Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-08-16
The directors Of the First National Bank

The directors of the First National Bank
OF Indianapolis, on which a run was made,
has formed syndicate, and increased the
stock to 5000 Mr.. w. II. English and
Mr.. Depauw becoming responsible for the
management. Az ten minutes before 8 z. M.
the doors were thrown open, and Mr.. English
invited the crowd of depositors who had
gathered on the outside to come in end get
their money, The bank was kept open an
hour after the closing time, and all checks
presented were paid.
The Chicago Times says that secret agents
of the Canadian government have been In
that city for some time shadowinR promi
nent Irish nationalists. and that they have
positive information Of a premeditated dc.
sign to destroy the Welland Canal by the use
of explosives. 1t is further asserted that the
United States government has been asked to
assist in thwarting the conspiracy.
At Danville, Va, FIRE broke out in the
small frame building on Gerst's Cotton Mill
premises, between Union street and the ca
nal. The wind blowing from the east the
flames RAPIDLY spread, involving the brick
annex to the cotton mill, which was quickly
consumed. 1t then spread to Hollands
Block, five brick stores on Union street,
thence to Hollands tobacco warehouse, con-
suming all the property in it's course.
The Florida Ship-Canal is by no means
abandoned. General Stone, the chief engi-
neer of the canal company, declares that the
watershed TO be dug through is not as high
as the highest in the Suez canal, and that
available entrances from deep water have
been found at each terminus. According to
the General; "The canal would save from
three TO seven days time for all the steamers
and sailing vessels going into and ont of the
Gulf of Mexico" Estimating the salary and
expense account of large ocean steamer at
$4,000 month, and the cost of coal at from
$500 TO $500 per day, Gen. Stone figures ont
a saving ''in the mere matter of time" of
$1,000 1.-The navigation through the Flori
da Straits is the most dangerous known, and
the annual losses from wreckage are enor-
nous.
LONDON, August 9.--Featherstone, Deasy
Flanagan and Dalton have been convicted
of treason-felony in Liverpool and sentenced
to lifelong penal servitude.
The denial of Cetewayo's death is again
repeated.
There we're 627 deaths from cholera in
Egypt on Wednesday.
The statements in regard to the extent and
Importance of the military uprising in Spain
are contradictory.
Nj. Feuillant editor of the Paris Gautois,
has been sent to prison for three months for
melting men to socialist riot.
Hanlon and Smith and other Phoenix Park
informera have arrived ut Sydney, N. 8. W.,
but have not been permitted 10 land.
Morris Scharf, the boy witness IN the re-
cent Jewish trials in Hungary, has confessed
his perjury. Thirty-two persons who took
part in the riots against his father and other
Jews in Pesth have been arrested.
The country is in very agitated condi-
ton. A revolution is momentarily expected
in this city. The government is penniless.
and business is at a standstill. The town OF
Jacmel has pronounced in favor of..revolu-
ton, and pronunciamento is Immediately
expected at Cape Haytien. A great battle
has been fought before Jeremie, in which the
government troops were completely defeated,
and several of their generals were taken and
executed.-Haytian Dispatch.