Summary Of The Week
The National Command, Union Veterans Union, commcnced lts second annual cnompment on tho 27th at Cleveland, O. Early on the morning of the 27th tl buslneBs portion of Payue, O., was destroyet by flre. In Beading, Pa., on tho 27th William Hartung foll luto u Mldon of boiling cutsup and was fatally scaldcd. Nbab Jackson, Tonn. , on tho 27th all th cara of a Mobile A Ohio passcniror train ran off trestle forty fcet high, the englne alone remalntng on the track. Over thirty persons wore wounded, two or three of them fatully. The Lincoln (Neb.) Flro Insurance Com pany failnd on tho 27th nftor one yoar's business. The loss tu stockholdcrs would rcach $100,000. The annual meeting of the Wisconsin Woraan Suffragc Associatton coramencod al Madlson on the 27th. Among the leaders present was Kusnn Ii. Anthony. FotfR negroes wcro killed on the 27lli ii Mut aborda Connty, Tex., in a sklrmish with official of that OOunty. The Amerioun rlint, bottle and windowglass worker of the country formed an orgauization at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 27th to prevent the importatiou of contract labor. In th flrst raco tor the America' cup sailed on the 27th atNcw York, the Aincr ican yacht Volanteer beat the Thistle 1Í minutes 29 ¦pntindl, actual tima The wint ivas lilit tluroughout the conttwt Mr. Mn.i.Eit, Commlislonei of Interna Bevenue, denied on the 27th thut he lntended making an analysls of boer made in tho country. Ha Huid that as tho brewers all paid thelr taxes it was not hls duty to make Huch an examination. Thk general pont erenoe of the Evangélica Lutheran chureh, in sesston at ISuffalo on the 27th, Blected as liishops for the ensiitng tour years J. J. Esher, of Chicago; Thomas Bowman, of Allentown, Ta, and 11 Dubs, ol Cleveland, O. The Farmers' Ratut, of Chicago, on the 27th estimated the total com erop of the country this season would be but 1,310,000,000 bushcls. The geason of the Ohio Basc-Ball League closed at Manstield on the 28th, Kalamazoo winning the pennant, wlth Zanesville second. At the formal meeting of the cncampmenl of the Grand Army of the liepublio in St Louis on the 2Sth the Commander reportcd the total memberahip of the order on the 30th of June last at 372,(7-i. During the past year the deaths of 3,400 inembers were reported. The National f ontmand, Union Veterans' Union, in session at Cleveland, eleeted offleers on the 28th, M. A. Dillon, of Washington, being choseu Commander-in-Chlef. In a threiímile Bcnlllng race on the 28th at Owego, N. Y. , Charles E. Courtney defeated üeorge Bubear in MK8& Thk strike In the woolen millR at LouisTÜMe, Ky., inaugurated two months ago, has proved a fallóla, and the weavers were reUirnlng to work on the 2Sth at employers' terniH. It was said to be a se veré deífeat lor the Kniu-htH ol Ijilinr. Maxwell Biicih.' box factory in Chioago ni (i.-strovíMl by fire on the 2Sth, which exti-niled to J. O. I.obstein's planinff-mill, MUl&K a los of $1 1.",OO(I. More than ñve hundred students took part in a "cañe rush" at Cornell College, in Itbnca, H, Y. , on tile evening of the 27th, and beadi were ptOMkad, clothing torn and ïniiny tudents inured, one vei v Heverelv. It was announced on the L'Kth that there wan Kuoh a heavy demuiul throusrhout the country tor cents, Dioketi and dimes that the mint u unable to supplv the sama Three eliildien of Mr. and Mis. Frank Hood, of Btnakegon, Mieli., were left alone in the housi' n thenlghtot (he 27th, and when the parentl retnmed tlicv l'onud their babes burniMl to doath and tlieir home in ruins. In the United btatefi Oonit :it St. Louis on the 2Hth M -s Phoabe W. Couzlns took the oath of DfUoe as Unltad States Marshal, to suco't'd her decd&sod t'atlipr. Mis ('ouzins is the flrst woinan wlm ever held the office 'of Marshal. The Xorth Dakota Eleratoi Cotnpany's elfvutor ut Whr:itland, D. T. , was burned on the 38th wlth lorty Bvathoiuand bu.