, 1881-05-13
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH TO DATE


John W. Francis has sold the Troy Y
l, lines to his son and others
The dead lock in the L. s, Senate Is
Droken and the senate went into execu.
! tive session on the 4th
Consolidation has been arranged of the
| Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Texas
" Hreat Northern railroads
1he Oklahama boom collapsed on
| receipt OF news untaynrable to the
termination of Payne's trial.
Four Pullman sleeping Cars for the road
! between The Dalles and Walla Waila
prssed Reno bound west on the Sd.
In the municipal election at ST. Paul
minnesota, on the I'd, the democrats car
ried the city by 1000 to 1900 majority.
Three persons driving in a carriage
were Killed at paper mills crossing by a
tram near Bordentown, n. J. on the Sd.
Mail bags sent from Green Island, near
lankton have been found buried in mud
with the registered letter pouch safe
One package contained Sll0O.
A train on the Connecticut river rail
road was telescoped at Greenfield on the
Sd by running of an open switch. Two
engines and twelve cars were wrecked
Loss estimated $4,000.
| nIson Mining Co., at the Grand Pacific
| hotel i'll Chicago Il. st. John general pas-
senger agent of the Chicago 4 Rock Is-
| land and Pacific railroad, was chosen
| president of the organization, which has
! large and profitable interests in Colorado.
The lease for Haverly's new theater in
| Chicago opposite the present building,
was formally signed May Sd, and work
| Will be commenced on it at once. 1t is
| expected that it will be opened about
| September lst, and that it Will be one of
| the finest ediiices of the class in the
United States.
| Gov. Seymour of New York is much
annoyed TO learn that his namesake and
nephew is believed to he laboring with
| the democrats at Washington 10 further
the ends of Conkling with whom he is
connected by family ties. Seymour earn
estly denounces all bargaining with Conk-
ling or any other republican as delusive,
undemocratiG ana destructive to the
hopes of the party i'll this State and ma
ton.
Henry George, of California, lectured at
Chickering Hall, n. \, on the 2d, on
The Next Great Struggle" He WAS
| introduced by +. b. Thurber. In the
| course of his remarks he said: ! measure
nv words. After looking at many things
! and thinking of many things, it is my
opinion that AS it stands to-day this great
American experiment in free government
is failure. Men of New York, do YOU
govern yourselves? 1t is merely a ques-
ton of who will be your boss. Even
judges sit on the judicial bench who buy
! their places. Has not Brooklyn a boss !?
| Look at Philadelphia; for years she has
| lain PROSTATE at the feet OF boss. The
same is true of Baltimore and San Fran
| cisco. 1t is not the problem of municipal
| government we have to solve, but of re-
publican government"
Number OF leading citizens of Fargo,
| Dakota, have united in dispatch to the
! Western Associated Press, which states
| that they wish TO contradict the impress
| sion which has been spread abroad that
| their section of country as well as south
| ern Dakota has been visited by the flood,
or that they are in need of assistance.
| Neither Red river, Cheyenne, James or
any of the smaller streams that water
| Red river valley and nJrth Dakota have
| overfowed their banks Seeding has
| been in active progress ten days in every
| portion ofnorlh DAKOTA. From Red river
| to the western limit of wheat culture, and
! from the 46 parallel of latitude to the in
| ternational line, the weather has been
! most favorable, and already the greatest
| confidence exists as to the future coming
crops.
Great excitement was caused in Dublin,
Ireland, on the lst. by the issue ofa pro.
| clamation under the coercion act pro-
claiming the county and city of Dublin.
| In an urgent meeting OF the privy council,
| after considerable discussion, this urgent
measure was resolved upon. There can
| be no doubt that the object of the author
| lties is TO arrest Mr., John Dillon, NJ. F.,
| and other prominent members of the land
league, who have recently delivered
| speeches which bring them within the
! scope of the act. Intention of this action
| was kept profoundly secret, and rumOr
which was circulated on saturday night
! was not believed. There can be little
! doubt that a number of fenian organizers
who recently returned to Dublin after
the first scare had been passed will find
themselves in very unpleasant predica-
ment.
The Herald's Washington special says:
Tue policy of the administration towards
| Mexico and the Central American states
is to be of the most friendly character,
looking to extension of commercial rela-
tions with their people and with pro-
nounced and positive assurance that we
| wish as neighbors OF fellow republics only
| their welfare and prosperous CROWN, ana
| have no desire or intention OF territorial
occupation or aggrandizement. This
distinctly friendly and neighborly policy
comes happily at time when our com
merce with Mexico is suddenly taking
very important proportions because 1t
| will allay distrust and speed that prosper
GUS trade. There is no doubt that the
| impetus which the opening of Mexico to
| American capital and enterprise will give
to production and trade OF both countries
| is destined to Drolong the so called EZRA oi
| good time" which has set in
| Judge Jackson, of the circuit court OF
the United States now in session at Par
kersburg, Va has decided the case of the
state of West Virginia vs. Taylor Strouder
| (colored), indicted for murder nine years
ago, allowing the pleas in abatement to
be filed, and overruling demurrer to pleas
| by the state, and adjudging the pleas good
| in law. He also overruled motion on
| behalf of the state to remand the prisoner
to the custody ofthe state authorities and
! refused to hold him for indictment in the
U. S, court, and discharged Strouder from
custody, This cause has been before the
| U. s. court for some years and involves a
auestion under the civil rights bill allow
ing colored men the privilege Of being
tried by colored jurors. He has been
| twice tried in the courts here and sem
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