The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-05-11
MINOR TELEGRAMS

Mr.. Pierrepont assumes the duties Of
his office this week,
The Fifth Maryland regiment is to
escort the president TO the Bunker Hill
centennial.
There was report yesterday in
New York that the steamship City of
Chester had foundered at sea.
The Brooklyn city court room was
crowded yesterday morning and the
great scandal trial was resumed.
The sea has been so rough that it
has been impossible for boats to APP
prOach the wrecked steamer Schiller.
The session of the court of claims
will be prolonged until June. There
are many important cases before this
court.
The comptroller Of the currency
has called upon the national banks to
make report of their condition on
the lst instant.
The steamship Cadiz was lost off
the coast of Brest, Ell route from Lis
bon to London, on Saturday. Sixteen
persons were drowned.
There was q life belt in every one
of the wrecked steamer Schiller's
berths when the disaster occurred.
Captain Thomas issued orders that one
should be fastened to every woman,
but the women were drowned by the
heavy sea.
An attempt to burn the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad bridge above Lo-
Gust Gap, Saturday night, failed, but it
is thought unsafe to run trains over it.
These attempts of wrecking trains in
the Schuylkill regions are becoming
alarming and increasing.
The outlook in the mining region
of PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio is not Ell
couraging. The operatives seem deter,
mined to continue the strike, ana
hence there is no immediate prospect
of its ending. The miners will neither
work themselves nor, in many locali-
ties, permit others to do so.
A cable dispatch gives the follow
ing corrected list of passengers so far
known to be saved from the steamer
Schiller: Leo West, Henry Stems,
John Jones, Mrs. Jones, Jean Rink,
Hester G. Frohm, Carl Kuhn, Marcus
Pawitzer, r. Schillenberg, G. Jansen,
Ludwig II. Reiderer, Charles Henry
Percy, Richard Williams, James L.
Egner.
AT the meeting of Kansas Pacific
railroad stockholders, at Lawrence,
Kansas, on Saturday, the contract re-
Gently drawn up in New York between
the Colorado Central and Kansas Pa
cifiic, was ratified. This retires over
two millions of Indebtedness, and
places the road in much better con.
dition. All the old officers of the road
We're reelected.
The printers who recently struck
at the Daily Chronicle office in Wash
ington, are making arrangements 10
publish daily morning newspaper,
having purchased material for the pur-
pose. They have substantial support
from the printers union, the book
binders and pressmans' unions, ana
several other influential trade assocla-
tions. We hope they will succeed III
publishing u good paper-somethihg
Washington is now lacking
William ]. Kincade, a farmer liv-
ing a short distance from keytesvilie,
Missouri, was murdered last week by
"a negro named Smallwood Starks;;
Both men were working in field all
day, and on returning in the evening,
while putting up their horses got into
IA quarrel, and Starks struck kincade
twice on the head with a wagon stake,
crushing his skull. Starks left the
neighborhood Immediately, and at
last accounts had not been captured.
-Advices from the City of Mexico
say that the revolution which COM
menced i'm Michoacan i'm consequence
of the publication of church reforms
and expulsion of sisters of charity, Is
extending and gaining groundin other
states. MichOacan issutfering greatly.
All business is paralysed, and the IN
habitants are leaving the village.
Jucquaba was pillaged and burned;
The legislature of Michoacan, alarmed
at the progress of the revolution, mas
been convoked in extra session. IL
will discuss measures for the extln-
guishment of the rebels.
"A tornado passed over the village
of Green Springs, Ohio, Sunday alter
noon, blowing down three houses