Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-31
DEFERRED TELEGRAMS.

New York, May %: An investigation Of
the abuses in the sugar trade will begin to-
day by the customs commissioners.
Brussels, Ont, May 80: The Brussels hotel
and six adjoining stores were burned last
night. Loss, twenty thousand dollars.
London, May 90: Amount of bullion with
drawn from the Bank of England on balance
to-day was eighty thousand pounds sterling.
Philadelphia May 80: The commercial ex
change this morning voted to petition con-
gress to increase the standing army, to defeat
the pending army bill.
Constantinople, May %: The sultan has
ordered the reinstatement of Elk Sultan Mu-
rad at Tcheregan palace, and the release OF
all of Ali Suavi's accomplices.
Quebec, May %: Seventy thousand dollars
worth of deal slaves, at the st. Lawrence
docks, burned to-day. No insurance. The
wharves are considerably damaged.
Providence, R. l., May 90: In the senate
to-day, resolutions deprecating the agitation
Of. the Presidential question by congress
passed by a vote of twenty nine to eight.
London, May %: Both the weavers and
spinners of Macclesfeld have agreed, unani-
mously, to return to work at the ten per cent.
reduction demanded by the cotton masters.
New York, May %: The name of the gen.
tIeman who has offered to subscribe seventy
thousand dollars in aid of st. AIMS church
Is Robert Fulton Cutting, sOn-in-law of Rev.
DR.. Cutting.
Salt Lake, May %: The Indian, Tambago,
convicted of the murder of Alex. Roder at
Fort Hale, was to-day sentenced to be hung
at Boise City, IDAHO on the twenty-eighth of
June, by the district court at Malad, Idaho.
Pittsburg, May %: A fire this afternoon
destroyed the livery stable Of +. G. III.
Armstrong, corner Liberty and Twenty
plOhth Hn ckO oil
Loss about two thousand dollars; fully in
sured.
Indianapolis, May 90: A fire at Edinburgh,
Indiana, this morning, destroyed the building
and hardware stock OF Harvey Lewis. Loss,
fifteen thousand dollars; insurance six thou
sand dollars, in the Etna, of North America,
and Hartford.
Vienna, May 30: special from Cattaro
says the government of Scutari absolutely in
slsts upon the Montenegrins Immediately
evacuatlng the strategical strOnghods near
Padgorltzi. The Montenegrins are tempo
rizing, but show no intention to comply.
Newport, R. l., May %: A resolution has
been introduced in the senate protesting that
all questions affecting the rights of Ruther.
ford b. Hayes to the Office of President Of
the United States having been settled by con-
gress itself. through a commission of its own
appointment, should not be reopened on any
pretense whatsoever.
Masked Men Rob a Passenger Train.
SALT LAKE, May 30.-About ten o'clock
last night party of masked men boarded
the west-bound passenger train just after it
left Percy station. They entered the middle
sleeping-car, and proceeded to rob the pas
sengers. They took watch and one hundred
dollars from one of the passengers, fifty dol
lars and tickets from another, and a gold
watch and thirty-fve dollars from the sleep
ing-car conductor. AT that tune some one
pulled the bell-eord, and the robbers becom-
ing frightened, jumped off the tram. They
ing the passengers. They struck one passen-
ger with pistol, cutting scalp wound. 1t
was all done in three minutes The robbers
were out of sight in the darkness when the
train stopped. The ground being wet, Their
traiSwas discovered at daylight this morning.
and large force of armed men started In |
pursuit. The Union Pacific company offered |
a reward Of one thousand dollars each for the |
arrast of tho rnhhorS "