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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-21
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
OFFICE OF THE
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NORTH RIVER CONSTRUCTION CONTAIN, {
NO. II BROAD ST.. NEW YORK. April 49, 1907
Thu directors of the North River Construction Company
having assessed called instruments TO the amount VI '
entire aital stock OF sl0OOO0)O. which there remains
unnad the sum S3O0000 noticeis hereby gwen 10 s
shareholders as have paid all the instruments heretofore
called that the Directors have assessed upon each sc w
ra,taI OF said company such sums OF money -
rem m uuuaid thereon. xceeiing IN the Wloc l.o
onot ~ one hundj dollars at which each share - OIs
a Unified i'm the cOmpanvs certificate of organization anu
hive called direct that the assessed DC pan
fhe Treasurer company n its Office NO -
Sew York CITY day of MAY, 1900 anu W
foiurc of any shai te ance due on ms
rripon on or that day. the necessary Steps WI o
taScn 10 effect forfeiture OF such suo'p
non md o. an ailments previously PAD theIeon
BY order The Boa OF Directors 1860 90, ,,o.,,oo+
- EDWARD +. WINSLOW, Presuent,
THE FAST TENNESSEE VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA r. H. coz
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 40 BEoADWA s,,
NEW-N DIRK, April Il. lSSS..
NOTICE.-There will he a meeting OF me
stock ana registered bondhoccr' OF The East Iennts
see Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company he at the ONCE
az The coupany knoxville Tennessee on SATURDAY tho
23d day of June ~ o'clock, OF sad Nsy 70
formal action mon etsss, purchases
tensions together with such other matters IA may oo eo
n,ittnd TO them the Board o. Directors =, g., rn,o
Tran, will closed from june ISL " '""0
23d. both inclusive.
By order OF the Board of Directors ,u.x coore,orv
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Nuctiou Sales OF Real Cstale.
A DRIAN II. MULLER, Auctloneer'
"a SUPREME COURT SALE IN PARTITION
ESTATE OF THEODORE MARITIME Dec''
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
on

saD 18th. 45TU. 4oTH. SD AND 18Th SIS So A.
'D,rApIE LrASEHOLD PROPERTY ON PAhh
PLACE grHAVE. AND 2SrHST
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COUNTRY PROPERTY our specially. All
\ kIndseye.ywhese lists free FOR stamp - .,,.
PHILLIPS & WELLS. Tribune Bmlolng.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-21
Ocean CLEANERS.


DACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
4 LINE FOR CALIFORNIA;, SANDWICH ISLANDS,
JAPAN CHINA NEw.ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA. CEN
TRIAL and SOUTH AMERICA and MEXICO.
For san Francisco Via the lsthmus OF Panama,
CITY OF PARA sails MONDAY, May 81, noon
Connecting Central and south America and Mexico
From San Francisco, st and Brannan SITS,
For japan and China.
CITY OF TOXIC sails THURSDAY May 81; Pm, M, q,
Excursion ucKets between san francisco anu iOA'" "
For HONOLULU. NEW-zEALAND and AUSTRALIA
CITY OF NEW.Y0RKsslls SATURDAY June :, zp' H.
o arrival OF London mails at Sal franolsoo
freight aud general information apply AT Noh
pany's Once the pier loot Canal st. North River,
ii. J. BULLAI, superintendent
TINTED STATES AND GERMAN MAIL
" NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. American Packet Company s
and HAMBURG SATURDAY steamers hamburg direct
Eil9I May % SUENlA..-.I huis, june
WIELAND Thurs. MAY 81 BON IN A. sat. ue
First Cabin. 500 second CaDlIt
First Cabin saturday steamer eOo
and $40 EXCURSION rates greatly reduced senu lor
''KUNHARDT CO.. Gen. Agts No 81 Broadst, \. Y.
{. II. RICHARD & co. Gen Pass Agts, VI u way y. l.
DED STAR LINE. For Antwerp and Paris.
Ii Sailing from New. and Antwerp every saturday.
mix %IAN ID saturday. May 2G, a.
saloons rooms smoking and bathrooms amdshlpt
First cabin $50 excursion. 10 TO $3.50 second
cabin x55, excursion. 500; Steeisge, $50 prepaid SZO
PETER WRIGHT x SONS. General Agents. 81 bioadway
DOYALI MAIL TO THE NETHERLANDS.
III co.'s pier foot Ut sussex st., Jersey city
FOR AMSIERDAM - o ,, -
FOR ROTTERDAM
SIS ROTTERDAM .....-.. " ednesday, May 30 l2SO p M
LIST Cabin, 500. steerago. $50: prepaid 30 ,,,,.
III CAZAUX, General Agent - so NV SMoTRis
II s. William at. Freight Ags 80 Bway Gen Pass Ast
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Holmes and Bracken. the alleged
dynamiters, were committed for trial al
Halifax, bail being refused.
Thomas Walls & Sons, commission
merchants at Toronto Ontario, have failed
for $4,000.
Eighty fine horses from the late
national show in New York have been sold nj
auction at an average price of $500 each.
In dispute at Hamilton, Ontario,
about the proper manner of entering goods,
J. +. Hazelton, the United States consul, was
knocked down with chair by u wool mer
chant named ii. +. Long.
The Government of Canada has &C.
cepted loan Of SIS, 900 mt per cent
from the Pacific railway syndicate, and will
guarantee Il per cent. dividend for ten years
on the stock of the road.
The schooner Sophia Minch, valued
at s24, 900, went aground near the east pier al
Cleveland, and was scuttled. The schooner
Arab was beached at st. Joseph, Mich. The
steamer City of Toronto was burned at Port
Colborne, and the steamer Oneida was
wrecked on a rock In the st. Lawrence.
Considerable excitement has been
created by the announcement that work or
the Rocky Mountain division of the Canadian
Pacific railroad would be suspended for two
years, owing TO the difficulty of selecting
a suitable pass. 1t is believed that thi:
suspension will retard the work at least four
years.
A mercantile agency in New York re-
ports 2l5 failures during the week in the
United States and Canada. Creditors have
closed the Chicago Office of the Rock River
company; liabilities, 100000. The Chicago
boot and shoe house of Brainard & Servey
with liabilities of sl2, 900, was taken in charge
by the Sheriff. +. +. Blackman, a tobacconist
in Chicago, whose debts are ST., 900, has made
an assignment.
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ny, and arranged 10 70 to Texas with him
and start a sheep ranch. White passing
through the Indian Territory she murdered
Bothelmy, burned the body, took possession OF
his effects about 100000 IN money. bonds,
jewels and other property, and fed South
where she was arrested.
Pixies Peak has been surveyed for a
narrow-guagc railway from Manitou TO the
summit, thirty miles, and work is 10 be com
menced at once. The maximum grade is 10
be 300 feet to the mile.
The report that Frank James is al
lowed TO walk the streets of Gallatin, Mo-, is
untrue. He is not permitted in the jail yard
unless accompanied by an officer.
-Four well-known citizens of Erie,
Pa.-John w. Eyster, Frederick c. Kelsey,
Giles Russell and Charles Brown - were
caught In a storm while duck shooting in the
bay, and drowned. Eyster had his life In
snsured for s2e,OOo.
1t has for some time been charged
that certain city officials of ST. Louis, Mo-,
were in collision with the gamblers, policy
dealers and other disreputable classes, by
which the latter were permitted To ply their
unlawful vocations unmolested. The matter
reached elimination last week In the indict-
ment by the grand jury of Police Commits
sioners Caruth and Lutz, the State Commits
soner of Labor Statistics member Of the
. Legislature, two editors, and several other
parties. The grand jury censures the Gov
ernor of Missouri for granting pardons.
Col. Frank p. Pond, of Morgan
county, Ohio, author of the Pond Liquor law,
is dead.
Willoughby, Ohio, q little town
twenty miles east of Cleveland, was almost
totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
not less than 100000.
Senator Tabor's case at Denver
against his ex-confdontial adviser, w. II.
Bush, was decided, the jury awarding Tabor
$50, 900. Bush's counter-claims for S2s, 500
for aiding Tabor TO secure IA divorce and
other matters were ignored.
Secretary Frelinghuysen, in answer
to the committee of Irishmen, states that the
department in Washington will extend 10
Avenger O'Donnell all the protection TO
which he is entitled If it shall be shown that
he is an American citizen. If he is not such
a citizen the American Government will make
no direct representations whatever.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
SOUTHERN.