-hels of wheat All the memberR ot' the Ixigansport and Danville (Ind.) ball elubs were indicted on the S9lh uit for plavinff all on Sunlay. Thhkk masked men attempted to takc possession of a ianKenger train at Odessa, Tex. , on the 20th uit. , but they were driven otï ly the train hands. At Fayetteville, N. Y., on the 20th uit F. M. BaveraoM, oartlex of the burst Farmers' Bank, was arYested for embezzling $50,000 of its funds. Six Morinon polvnmists were on the 29th uit pcntcncicl at Salt Lake City to six montbs' Impriaooment for unlawful cohabitation. A STATof proceeding In the case of Jacob 8harp, the New York bribe-giver, was gnuited on the 2!th uit The f all of a derrick at a St Louis brewery on the 2itth uit. caused six men to fall sixty feet One wa killed, a second fatally inJured, and the otbcr four were serlously injured. The nexcmeethifrof th National Enoampment, O. A. R., will be held at Columbas, O., the week of the centennhd nnniversary of the settlement of that city. One thousand veterans on the 2!)th uit made a pilgrimage to the toinb of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield. Dispatcmes of the 2ftth idt from Texas report that Üte alleped negro insurrection In Matagorda County had subslded. TheJ. B. Wathen A Bro. Brewing Corapany of Louisvllle, Ky. , made an assignment on the 2i)th uit The liabllities were $100,000. Reports of the 29th uit of the inundatlon in the valley of the Blo (rande showed that there had been great destruction of property. The villages of Santa Marie, La l'uclilo and Kdinburg were destroyed. A compkomise was effected on the 29th uit between the wlndow-glass workers and manufacturen! at I'lttaborgh, Pa., and seven thousand unemployed artlsans would resume work. The concert hall and saloon in New York City, widely known as Harry Hill's, was flnally closed on the 2!th uit af eer a nodous exlstence of thirty-four years. Advicks of the 2!ttb uit from New York say that Inspector Bontield, of Chicago, was in that city for the purpose of arreating Herr Most for being accessory before tht: fact to the Haymarket murders, In that he incited the consp racy by letters and epeechea Fkiends of the Indians in sesslon at Lake Mononk, N. Y., protested on the 2(th uit agalnst the order of the Indian Bureau prohibltlng the use of the natlve language in the reservation schools. They belleve the order will retard the christianizing of the aborigines. Thk Grand Army of the Republic at St Louis on the 30th uit eleeted General John P. Bea, of Minneapolis, to be Commanderln-Chlef for the ensulng year. The new oommander was born in Pennsylvania f orty¦even years ago, enllsted in Oblo in April, 1861; and was brevotled Miijor In November, is(:t. The house of Nish Vltidago, at 'J'ower, Minn., was bntaed on the .'JOth uit. Mr. VlUdnfre ond two of bis nhlldtn peMh tkg in the flamea. Tuk passenger in n stag Bear Bulllnffcr, Tex., wero robbed on the30th alt oforai two thousand dolían ly b tingle highwuyman. The business (ailnret for th tliirilqnnrtn oí 187 miinl.cr 1.088 In tlic l'ntted States and 308 In Oanncl i. OffatAat 1,8811 in the UnltcdStatos aiul 1M8 In Canada for the thlxd quai-ter oí 1 88(1. The volume of liabilitie for ttaa thlnl qwnAof of the present yoar, howevor, is larr-lv in cxoeM of tlie figures for the ame perioU lust yetir. TnK American ymlit defeated thoScotch yacht TIiInUo on the ÜOth uit in thairsocond race at New Yorkby 1 1 minutos 48% Beoonda, tuut koeping t Amerlca'a cup onthis lde oi Om water 11 O. Dus ,V ('o 's weokly trado review Stat cd on the :Dth uit. that tho Troamiry purchases of bond had rcatly ohuiiffed tho feeliog in t In' ininicv imikil. luit without giviiiK nraon roüef, as vet, to losritlinat bnMtnes Fon the minder of Clian Ah Chuck, ÜV8 ycars ajf, t Sire Bo, a ('hinainnn, ml hanged in the juli at Sun Trambuco, Cül., on theOthult Juduk ( 'i.itii:i daaMM in liioaproonthe 30th uit tuat a niiin who dewerted his wife and child, rciiialuiiij; away for live yours and funilBhinjr nothing ior their support could not reclaim the custody o( the chlld from panonl