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let from one of the robbers which passed
through his coat-sleeve admonished him
to keep quiet.
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TRENTON. n j., October "A fire at
Trenton basin this morning destroyed
the property belonging to the Mer-
chants Transportation Company; West,
Clark & Case, wholesale grocers, and
of $50, 900. Insured; ineendiary.
Arrest OF a Murderer.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.-Wm. Fairchild, who
has as occasion served, borne the alias OF
Burton, Clark, Howell or Shoemaker,
and who served terms for various crimes
in the Michigan and Ohio penitentiaries,
was arrested here to-day for the murder
| of an old man named Richard French
| whom Fairchild and his wife had enticed
to Kansas under promise of taking care
| of him, and then murdered him in cold
blood. The crime first became known 70
| the Chief of Police of Toledo, Ohio, to
| whom the prattling of Fairchild's little
| girl revealed it. The body of French
was exhumed, and Fairchild has been
| followed for some months with the re-
| suit in to.day's arrest. The murder was
committed in 1878.
Frost la Virginia.
PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. 2.-There was
frost here and in adjacent counties last
night for the first time this season. 1t
is not thought any material damage was
done.
Experimental Base Rail- Game.
CHICAGO, 1eagos, 2; Buff
falos S-exhibltion game with square
bats and lively ball. It was not very
satisfactory experiment. PiercY, late of
the Oaklands, pitched for the Chieagos.
The Louisville Races.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 2.-Mile heats for
3-year-olds that have not won prior to
August, 1880: Ventriloquist 1-2-1, Yir-
ginia 2-1-2, Dictum Sd. Time, 1:4594
1:45s4 and l :49A. Selling race, all ages,
IA miles: Matagorda won, Miss Natter
I'd. Time, 2:32H. Third race, mile
dash for two-year-old colts: Lelex won,
Lucy May 2nd. Time, 1:45. Dash z
mile: Malone won, Blanche End, Miss
Natter 3rd. Time, 1:17.
Races at Brighton! Reach.
NEW York, Oct. Brighton Beach
races-Handicap heat race, mile heats,
won by Surge, who took the second and
third heats, Mamie L. taking the first;
time, 1:44-1 1:45-1;49. Boardman won
the I'd race, mile and an eighth; Ike
Braham, ID; time, 2 minutes. The
mile dash was won by Nimble Foot,
Krupp Gun ID; Calmogner Sd; time,
l:44H. Handicap hurdle race, mile and
half; won by Miss Mallory; Ohio Boy
ID; Bay Rum Sd; time, 2:l3.
singular Case.
New ALBANY, (Ind.l Oct Edward
Cromwell, while working in field with
Nathan Lamden in Orange county was
seized with chill, and in the delirium
| that attended it, seriously stabbed Lam
den, and then drowned himself in the
river.
Races ut ST. Ouls.
ST. LOUIS, Oct 2-Mattie Hunter
paced in 2:10s4, failing to beat her own
record
Match race, 3year. old colts: Cole
mans colt won, distancing Hunts colt;
1 = miles. In 2:25 class, Robert Nc
Gregor won, Minnie r. End, VIM. H. 3D..
Time, 2:239. 2:25, 2:294.
Free for all: Charley Ford won, beat
ing Hopeful. Time. 2:22, 2:22, 2:23H.
The LOTTERY Question.
WAsu,NGroS, Oct POSTMASTER May
nard decided today not to suspend the
recent order of the po5tofiiee department
forbidding the delivery yofregisteIed letters
and postal orders to the Kentucky Lottery
Company. He declines to reverse the
past action of the department at least
until the U. S, supreme court shall have
disposed of the lottery question which 10
now before il.
Preparing for a Strike.
FALL RIVER, Oct "A delegation from
| the spinners' union had long conference
! this afternoon with four mill treasurers on
| the subject of wages and strike. No
settlement was effected, A mass meeting
| of fspinners decided to leave the question
| of a strike to some future time when
manufacturers can be taken more at q
| disadvantage. An extra assessment will
| be levied so that when the time to strike
comes the union may be better prepared
The Salt Lake Suffrage Case.
| SALT LAKE, Oct 2.-The Mormon suf-
| frage law of Utah makes the voting quail
fications of women different from those of
men. Believing that this renders it invalid
a writ of mandamus was sued out of the
supreme court of Utah, requiring the re-
| gistration officers to strike all women's
| names off the voting list or show cause
| why they should not. After hearing, the
supreme court decided that mandamus
will not be issued to compel the registra-
| ton officers to strike off any names placed
by them on the lists, because it is not q
| ministerial act. The effort to have the
validity ST the Law tested in the courts viii
not be abandoned
| Distressing Case.
| JERSEY CRY, Oct Mrs. Mary Doyle,
| temporarily insane from malarial fever
threw her two months old babe ont of (
third story window and it was instantly
killed.
The Whcelbar row Laomey.
MISREPRESENTATION, Pa. Oct. 2-R. Lyman
| Potter, the whcelbarrow man, arrived
here this evening from San Francisco il
excellent health, not much worse for hi.
extraordinary feat. Tie wheel of hi
barrow looks like ball of rope bounc
with an iron hoop. He will push it tt
the Antietam battlefield thence to Gettys
burg and from there to New Y ork.
Hunting victorio.
DENVER, Oct. "A Santa Fe specia
says commissioners brought information
to El Paso that yesterday Col. Buell.
command passed through the Candelera
mountains following q large trail, suppos
ed to be Victories southeast to Pine
mountains; also that of Joavuin Terras
sas with 450 Mexican troops is two day
behind Col. Buell. and marching TO etfec
junction when Mexicans and American
will cooperate. Buell's column has nov
marched through the entire length O
Chihuahua, the Pine mountains beinI
near the border of Nueva Leon. If Vic
torio's band is really ahead it will have t.
stop and fight. Col. Carr's command i
scouting on the northern border of Chi
huahua and southern extremity of New
! Mexico.
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