The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-06-29
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MElANoe.
|; yincente Bermerez, q Mexican, was
recently sent to the Texas peaiten-
tiary for horse stealing. The Mexican
authorities having claimed that he
Was kidnapped from their territory,
Secretary Ffelinghuysen has ordered
his release.
The West Shore road, now being
constructed along the Hudson river.
is expending 500, 100 per day. There
are twenty -One locomotives, GU steam
drills, 500 civil engineers, and 3S.O0O
labOrers 1t work, and all contracts
are ordered to be finished BY NOvem-
Der /.
Philadelphia will celebrate ON Octo-
Der a to q inclusive, the bi-centen-
William Penn.
The Jewish refugees from Russia
are coming to this country BY hun
dreds. About 1000 are en- route
thither acrUss the Atlantic. Thous.
ands have already arrived ut New
York.
Frank Bigelow, receiving teller Of
the National Bank Of the Republic Of
Washington, ID. c., has absconded,
leaving . deficit Of about e, 90 In his
accounts.
Chicago donates SIC, 900 to the Iowa
sufferers.
No changes In the iron situation at
PittsburH Both sides firm. Non
union mills running along smoothly
without interference from strikers.
Whisky assigned by coroner as cause
of suicide Of son Of Senator Foster,
F. Wayne, Ind.
Iowa Republican Convention called
for Dies MOins, August 2.
A prisoner, passing under the name
Of Horace Yates, confined at Marshall,
escaped from Sing Sing IN. Y. )pen-
itentisry. His story was cOmmuni-
Gated to the prison authorities, and by
them to the officials at Sing Sing; and
II turns out that Yates, alias Frank
Gillon, escaped four years ago from
the latter prison where he was serv.
Ing life sentence for murder.
A syndicate has been formed In
Moscow for the promotion Of cotton
cultivation In Asia. American ex-
perts will be introduced to superin-
tend the work.
The indications are that the bill
now before the House reducing in
ternal revenue taxes will 20 through.
A tidal wave occurred I'm Lake Erie
at Cleveland on the sd, with aston
feet high and rolled in without CIV
ing any premonition. of its advance.
1t lasted about one minute, but In
that shcrt space Of time worked dam
age to the extent Of $50, 900.
Joliet, ILL., rolling mill shut down !;
$40 idle men cause, dull times.
Chicago grain men say increased
acreage will prevent scarcity Of corn.
Stoneinan received Democratic NOM
inatiOn for Governor of California.
Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass, gut
ted by fire; loss 81 on, 90; insured.
Employers at Scranton, Wilkes
barre and PitsOn. Pa, have advanced
the wages Of miners ten per cent.
Judge Kelly, Of Pa, has accepted
address at the Denver mining exposi-
ton, August l.
There are now in the bonded ware
houses Of the United States about ST.
OOO.OOO gallons of whisky, on which
the tax amounts to about SO, 500, OlO.
The time for the payment of consid-
cradle portion Of this tax is near at
hand.
Congress has passed q bill appropri-
ating $S3 900 to continue Attic explor-
atiOns.
Gen. ROsecrans has been re-nOmi-
mated for Congress.
The number of smallpox patients
In the Chicago pest house Is reduced
to thirty-eight, the smallest In eighteen
months.
The anthracite coal companies of
Pennsylvania have made a voluntary
advance OF ten per cent. to miners.
One hundred and ninty-nine deaths
occurred in St Louis last week. Or.
|, IL IL thought a majority of the late
Neglected Legislature in Oregon IL In
favor Of woman suffrage
The Grand Army Of the Republic
will hold Its next meeting in Denver
In September of next year.
At the Cabinet meeting last Friday
Secretary FOlger reported that 6O,O0W
Chinese labOrers now under contract
In Cuba and DESTROYS of returning to
China have applied for permission to
go through the United States II was
decided. that under the provisions of
the recent Chinese bill the permission
could not he granted.
Ex-senator Dorsey has taken the
pains to advise telegraphic agent of
the press that for the past three
months he has had some OF the best
lawyers In New York preparing to
enter suits against q large number Of
Newspapers, some for criminal libel
and others for libel In civil suits. He
says damages amounting altogether
to over 81 ,O0O, 900 will be asked in his
case alone, and that the suits will soon
be ready. .-.rr. 80 ~.
The members of the Tariff Commits.
sion will assemble at the capital the
9th Of July to organize.
The steeple of st. Paul's Episcopal
Cathedral aud the two spires of the
Meridian Street NJ. f.. Church ut In.
dianapOlis were demolished by q ter.
rife cyclone Sunday evening. Private
houses and business structures were
considerably damaged. and one person
killed and many others severely
wounded. : The storm lasted but Q few
seconds.
The Suez Canal Is to be guarded BY o
number of small, swift gunboats In.
stead Of the two guardships ~ intended
originally.
Captain John Cowdon, known In
connection with Improvements Of the
Mississippi, asks Congress to investi.
gate q number Of charges he makes
against Captain Eads.
The Legislature Of South Car0lins
met In extra session Last Tuesday To
redistrict the State, having been
allowed two additional Representa-
tive In Congress.
These are exciting times In New
York. The striking freight-handlers
have stalled twelve miles Of loaded |
CARS ON the Jersey meadOwa Public
sympathy seems to be with the strik- |
ers, and the Board OF Trade adopted
resolutions urkfng the increase Of pay.
The New York and Brooklyn sus-