Daily Republican., 1881-04-21
WHAT Is GOING ON.
THE NEWS BROUGHT BY TEI.E-
GRAPH WIRES.
Pertaining to Leather - westesn
Flosds-eioOd Spring Wheat Re-
pOrts-WOrk OF the Flames.

An lhtcrnatlOnaI Leaf her exhibition
will be held AT Frankfort-on-the-N Main,
beginning on june 10th, and continuing
until September 18th. All kinds ut
leather and leather articles, as well as
machines for the manufacturing and
ilnlShlug leather, will h" received for
exhibition. Machinery must he drliy-
cred by May lOth, and all other arti-
cleS by June I'd. II is probably too late
l"r Americans 10 apply for space for
machinery unless the time i extended,
Reports from all the colmtirS of Kan.
>aN, collected within ten ,avs. show
! that the winter wheat i IN excellent
rondition-hett"r than usual at this
season, tn" weather for the last few
! days has been hot aul Wiuiv, bur TN,
farmers brlirvr that. with rain and
| favorable Weather following. the rrot
viii hr the largest ever harN c-tel in tn,
state The reports OF the condition %
the spring wheat are umldrnrdhlr
The floods in Illinois and Wisconsin
! continues, and the dtmlgn IS vrrv
great Some Of tn" >unurbs ui Ehi,ag,
are undrr water El.tu, SrrrIn. an,
Rockford in Illinois. ar" partly Sub
merged, an III" damage ~ EIgiu i,
| estimated II $10,ON2 Tia" loss in Wi,
conSiu il cStim9tcd at hundreds al
rhun~HndS. Four men were drowned al
! i"loit Will" trying to save bulkhrad.
A iir" suppressed to be the work uf All
incrndiary. drSrr"yrd thirty buildings
and tents in san Marrial Sew Mexico,
ON Tuesday night The only building
Ictt in the business ndrt Of thc village
was one containing several tons OF
powder. Onr man WAS seriously in
ilued during the progress Of III" flames.
A fire in Bound lrO"k. New Jersey. on
Tuesday, rendered thirty families home
less and caused u loss of about So, ,NOn.
George Grimes. aged 80 years, com
mittcd SuiCidr, while mtuAicatcd with
opium, in New Brunswick, New .Jcr-
S"v. ON Tuesday nigh. On the same
night, Charles Edwards, aged -, hang,
ed himself in a barn, aJ Tenant, Mon.
mouth county. in the same State. lie
was in easy circumstances, and no cause
is known for the aCt.
Twenty w"av"rS from the thace Mill,
in Fall River, Massachusetts, which is
shut clown on account OF strike, OBJ
tanned work Il few days ago 1t the Flint
Mil. On Tuesday their old overN"eI
went to the Flint Mil, and, pointing
them out, they were discharged. The
matter will be referred 70 a special com
mttce Of the Wcavcr> Union.
The statue of Admiral Farraguf. N
Washington. will be- unveiled ON Mon
day next. There will he naval and
military procession. prayer music. ad
dresses by the President and cN-PUSt-
maSfpr-Grneral Maynard, and the firing
of SalutfS.
f. L. Blakrslcc mail agent ON the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad, has been arrested in Chicago
for robtng the mails. Z. NJ. Pomrrov
postmaster IT lrhr0n, Indiana, was ar
rested on Tuesday for ritIjug registered
letters.
William Wise, the .iewe,rr of Brook
lyn. whose store was robbed some time
ago OF 5000 worth of watches, most OF
them left bY customers for repairs. has
recovered the stolen property 10y paying
S2lOO 10 the robbers. The police were
powcrlcSs in the matter, hence the com
poUuding,
The New York Assembly yesterday
passed concurrent resolutions providing
for representation OF the STATE Of New
York at tn" celebration OF the annivsr-
SaricS OF the battles Of Ioww'nS, South
Carolina, and Yorktown, Virginia.
Thomas Dciarnctt", acquitted III Dan
willie. Virginia, Of the murder OF his
sister. "becauSc ii" was in>au" At the
time" was discharged yesterday, by
order Of Court, and left for North Caro-
lima.
The railroad bridge three miles cot
of Athol, Massachusetts, known rs the
"Long Br dye, WAS burned on Tuesday
afternoon by sparks from an engine.
Passengers will hav" to be Transferred
or Il few days.
Attornry-Grnrra MacNcagh has de-
Ci'led that a contract for carrying mails
on Il ri ven route canuut h" Withdrawn
or corrected after it has been duly and
formally made and accepted.
The railroad freight house employees
in Chicago have asked an advance Of 20
per cent. in wages, AMI will probah Y
strike if it is not granted. They now
get from $40 to Sl.50 per day.