The daily gazette., 1883-10-05
MonxlNp SUMMARY,

were killed by ! fall Of tiSH f6of at the White
Oak mines at Scranton yesterday morning
The annual convention OF the American
| Bankers Association will meet in Louis
VILE on q 10th instant, and be in session
/ two days.
Fifty-six cases Of opium, alleged to have
been fraudulently imported on the steamer
Oceanic, was hbclled yesterday In San
| Francisco.
In the MsthoGlst Conference at Milwaukee
yesterday charge was filed againt sRev.C.
| A. Stockwell of having deserted his post 10
stake acclaim I'm Dakota"
Edward NJ. Marshall, separated from his
| wife. met her yesterday In st. John, New
Brunswick, and shot her in the neck, In
f!cting probably fatal wound.
Thomas G. skinner was nominated for
| Congressman yesterday by the Democratic
of the Frtt North Carolina District, to MI
| the vacancy caused by the death OF W. r.
Pool.
Valentine Hattcn was Killed and two men
named Martin and Amos were fatally In
iured by the premature explosion OF vulcan
powder In a mlre at Webb City, Missouri,
on Wednesday,
| Judge Hoadley addressed q crowded house
| in Sandusky, Ohio, on Wednesday night
| He felt much prostrated yesterday, and de-
cided not speak at Toledo, where he had
been announced.
| A steamer passed through the southwest
| Pass of the Mississippi on Wednesday and
reported 10 feet of water III the channel.
She was the FIRST vessel 10 go through this
Pass for several years.
Governor Cleveland, of New York, yes
terlay addressed q large assemblage at the
| Oswegatchie Fair at Odensburg. lie gave
good advice TO the young men of the day In
regard to their social and political duties.
In the New York state Convention Of the
Ancient Order Of Hlbernians, in New York
city, last night Alexander Sullivan, Presi-
dent of the Irish National League OF Amer
lea, made an address by invitation.
Senator Malone delivered the first speech
| of the Readjuster canvass in Virginia on
Wednesday, at Zuni Station, in Isle Of
Wight county. A large audience gathered
fir ON the surrounding country TO hear him.
By request of the KCorean Embassy the
Post office Department has sent to the State
Department for the use Of the Embassy
st OF the postage stamps and envelopes
now In use, with a number OF documents
Illustrating he workings OF the Post office
Department.
The publican State Executive Commit
tee Of Maryland met yesterday, and nomi-
mated Frank II. Stokelt, OF Annapolis, for
ttorney General, in place of K, Stockett
| Matthews, declined; also Colonel James G..
Mullekn, of Talbot county, for Controller,
in place of Washington Smith, declined.
The Washington Star says it is stated that
the Executive Committee of the Colured
Convention, which met In Richmond, Vir-
ginia, on the II of March, 1881, will meet
in that city on the 10Th inst. and draw up
an address "advising the colorcd people as
| n thp laz TanlipV I'm in the rOminp
election"
The Trustees of the Peabody Educational
Fund, in session in New York; yesterday
elected William Aiken, William NJ. Evarts,
A. H. II. Stuart, II. K. jackson and James
, d. Porter tho Executive Committee. VII.
liam NJ. Evarts, Hamilton Fish, Theodore
Lyman, Anthony J. Drexel and Chief Jus.
tlce Waite are chosen the Finance Com
mittee.
The General Conference of the Evangelical
! Church met yesterday In Allentown, Pa,
! aud will remain in session for two weeks
! | 81 delegates are present, among them hv'
from Canada, two from Germany and tw'
tro,n Swi,zerland. Btshop Esher Of Chicago
5. made the opening address. Iu the after
Is noon addresses were made by Bishops Dub
d of Cleveland, and Bowman Of Allentown.
Z In Troy, New York, yesterday, while
,t fireman was putting away uniforms after
parade, he dropped cigar stump in the ha
lott of the Volunteer Steamer house, settin
If fire to and destroying the contents. T. W
} Abbott, of Albany, while assisting to pu
l. out the fire sustained fatal injuries by fall
q ing from ladder. II. G. Tabor also ha
: his head "spiit open" by falling ladder.
= In the United States Court at Little Roe
i yesterday, Justice Miller decided that th
e bonds issued by the State of Arkansas /
3 1859 for the Little Rock and Fort Smit
a and the Little Ro:k aud Mississippi Rive
:. railroads arc not lien on the roads, whic
~ are rot responsible for them. The toti
value OF the bonds issued to all the railway
e. under the acts amounted to Ave and ha
h million dollars aud comprise nearly half th
ar State bonds.
:, At noon on Sunday next all the railroad
lu between Boston and Montreal, except tn
Boston and Lowell (Which will adopt tn
system a week later), will begin to ru
as rains on the Eastern standard time, that
ed the 10Th meridian, which is 10 minut
- slower than The Boston time, heretofore Il
~ standard. 1t is said that before the close
zee October probably most Of the roads In Il
ar United States east of Buffalo, and in CanaL
he east of Detroit, will adopt the 75th merida
10 time.
The New York Chamber of CONNER
- yesterday appointed committee to prepl
ha such amendments to the existing laws whit
Try | regulate assignments IN bankruptcy as WI
Ids prohibit all preferences and place all cred
tors on the same basis in the distribute
bankrupts' assets. The Committee on Ra
ways of the Chamber was directed TO repo
nu what amendments to existiog laws arc n
ID cessary to prevent "fagrant stock watcrir
he operations, like those pcrputra,el by Il
In telegraph ommlttees.
- George w. Wilson and d. II HerOy, wi
~ left Dcmiug, New Mexico, on the 10Th al
me TO get little Charlie McComas frGm the /
rty dians, returned to Deming on Wedresda
on their mission having proved unsuccrssiu
Their failure was due To the death of Ju, Il
principal Chef, who was drowned on t
- 2lst ult., by falling into the river viii
VI drunk, and also to ''the presence n lar
Tor body of Mexican troops aud thcibtcrferen
Op- OF the Mexican local authorities" The b
be is well and with JUS widow, Who dues n
,,o wish to give him up. The Indians elect
Geronimo as Chief after the death Of
MS ignoring the latters sous, and this, it Is sal
ger mas created bad feeling.
Ia The State Federation Of Trade and Lab
Organizations OF Missouri met yesterday
St Louis. Il. W. Sauer, the president, c
cuped the chair. A draft ef a bill to
presented to the GeNt Legislature in rcga
,th to The products Ct coayirt labor Was ailn;,tc
inv 1t provides that ''all articles maaufactur
4 a by conVicts shall be plainly stamped as sue