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NEWS ITESS,
What Is Doing In the Old World and the
Now.

What Is Doing In the Old World and tho
The coroner's jury, engaged in investigating
the killing of two Of the members of a large
manufacturing firm in New York, returned q
verdict that George W. Jewett was killed by q
hand grenade, brought to the firms place of
business by his nephew, Orville Jewett, whose
death, the jury report, was the result of pistol
shot wounds, and was caused by his own
act. Mr.. Walter, the proprietor of the London
Times. was attacked in Rome by highwaymen
and robbed. .....At q fire in Constantinoplc,
which began in that part of the city known as
the Greek quarters, 500 buildings were burned
to the ground. .... In the matter of the alleged
irregularities of the New York custom house,
a full and searching investigation has been de-
tcrmined upon 1890. A fire i'll Paterson. \. D.,
destroyed the Hamilton mill, one of the pril-
cipal WOODEN mills in the country, and in Pomc-
roy, Ohio, twenty-five business houses, offices
and dwellings, were laid i'll ruins. The
striking silk weavers of Hoboien and Paterson,
n. j., have gone to work at the old scale of
wages. A student of Princeton College
eloped with the sixteen-year-old daughter of a
wealthy Philadelphia builder ...... Abiel L.
Fifcld, the water register of Cambridge, Mass,
who left the city in April, 1876, taking with him
$40, 600 of the public funds, was arrested in n
Brooklyn candy store..... Charles H. Gilman,
OF LONcl, IhdSb., Il SCNlllS lLldCullS uHClll. "uS
brutally murdered in Rockport, and al en-
ployee named Williams was detained on account
of suspicious circumstances. 80. The number of
deaths at the hotel fire, in st. Louis, has not yet
been definitely ascertained, as it is believed
some bodies are still underneath the ruins, but
the mortality will not be as large as was at first
reported.
A suit has been commenced by Gen. G. W..
Curtis Lee to recover the property near Wash
ington, known as the Arlington estate, which
was bought up by the government on account
of unpaid taxes, in 1864, and converted into
a soldiers burying ground. Previous to the
war the estate was occupied by Robert E.. Lee.
.....:For lack of evidence, the grand jury of
Caroline county, Md, the scene of the duel be-
tween Bennett and May, failed to indict the
principals in that affair. AT Mauch Chunk,
Pa, Patrick ODonnell's trial for the assassina-
ton of Morgan Powell, ended in o verdict of
guilty OF murder in the first degree. ...In
Hudson county, N. j., the grand. jury have in
dicted a boy of sixteen, named Thomas Welsh,
for murder ...... The woods in the vicinity of
Rondout, N. Y, have been on fire. 1.-The
Rev. Gilbert B. Hayden, was struck by an eX-
press train near Elizabeth, N. j., and instantly
killed. ..... The woman who identified Stirling,
the Youngstown (Ohio) murderer, as her son,
now says that she was mistaken, and had been
made the victim of q hoax. 1.-The situation
in louisiana was under discussion by the cabi-
net, and it was decided to furnish the commits
sion at New Orleans with further instructions.
......A Brooklyn ex-mayor, named Lambert,
has defrauded his wife's sister out of $4,000.
$50. Edward A. Dorsey, a Maryland murderer,
has been arrested in New York Red Cloud
has been sent as an envoy to treat with the
hostile Indians. .....A duel at Little Rock,
Ark, resulted in a laughable fasco, the seconds
having loaded with blank cartridges ...... The
jury failed to agree in the case of ". B. Gilman,
of Washington, charged with receiving a pack
age of United States bonds containing S47, 1000.
The rumor of a European war caused the
sale of a greater amount Of corn in Baltimore
than had ever before been sold in one day in
that market. 800. While under the influence of
delirium tremens, a miner named Harldns. ran
through the streets of Altoona, Pa, brandishlng
a knife and attacking all who came in his way.
He stabbed one man six times, disembowled
another. and was in turn shot, stoned and
dubbed by the populace. He was finally cap
tured and locked up. Michael Blake created
a sensation in Williamsburgh, L. l., by return
ing to his family after an absence of sixteen
wears, during which time he never communi.
