The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-06-30
NEWS OF rsIE DAY.

IT Is said that o. IL Browning. Of Illinois.
will be made Secretary Of the Interior
TEE monitor Monadnock arrived safely at
San Francisco on the 22d inst.
The charge against JEFF. Davis of com
phcity in the assassination plot has not been
sustained by the evidence.
TWENTY cases Of cholera have recently oe-
CURED IN Elizabeth, New Jersey. nine az
which proved fatal. The disease has. how
ever been checked, through the timely cxer-
tons Of the police, WHO barricaded the
streets Of the infected district, and burned
the clothing and bedding W TIE patients
The Milwaukee. SeEtilei gives a list n
the buildings being erected VI already com
pleted 10 the various wards the present sea
son, = total Of POS, at an outlay Of SGCf,-
200. Ii saws that nearly 800 600 will VET
be expended ia building IN that CITY before
the season closes-making total expendi-
of over a Eillion dollars.
The bounty money due - the officers and
men of the gunboats Benton, Cairo, CAron-
delet, Louisville, st. Louis aud Queen of
the West is now ready for payment At the
4th auditors office.
THE funeral Of Gen. Cas- took place
Wednesday at Detroit Business was en-
tirely suspended, and all the organizations
~ the city took part III tile ceremonies.
The sermon was preached By Rev. Dr.. Dnf-
field, and the body was posted ~ Elm
wood cemetery.
AT Guadalupe, III tie French West ladies'.
there had been, up NJ last accounts, Ij 900
deaths among the negroes from cholera
which il raging fearfIl.Y On that island.
UNITED States Senator Lane, OF Kansas. Is
quite i'll at the Lindell hotel, III ST. Louis
TRAINS are now running through to
Leavenworth, Kansas, from ST. LOUIS, gia
the Missouri Pacific railway
GEN. SANTA Anna, il is said, has made
proposals to this government nat IVY be
furnished a quantity Of arms and number
Of men with some money, aud sent 70
Mexico to overthrow M@ximuiian ana make
an alliance with this country
Horace GREELEY has written letter to a
Frnian meeting in New YORK IN which he
says: have faith that the time IS not far
distant when Ireland shall belong to, and be
governed by the Irish, aad that they will
be, as they surely ought 70 w, earnestly de-
voted 10 tho liberty Of all men, ali nations,
all races, here and everywhere"
FURTHER doubts are expressed IN regard
to the disease which has preyailei for the
past three months IN New York harbor.
Many physicians still contend that il bears
little resemblance to the genu,ns cholera
| On Saturday morning, freight car con
tanning a large quantity e gunpOwder
caught Ere by spark from the locomotive
while on its way from QHahec to Montreal.
II was at once detached from the train, and
the passengers warned ID escape. Aprivate
soldier ut once broke open the door, and,
anaided, quickly brought some buckets ana
extiDguished the flames. A very handsome
sum Of money was Immediately after Pre-
sented TO him IN the passengers a. a reward
for his bravery.
| ACCIDENTS N THE STREET. wv LONDON lit
appears from two Parliamentary returns lust
\ issued, that during the year 1865. Az per-
sons were run over and killed In London T.
| ,707 were manned or otherwise injured
\ from the same cause During the present
year, up 10 the end Of February, % fatal
cases have occurred, besides 23l cases of
injury. In tn city police district IA per
sons we're run over and killed last year, and
207 were manned or injured; were killed
this year, and 81 injured In 1868, 29 sum
monses were taken out by the city police for
furious driving where NJ death happened !;
this year 6 such summOnSeS were taken out.
We have the following important adition-
al items by the Java: The Emperor Of
Austria had delivered a most defiant war
speech before the Common Council of Wen
ma Movements Of large bodies Of Russian
troops toward Austrian POLAND were IN pro
gress. A treaty Of alliance, offensive and
defensive, had been entered into between
Sweden, Norway anu Denmark. The
movement Of large Austrian
army toward the Bosnian frontier
was rumored. Italian troops were said to
he advancing upon the Mincio. Hanover
has rejected Prussia's proposals for an ALI
ance. Garibaldi was busy inspecting the
volunteer regiments, and was soon 70 have
an interview with Victor Emalual Russia
mas intimated that upon the slightest viola
ton Of neutrality By France, she will aban-
don her present neutral attitude.