The tug Edic exploded her boiler in
Mobile bay, killing the Captain, mate, cook,
and fireman, and painfully wounding the en-
ginoer.
A cyclone passed over Tensas and
Catahoula parishes, La, sweeping away sew
eral plantation structures, and lnjuring many
persons. Wind wrecked James +. Clays to-
baoco warehouse in Bourbon county, Ky,
and four negroes were killed.
The first bale of cotton ever picked
by machinery, is on exhibition at Charleston,
S. c. 1t is declared equal TO the hand-picked
staple.
In fight between negro thieves and
n posse of three law-and-order citizens, near
Toomsboro, Ga, three of the former and one
of the latter were slain.
Hon. Armistead Burt, one of the
Oldest and ablest lawyers in South Carolina,
died suddenly in his Office at Abbeville. He
was member OF Congress from 1s43 TO 1853.
A fire at Savannah, GA, which had
its origin in the large cotton warehouse of
Garnctt, Stubs & Co., destroyed the ware
house, containing 1900 bales of cotton, and
1900 houses, covering an area Of half mile
square, causing loss of at least five lives,
and probably eight or ten. The loss is placed
at nearly 81 Zoo, O0O and the insurance ar not
half that amount.
Unknown assassins fred volley of
bullets through circus tent at New Edin-
burg, Ark, killing Il contortionist in the ring.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
NEWS CONDENSED
Telegpaphic Summary
EASTERN.

Henry Irving achieved brilliant sue
cess in New York, where he opened his en-
gagement before highly cultured and criti-
cal audience, who called him before the cur
tain at the close OF each act
G. N. Fox, who was Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy when Gideon welles was
Secretary under Lincoln's administration
died at New York last week.
Five men were killed at q magazine
on the line of the baltimore and Ohio road in
Pennsylvania by tho explosion of dynamite
The defamation was heard for fifty miles, and
windows were smashed several miles distant
Nothing but fragments of the bodies
of the victims could be found.
Up the track for 200 yards or more the ground
was strewn with shreeds OF flesh and drops of
blood. The face of the rocky cut in which
the powder stood was adorned In a like ghast-
" manner. High up on the top of the tunnel
fragments of flesh and clothing futtered from
the limbs of trees, and splinters the size of a
toothpck covered the scene for hundreds of
yards in every direction.
In Allegheny City, Pa, an employe in
Kiefer & Stefel's tannery descended IA well to
ascertain the depth OF the water. Finding
the foul air was choking him, he cried out,
and two other men went TO his assistance,
who were also overcome. When the three
men were brought to the surface they were
dead.
At Narraganset Park, Providence, r.
l., the trotter III. Ii. Wiuship made mile with
a running mate in the remarkable time Of
2:1oA.
The creditors of T. Shaw & Broth
ers, OF Boston, unanimously rejected an offer
of 33A per cent. in compromise, and in
struct a committee to proceed by civil or
criminal suits to secure 80 per cent
During October the convicts in Sing
Sing penitentiary earned s2O,6U.7i, while the
expenses were only Sl5,6i1.29.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad company
is about TO lease its anthracite coal mines to
a syndicate, headed by William l.. Scott, OF
Erie, who will send the coal west from Erie
and Buffalo. 1t is stated that the railway
corporation will get 81 per ton for all the
coal mined
A desperate combat took place be-
tween Freshmen and Sophomore classes at the
Polytechnic institute at Troy, N. Y, the only
wonder being that several were not killed.
Both parties have been suspended until the
damage TO the building is paid.
Joseph McEneany, cashier of steel
works in New York, embezzled S35, 900 and
squandered il in racing pools.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
POSTAL AFFAIRS.
The Railway Mail Service-Postal
Estimates for the En-
suing Year.
Statistics from the Principal Free De-
livery Offices.

