Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-30
NEWS SUMMARY.

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e IT is stated In Rome that the Pope has .
7 solved to convoke Vatican Council to discu
1 ecclesiastical REFORM
d SEVEN companies Of infantry have left Ne
i Orleans for their former stations on the nortl
ern borders of Milwaukee and Detroit.
: DIsrILLERs and rectiflers in St. Louis who's
: places have been seized declare their intentio
1 of bringing suit for damages against the Go
D ernment.
By an explosion at the Hazardville Powde
Works, in Hazardville, Connecticut Nose
; Black. John Severe and George Richards wer
instantly killed.
; Two Commissioners to represent France a
the Philadelphia Centennial, one to reside i
the United States and one in France will b
appointed
THE Governor of Missouri has proclame
Thursday, June Sd, as day of humiliation an
fasting, information having been received tina
the State is threatened with a grasshoppe
pest.
NORRIS, John Mitchell's opponent in tn
election for members of Parliament for Tip
erary, claims the seat because Mitchell was
naturalzed citizen of the United States. Thi
case is being tried at Clonmel.
A ST. JOSEPH (Mo.), special says the grass
hoppers are utterly destroying the Winter
wheat crops in that locality. Dispatches
from mum Der of other points in Missouri
and Kansas say the crops are being injured b.
grasshoppers.
THE strike in Clearfield, Pennsylvania
mining region is ended A majority of the
miners in their several districts voted to turr
to work at the old rates, provided that all the
strikers were taken back.
JEREMIAH HAMILTON, the well known col
ored Spectator of Wall street, formerly q
slave in the West Indies, died in New York @
few days ago. He was said to be the richest
colored man in the United States-worth
100000.
| REV. GEORGE B. BACON last week declined
to serve as Trustee of the Congregational
Union, for the reason that H. c. Bowen was
one of the Board A. H. Bradford was elected
in his place, and he too refuses to serve, be-
cause he would prefer to have contributions
dispensed by men of unquestioned Christian
character"
THE Paris Moniteur, referring to England's
course during the recent war alarm, says:
England, by raising her voice in favor OF
peace, has naturally recovered her just author
ity and influence in continental affairs, and
the present Ministry has acquired degree OF
strength and power which will procure for it
the grateful respect Of Europe"
A HAVANA letter states that highway rob-
berries and murders are SO frequent lately in
the streets of the city that the Acting Captain
General who was himself robbed in the street
of his watch and jewelry, worth $500, has or
dered all culprits hereafter to be tried by the
military authorities.
THE Republicans Kansas City special says
the grasshoppers have penetrated the heart of
the city, moving in a vast army and going
SOUTH Trenches are being dug and millions
are slaughtered, but nothing can stop the red
legged pests in their march. Their depreda-
tons are becoming very serious.
A SHOCKING affair occurred recently in Cass
County, Iowa. Daniel O'Connor wealthy
farmer, attempted to ravish his daughter,
aged Is, and threatened her with death if she
told Of the crime. She went to her uncle,
however, and told him, and when the officers
went to arrest O'Connor, hearing them CON-
inc hn shot and kilIad hinsaR
A BROWNSVILLE special says Mexican cav
airy has been stationed at various points be-
tween Camargo and Matamoras. Captain
McNally, who is stationed with a company at
Edinburgh, has information of the crossing of
three droves of stolen cattle within the last
week. Some depredations are reported from
Ringgold to Brownsville.
THE Roman Catholic Bishops of Prussia,
who addressed petition to the Emperor, and
received reply last month from the Minister
OF State, have made rejoinder that to reject
decisions of the Vatican Council would be
equivalent to an abandonment of Catholicism,
and that they are convinced that the Holy See
would never be unwilling to act in conformity
with all proper decisions of the State Govern
ment
The consolidation of the Globe and Democrat
of st. Louis is completed to the satisfaction of
all parties concerned, and the first number of
the Globe Democrat has been isssed. The new
journal will appear in folio form for about two
weeks, or until certain arrangements are COM
rN1a taA -ho,1 all
column quarto, one column larger than the
old Globe
VERY severe mountain fires have been ra-
ging in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, for the
past few days. An immense amount of lum-
Der and sawed logs and dwelling houses have
been burned in the Hickory Run and Mud
Run. The inhabitants of Mud Run have suf-
fered terribly from the flames, numerous fam.
lies only escaping with their lives, all of their
household goods and residences being lost.
GoRDoN's Black Hills train, consisting of
A teams and ITO men, was captured on the
18th, by detachment of soldiers from Fort
Randall, and is now en- route to that post
NO resistance was offered. They were cap
tured in Nebraska, $50 miles west of Sioux
City, and 40 miles south of the Indian reser-
walton. They had given up the idea of going
to the Black Hills, and concluded to move on
to the Big Horn Country.
The feature of the session of the Long
Island Diocese Episcopal Convention in
Brooklyn, was the report OF the Committee
on Christian Education, read by Rev. STAFF
lord Browne. The report urges the establish
ment Of system Of Episcopal schools, in