News Summary

McGarigle bas been expelled from tbe Masonic order. Mr. C'arliale say he witl not eontest his i teat in tbe house. Ex-Gov. Porter, assistant secretary of state, will shortly reaign. The "Progressive Labor party" has twen organized in New York City. Great damage has been caused by floods between Tacson and Benion, Arizona. The governor of Dlinols has made applieation for the extradition of McOarlgle. The Rio Grande river uverflowed its tanks nundating 'argo sectlons of Texas. Nearly the whole of the town of Rawson, Obio, was destrnyed by flre the other day. The washouts on the Sonthern Pacific roatl in Arizona wiU cost the company WOO.OOO. A farmer named Lyman was gored to death by a buil near Hillsdale, 111., a few days ago. Tbe international medical congreas adjourned on the lOth inst, to meet at Berlin in 1890. Lieut. Gov. K, W. Waterman took the oath of office as governor of California on the 13th inst. Five saw milis in Minneapolis were deitroyed by flre the other day, inrolving a loss of $300,000. The order of tbe restoration of the i n demnity lands of the Omaha railroad has been suspended. It is said that Mrs. Parsons, the wife of the condemned anarchist, ia constantly under pólice surveilance. Fireman Richmond was killed and sev. eral other train hands were injured in a collision at Sprlnghill, N. 8. Sept. 9 was a legal holiday in California, it being the STth anniversary of the admission of California as a state. The Maverick oil works in East Boston Mass., were burned the other morningi and five men lost their live. One man was burned to death and three seriously injured in a tenement flro in Newark, N. J., the other night. A tete in honor of the centenary of the American constitution will be held in the Crystal Palace in London Sept. 17. Uustavus Wichmann, treasurer of the village of Readin.', Hamilton county, Ohio, is short $7,000 in his accounts. Rev. Dr. Samnel Wilsonof Xenia, Ohio, professor in the United Fresbyterian theological seminary in that place, is dead. The value of the breadstufl exports from the United States during August was $18,883,44, against $15,116 881 in August, 1886. The opening of the Kansas City exposition has been postponed from Sept. 15 to Monday, Sept. 26, at the request of ex hibitors. Capt. Joseph F. Gutiweller, assistant sergeant-at-arms of the National House of Representatives, died at Findlay, Ohio, Sept. 14. The conimon eouncil of Richmond, Va , hai refused to appropriate $10,000 toward tbe expense of laying the Lee monument corner stone. Dr. St. John and the captains of the schooners Blake and Marsh have been indicted in Chicago for aiding boodier McGarigle to escape. The conductor of the fast mail train which cauted the railroad accident near Afton, Iowa, has been held for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The body of Gen. Kilpatrick who died at Santiago in liSl wbile United States consul to Chili, has been returned to thls country for final interment. Two United States prisoners escaped from the prison at Sioux City, Iowa, the other day, by throwing a blanket over the head of thedeputy warden. The railroad shops and buildings of the Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee, at Y ankton, Dak., were destroyed by flre the other morning. Loss $80,000; insured. The Union and Northern Pacific railroads have agreed upon a plan of dividing territory, so that neither company shall bnild branch lines into competing territory. The Iowa supremo court has decided that the prohibition law authorizes the state authorities to prevent the exportation of spirits os well as their use in the state. Miss Ida Wallace was shot and instantly killed at Schenectady, N. Y., by Fred Knigbt. Knight gave himself np to the pólice, stating that be lntended killing tbe roman. General Master Workman Powderly is out In a card saying tbat he doesn't intend resigning at the annual meeting to be held in Minneapolis the flrut week in October. Ex-Premier Wilder of the Hawaiian iclands is at Chicago. In reply to a question he stated that the LondDn loan for $l,5JO,eOO would be negotiated within three montbs. An explosión of napbtha occurred on the schooner War Eagle in Boston Uarbor the other morning. Two men were killed and the steward of the schooner jumped over board and was drowned. The board of trustees of the proposed American Cathollo university have decided npon Washington as the place of location. Hot. Dr. Keane of