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29
Month
June
Year
1882
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Davitt has artived in Boston, and delivered n able address on the ítüb of landlordlsm in relaad. He believos In eelf-government for the Cmerald ls!e. Búllalo papers are being gotten out by the elp of nen-union men. The Express, Courier nd Commercial Advertiser state they will be controlled by the unión no longei. Prof. W. E. Sawyer, the New York electrioian, has been genteneed to four years in state prison for shooting Dr. Theo. Steele and seriously wounding hini. Alex. Forbes of Erie, Pa., shot hia wife, who was keeping house for üeorge Hdlston, then shot Halston, and finally shot himself. AU are dead. On the trail norlh as far aa the Indian Territory are 70,000 head of cattle and 10,000 head of horsee. Brown üairersily has conferred the degree of LL D. upon üeo. Wm. Curtís and Chief Justice Gray. The 29th of July is now thought to ba te day on or about which Congress is likely to adjourn. Dr. Beard and other medical men will aadeavorto persuade the President tograntGuiteau a respite, in order tbat an examination of his mental condltion may be made bv a com mi sion of expert?. A $75,' 00 fireis repnrted in Eagleville, Ct, by the burning of tbe tllastonbury Kuitting works Three children were burned, Grace King fatal - iy. A plau Is said to be arranged to get Conkling into the Senate agaln. It is stated the consolidation of the Grand Trunk and G. W. B. B. has struck a technioai inaff, and the fusión will be delayed twentr-one dajs. A collisiou at the raüway crossing in Ham lton resulted in the death of engineer Bradley and Creman John Bell. The strike ot the longehoremen In New York and Jursey City is causing the deetructiou of perishable fruits. Foarteen carloadsof tea, valued at $ 200,000i en rou.'e to New York from China., paased through Michigan on the 22 J. J. O. Mobley and J. A. Pearson of Colum" bia, S C, have been arrested for beiiig about to fiílit a duel. The wrecked tow boat Iron Mountain, suppoBed to havo been eunk in 100 feet of water, bas been found in a field, high and dry, where it was carried by the flood. The prayer of Utah convention, Job. F. Sinith president, for the admiBsion of the territory as a state, has been submitted to the Ssaate. The committee interested in eocuring a reptieve for Guiteau for the parpóse of liaving an examination made by experts as to bis mental condition, have held aniuterview with the President They were assured it would receive proper cocsideratian, and the papers were referred to the attorney general for a report tbereon. One of the erecting shops at Milwaukee of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, was icjured by fire, with five second class carB. The loss will not exceed f25.000. Cougress has passed the joint resolutioa granting $88,000 to continue exploraüons near the shores of Lady, Franklin bay and sclentific observations in Alaeka. The bilí forthe tensión of national back charters has paspe,! the sonate. Üa Thursday of this week another Btorm visited Iowa. At Independence therailroad depot was badly twisted and the wind mlll de stroycd. Ia the city a large nmnber of residences and bueinees hoass were unroofed. Sells' Bros. circus tent was demolisbed and three of his men are reported killed. It was not a wíiirlwind, but a sweeping hurricane. Hot weather is in Arkannaa and Texas, the thermometer standing at 98 degrees. Rusiian Jaws nnmberiog 1,803 laaded in N-jw York within thiee days. The Toledo, O. Üouring mili on Eria Si. burned at $88,000 loss on the 231. O. E. O wen, teller of the Su National Bank St., Louis confesas to a series of defalcations sggregating $ 150,000. The lake front of Cleveland was flooded by a "tidal wave" from Lake Eria on the 23d. The phenomenon effected about f 80,000damage and the death of two men. The comtnerce commitiee decide to increase the grant tor improving the channel of the DBtroit river frovn f60,000 to 60,000. A f 60,000 fire is reported in a Verdi, Nev. planing mili. Over $1,000,000 loss is reported from the burning of the warehouse, etc. of the Pacific milis, Lawrence, Mas9. Several firemen were hort. Geo. W. Tiüt a wealthy Buffilonian after whom the Tefft House was named bas just died in Uiat city. Guiteau is reported very mach disheartened over the prospect of hanging. He bas expecteda repriuve until now. Attorney General Brewster notlfied Guitean of ihe decís on first, as being the party most in teres ted. The execution will occur Jnne 80th. The fire in the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass., aggregata