The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-08-19
NEWS aUNMARY

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The British hrliainent Will reas
semble on the 2sth Of October.
The telegraph brings intelligence o
further freshets In Kansas, inflictinl
much damage.
In Spain rebels are just now being
sum mariIy dealt with when caught
Ttey are shot down Oh the spot.
The convention at st. Louis, IN the
interests OF removal thither OF thu
national capital, will be held Octobe'
! goth. ,....' .,........r....a. IN
The Methodists are making prepare
tions to receive and entertain about 49,
600 persons at the Sing Sing IN. Y.
camp meeting, which will open tho 10th
inst. u.a.s
The six large storchouses Of the Chi
cago Ice Company, at Crystal Lake, for
ty miles northwest of Chicago, contain
ing a large quantity Of ice, were destroy
ed by fire the llth inst. together with
three freight cars loaded with ice, and a
horse.
George r. Ritter, President Of the
First National Bank Of Memphis, Tenn
| has been arrested In New York, on q
charge of embezzling $GoO,O Of the
| Tennessee State school fund. .3.....
The steamboat Cumberland, Of the
Evansville and Cairo line, on the Ohio
river, exploded her boiler near Shaw
neetown, mr., on Saturday morning
Some eighteen or twenty lives are re-
ported lost.
The military commission at Jackson,
Miss. that tried Yerger, Is engaged on
the Esau Downs murder case. The
murderer and the murdered were both
Eegroes. The father in law murdered
his son in law. .........,............ ...
Cincinnati has go, 900 inhabitants
2l3 churches, three morning and two
evening papers, besides two German
dailies, 10 week lies, 20 monthlies and
quarterly. Its suspension bridge has
the longest span in the world, and cost
s., OeO, 900. w.. '~ ~ ~
| 1t is still impossible to state the
amount the robbers took from the ex-
press car on the New York Central r.
| r., on Wednesday morning. 1t Is pos.
itive.y known that $50 600 IN gold was
taken. There Is no clue to the robbers.
The Harvard UNITED States) and OK
ford (EnglandD boat crews are'dilg 'ntly
practicing for the University race, In
England. Both crews are said to be III
excellent condition, and daily improv.
Ing. The race will take place on the
afternoon of August II.
The Canadians profess to have in for
nation to the effect that the Fenians
| intend to invade that country from the
United States, on the 18th of September
in the vicinity of Buffalo and Malone,
n. Y. 1888 .... .....
George II. Pendleton, who ran for Vice
President with Mcclellan. was nominal
ed for governor of Ohio by the DE
n,"orncy' of that State. in place Of Con.
Rosecrans, declined, and las accepted
the empty honor.
The election of United States Sena-
tor by the next Legislature of Tennes-
see is exciting general interest. Ethe-
ridge aud Johnson are the most prom
inent prospective candidates, though
Cooper has many supporters. The
| Nashville Banner will take grounds
1t Is understood, strongly against
Andrew johnson. s.
The Philadelphia Gazette observes
that it would not be in the least sur
prised to find the Lackawanna and
Wyoming Companies employing Chi.
nese miners. Those companies reso-
lutely hold ont against the strike, and
say they will never surrender.
The war between the trunk lines of
railroad from New York to the West is
now being waged with greater intensity
than ever. and freights to Chicago have
been reduced to Is cents per cwt. Mer-
chants are taking advantage of this new
rate, and the different railroad stations
at New York are crowded with mer-
chandise awaiting transportation West
ward
In the case Of Pratt, the Texas muir
derer and traitor, arrested at New York
by United States authorities, the United
States Commissioner. acting under in
structions from Washington, still re
fuses to release the prisoner in obedi
ence to Judge McCunn's writ of huJea
corpus from the State Court.
In commemoration of the hundredtl
birthday of the First Napoleon. tn
Emperor of the French issued deere
the 18th in which he grants full an
complete amnesty to the press aud pc
iitical offences, to persons convince
Of evasion Of taxes, to deserters from tn
army and navy, and to sailors in tn
merchant marine who have abandone
their ships &c..
The tailor's strike in New York h;
been successful. Thirty firms ha>
/ sigued the new price list, aud forty otl
r ers have agreed to pay it, though the
. have not given their signatures. ST
: firms will not be treated with, and IL
members of the union are not to wor
# for them on any terms. Several otht
labor unions in New York are now pr
por;pv for Striko s