Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-31

tut uauus VI ITltuub.
Flour interests in Chicago are
disturbed to day because OF a
rumor that lower Canadians are palm
ing of inferior goods as high grade"
American -four. 1t appears that the
means adopted in the fraud was to use
the stamped heads" Of American bar
rels to head up, the bogus article.
Rat poison did it for a Chicago lady
yesterday. Lately her husband brand.
ed her as an habitual drunkard. His
cruelty in this respect caused her to
commit the rash act. His name is
Wilhelm Finger
To be hanged until he is dead on
September Is, in Chicago, is the way
the death warrant of James Tracey
reads. He was found guilty of muir
dering Police Officer Huebner.
An angel out Of herself, is what
Miss Matte Smith, of Chicago, tried
to make yesterday, by leaping into the
lake. But she ignominiously failed
Lumber prices are advancing III
Chicago This, it appears, is owing to
the recent advance in insurance risks.
Little Thunderer, a noble red mar
Of the far West, and one of the gen
tlemen who assisted at the ceremony
Of making angels Of General Custer
and his gallant soldiers, was in Chicago
yesterday. But. let it be known that
MIR. Thunderer was an ally of those
who we're so ruthlessly massacred.
He and other Chippewa chiefs are on
the way to Washington to interview
the President as to the disposal of
their Red Lake reservation. While
in Chicago these natives" we're
treated very Hospitality.
Bishop Feehan, of Chicago, will not
discuss the probability of his being
made a Cardinal at no distant day.
He is spoken Of as extremely modest
as to his own advancement. How
ever, those who best know him
say that no man who
ever saw the light OF Tipperary
Island, is more qualified for such dis
tinction, or more worthy such exalted
consideration from the Church Of
Rome, than he. The Bishop is quite
a favorite in Chicago,in and cut Of his
church.
Persons from Chicago, reading the
LEDGER, will be glad to learn that a
splendid structure has Just been com
pleted over the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad track at Polk
street. Il is a magnificent visduct,
two spans Of which are each l72 feet
long, the total length being 2074 feet.
The cost of the viaduct was Sill lis.
It is said that this new feature to
Chicago's greatness is one of The best
pieces Of mechanism in the country.
Killed by blows from his OWN leg
was the fate Of w. J. Clark,
an inmate Of Chicago's Bride
well, the other night. How
ever, the dangerous leg was Of
wood, and whtn engaged in the muir
derOus work was in the hands Of an
insane culprit named John Prinde-
vile. It appears that Clark's only
offense was snoring 10 his sleep.
This annoyed the asthetical P, who
efectually put a quietus on the dis
turbance by Staying his companion in
misery. OF course, if the said wooden
leg had not been unscrewed from the
victims body. the calamity might not
have taken place.
Billing hot was the weather in
Chicago yesterday. But the ram,
thunder and lightning storm last night
reduced the temperature gradually.
until now, 3 pm, the thermometer il
down to 70e-s fall Of 240, in as many
hours.
Business in Chicago increased about
20 per cent last week over the same
week Of the previous year.
Shot, the other day, was a Chicago
rufian named Albert Powles. He
and others Of his gang, attacked q
storekeeper named John Mccarthy
and, in defense of his person, tina
gentleman put a ball into the aforesaid
Albert.
Miss Madeline Stiles, alias There's,
Sturla, who recently made Charlie,
Stiles, Of Chicago, climb the COLDER
stairs, has had a true bill for murder
found against her by the Grand Jury
J General Abe BulOrd, the celebrated
Kentucky sport, and late professor
Of igion, lectured 10 Chicago tn,
other evening. He discoursed not a
a horse man." but as a Christian, OF
horse matters, and proclaimed tn,
doctrine that nothing antagonist
should exist between the church ant
the turf; that gentlemen iBnumerabl
%patronized the turf, and that with tn
patronage Of the church, there woult
be more gentlemen on the turf, ant
more turf men in the church, etc
The audience was large and fashiona
Bile, and the Generals discourse wa
listened to with apparent pleasure
The speaker has a very happy way Q
handling language.
illinois machine Republicans ar
saints without wings. In the recen
Congressional apportionment the
manipulated things so that 81 per cen
Of the voters Of the State will elect |
members, while 40 per cent will onl
have it in their power TO elect six. |
one section of the State the Republi
cans only gained 5000 in ten years, 0
increased their number 10 $4,000
still that region gets a member. .
Itbe other hand, q Democratic Sectio