Supt. Thompson, of the Railway Mail Scr.
vice, has submitted his annual report TO
Postmaster General Gresham. The number
of railway post Office lines in 1888 was 993, an
increase of twenty-four over 1882; the mum.
Der of miles of route for which the railroads
were paid was 100, S27, an increase of 1894
over 1882 The number Of miles of railroads
Travelled by clerks was SO, $50, 430, an increase
of 10;43S, 992. The number of pieces of mail
matter handled was 1881 $50, $50, an increase
of 1,429,9H2 over the preceding year. The
superintendent asks an increase of S3lS, 006
in the appropriation for the railway postal
clerks, and $50, 600 increase for the postal
cars.
The estimated amount of postal revenues
for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, in
Guiding S430,000 estimated receipts from the
money-order business, is S47, 10i,07S. The es-
timated expenditures for the same time are
$50, 062 1S9, leaving a deficiency in the reve-
nue. of S2, 96S,ll1. The estimate for the com,
pensation Of Postmasters next year is So, $50.
600, an increase of $4,000, 900; for clerks in
the postolces, $4,000, 900, an increase of $685.,
600; for frec-delivery service, $500, 600; rail.
road mail transportation, Sl2, $50, 900, an in.
crease of S1,0j0,000: steamboat routes, $685.
600, an increase of $4,000; star routes, So
100000, an increase of S3,500,000; railway
postal service, Sl,625, 600, an increase of $780,
600; and for railway postal clerks, "a ,295, 2S9,
an increase of S31S, 1863.
The annual report of the Superintendent of
the free delivery letter-carrier system shove
that l04 Offices employing 1850 carriers, we're
in operation at the close of the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1888. During the year
/ ,324 ,627, 70l pieces of mail matter were de-
livercd and collected, an increase of nearly
10 per cent. over the number of pieces
handled the preceding year. The cost of
the service for the year, was
SO, 1880, an increase OF more than 2e
per cent. over the cost for 1882. The average
cost PER piece for the matter handled was
4-l0 mills, an increase of ITO of a mill per
piece over the cost the previous year. The
excess of postage on local matter over the
total cost of the service was 81 ,02l, 1914. There
were collected and delivered during the year
791, 65S,699 letters, PSI, 1889 postal-carde,
and 26s, 319,S47 newspapers. The following
table shows the aggregate number of pieces
of mail matter handled at a number of the
,-fn of, Inftf
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Prince Bismark has entirely regained
his former strength. King Alfonso has the
rheumatism. The Princess Albert of Prussia
has sprained her ankle.
A man named Piotrowsh has been
arrested In Prussia for having undertaken 10
murder Bismarck for the Nihilists, and has
confessed his guilt.
Cablegrams announce the suspension
Of Carver, Derbyshiro g. Co., merchants or
London and Manchester, with liabilities OF
f12o.oos, and of Hollinshead, Titley & Co.,
cotton brokers of Liverpool, who owe $780,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
HERE AND THERE.

MALONE is hald-headed and has gray whis-
kers.
IRVING, the actor, is a continual cigarette
smoker.
MATTHEW ARNOLD does not like American
newspapers.
THOMAS MAST is talking about starting an
illustrated weekly.
NEXT years crop of Mormon immigrants is
estimated at 10000.
A RAINBOW was seen at night, recently, in
Orange, Tex, while the moon was out of
sight.
MAY FoRNEY, daughter OF the late j. w,
Forncy, writes fashion articles for Philadel-
phia papers.
COOP butter rctais in Tuscon. Arizona, ut
s4.25 pound, while eggs are in demand at IS
cents per dozen.
OK the person of a thief recently captured
I'm Hartford, CT, was found draft for
S1,02s.55, dated juno "a, 1874.
AN Arkansas editor Announces that he ia
compelled TO retire from his paper on account
of being 30 afflicted with the govt.
GAME hash is one of the dishes served ut
the Yellowstone Park hotel, but visitors are
said to be somewhat suspicious of IL.
The authorities of Grand Rapids, Mich.
have given orders 10 the undertakors TO take
funeral professions through the birck streets.
LORD CoLERIDGE speaks of Nathaniel Haw-
thornc rs 'our greatest writer, the master of
an exquisite and I'm absolutely perfect style"
THE grave cavcd In ut Hartford, (Ct.,)
funeral, the other day, just as tho coffin was
TO be lowered, and one of the bearers went
with IL.
EX-SENATOR GwIN, although IS years old,
Is rs erect and sturdy as an oak. Gen. Jack
son appointed him United states Marshal for
Mississippi fifty years ago.
At MONTGOMERY Ala Mr. Ueecher told HIS
audience that IL he had been living i'm the
South at the outbreak of the war, he would
undoubtedly have been Confederate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Interesting Statistics from the Cen
eral Land Office.
Gen. Sherman's Last Official Docu-
ment.

The Commissioner of the General Land
ONCE, the Hon. N. G. Mcfarland, In his
annual report, states that the disposals OF
public lands during the year embraced TO-
O3s, 7e9 acres, and Indian lands 399, 235 acres,
an increase over 1892 of about 6, 900, 600 acres,
and over 1881 OF about 100000 acres. The
receipts from all sources in connection with
disposals of public land were Sl1 ,0ss,47s and
from sales of Indian lands 1926, 4oi, total OF
Sll, 1883. Public lands were disposed of as
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
GLEANINGS.

GEN. GRANT denies that he's millionaire.
It's Fred.
seven wives.
A PIrrsBURG man suicided because he bet
on the wrong horse In a race.
JAMES G. GODFREY, n Wholesale merchant
OF Brooklyn, died from smoking cigarettes.
Mrs. SAMUELs. the mother of the James
boys, calls reporters Theological students Of
the newspaper press
A Doc In Washington county, Ohio, cured
himself OF rattlesnake bite by burying him
self up TO the ears In mud.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
POLITICAL.