who had OMM for itRlneplhemother's dcafh and desired to koop it The uteamiT T. 15. Wims was destroyed by lire on the HOth uit ncar Memphls, Tenn., and thrce lives were lost Near Oornmbtm, O., on the :)th nlt n expresa train Ktrm-k a carriajre eontatning Mrs. SiiHaii Bell nnd Mik. K W. Henderson, both aj.'cd Indios, und killed them both. The (Irapliiu 1'resH ('oinpiny, of Cir.clnnati, publishers of the Wtrkhi ttnpktc, fallod on the :iOth uit lor ifilfO.tHM). The paper was publishod Hiinultunconsly in ('liirlmiatl and Chioapo Feed Munchbath, Jr. , found (ruilty recently at Hioux City, Ia., on an indiotim-nt ior the mnrdei of liev. Cteorre Iladdodk, was scntcnccd on the UOtli uit to four yoarR in the penitontiiiry. James H. Mcííindley, with sevcral aliases, was arrentod at Cleveland, O., onthe30th uit for froudulent vouchers in pension cases, defraudinf the Government out of l.-,ooi(. Isaac Mullen, of Jackson County, Ind., poisoncd himself with carbolic acid on the :i()t h uit. becanse Iiík Bon wan arrested and put on trial ior making a dixturbauoe in chureb. Judoe Baerett, of New York City, deoided on the 30th uit that the hoycottingr of a non-Union luhorer by a labor organlzation is punlshnble under the law against connpiracy. I'he Woman's Kellef Corj at its animal meeting in St Louis, in comiection with the G. A. lt., on the :()thult. electedMra Hampttn, of Michigan, National President PERSONAL AND POL1TICAL. Johs N. Campbell, a veteran of the war of and the Black Huwk war, died at Clinton, I1L, on the 2tith, at the age oí nlncty -thrce ycars. O. Prestox, the Union Labor party candldate for Sccrctary of State of New York, retired on the 2th in favor of John Hwinton, candidate of the tfttttod I.abor party. Whitakek M. Grant, of lowa, was on the 2(ith appointid liy tbe President to be United Ktutes Attorne.r ior Alanka. Mus. Nascy Kimiiam. cclchratcd her onehmiilri'dth birthday in Elgin, III., on the Mtta. Sha is a native of Concord. N. H. The Social istii: Ijiliir party of New York met in New York City on thi' L'sthand nominated John Swinton for Secretary of State. A resolution was adopted denounulng the violation of the Kight-hour law by the Federal aothta'lUn The State convention of New York Deinocrats met at Haratop Sprinfr on the 28th and renominated Frederick Cook for fiecretary of State. The platform demanda a reduction of Federal taxatlon of at least $100,(MM),oimi, indorscx (iovernor Hill and President Cleveland, declares it the purpose of the party to support the civil-service laws of the United States and of the State of New York, and favors the local regulatlon of the liquor trafHo. The MaHsachusetts Republicana met in State convention in Boston on the 28th and renominated Oovcrnor Ollver Amas and Lieutenant-Governor J. Q. A. Brackett Tíie platfornj íavors a protective tariff, the rednction of interaal revenuo taxation, an honest ballot and a fair count, the maintenance of the present Civil-Servlce law, the submission of a prohlbitory amendment, the cessation of the coinage of silver, ponsions for veterans and the pasgage of a National bankrupt law. Mrs. Lucï Luthers, whose husband was a pensioner of the war of 1812, died at her home in Hadley, Me., on the 28th, aged oue handled and three years and ten montha Da. Edward D. Ktttoe, a well-known physician, and medical director on the Rtafl of Uencral (irant durinfr tho late war, died on the 2{th uit at Galena, 111., oged seventy-two years. The Demócrata oí the 8ixth district of LonUiana on the 2Uth uit nominated Colonel a 11 Iiobertoon, of Baton Rouge, for Conjrress, to succeed his father, the late Colouel E. W. Robertson. John Swkton on the 29thult decllned the nomination of the Socialistic Ijabor party of New York for Seeretary of State, owlng to ill health, and J. E. Hall was ohosen in his atoad. The President on the 20th uit appeinted Alcxander Ii. Webb, of Missouri, to be United States Consul at Manila. Charles P. Kimliall, of Chicago, Amerioan Consul at Stuttgart, Oermuny, has