Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-06
LAT EST NEWS.

/ LONDON, Sep. PIT is rumored Mt Fly
mouth, England, that the French steame
! Amerique, which sailed from Havre for New
York on Saturday, has foundered.
Zululand is in state of anarchy.
The late Queen of Madagascar has beer
succeeded by her niece.
The Emperor Francis Joseph received th
Orleans princes in Vienna on Friday.
The military have suppressed fresh attack
on the Jews in Zala and Krapina, Hungary
A royal order has been issued in Spain il
relation to the recent insurrectionary out
break.
Mary Anderson has made n successful ap
pearance in London in the play of lingo
mar"
The bark G. j. Jones, from Charleston foi
Falmouth, has been wrecked with loss OF
eleven lives.
Nearly 40 persons were killed or wounded
by being run over by an excursion train nj
Steglitz, Germany.
1ne executive committee of the Inter
national Fisheries Exhibition has recon-
mended the American method of mackere
fishing.
Senator Vest has arrived at Helena, Ark.
He and other members of the congressional
commission will leave in a few days to eS-
anime into the feasibility of opening to set
tlement parts of several Indian reservations.
On the Western Maryland Railroad, the
rear of a standing freight train was run into
by following freight train. Two persons
were killed and several injured. The coro-
ner's jury rendered verdict of gross negli-
gence on the part of the train hands.
At Providence, Il. l., ex-Gov. Sprague re-
fused TO give possession of the property of
the Quidneck Company to Stephen Harris,
who Was elected president of the company by
Assignee Pomeroy and Trustee Farnsworth
Mr.. Sprague told Mr. Harris that he would
kill him if he tried TO take possession.
The Georgia delegates to the national col
ored convention, which meets in Louisville
on the 24th instant, have formally announced
their determination to demand admittance
to the hotels and to insist on fir r,t-class ac-
commodations. The managers of the prin-
cipal hotels have been interviewed OH the
subject, and say that they will not admit
them as guests at all.
The officials of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad threatened TO remove
their shops from Dodge City, Kansas, and 10
take a branch road (to be built) somewhere
else, unless an effort was made to reform tn ,
morals of the place. The city council has
directed the vigorous enforcement of ordi-
nances against gamblers and immoral es-
adjustments.
At the town of Lagos, Mexico, few days
ago, while services were being held i'll the
principal church, the building was struck 10y
lightning killing the priest, four women and
little girl.
Another cut has been made in passenger
rates between Cincinnati and st. Louis. Ii
is thought the rates will be fifty cents be
tween these cities by the middle of the week
1t is now $l.50.
The Western Union operators III New York
have been informed that hereafter they will
receive extra pay for Sunday work, and that
there will be a slight modification in the
hours of night work.
BY direction of the Secretary of War
clerks are at work collecting information
from the military records on file as TO the
mastering of volunteers in time of war. The
data is being collected for the purpose of
enabling the national authorities, i'll case of
war, to promptly organize and marshal the
military strength in each State.