuemxade out of the skin of tbe inuidnvr, Pranzlul, who was reoent ly ezeoated tnera A lktteii fiinn Henry M Stanley, theAfrlcan explorer, dated Jone '.í, was recelved at Londiin on the 821 An eartliqnake was feit In Malaga, Spain, on the 22a. shock cauaed a panlo amonf the people bnt did no damage. The Lord Mayor of Dublin on the 22d ltsned an appeal for funda to defend and bustaln the largenumbei of polltical prlsoners it was expected would soon be in ]ail tinder the Coerción act A.FAMBtqn who arrived atOwra Sound, Ont, on the 22d bv the stcamer Atlantic from Sanlt Bte. Marie reported that he eaw McQarlgle, the Chicago ' boodier," at Gore Bay, Ont The luinbi'riii'r villape of Gravenhurrt, Ont, vas almosi ontiri'ly drstroyed by flre onthe'-'iid. The lOM was over $130,000, and many persons were homelcss and destitute. Advices of the 2!ld from Ejrypt say that hnndreds of Uves have been lost by the Nile flood. Details on the '-'lid of the recent hurrlane on the Kexloan border showed that ita desüiutivriii-ss wai even greater tban indicated liy the liist report. The path of tho etorin preseoted ra appalling picture of ruin and di.sol.it ion, aml many of. the vlo tims weri' in ■ destitntr i onditinn. Pbikce I'.ism.miik celebrated at Berlin on the 2ild tho twenty tifth anniversary of hia aesumption of tbe ottoe of l'rimt' Minister. A bbvsbi ihook of earthqnake was feit on the 23d at Santiago de Cuba and on the Islandof Jamaica, Two pereons were injured and suveral houses daniaged at the fonner place. LATER NEWS. T"ie ncciil of thebasa ballc'uUi in the National Li at ae for the week eoded OB the 24th was tmea won), 73; ObloagO, lili; l'hiladel].!iia, C7; New York, (i I . Bastón, 5 ); HMakmgh) 47;Washlngton, 42; Indlanapolls, :) l. A heavy trost vfelted theNoithwest onthe Ü4th, whieh as piuductive of sonie damage to orops yet la th( field. Beporta trom the cholera -mietert ciücs of Sieily show that durinir the twenty -f onr hour8 ended on the 24tUthre were 119 new casis and lid di aths at Messina; 10 cases and '.) deaths at Catana; (i cases and 2 deaths at Palermo. Snow feil north of Farmington, Me., on the 25th, Mrverlng tbe tops of the Old Blue and other ïnountains. . A OOIXIBIO took plaoe on the L'lth at llio Giandc City between the United States Marshals poBse aud a band et Hinugglers, In whieh four o( the latter were kil id and their camp oaptnred. CAt Haverhlll, Mass., J. H. Abbott, ivhilo drunk, (hot and killed his dauirhter and then killed himseli on the '_' Itlt Wii.i.iam 0'Bbien's trial at HltcheUstown, Ireland. for sedltious attenknoes, resulted on the ü Ith in hls conviotiou and sontence to tluee months' impriiontnent O'Brien took an appeal and was releasert on bail The Tewkesburv and Grahazn tactlouB at Presoott, A. 'J'., enyaf.Md ín a figbt on the 24th, during whioh four of the formerand three of the lattrr were killed. Foon littlc chfldren of P, Codbout, a farmer Uvtng nesx Uand Oileans, Can., were killed oa the L'itli bytha explosión of a shell wh'ch th'ey fmmd on grounds recentlyoccupied by artUlerymen tnasham battla The death order In the Chloago Anarchists' oases was handed down by the Sapreme ('onrt at Ottawa DB the 'J-i t h and ünmediately dispatcïied to Sheriff Matsoa JohnGi.eniumng, of Mkklletown, O.,commttted Rulcide on tlie24thafter killing John Nolan, agalnst whom he had long chcrlshed agrndge, An nttempt to wreek nn expresi train waa made on the :: lih mar Vineennos, Ind., by placing an oligtrnction on the track In a bend on thé roafl No önc was injured. Wii.i.iam W. Iïuü, the noted driver of Maud S., was wayla d aud robbed ol ?1,BOO atthe Belmont raee track n.'ar l'hiladelphla onthe L' l'li The villa-s of Wynne, Ark , nud TJnlon Milis, ind., were almosi totally destzoyedby fireon tln-L'ltti. Theiik was a fiost Ehroughont the country about Lynehbury, Va,, ,,n the L'lth, and thero wore fears o: frreat loss in the tobáceo erop, estiinated at pi e thlrd of the crot)yet In the field The mnjor portlon of the. Inrtlans on tho San Carlos reserVkUon had on the '.'.tlifíone on the war-petb At twenty-six leadlng áéáring-bonaei In the United States theexchanges during the week ended on tbe 24th aggregated 1)89358,980, ai'Minst '.c,r, liiin.iii.-, the prevlous week. As pompan ihe chorre, spomlim; we,k of 1880. the increase aniounts to 11 percent

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