over $1,000,000 loss with Insurance of i,0iw,U0ü ia 119 companies. Another cyclone is reported from Iowa on Saturday. At Hoopereville, some fifty miles northeast of Sionx City, on Saturday the Presbyterian church. A school house and some twenty-five residences were destroyed and eighteen freight cars ou the C. St. P. & M..U. K. were turned upside down. In the country as many more houses and barns were destroyed. At Kmmettsburg an Kjually severe storm was j experienced. A large number of buildings were destroyed and three persons killed. , An accident on the ManitobaB. R. near Atwater killed scven persons and seriously hurt six others. The train (a working train of fiat cars) jumped the track and rolled over an embankinent twelve feet high tumbling the men into a pool of water 10 feet deep. The anniversary of the founding of Free manonry in Philadelphia was celebrated by an immense procsseion of bands of inusic on tbe 24th. ExGov. Hartranft wasthrown from hts norse but it is thought was not seriously hurt, Although he continned with the procession, later he was taken home overeóme by the heat and Lis injuries The freight along the wharves in New York and at the termini of the great trunk roads is piled up in immense qaantity. Tbe suikers are rapidly organizing intn unions and merchante are preparing to compel the railroad cnmpanies to deliver the goode orpay damages. Williams port, Pa. , is to have a $100,000 public building. Tbe appropriation bas passed. Mrs. Christiancy has vvithdriwn her cross petition in the divorce snit, abandoning all her charges of cruelty and misconduct against the ex-mi aister. Mr. Scoville is apprehenslve that Mrs. Scoville will be sosffacted by her brother's execution that she will do vtolence to herself and to theirchild. Henry Forbes, a sea man of the steamer üarco Aurelio from Havana, admitted to the hospital at New Orleans Sunday, bas the yellow f e ver. Storms on Friday and Saturday were of great seirerity iu various parts of the country. At Indiaaapolis. the steeple of St. Paul' Episcopal cathedral was blown down and feil through the roof, damaglng the cburch several ttiousandn of dollars. A Bumbar of other buildings were damaged. In a fire in a bonrdlng house at Manchester N. H., a panic resulted and eigbt persons were seriously burt by jumping f rm Windows ;some of t hem will die. The strike is still ia force in N w York. The strikers are watching the green hands. Italians and Rus3ian Jews trying to handle the freight while the pólice preserve order. MT. Ii. Clark editor of the Atlanta.Ga., Repul can, was horse whipped by E. McORnless for she claims misreprtsentatton in the newelaper. Fire broke out in the Dansviile (near Kecuectar) water oure and it was tmrned to the round. The 3uO inmates wtra rescued withut in jury. There was an iusurance of $85,000. Guiteau is preparing a speech to deliver on hu gallows, with mtnifold copies for the ress. C. A. Seavy of Saratogo, traveling agent for Philadelphla house, died In Greenvillo of poplexy on the 27th. Amos r. Hall, a prominent citizan and ocre tary of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, has u&t died. A young man named Delaire has been arrested in Polk City on suspicion of being the inur. erer of Mayor B. F. Stubbs of Dts Moines laai April. Under tbreats of Delaire coleseed that a gang numbering fifteen had ploted to rob Stubbs, and brought despeiadoes rom Missouri named Wickes and Blackman to do the work, and that Wickes did the kilUng This same party robbed the baak saté in Kansas üty soine time aince. Delairb' sister wan work ing at Siubös' aud knew of tbe inoney being la the house. In an attampt to arrest a gambler named Menizel, at Eaton, N. M., on the 27tb, hB resistef and using hs revolver killed flve perous before he was captuied. He was then hung to a tel egraph pole. The uauitB of the killtd were S H. Jackson, Harvey Moulton, Hngh Eddleeton formerly engiueer on the Santa Fe isad road Bargeu, a depuiy sheriff, and J. H Latlmer, a painter in the emploj oi tbe Santa Fe road. President Arthur gave audience to John V Guiteau, but dcliaed to interfere with the ex ecution of the assaseiu's sentence. Iowa's 8truigle bstweeu wbiskey and water on the 27th, so far as reporte are io, indícate lare majority in favor of the prohibitory amendmeLt. The rromotion of Maj. Godfrey Weitzel to b lleutenant colonel will relieve biin früm dut in connection with harbor improvements a De'roit. He is ordered to the same duty a Philadelphia. Maj. F. N. ÈVrquahr will b Ma]. Weitzel's suoceascr at Detroit.

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