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man, q herman shoemaker, made an at
tempt on the life of his wife and that of
Joseph Mentzer, boarder, by aSsaulting
them with piece Of iron. After knocking
them senselcss Kountzman committed sui
eide by cutting his throat. Mrs. Hountz-
man is in a critical condition and will hardly
recover. Mentzer is not badly hurt
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE National Land League Conven-
ton met at Dublin on the 10th, about one
thousand delegates being present, including
twenty one members Of Parliament. Parnell
occupied the chair He said the Land act
left the rent question as continual source
of discomfort and strife between different
classes in Ireland. He had no doubt this
was designedly so arranged by the British
Government. He warned farmers not to
trust to the Land act. 1t was, he said, de-
signed to break the League. Nobody should
appeal to Land Courts until test cases to be
prepared by the League had been submit
ted. They should press forward to the
abolition OF landlordism and to leg
islative independence. lie advised
farmers to borrow money under the
Land act so as to give work to
aborers, and invited the latter to join
branches OF the League. He pledged him
self to head a laborers' movement il the
farmers did not Parnell in his speech re-
asserted that fair rent would be the value Of
the land in a state of nature, before it was
improved by tenant or any Of his prede
cessors. In regard to the industrial ques-
ton, he said Irishmen should encourage
home manufactures, even if they had to pay
do tln,, 1.
producible in ireland should be bought in
America. English goods should pot be
bought in any event. Sexton then moved
collectively the Land Leagues resolutions,
and they were carried with accamation.
THE Christiancy divorce case has
assumed a new phase. On the 10th Mrs.
Chrisiancy's brother, DR.. French Lugenbell,
of Virginia, sent an unequivocal challenge
to Mr.. Chrstiancy in Washington, request
ing him to meet him sat any point in Vir-
ginia which you may designate within TWEEN
ty miles OF Washington" Mr.. Chrstiancy
declined in brief note, saying he had "no
special ambition to acquire notoriety by as
sassination," and expressing his preference
for the ordinary procedure in a court of
law to determine the truth involved in the
case at issue. Mr.. Christiancy subsequently
swore out warrant against DR.. LugenbeH.
The room of eX-Minister Christiancy
at the National Hotel, Washington, on the
10th, was forced open by thieves and a box
containing SO, 900 worth of jewelry and dia-
monds was rifed. The box had recently
arrived from Peru, and it is thought that
the thieves followed it from New York. The
jewelry and diamonds did not belong to Mr..
Christiancy, but were placed in his custody
as United States Minister for safe keeping.
There is no clew to the thieves.
LORILLARD's Iroquois has carried off
another British prize, the st. Leger stakes,
at Doncaster He was ridden by Archer.
The anniversary of Mexican indie
pendence, September IS, was observed by
the opening of public works throughout the
country.
CHARLES BECKER, said to be one of |
the most successful counterfeiters in the |
country, has been arrested In the suburbs of |
Brooklyn, n. Y, and a large amount OF |
counterfeiting paraphernalia secured, among |
them being ten finely engraved stones, rep
resenting fac-similes OF 1,000-frauc notes Of
the Bank Of France, four presses, etc.
A FIRE at Carrollton, Mo-, on the |
evening of the 10th, destroyed the Carroll |
House, fine three-stery brick building, |
together with several old frame buildings |
of no great value, in which the fire orig
mated.
A SNOWFALL of several inches was
reported on the 10th in Northern Iowa and |
Southern Minnesota.
MAURICE c. STELLHETIER, aged 2G, I!
coupon clerk in the office of j. 81 w. Selig- |
man IL Co., New York, is under arrest |
charged with embezzling $4,000. The !
money was mostly lost in stock speculation. !
Stellheimer fed from the city upon the dis
covery OF his defalcation, taking with him a
young lady companion. A detective was
placed upon his track and his arrest was
finally accomplished on a lake steamer bound
for Duluth.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic in Russia.
In some parishes all the children under 10
years have died of the dread disease. The
coRtagion first appeared in Bessarabia in
1872. Since then it has spread over the
south of Russia, from whence it has spread
toward the east and northwest. In the
Province Of Pultowa, which has less than
200, 600 people there have been 45,543 per-
sons stricken by the disease, and Of these
Is, T65 have died.