, 1879-08-17
THE CITY.
GENERAL NEWS.


James Eads Of Troy N. T., is at the Gari
net-
Wv. Walcott, Of St. Louis, is At the Gard
ner-
J.C. Cornia, Omaha, IS guest of the Ire
mont. :,
George Il. Chase, Washington, is at th
Palmer
A, $. Mills, Washington, is stopping at tn
fremont
George Fl. Bissell. Hartford, is sojourning a
TEE Palmer.
Moas. Anderson, of LaCrosse,i domfciled Al
the Sherman
Jofrr~y Cowles, Marquette, Mich, Is CUES
OF The Palmer.
E. ". Berge, San Antonio, Tex, is Registered
at the Palmer.
Mai F. IIilotsoa, Fort Fetterman, is guex
of the Sherman.
Kesta- Hurd and wife, Of Onts1io, Can, ar,
stopping st the Pacific.
T. A.sopp, OF Vancouver's Island, is one O.
the guests Of the fremont.
Mrs. Gen. 6. N. Brin31erhoff and family, O
Springfield, are 1T the Pacific.
Sir. and Mrs George c. Wetmore, Of Nen
York, are guests Of the Pacific.
The County Treasurer yesterday paid to the
city $124.oo0, Of which $4,000 ras in city scrip.
". F. Merrill, General Manager of the To
1edo, Peoria q Warsaw Railroad, is at the Pa,
Z; ci1c.
Mr.. Potter Palmer returned to the city yetter-
day from lengthy tour in the East, looking
we'll and feeling better.
Charley Dabb, tbs cashier of the Palmer
House, leaves TODAY with his mother for Bis
mazck and the Northwest.
The Rev. and Mrs. James Sackett, Washing
ton, and the Rev. A. ]. Ellsworth, Chelsea,
Mass, are quartered at the Pacific.
e: J. Murra, Nudge Auckland, New Zealand.
Il. B. Broadhurst, Glasgow. and D. T. 9. Cock
burn, London, are among the guests Of the Pa-
ci.ic-
Mcssrs. James 1. High: Joseph F: Boudeld,
. L. Pratt, and Josiah e. Bisscll leave the city
/ tonight for . months fishing near Duluth,
MINI.
1t Was stated yesterday morning in the report
OF the Suydam proceedings That 31r. Warner
was one OF Suydam's witnesses; it should have
! been one Of his victims.
The County Collector yesterday sold property
IN the Town Of Lake for the seventh installmcnt
Of South Fark taxes. Tomorrow be will sell
A@ 1~-A~~ ~AA~ Hf1-~43A
Cups are very much needed for the public
hydr,nt at the corner of franklin and South
Water streets, those that were there having
been used SO much that they have been worn
out
The CONCERT given by the Sixth Regiment
Band ut South Park yesterday drew very
fair assemblaee. weather considered. The num-
bcrs given we're well performed, and seemed to
afold general satisfaction.
Pressman's Union, No. 8, deny that they are
10 take aor part i1 the picnic and parade OF the
Trade and Labor Council to he held next Sun
day. Tie use of their name by the Council,
they state. is unauthorized.
The temperature yesterday, as observed bY
Mzuasse. opticiau, IS Madison street TRBuEE
Bujldineh was at 8 3. zn.. 64 degrees; 10 4 H.,
IS; II m., 81; 5 q. M, Is; D. m, 64 Barome-
ter at a. m., 29.52; p. m., 2a50.
The County Board Committee on Jail and
Jail Accounts met yesterday and passed few
bilt- The Committee on EQUALIZATION failed to
get quorum, and will not have any report
ready for presentation to the Board Monday.
John johnson, beil-boy at the Grand Pacific,
who Was arrested at the game time with Jacob
Jackson on the charge OF stealing va1uab'es
from guests, was honorahly discharged by Jus
tlce Wallace day before yesterday, there being
no evidence against him.
Judge Barnum occupied the Bench in the
Criminal Court for short time Yesterday and
heard the complaint If one Louis Visane. who
Is accused Of stealing q watch, and who thinks
he has right to the peope's writ OF habeas
corpus The case will be decided TOMORROW.
At 5:45 yesterday afternoon james Bullock,
While attempting to board street-car in front
ct No. 104 West Madison street, was run down
by q horse and buggy driven by Charles Harri-
son. he received cut on the head, but blames
no one, as he ran in front OF the buggy himself.
The contide dence-operators aud shop-lifters men-
4fny,a tn 11nf-,r
in the habit Of making their headquarters at No.
400 State street were not arrested from that
place, but from house near there, on the same !
street, to which they have been in the habit OF
resorting.
The Main Section Of the Socialists met at No. /
Is North Clark street, and, after instEucting
their Aldermen to vota against the ordinance |
authorizing the Chicago & Western Indiana !
Railroad to cross certain streets, spent the even
ing IN wrangle as to what should be don't With \
enme of the leaders who took money from the |
other parties at the last election.
An infant IL months old died YESTERDAY |
morning on the Fort Wayne Railroad ten miles !
from the city, while in the arms of its mother, /
hlrs. 3. B. Hughes Eho was on her wav home |
t9 Portage, Wis, from visit to Buffalo, n. 7. !
Cholera iui3ntum was probably the cause. The |
body was taken in charge by A. II. Sheldon,
undertaken, at No. 16S West Madison street.
John MulhoHland, for eight years past cm-
Ilovcd as laboGer in the freight house at the
corner of Carroll and Halsted streets, dropped
suddenly dead while at Ills work at 1850 yester-
day morning. Heart disease is supposed to
have been the cause. Deceased leaves a wife
aud four children, from. e to IL years Of age, in
very destitute circumstances, living at No. 81
West Monroe street.
Three hoppers in the Necls: Elevator, in the
Ogden slio, fell Friday afternoon to the floor,
distance of about ninety feet las the bopDers !
were full Of corn, aud wciahedi1 tile aggregate |
nearly eighty tons, the crash was tremendous i
Several Of the employees were al,noxt in a line |
With the hoppers when they 1ell, aud ran for !
their liFes. Fortunately no one was iniurcd. !
The cainage occasioned by the fall will probably
reach So, 900.
There was report on the streets Yesterday to
the effect that Emery A. Siors had died Of
heart disease. It grew out OF somebody's mis- |.
understanding the newsboys' ealI that Nellie
oartul':s was dead. As soon Is Mr.. Storrs' folks
heard ot 1t they tecgr11hcd him at Saratoga
vlcgc be is stopping, for information, and re-
rciTed repiy to the effect that he had drank an
indefinite number Of glasses OF Congress water
Lha1 morning and MAS in perfect health.
4 meeting OF the Grain Receivers Associa-
Jon was held Yesterday afternoon in the Direct
3r5' room At the Beard Of Trade Building Mr.
4. II. Wright iu the chair. The object OF tue
to discuss the feasibility of de-
3riTng the present schedule Of commissions for |
selling g1aln by the carloads, of its cast-iron |
.naracter, SO as to enable the Chicago market |
n r,tet the cnn,0etitfm ff St ur,d |