Richmond has been chosen as the flrst rector. Capt. Berlben, leader of the expedition whose object was t o kill or kidnap the governor-general of Cuba, has arrived at New Orleans. Beriben's scheme was loiled by the Spanish authorities. The steel stern-post and stem of the new government cruiser now being built a4 San Francisco have been cast. The stem weighs 16,XO pounds, and is said to be the largest casting ever made in America. A collision occurred on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad near Peoria, Ohio, the other morning. The engineer of a passenger train vu instant. ly killed and the fireman seriously injured. A nnmber of sheds extending along Howard avenue,New Orleans.collapsed the other af ternoon and buried seven people be" neath the ruins, two of whoin were taken out dead. The others are seriously injured. The Rev. Thomas Edwards, aged 84, who disappeared from Pittsburgseveral weeks ago, is in Carmarthenshire, Wales, where he proposea to remain. His Pittsburg relativos have taken charge of his large estáte. While a revival was in progres in Needmore, Tenn., the other day, the floor of the hall where the meeting was being beid gave way, carrying 6,070 people with it, and all were more or lesa injured. One man will die. Gladstone has written to tl;e Philadelphia committee thanking tliem for the invitation to attend the centennial celebra tion of tbe adoption of the constitution, but aays that he must decline because of pressing duties at home. tWilliam A. Washington, up to his death the nearest living relative of Gen. George Washington and who was the last male represen tative of the nnme, died Kunday morning Sept. 13, at hls home in Owensboro, Ky., aged 67 years. In the New Hampshlre senate the other day Senator Sawyerannoun ed that Klrk Pierce had offered him $5,000 to ïnake a speeoh in favor of the Soton & Maine railroad and that be had apurned the bribe. Tke matter will be investigated. The experiment! with sorghum suRar making in Kansas have been attended by the most gratifying success, and Cornmissioner Coleman is very enthusiastic over the reault. He believes that a new and profitable industry has been created. Charles P. Ide, bookkeeper of the First National bank at Glen Falla, N. Y., bas confessed to the embezzlement of $18,000 in tho years 188', 1881 and 18SS. He was an offlcer in a Baptist Runday school and generally respected. Mo arrest has been mada. The f ast mail on the Chicago, Burlington ét Quincy railroad ran into the regular passenger train westward bound, near Afton, lowa, the other day. One child was killed, and lüpassengers wereseriously injured. It is thought two of the injured will die. Moses Marshall, the inventor of the Lamb knitting machine, died at Chicopee, Mass., reeently, aged 75. He was a veteran in the building and invention of knitting machines and was the oldest living pioneer in the manufacture of teztile machinery in America. A ship has brougbt intelligence to San Francisco that the popalation of Pitcairn Islands has increased to 107, of whom 57 are women, and but three deaths havo occnrred in the past three years. Tuis is the Island on wbich the mutinous crew of the ship Bounty took refuge in 1789. Louis Streif of Wilson, Wis., saw that the barn of liii neighbor, Mr. Btauli, had been tstruck by lightuing, and was burning. He put on his coat and ha3tenod across a field to ald in subduing the ñames, Ho was yet a distance from the scène of the flre, when a bolt struck and instantly killed him. Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager has prepared a statement ehowing the estimated number of acres restored to the public domain under the August orders of the secretary of the interior revoking indemnity withdrawals to be 21,823,600, ez clusiv of 1,518,0(0 acre within the limit of Indian reservatious. At the international medical congress in Washington, Dr. Domingos Fvien ofBrazii read a lengthy paper on the subject of vaccination as a preventivo for yellow fever. At the conclusión of the doetor's paper the gection adoptiuu a re.solution recommending that the practica Le experlmeuted upon in this country. Mrs. Henry Seil of Grove Point, Hl., while on her way to a funeral at Northfield, was killed by a stray bullet fired by one of a party of Chicago picnicers who were shooting at a mark. The fatal shot was fired by Frank Rinkerberger. Ths whole party, including slz men and iour women, were placed uuJer