Miffiin L. Bell, of Des Moines, Iowa,
has been appointed Supervising Architect of
the Treasury NJ Washington.
In quarrel at Reading. Pa, about
local politics, Congressman Ermentrout wac
knocked down in the street and beaten by
George Smith, "a Democratic leader.
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per year, about equally divided between Gus
toms and internal revenue
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A Fox-soUIRREL two feet in length was
killed In Fayette county, KY, recently.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01

Correspondents: Chemical National Bank,
New York. Commercial National Bank, Chi
cago. Illinois.
~6ell Exchange on all the principal cities
Of Europe. ~Colleetions receive prompt
attention.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01
LEPRosY GAINING GROUND.


Northern Wisconsin and Eastern Mime
sofa the Scene of Fresh Outbreak.
Milwaukee, July 80. = The Sentinel
publishes the following concerning the
prevalence of leprosy in this state: 1t
is fact vouched for by medical author.
ity that the inception and spread of lep.
rosy in the state of Wisconsin cannot be
doubted. Prominent medical men,
among them number resident in this
city, have investigated what they first
considered merely sensational rumor,
and have discovered and received with
concern that in the northwestern portion
of the state where the Norwegian ele.
ment preponderate the disease has found
foothold, and that its eradication will
require much effort. As far as ascer.
tanned the loathsome disease has con-
fined its ravages. among the Norwegian
Inhabitants, but its rapid spread has been
viewed with much alarm. Crossing the
Mississippi river, it has fastened its fangs
on the population Of eastern Minnesota,
until now Wisconsin and Minnesota, in
the districts indicated, constitute one OF
the four probable headquarters in the
United States from which the contaRion
is radiating. In the western hemisphere
Wisconsin, Louisiana, South Carolina,
Mexico, Bermuda, California and the
Sandwich islands are considered the
most afflicted districts, and it is prophe.
eied by medical men that unless measures
are taken soon this state will be afflicted
terribly by the encroachments. A
prominent physician of Milwaukee said
to-day:
AS has been well known for some time
there exists among the Norwegian popu
lation of this state large number o,
cases Of the disease which is now the
scourge OF the people OF the Sandwich
islands, and which was looked upor
by the people of biblical times witt
dread and merited abhorrence-
leprosy. In searching the records of the
state board of health 1 cannot find thai
any effort has as yet been made to stoI
its spread or limit its introduction. Th,
disease in question is eninently con
tagious, and not only carried by actua
contact of healthy person with leprosy
but may be acquired from hotel towel
and similar sources of contagion. In tn
course OF forty years, or since the time O
its introduction into the Sandwich Is
lands, it has spread with SO much rapid
ity that at this date at least ten per cen
Of the people of Hawaii are rendered NJ
fit for any kind of occupation
and are debarred entirely from an
and all social life. At the pre-
ent time there are four leprous center
IN the United States, namely, easter
Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsi,
among the Norwegians: California
among the Chinese; Louisiana, an
among the Indians of the northwes,
That the disease is spreading among u.
and that, too, with comparative rapidit,
cannot for q moment be doubted; and
seems that the time was come for legi
lation and national action to prevent i,
further introduction and further spreat
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01
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How Judge Waite was Hurt

Washinet'o" Special: Col. Tourtelotte,
on the staff of the general of the army,
received letter from General Sherman
this morning written at one of the stop.
ping places in Yellowstone park. The
general said the accident of Chiel j Justice
Waite occurred when they were going
up hill. A saddle slipped back and the
horse began acting badly, and succeed.
ed in throwing the chief Justice. He was
shocked considerably, but the members
Of the party and the Judge himself
thought that the injuries sustained were
not serious enough to prevent his con.
tinuing the trip. Judge Waite decided
to return east however, in order to allay
the apprehension OF the members Of his
family, who would probably be alarmed
BY exaggerated reports of the accident
The party expected to reach Nissoula
Mont, on the 9th inst, where they
would strike the Northern Pacific rail
road.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01

A Washington telegram states that the
people OF Montana are preparing to ask
for the admission Of that territory as a
state into the union. As the territory ID
democratic in politics, its application is
likely to receive favorable consideration
in the next house, but therepublican sen.
ate may interpose bar. Speaking oi
the subject of Montana's admission not
very long ago, Delegate Magginnis said
that the creation of now states had be.
come eolely political question, and he
could see no prospect of his territory
getting into the union until there
should be congress democratic in botl
branches.