, 1880-05-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

now in progress is developing some eStraor-
binary walkers; three Of them lave beaten
the best time on record "A man had his
head torn of by being caught between the
floor OF the basement and the elevator of the
sherman House, Chicago Governor Fre-
mont of Arizona, is in New IJrk-Rovs.
J. VI. Reid and G. u. Fowler, have been
elected missionary bishops by the NJ. Il.
Conference The resources Of the Auleri-
can Tract Society last year were S3S2.2S3;
expenditures S37S, S,SS2--Ex-Sena Chris
tiancy has begun suit for diyorce---'The
committee on ways and means has fixed
upon May 3lst as the time for the adjourn
ment of Congress--West Virginia dele
gates TO Chicago are all Blaine men-The
fight in Illinois will be Grant and anti.
Grant-Eads scheme OF ship railroad
acress the Isthmus has been incorporated in
bill and submitted to Congress.
Expert GaYlor" finds evidence in the
handwriting that convinces him that Whit
eaker warned himself. State troops
have been sent to Palquemi Parish, La, to
suppress labor troubles. The loss in n
single county in New Jersey from forest fires
is not less than 5000, ,000.---The National
Grand Lodge of Colcred Masons is in session
at Wilmington, Delaware.-W. S. Jewell
has been ordered to take the meteorological
department of the Howgate Polar ExE edi-
tion. n.-Grant gains are reported in Illinois.
Grant has but ten of the 1l2 dele
gates in the Nebraska State Conveltion.-
Washburne declares that he is not and will
not be n candidate for the Presidency
Attempts have recently been made to burn
Omaha; citizens and police are on sharp
lookout for the "fire bugs "--One hun.
dred thousand women will work in West
ern harvest tields-A man in Edinburg
Ind, died from a rat bite last week.
Nashville longs tor an ice factory-The
King of Sweden will present Nordenskiold
with the grand cross OF the order of
the north star, studded with diamonds,
valued at one thousand guineas--
The fifteen car manufactures of the Uni
Il d States turned out last year 81, $50 pieces
of rolling stock.---The Minneapolis Flour
Mills have shut down.-.-There are
$SO,O0O,O00 invested in sugar factories in
four parishes in Louisiana. Moody and
Saukey are in San Antonio, Texas.--A
woman is in jail at Boston charged with the
urder of five year.old child killed in
family feud.---There were $4,000 tons of
steel rails laid on the Pennsylvania Railroad
lines last year.
Brickmakers of Chicago have struck for
50 day.-1OO, GOO immigrants have landed
in New York since January lst.--A Kear-
ney sympathy meeting was held in Brooklyn
on the 16th.-Sherry won the Chicago
walking match, making BAT miles.--Two
little boys were burned to death in Dakota
on the 15th.--Carl Manke was hanged at
L. IL E.l1 L. L.. I
from comm and at West Point. A boiler ex.
plosion occurred at London on the 18th, bv
which twenty-five persons we're killed and
sixty injured. .---T twenty-five thousand mill
hands are on strike at Blackburn, Eng
Mr.. Rouisser has been elected to the
French Academy.----Mr. Martel, President
of the French Senate, is about to resign.---
Gen. Toedleben is to be appointed Governor
General of Warsaw.-Japan declines to
enter into an alliance with China against
Russia. a.--Martial law has been proclaimed
between the Montenegrins and Albanians.
Two brothers named Hall were shot and
killed by a man named Rogers in Kentucky
on the 15th.-Charles Gardella, an organ
grinder, has been arrested in Pennsylvania
for killing his fve-year-old daughter.---
Two whites and five negroes were publicly
whipped o2 the 18th at Newcastle, Del.
The workingmens State Convention as
sembled in San Francisco on the 18th, and
three cheers were given for Dennis Kearney
WIN. HCnter, Assistant Secretary of the
U. s., was stricken with apoplexy on the
shows that the Tay
bridge first gave way at the south end
Two of the mail steamer Americas boats
are still missing Heavy rain storm in
Russia on the 14th--The German Catho-
lies have commenced a war on Bismarck
-Four thousand political prisoners are to
be released IN Russia---The Mexican gov
ernment is taking active steps to crush out
the evolution---Trains are running on
time on the Southern Pacific. t
A rumor In New York is to the effect that
the steamer Canada, from London, is lost,
with all on board--Col. Lewis, ex-United
States Minister to Portugal, died on the 18th
The Prospect Mountain House, Lake
George, was destroyed by fire on the 18th
Forest fires are still raging in New Jer-
sey--The revenue cutter Corwin has been
ordered to the Arctic Ocean to hunt for ice
bound vessels--Senator Booth spoke on
the inter-oceanic canal question on the
17th--The Workingmen's Convention en-
dorsed Thurman fer President-Chances
for pacific settlement at Cabul are increas-
ing-There is revlva! CT the slave trade
on tie Red Sea since Gordon Pasha's de-
parture--The President has nominated
Horace Maynard to succeed Postmaster
General Key. ....,