arrest. Ex-U. S. Congressman Albert Gallatine Talbot of Kentucky, died from heart disease a few days ago, at the residence oi his father-in aw, Mr. P. Watson, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Mr. Talbot formerly took active interest in Kentucky politics, and represented that state in congress from 1855 to 1850. He was a native of Kentucky. The schooner Arestliusu of Shelbourne. N. 8., arrived in Halifax the other morn. ing from the Grand Banks, fche reports that a terrible hurricaue swept over the Banks on August 26. C reat damage was done to the verséis and inany fishermen j were lost. Fourleen men belonging to the schooner Manee of Pubnico, N. S., were swept overboard and drowned. En-Gov. Wm. Aiken died September 8 at liis country place at Fiat Rock, N. C, aged 81. He was governor of South Carolina in 1844 and a cungressman from 1851 to 1857. He was tbe largest slave holder in the state before the war, and a successful rice planter. He consistently opposed nullification and Eecession, and took no part in politics after leaving congress. In the supreme court in Des Moines, the opinión has been flled in the case of Peargon & Longhran against the International distillery, in wbich tho lower court held that the sale of intoxicating liquors for export for general purposes was illegal and closed the distillery as a nuisance. The court affirms this decisión Opinión by Judge Beek, Judge Seevers and Reed dissouting. Hon. Rudolph Hildebrand, ex-senator from LaGrange, Tex., nearly i0 years old, was thrown from his carriage the other evening on his head and instantly killed. He was a prominent revolutionist in the Germán uprising in 1818, and was compelled to leavo Germany. Coming to Texas in 150 heat once assumed a leading position in bis section, which hs maintained to the last. lio leaves a tlarge fortune. The He v. John Alabaster, D. IX, a, leading Methodist clergy man, died in Canan daigua, N. Y., where ba was visiting recently. He was at the time pastor of Trinity M. E. church, Chicago, whither he was transferred after having served very nsefully as pastor of the Tabernacle church, Detroit, and of the church at Ann Arbor. He carne to Michigan from New York state where he had served at Elmira, Cortland and Auburn. His age was a bout BS. The soldiers' monument at Braddock, Pa., overlookingtbe site where Gen. Braddock was defeated, was unveiled on the lOth inst.. with considerable pomp. Between 6,000 and 7,000 grand army men and sons of veterans participated in the parade, in additlon to wbich there were a number of civic organizations in line. Ex-Gov. Piermont of West Virginia, and Gen. Gibson of Ohio, made the principal addresses. Tbe monument is a handsome one. The Bohemian Athletic society, which left Chicago six months ago for a tour in Europe, has returned. The member of the party have brought with tbem as a present for Mr. Cleveland a magnifleent set of garnet jewelry, consisting of a broach, earrings and chain. The bros.cn la in tbe shapa of an eagle holding in iti claws three gold arrows and supported by two stundardscontainingphotographic views of Prague. The casket containing the set is lined with white satin and is inscribed: "To Mrs. Cleveland, with protound respect, from the Bohemian excursionista to Pargue." The national convention of the ladlei' aid society auxiliary to the sons of veterans, was held at Akron, O., on the 'Jth. The report of the president Miss L. F. Martin of Philadelphia, showa that there. are seventy-two local organizations in the order, aixty-flve of which have been cbartered since Jan. 1. They are located in Pennsylvania, Obiu, Illinois, lowa, California, Kansas, Michigan, Maine, Vermont New Jersey, Dakota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Missouri, and the District of Columliia. Tlie total inembership is now 6,000. Miss Lizzie Kiehl of Lancaster, Pa., national secretary, reported receipts of (720 and expenuitures of $717. Does it Mean War? It is reported that nfTaira in Manitoba over the interference of tbe Dominion government with provincial rightt in dis allowlng the ochartor of the Red River Valley railroad granted by the local govrnnient, are dally assuming a more seri. ons outlook, and the Dominion government has ordered the military stations at Winnipeg to hold themselves in rradiuess to suppress any trouble, and ordors have been issued that dominion troops be in readiness to proceed to Winnipeg at any mom ent