The Virginia star., 1881-04-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

-Advlces from the City of Mexico to
the 18th instant, report that the suspicion
felt towards General Grant and Senior
Romero on their arrival at the Mexican
capital is disappearing. By consenting to
have the Gulf terminus of the Mexican
Southern Railroad changed to Vera Cruz,
they have secured powerful aid, and "It
is now thought General Grant may secure
the notifications TO the railroad concessions
he Desires
The house Of Fl. r. Ball. Mayor of
Salinas, California, was burned, on the
22d, during the absence of MIR. Ball. and
Mrs. Ball and her two daughters perished
In the flames.
Five buildings in Coopersville, Michi-
gan, were burned on the 2sd. Loss,
$2S. 900. A fire in Pittsfeld, Massachu-
sstts, on the 23d, caused loss of $40, 600.
Incendiary fires near Syracuse. New York,
on the same day, destroyed the salt blocks
of Martin Cooney, and the mill and salt
blocks of the Porter Manufacturing Com
pany, causing loss Of $4,000.
-Guymphere, the Hungarian, who had
been sleeping in the poor-house at Allen
town for ~ days, and was awakened for
the first time on the 22d, rose and bolted
thereon door and jumped from the win
dow, falling % feet. Two Of his ribs wer .
broken, and his spine was 30 badly injured
that he Is not expected to recover.
a fire in Shamokin, penna., about
three o'clock on the Gath, destroyed Owens
tobacco store, the warehouse of w. r.
Kutzner s. Co., Rumberger's 'smarble works,
the Herald printing Office, and three dwell.
lngs, causing loss estimated at 800. 900.
The fire was of incendiary origin, the out
aide Of the tobacco store having been SAUL
rated with oil, and the flames spread rapid
" OWING to inadequate water facilities. A
block of buildings in Denton, Texas, was
burned on the same day. Loss $40. 600.
The Indianapolis Coffin Works, in Indian
apolis, were destroyed on the Oath, by an
incendiary fire. Loss $4,000, Twenty
fiye hands are thrown out of employment.
Mrs. Eliza Pope, aged SO years, wa
murdered by James Tracy. in her room, in
Boston, on the Esd, because she resisted
an assault. Daniel Lynch was stabbed, 1t
is feared fatally by John w. Reardan. in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 22d.
They had quarrelled about board bill
which Reardon owed Lynch. George Nc
Daniels died near Troy, Indiana, on the
21st. from the effects of pistol wound in
fiicted by man named Lynch, who es-
capped. William Brown went into James
Benson's field, near Falmouth, Kentucky,
on the 23d, to take out some trespassing
mules, was attacked by Benson with stones,
and shot him dead. Brown was arrested
and held in $500 bail.
On the Oath two policemen of Brook
lyn saw three men in boat loaded with
stolel railroad iron on Newtown Greek.
The thieves jumped into the water to escape
and the police securing the boat pursued
them. One Of the thieves was caught, but
while trying to get him into the boat it was
upset, and the policemen were thrown into
the water. They succeeded, however, In
getting the thief ashore, and then arrested
another as he was swimming up to the
dock. The third was drowned.
The Missouri river at Omaha reached
2S feet inches above low water mark on
the 2Sd, 16 inches higher that the previous
food. Railroad communication with the
East continued cut off, the Iowa bottoms
opposite the city were overhowed for miles,
and several hundred houses in Council
Bluffs were inundated. The river was sta
tionary at Sioux City.
Navigation Is now open on Lake Cham
plain.
The Cowpens Centennial Committee
have been advised that President and Mrs.
Garfield and Secretary Blaine expect to
attend the unveiling of the Morgan statue
at Spartansburg, South Carolina, on the
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Hayes are also expected to attend.
The bronze statue Of Admiral Farrs-
gut, executed at cost of $4,000, by
Winnie Ream-now Mrs. Lieutenant Hoxie
and situated in the park at Seventeenth
street and Connecticut avenue, in Wash.
lngton, was unveiled on the 25th, with inn
posing ceremonies.
james Thomas Fields, the we'll l-known
author, publisher and lecturer, died sud-
denly OF heart disease, on the Oath, at his
home in Boston. He had been ailing for
some time. lie was in the Gath year of
his age.
The town Of Greenvllle, in Plumas
county, California, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 23d. The loss is
estimated at 800, 900. A fire in MENDOZA.
Illinois, on the oath, originating from the
spontaneous combustion of some greasy
rags, destroyed Clark's oil-cake nil and
Towers planning mill, causing loss of $685.
600. The town of Bllenaventura, on the
Pacific coast, 10 New Grenada, was al
most totally destroyed by fire on the 18th
inst. The flames, blown by strong wind,
spread 90 rapidly, the buildings being
mostly wooden, with thatched roofs. that
It was impossible TO save goods from the
stores or furniture from the houses, and
three persons perished IN the flames. The
loss on property = estimated at 81, ,00O,-
600. The aggregate losses OF the fire at
Shamokin, Pa, on the Gath, will not ex-
ceed $bO, 600. Owens q Ramberger, the
principal sufferers, lose $4,000. Bonds
mill and lumber yard, at Fife Lake, Mlchi-