resigned The President havlng lnvitod Hon. W. L. Pntnam, of Maine, and Hon. J. B. Angelí, of Miohijmn, to net with the Seeretary of State In negotiation for a settlenient with Great Britaiu of the disputes (rrowlng out of the nshertes que-'tlons, tbe geatlemen aoceited the trust on the 2th uit Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator, arrived in New York on the SOth uit Wii.i.iam l Mobrison, of Illinois, a member of the Inter-State ('ouimerce Commlssion, was on the SOth ut pranted a pension of twelve dollars per month as a soldier of the Hexican war Latest returns on the :t(th uit lndicated that the mijority agiiinnt prohibttion In Tenneasn woulil be between 12,000 and 1 5, (MM). The vote exceeded that cast at the lant Gubernatoriul eleotlon, The President and Mre. Cleveland set out upon thelr Jdnfnéy t the Weit and South on the :()tli nlt, leaviiiíf Washington at ten o'clock in the forenoon. FORBIGN. Eiohteen persons were drowned on tho 20'th by the colllsion of a French nshingboat with anothcr vessel in the Hiitish channc! The Montrcal Furnlture Co. 's building, a saw and plalning mili, u door and sosh faotory and 8t liorhe'H Hospital, at Montreal, were destroyed by lire on the 2Uth. Loss, over .f HM. (KM) At Kilbarry, Irelaud, the pólice were tacked wlth Rtonei and pitohforks on the B6th wliilc atlenipting to Buizi' the cottleof a delinquen! tenant tal rent, and were liliVI'M Ott wil hout the flllilll.'l l-i In Plambo (Vntcr, (int , on Mm 2th a 1OT In a drug-ntor pal np morpW inabaart of qulnlne fot ; dootor, uid before the mlsiako WHK dllCOtWad l!,l rol tl .Mllll-Nir'HlUilUllM died mul Otliors wer sniouslv lil. A MONTREAL CKMITt ileHdi'd 2lith that a Inwviir wliii nskfil piTiniHMon lo appear as 's ronn-H in the matter of the Baxtcl 1 tn lx-t m.-ii t, mu 1 DO !" allowed todom imiil the defandant hml personally deltrered hiuiBelf in MIBt mul pleaded to the indictiiient. It wafi nmM "" I'1" 2'h thnt the In the oaof at hav, tunilps. pototoes mul olhur kinds of f d in the Britlah Isles thlH year amountod to tho asUmishing ggregate oí I ¦i,ix,ox tona A TIOLEifï storm on the 2ith in Northern Mexico sw-fpt nway wvrral rnilway bridfea and wrerked a nunilit-r of tralns. No Htcs were lost Tiirhk wu great mhMmMMA In France on tho 2o'th over the kIJling of the Jreneh game-koper and the woundini of the Frenoh Lientonnnt by G.rman ustom offloials on the frontler. Hixteen Jews nt Higa, RuHsia, were on tba 27th nonvicti'd of inoendUrtan and Bent to Siberlafor 11!" Hrsii tin-s wero prevailing on the 27th throughout Ontario and Qnebeo, and tho people were sufferinfr torribly. The lires raged in all dfrMttOM, and thf furmer had lost crery thin"r, holJdtogit crops and oattla being destroyid. The rivers Miir and Halado, in Mexico, wollen by a waterspont, overtiowed their banks on the U7th and deatroyed mnch property. In the town of Mier two hundred houses were destroyed, aud the town of Guerro w:i also inunduted, fifty house belng either waalled away or damu d DuitiNO the twenty-four hours eudsd on the 27th 1 1 '1 nc.w caww of oboleïa and ü3 dratlis were reportcd In Messina, Italy, anU 4 new uases and 1 deaths In Catunla. Advk-k of tbeüTth trom Ixnidon say that tr.msport had been wrtcked on one of t-lu' Peaoadorw IslandB, and thxe hiindrcd ttiUütm and the captalu and oreir, wlth tliti exerption of one mun, were drownrd. In LJmerick, Ireland, while a Bquad of soldier and pólice were evlctlng Mlchal Lane, a tenant, from hls building on the 27th Mra Lane split the Rkull of the polioe inapectoi who had charge of the (ob. CHOLEnA returns from Italy for the twentyfour boon ended on the 28 ih were: Meslna, (s ni'W canea, ti deaths; CaUnia, 3 new cases, 2 deaths; Palenno, 1 new case, 3 deaths. In London soarlet fever wu reported on the 28th to be epidemia Slxteen hundred patiënte Bufferlug from thts disease wera said to be In the hospitols. London adrices of the 28th say that tb.8 Brltish Bteamer Matthew had been wrecked off Cape