, 1882-04-21
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEG APH TO DATE.

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above average.
The new secretary expects to assume
his duties this week.
The crop reports from northwestern
Dakota are very encouraging,
The river is falling at New Orleans
and the situation generally improved.
Senator Logan is unable, owing to bad
health, to go to the Hot Springs.
1t is understood that the secretary Of
war has modified Sergeant Mason's sen.
tence.
Over 10000 emigrants arrived within
the forty eight hours ending April 9Th,
at New York.
The officers of the burned steamer
Golden City have been indicted for in
voluntary manslaughter.
Arthur Mueller, abscondlng cashier OF
the Central bank, Indianapolis, is short
$50, 900 in his accounts.
The Chinese legation at Washington is
in receipt of congratulatory messages on
the veto of the Chinese bill.
Another dynamite mine has been dis
covered beneath the Nicholi railway at
the fourth station from Moscow and
many persons arrested on suspicion.
On the 9th passenger train on the
Colorado & Santa Fe railway was boarded
near Plum station by five men, who
robbed the passengers and affected their
escape.
In Surrey county, Pa, Mrs. Gray and
Mr.. Jones died shortly after drinking
coffee in which it is supposed arsenic was
placed by servant girl.
Jacob Bales, under arrest at st. Louis,
charged with being old man Bender, the
Kansas fiend, is well known in that coun-
try. He has lived about Uniontown for
many years.
The First Assistant Postmaster General
has gone back on Hayes civil service
order. and says that postmasters now
have as good right as any one to run
the politics of the country.
From the dispatches it appears that
Chas. Francis Adams has been victim
to the tame of SIT ,000 by the sharp prac-
of some bunko chaps in Boston. A man
rs years old ought to know better.
Two men, named James Irving and
Joseph Fisk, have been arrested in New
York under suspicion that they had
stolen 800, 900 worth OF st. Joseph, Mo-,
bonds, which they were trying to sell.
Gen. Sherman telegrsphs friend that
he rejoices over the passage of the bill
for the compulsory retirement Of army
officers at SO, and on no account does he
desire an exception made in his interest.
The commission to investigate corners
and dealings met in New York last week.
The witnesses so far all testify that cor
nering is both bad for the consumer
and railroads, and it is regarded as very
demoralizing species Of gambling.
A mob of fifty men captured the
steamer Sally Breeze at Raymond City,
s. G., went to Winfield, took Jos. Smith,
a negro, out Of Jail and hanged him to q
tree. Smith had committed an outrage
on woman, who is reported dying on
account of the shock.
A cyclone struck the agricultural COL
lege at Ames, Iowa, on the 10th, doing
considerable damage. Prof. Hessey and |
wife and VIM. Mccarthy and wife were
injured, and student named Cornell
badly hurt. 1t is feared more damage
has been done north of Ames.
Senator Teller called upon Secretary
Kirkwood and engaged ina long CONVEX
sation regarding the business depart
ment. The new secretary will not assume
the duties before the 10Th. Kirkwood
leaves for home Immediately after the
introduction of his successor into Office.
Rev. Isaac Fuller, residing in Homer
township, Midland county, Mich, was
killed by the tornado on the 9Th. His
house was demolished. and several other
persons injured in the neighborhood.
The Storm swept through several town
ships in Bay county, doing great damage
to property.
There is not much fuller intelligence
from the tornado near Highland, Mich.
The storm appears to have first struck on
the farm Of Joseph Bird, then passed
east, blowing down fences, trees and
everything in its path, and next striking
the barn of Geo. Lewis, making o COM
plete ruin. The house of Orson Kellogg
was badly damaged, and then the house
of l.. Crandall, where the loss of life
heretofore reported occurred. 1t then
passed east, struck the residence of Mrs.
Degarnig, damaging it considerably;
then struck the house OF Mr.. Beaumont,
damaging it and blowing the barn into
the lake. The track of the storm was
about forty rods wide.
Amalgamated trades unions in New
York have adopted resolutions declaring
that as the president had vetoed the bill
to restrict importation of coolies, the
trades unions regard it as another evil
dence of the governing classes that the
interests of the working population we're
not considered, and that the president