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and the shooting appears to have been the
result Of a drunken frenzy on the part of the
murderer.
A collision between the whites and
blacks occurred at Timmonsville, Darling
ton County, S. c., OF the 2Sth, brought
about by the assassination by some
unknown party, on the preceding
night, of B. o. Holloway, the Re
publican Trial Justice. The blacks and
whites both armed, and the result of the
encounter was that two whites were placed
hOrs de combat. The casualties on the part
OF the blacks, il any, are not mentioned.
The British ship Ada Irondale, with
a cargo of coal from Scotland to San Fran
cisco, took fire in the lower hold on the voy-
age, and when discovered the fire had made
such Roadway that the crew were forced to
abandon the vessel, which they did on Oct.
Is, in three open boats. On Nov. 9, after
great suffering from exposure and hunger,
and the loss of one boat and one Of its crew,
the survivors reached Msrquesas, 2,40O
miles distant from the point where they
abandoned their vessel.
A peddler called at the house of S.
s. Chalfant, near Thornville, Ohio, on the
night Of the 26th, aud obtained permission
| to lodge over night. During the night he
chloroformed the entire family and ran
sacked the house, carrying off 5000 in money
and S35, 600 in drafts. The robber was
tracked to Lancaster, but not apprehended.
A cargo of arms and munitions of
war for the Turkish Government, valued
at 81, 769, 100, was shipped from New
Haven, Conn. on the 2Sth, on the British
steamer Lotus, to Constantinople direct.
Two rival saloon keepers at Hot
Creek, Wyoming, had q serious shooting
affray on the 26th. Daniel Perry was fatal
/ ly wounded in the breast and head, and j..
| II. Price, his antagonist, was seriously
wounded in the leg,
The American ship Dakota, from
New Orleans to Liverpool, was struck by
| lightning and burned when about 400 miles
/ from the Azores. The captain and crew
reached Fayal in safety, after being at sea
/ four days in open boats.
The first annual meeting of the Sun
day-school Congress of the United States
opened its session at Chicago on the Goth.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey opened
their revival campaign in Boston on the
| Goth.
G. w. Via and Granville Peake, two
horse herders, had a shooting encounter at
Gsllaway's ranch, % miles south of Chey-
enne, on the 9th. Eleven shots were fired.
Peake was fatally wounded, but Via is likely
to recover.
European advices Of the 30th were
generally indicative of peaceful solution
of the Eastern troubles.
Edgar Moore, the murderer of Mabel
Hall, the St. Louis ballet girl, has been
found guilty of murder in the first degree.
The Jury appended to their verdict a re-
commentator to clemency.
Robert Drury, who murdered his
uncle, Albert Gibson, at Memphis, on the
10Th, was arrested at Paducah, KY, on the
81st.
The first installment of 100000,
due by Mexico to the United States under
the Convention OF July 4, 1868, for the
settlement Of claims, was paid TO the Sec
retary OF State by the Mexican Minister on
the 31st.
The Cincinnati and Terre Haute
Railroad, 26 miles completed and in opera
ton, was sold on the 3lst, under a decree
of the United States Court, to W. r. Me-
Keen, President of the Vandalia line, for
S75, 900.
According to the Coroner's Jury in
the case of she Brooklyn Theatef calamity,
there were 21S lives lost, two by burning
and the remainder by sufocation.
The Arizona Legislature has passed
a bill exempting the Southern Pacific Rail-
way from taxation for four years, and per-
hitting a tariff Of 10 cents per mile for pas
sengers and 10 cents per ton for freight.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of Newark, n. j., has gone out Of business
in a crippled condition, being reported
800, 900 short in its assets.