, 1881-07-29
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
BY TELEGKArH TO DATE

Forty thousand francs are subscribed
IN Paris for sufferers by the late Quebec
fIe.
The iron trade has advanced the price
OF bar iron at Philadelphia one-tenth OF
one cent per pound.
WASH Allen, negro murdererer, was
| taken from Jail on the 10Th by forty
maskers and hanged.
Canadian Pacific shareholders have
passed resolutions authorizing the issue
of So, 10000 for bonds.
Slxty-fiye liquor dealers were arrested
at. Wllkesbarre, Pa, on the Goth for keep
Ing open bars on Sunday.
Over 1000 mill laborers at Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, and vicinity have struck for
reduction in hours from twelve to ten
daily.
Patrick Egan has purchased The Dublin
lrlshman, thus placing the whole of the
national journals in Ireland under control
of the league.
The latest ballot taken in the New
York legislature for senator stood Lap
ham, 6S; Potter, 45; Conkling, 2S; Wood
ford, /; necessary to a choice ~.
The society of friends having charge of
William Penn's body has formally de.
clined the proposition ofthe Pennsylvana
legislature to remoye the body to
America.
The Cincinnati brewers strike con-
tinues, but woik progresses in all
branches, and the rrJliietors claim that
they can Iiil ahe place, of the strikers and
suffer no Inconvenience.
che Lincoln National Bank has been
organized in New York city; capital,
$300,Oo0. With it is Incorporated under
the same board the "Grand Central De-
posit Company Mayor Grace is the
head of the enterprise.
Constructors of the Big Sandy Railroad
are greatly obstructed by al organization
of outlaws calling themselves natives"
who tear up the track and shoot work
men. The local authorizes seem power
less to afford a remedy.
National Amateur Press Association
hold their next annual session In Detroit.
Corresponding secretary, Warren J.
Niles, Detroit; recording secretary, John
]. Wiessert, Pittsburgh; first vice presI-
dent. Frank f. Day, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
Col. John G. Woods, a rich old man,
living alone in Franklin county, Missouri
was mysteriously murdered on Monday,
the 18th. His throat was cut and his
body stabbed in several places, dragged
from his bed and thirty feet from the
house.
An Irishman, aged Is, named Patrick
Tilfour Hickie, was arraigned at Bow
street court on the 10Th and remanded
for threatening to kill Right Hon. VIM
E. Forster, chief secretary OF Ireland, un-
less he relieved Irish subjects and re-
signed his Office.
A new board of directors of the Colum-
bus & Hooking Valley and Ohio West
Virginia railroad, selected by the Cleve-
land syndicate met and consolidated the
three lines, which will probably be known
as the Columbus, Hooking Valley & To-
ledo railroad. Stockholders meet August
% to confirm the action of the directors.
Over six millions of stock have been
taken up.
Near Upton, No., man and his wife,
named Easily, while returning from
laboring on farm, lay down to rest. The
wife was awakened by noise and a
shock, and found her husband shot. She
ran to the nearest house, whose owner
discovered that she was shot through the
head, and her husband shot through the
brain, dead. She says he was jealous,
thinking her unfaithful.
O'Donnell, home ruler member of par.
Lament for Dungarvan, writes to the
Times, claiming that the government has
virtually abandoned the emigration
clause of the land bill by inserting a pro-
vision limiting expenditure to 100000. to
spread over period of three years. Bat
for this concession he says that the gov
ernment could only have passed the
clause after expelling all home rule mem
bers. As the clause now stands home
rulers regard it as a complete fiasco.
81 Of Minor,o
theater, was shot, probably fatally, at New
ork on the Goth, by Mrs. Coleman, wife
of the captain of schooner, and whom
he had seduced, leading to q suit for di-
vorce by her husband. Mrs. Coleman,
under arrest for shooting Coles, treasurer
of Miners theater, was committed to
await the result of Coles injuries. Coles
lies at the hospital in a dying condition.
In his ante mortem statement he states
that he visited her number of times but
did not know she was married. She
represented herself to him as a single
woman.
Within the past few days the New
York state board of health, through its
sanitary committee, has taken step
which will be likely in due time 10 pro-
duce no little commotion. Inspectors
have been appointed to select and an.
alyze samples of butter, beer, baking
powders, baker chemicals, cocoa. cordials,
canned fruit, confeetions, cereals, cheese,
| meats, extracts of fish and fruit essences,
| ether, gelatine, honey, ice cream, milk,
niolasses, lard oil, olive oil. quinine.
sugar, syrups, soda wster, spices, spirits,
| tea. wine and al. pharmaceutical prepara-
tions. The oLi-ct Of this analysis is to
carry into exec ition law enacted by the
| legislature ut its present session to pre-
| vent adultera,ion OF food and drugs.
| Judging from similar Investigations al.
ready made in this and other states start
! ling results may be looked for after these
examinations
Alta meeting calling itself "Revolu-
| tionary Congress" held in London on the
18th, delegates from various parts oi
Europe and America, representing the
| extreme democratic party identified with
Herr Most, the imprisoned socialist, were
| present. About 1000 were in attendance
| mostly workmen. Red flags We're dis
PLAYED. Mrs. Lecompte, an American
lady delegate, described the disappolnt'
| ments of small farmers going west de.
pending on illusory promises of emigranl
| agents, and how great capitalists, in the
possession of railways, oppress the
1 4 Of food tt,