Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-31

combe hall with closed doors, but as the
weather is very warm and the windows
cannot be closed, the reporters are TAX
ing notes. The convention is choosing
temporary officers. General w. c. Wick
ham, of Richmond, has been elected
temporary chairman.
The Kansas Farmers State Grange.
LAWRENCE, July 30.-Five hundred
oranges are in session here to-day to re-
organize the State grange. The meet
ing will last three days. The report OF
State masters shows that last January
there were only ten oranges in the State
and now there are over four hundred.
Reports from all parts of the State in
dictate large crop of wheat and oats.
Corn will be light.
Fatal ReneOntre.
CHICAGO, July 30.-This evening,
about seven o'clock, John WOrkneister.
who keeps a market-stall at 5Sl State
street, shot Mike Beemis, the ball en-
| tering his back under the right shoulder
and lodging in the left breast, inflicting
wound which is pronounced fatal.
| Beenlis had attacked WOrkneister with
the avowed intention of whipping him,
on account of some previous difficulty
! between them. WOrkneister placed
himself under arrest.
An Alleged Rapist Accidentally KILLED.
LOUISVILLE, July 30.-A negro named
Isham Miller, charged with rape, was
shot and killed in Macon county, Ken
lucky, few days since. The officers went
out to arrest him, and finding him in a
field ordered him to accompany them.
Miller started with them, when gun in
L., g ,gNfA
was discharged, the contents entering
Miller's body, causing death in an hour.
The officer claims the gun was dis
charged accidentally, and has given
himself up for trial.
ChOIers at Fayette, Mo.
FAYETTE, July 30.-There has been
fourteen deaths by cholera here since
last Saturday, out of a population not
exceeding twelve hundred. The dis
ease originated at picnic of the ne
groes, which took place last Saturday,
and came of Overeating unwholesome
food and drinking impure water from a
stream near by. Nine negroes died, and
a number are still sick. Three white
railroad labOrers, and two well-known
citizens have also died. Large quanti-
ties of tar, rosin and guupowder are be-
ing burned by the authorities, and other
means taken to stop the progress of the
scourge. There was only one death yes
terday, and it is believed the disease has
spent its force.
wisconsin Crop News,
MILWAUKEE, July 30.-The crop re-
ports from fifty-siX points along the line
of the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad,
in Wisconsin, say the prospects for
wheat and other small grain were never
better. Wheat will average twenty BUSH
els to the acre, and of excellent quality.
Harvesting has commenced. Sixteen
points in Minnesota also give very fiat
tering accounts of the coming harvest.
Some points estimate the yield at thirty
bushels to the acre. A few places in
northern Iowa report good yield, equal
to last year. With fair harvest
weather, the crops in the northwest will
make handsome showing.
United States Treasury and POstofIice
Department Chronicles.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-Seversl treas
ury officials, who went to London some
weeks ago with bonds for the syndicate,
returned this morning with a large
number of cancelled bonds, sent to the
treasury by the syndicate.
Since the first Of June, the largest
amount of business ever done since the
organization of the postoffice depart
ment, ia the manufacture and shipment
of stamps, stamped envelopes, wrappers,
etc., took place. The increase is due TO
the abolition of the franking- privilege.
Over million pOstal-cards were shipped
from the factory to postmasters through
out the country.
Fire I'm the Iowa Penitentiary.
FORT MADISON, July 3O.-A fire broke
ont at seven o'clock yesterday in the
boileT-shop of the Iowa penitentiary, on
the north side of the grounds, burning
the bOiler-shOp, carpenter-shOp, trip
hammer-shop, and partly destroying the
dry-kiln. The officials telegraphed to
Burlington for fire-engine at quarter
past eight, which arrived at half-past
ten. The dry-kiln took fire, but it was
soon stopped by the engine. The loss to
the State is ten thousand dollars; loss to
contractors, twenty thousand dollars.
The Burlington boys worked their en-
gine admirably. At eleven o'clock the
fire was completely under control. No
prisoners escaped; all were safely locked
up in cells on the south side. No lives
were lost.
The ZOHR Libra Importation Trouble.
NEW ORLEANS, July 30.-A telegram
from Matamoras, this morning, has the
following: "Late advices from the City
of Mexico state that proposition will
be made by the government to congress,
which meets in September, to modify
the law in regard to the Zona Libra, re-
storing free importation of merchandise
under it to the ports of Matamoras and
Neuva Levardo, and requiring the from
tier towns which have heretofore enjoyed
the privilege of free importation to re-
ceive such goods as may be consigned TO
these places through Matamoras and
Neuva LevardO, to prevent the accumu-
lation of large quantities of free goods.
Also, the many different ports on the
frontier, from whence they are SNUG
gled into the interior of Mexico or the
United States"
Fearful Aeeidens-FIve Men Fatally and
several Seriously Injured.
CHICAGO, July 30.-A terrible acci-
dent occurred last evening at the North
Chicago rolling mills, situated on the
extreme northwestern suburbs OF the
city, About dozen wOrkmen were en-
gagged in removing an imperfect blast
from one of the furnaces, when suddenly,
as a large mass of clinkers WAS detached,
making an opening in hefurnace, there
rushed out an immense volume OF gas,
which coming in contact with the outer
air, exploded, filling the place with 8
sheet of flame which completely envel-
oped eight of the workmen, five Of
them-James Mack, Mike Haley, John
Pritt, James Schaffer and Patrick Man
ney-were so horribly burned that not
one of them is expected to recover
Three Others, Owen Corbett, Thomas
Conner and Nicholas Schevelin, were Sc
riously burned. The loss to the rolling.
mill company viii be considerable, but
the amount has not yet been ascertained
Murder-A INSTRUMENTATION Fight.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.-James A.
Gray was murdered by Charles Wilson
and McC Carthy, near Julian, San Diego
William Hunt witnessed the shooting,
and protested against the murder, when
they chased him. Mccarthy was ar.
rested, and parties are pursuing Wilson
A desperate fight occurred at Guatay
Valley, Lower California, a few days
ago, between the Indian Jacumba tribe
and a party of Mexicans. There was 8
long struggle; only knives were used
and the Indians were victorious. Sew