Gated with his relatives, who supposed him
dead go. One hundred and twenty immigrants,
forty Of them being miners from Pennsylvania,
sailed from New York for Australia ...... At q
meeting of anti-Mormons in Salt Lake City,
resolutions we're introduced petitioning Con-
gress to prohibit polygamists from voting or
holding Office. .... John Primatt, q Brooklyn
CN. W cigar maker, after a prolonged debauch,
attacked his wife and another woman with a
poker, drove them from his lodgings, locked
the door and cut his throat with a razor, bleed
ing to death before assistance arrived ...... No
appointment of associate justice to succeed
David Davis will be made until Congress meets
in June, and possibly not until December. .....
The steamphip Leo, from Savannah for Nassau,
was burned at sea, and four passengers and
part Of the crew are supposed to have been
lost. go. AT Geneva, Ohio, q man named Potter
shot and killed his wife and then committed
suicide. .... James Gordon Bennett has pur-
chased a residence in Paris, and will remain
abroad several years ......In Boston, James
F. Favor was held in $40, 900 bonds, charged
with abducting Mary E. Harrington. 80. Owing
to a recent decision of the New York court Of
appeals, it is likely that an extensive war upon
the liquor dealers of New York city will be conf
menccd. . The President has pardoncd Charles
Z. Bruce, convicted of forgery. This is the
first pardon granted by President Hayes ......
The body of the youngest daughter. of p. II.
Barnum was taken to Bridgeport, Conn.,. for
interment.
Ten vacancies exist III tho medical corps of
the United States army. but none will be filled
until fall. Meanwhile. q board of medical
examiners will be organized, to meet in New
York, for the purpose of examining applicants.
...... One hundred Indians, who claimed that
they had been deceived by Spotted Tail, i'll rep
rasenting that they would be obliged only to
give up the arms taken in the Custer massacre
whereas the government insists on q general
disarmamcnt-have again gone on the warpath.
......I 1t turns out that the Rev. w. Il. Scott,
tho colored preacher. who was reported as
having been murdered in South Carolina, is
alive and we'll 1.-Two prisoners in Jail at
Manchester, n. H., succeeded in o~verpowering
the turnkey, and after firing three shots at the
%jailor's wife, made good their escape ...... In
New York, Joseph G. Brady, a contractor and
politician, qnarrel,d with James Leahan, a
laborcr i'll his employ, and with whom he had
been drinking, and Was knocked down, re-
ceiving a fractured skull. 800. Counsel for STIR
ling, convicted of the murder of a little girl in
Youngstown, Ohio, and who was reprieved by
the governor, claim that the ~reprievc was
equivalent to q pardon, and have begun pro-
ceedings for illegal detention ...... George
Beatty. a waiter in the Grand Central Hotel,
New York, shot and severely wounded James
Larney, a fellow waiter ...... n. p. Carter,
y New York commission merchant, was beaten
s~enscless and robbed by highwaymen in st.
Louis.
A heavy gallo has taken place on the North
Carolina coast, and n large number of vessels
have been wrecked. ..... Active hostilitics be-
tween Turkey and Russia are likely to begin
soon, in which event it is supposed that
American grain will be in great demand in the
European markets. ..... William NJ. Tweed has
sent a lawyer to Albany, New York, en-
powered with an offer to give up his property
and inform on his former associates, if his re-
lease from confinement be insured. III New
York Anna Dickinson terminated an engage
mont which she was playing at the Eagle
Theater. alleging that the terms of her engage
mcnt with t. e managcrhad been violated. 49,.
The temperance movement against the liquor
dealers of New York has assumed definite pro-
portions, and the saloonkeepers have sent COM
lnittec TO the capital to work in their interests.
......At an insurrection among the ~convicts
imprisoned in the pcnitentiary, on Blackwells
Island, New York, one of the prisoners was
killed before the rest were subdued ...... The
editor of the Philadelphia Times, Col. Mcclure,
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