Finlsterre, and ten persons were drowned. The Spanish Government decided on the 28th to greatfy rednee Cuban dutlcs on necessaries of llfe and artloles used in imtlve lndnstriea A Germán official, reporting on the 28th upon the recent frontlor shooting, contended that the French huntxmen were on Germán soil when tho soldier nhot at thera. Poltdohe Db Ketseb, a Roman Catholio, was on the 2!th nlt elected Lord Mayor of London. Emperor Fbascis Joseph opened the Huntrartan Diet on the 20th uit wlth the statement that the forelgn relations of the empire were friendly and Batisfaotory, but that the general sltuation neoessitated ths strcngthenlng of the power. Cholera reporta from Italy for the twentyfour houTB ended on the 2i)th uit were: At Messina, 83 new cases, 2.1 deathx; at Catania, 3 new cases, 2 deaths. Advices of the 30th uit report the loss of fourteen by the wreek of the schooner Ocean Friend off NewfoundlaniL A dense smoke from forest fires enveloped the citles of QueDec, Montreal, Ottawa, Pembroke and other towns in Canada on the 30th uit Navigation was suspended between Quebeo and Montreal. Th lossés in the Ottawa district were figured at #500,900. LATER NEWS. The public-debt statement on the Int ¦howHthe total debt to be $1,003,410,908; cash in treaaury. 940,369,060; debt less cash in treasury, $1,206,926,390. DecMM dnring September, ijiM, 2-17, )(!. Deorease since 30, Is1-?, j:t,!K)2.:tt(l. Tkaiiiii: fires near Winnipeg, Man., were on the 2d catislng great Iosh to settlers. The rnsidi'iit and Mrs. Cleveland snfely completed thelr journey to Nt. Louíh on the nlght of the Ist Th greater part uf tho day wn taken up with a parade and publia ree ' t .-c ui at Iiulianu]oli& Theue were three deaths uu 1 flve new eaaai of cholera at the New York quarantlne station on the lst A party of twenty-six men and women ïiiissionarics Hailed from New York on the lst to join Bishop Taylor's colony in Central África At twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United Stut-H the exohangea during the week ended on the lal amntatad p8M,ffffft.iffl. mfliwt f08V,3B8,9SO, the previoua week. As comjiared with the oorresponding week of 1KK0, the di-crease amounts to 1 5 5 per cent Joe Adam (ooIotmI) ww lynched on the lst at Nacogdoohes, Tex., for the killing of Joseph B. Looney recently. H. Webster ft Co., of New York, wholeeale liquor-dealcre, failed on the lst for $2H,MX. Ex-Governor Alexaxder H. Hollet, of Connecticut, died on the 2d at Hartford, Conn., aged eighty -three years. William Iïukei,l Sever, the oldest gradúate of Harvard, died on the 2d at Plymouth, Mass. , aged ninety-slx years. The ex-Secretary of State of Loulaiana, W. J. Strong, WH01 the lst Hentenced to two yeara in the penttentiary and fined 04,900 for embez:'.ling fuuds of the St:ite. The Be'levui' Baak of llellevue. O., made an asBignmciit on tli lst with liabillties estimated at abont 1 imiimiii Three persons lost the r lives on the lst In a flre In a Detroit lodging-honse. Coal minen in the Springtleld (III.) dl. trict tothe numberof lifteen hnndrwl stauek on the Int for an advanee in airen. IIev. Henry Clemenh, a Free Methodist preacher, committed suïcide on the lst near Millersburg, O., by xhonting hlmKt-lf. 'IVmporarj- iimanity was thn canse. Three men and two boyH were suffocated and thirU'en othera were overeóme wlth gas on the lst in the Bost colliery near Aanland, Pa The Anarchists of New York City on the 2d attempted to hold a meeting at Mm Hlll, N. J., in nympathy witli the Chicago crimináis, bnt they were dlaperacd by tha pólice af ter ¦ hnn MMÉW, Afire ou the M at Mitohell, D. T., deBtroyed the MM A Mitohell barns and nlneteen horsea, including Beu Lee, the famour running bons The record of the base-ball clubs in the National Iagne for the week ended on the lst was aa follows: Detroit (games won), 77; Chicago, i!; riilladelphia. 71; New York, ."; Hoston, (il PMlikaagh, 50; Washington, 12; ImlIanapullH, 34.
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