Daily Republican., 1882-08-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
DROWNING OASES-OATTLE FE.
VER-COAL STRIKERS
TROUBLES.


TROUBLES.
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Advices from Cumberland, Md, last
night, say that local assemblies met
throughout the mining region yesterday
and approved the actiou of the dele
gates who participated in the conferences
AZ cumberland between the operators
ana miners. The assemblies decided to
c2hnnue the strike. thirty mon from
washington county, Md, procured by
company agents to take the strikers
places, were taken to Elkhart barracks
yesterday. The magistrate rendered a
decisio yesterday in the cases recently
tried OF the Georges Creek Coal Com
pany against their tenants, who are
strikers, giving Judgment for the plain
tiffS. The defendants will appeal.
j. II. Sanders, of Chicago, ILL.,, a.
member of the United States Cattle
Commission, thinks the cattle fever in
the East is from cattle shipped North
from Southern States east of Texas,
where cattle are affected with cattle
tevor. He and other Commissioners
started yesterday for Quebec to ex-
anime the quarantine system there,
with view to adopting similar one
at Portland, Boston, New York, Phila-.
delphia and Baltimore within two
months. This will allow direct im por-
tation OF fine cattle from Europe.
The Post-office Department at Wash
ingt- n, having ascertained that Oliver
b Varco, of No. 90 Cedar street, New
York. and the Star Publishing Com
pany, of New Haven, Connecticut,
have been deceiving the public by
means OF extensive and fraudulent ad-
vertisementS, have directed the post
masters at the respective cities to de-
cline to cash money orders presented
by them, and to return to the senders
all registered letters bearing their ad.
dresses
A meeting off fcolored citizens of New
port, r. l., agreed last night to present
the widow Of John Brown a fund
which they had raised to aid in the
prosecution of the Florida Railroad
Company for having through one of It's
employees, elected Bishop Daniel Payne
of Florida, from one OF its first-ciass
carriages, on account of his color. The
prosecution was abandoned at the in
stance Of Bishop Payne, who declined
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of his advanced years.
United States Supervising Inspector
General Dumont left Washington for
this city to inspect the steam vessels Of
the American Ocean Line and compare
them with the vessels of foreign lines,
in order to enable him to determine
what regulations are necessary in car
rying out the provisions of the act to
regulate the carriage of passengers by
sea. He will also inspect the ocean
steamships running into the port of
New York.
The Convention called to meet at Du.
luth, MINI, on Tuesday, to organize a
movement for the construction of a
canal to connect Lake Superior with
the waters Of the Red River of the
North, the Assiniboine, Saskatchewan,
and other large naVigable rivers n
British America, closed its labors to-
day by adopting resolutions calling on
Congress for aid, and on the State Leg
islature for support in the appeal to
Congress.
Solicitor Raynor, of che Uni ell States
Treasury, writes that freight on i'm
ported goods consigned to an, inland
city cannot be collected at the pOrtot
arrival, and can only be collected at the
point of destination. He holds that
the collector at the port of arrival has
no right to demand payment of freight
charges.
OF the "Sixteeners Association
composed Of the graduates of the Sol.
diers' Orphan Schools, $50 arrived in
q ahiIru Do uaufarAnr 80
the session of that body to-day. A re-
union took place last evening in the
Opera House, at which addresses were
delivered.
The ex Confederate Association of
Missouri effected q permanent organi-
zation yesterday at Sedalia, by the
adoption Of constitution and by laws
and electing as officers General John
s. Marmaduke President and Capt. A.
Lessner Secretary. The Association
adjourned to meet again.
The Attorney General of New York
State has received official notice OF the
order of Judge Haight, denying the ap-
plioation of a mandamus TO compel the
New York Central Railroad to handle
freight. An appeal from this order to
OAO SohCA0l La WALL DO' bhhOu hU OuGOs
Charles s. Hill, Statistician of the
State Department at Washington, has
been granted leave of absence to assist
the Metropolitan Industrial League of
New York in preparing and harmonic
ing statistical reports of the various in
dustries to be submitted to the Tariff
Commission.
At Brownsville, Texas, there were
II new yellow fever cases yesterday, ~
Mexioans and Americans, and 3
deaths, Mexicans. The publication Of
the daily papers is suspended, the hands
being i'll with fever.
A LARGELY attended meeting yester-
day, in New York, of the State Commit
tee of the Auti Monopoly party decided
by vote of 1S 10 Ia, to hold State
Convention at Saratoga, on the 18th Of
September next.
Andrew Ayrixsoa and John Doyle
were drowned on Tuesday night at
Bstty's Point, in the De.a ware river.
They were i'll row boat with two COM
panions, which upset. Their Compan-
ions were saved.
The Western Export Association held
a harmonious session at Chicago, ILL.,,
yesterday for the purpose of restricting
their production for the coming season,
as they did under the cid organization.
The Lumberman's Exchange, of
Chicago, Illinois, yesterday advanced
the prices on about half the grades
quoted in the official list from so cents
to 81 per 1000 feet.
A telegram from Montreal says the
Rev. Father Chafelliere and four Iudi.
ans were drowned yesterday on Lake
Maekigo, while fishing. A sudden
storm upset the canoe.
At Matamoras Mexico, the fever
cases are decreasing. Four new cases
have been reported for the "A hours
ending at a. IN. yesterday,
Francis New, said TO be Philadel-
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