Milford chronicle., 1883-10-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
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Lake City, about 600 persons attended.
In their addresses the ''Apostles" urged
l. their hearers to live up to their religion,
going into pOlygamy and paying tithes.
Major A. FL. Nickerson's where
'f abouts are at last known to the War De
partment. He is residing in Thorold,
= Canada. He has been ordered to report
at Washington or he will be dismissed.
The steamship Canada, of the Ma
tional line, having broken her main
shaft at sea, was towed into st. Johns,
N. F., by the British steamer South
Wales.
Canadian sugar refiners are urging
their government to grant them bounty
on ali refined sugar exported from the
Dominion.
Counsel for Sergeant Mason, the
soldier who attempted to shoot Gui-
teau, recently applied to the Secretary
OF War for copy of the Judge advocate
Generals review of the proceedings of
the court martial by which Mason
was tried. The Secretary refused |
the application, on the ground that |
! the document was a confidential |
communication. 1t is said, however,
| by the prisoners friends that the |
Secretary witholds the report because it
! Is favorable to Mason and contrary to
his own view Of the case. Counsel will,
it is reported, apply to the President for
the full record. r.
The bi-centennial celebration in COM
memoration of the first immigration and
the founding of Germantown, Pa, was
celebrated by the German American
residents of New Orleans Tia
For some reason a priest refused the :
rites of burial to parishioner at Troy,
n. Y. The relatives forced their way e
into the cemetery and inferred their .
dead.
"A fire in the Hahnemann Hospital. n
Chicago, created a panic among the
patients. but no one but physician re- r.,
ceived any injury. " "
by the carelessness of the crew of a h
freight train a collision costing four
human lives occurred near Toledo, Ohio. D
AT Pawling, n. Y, a dynamite car b
fridge was thrown into dwelling house al
and exploded by a fuse, injuring three T
persons and wrecking the building. az
AT Liberty, Me-, farm laborer. ac- W
uated by jealOusly, shot and killed VI
laughter of his employer and then COM w
1itted suicide.
"A dispatch was received at Washing VIZ
On from Lieutenant Ray, commanding a J
he Point Barrow expedition, announc9 bu
lg the safe arrival of himself and party sh
San Francisco. Lieutenant Raw I'm
rought down Lieutenant Schwatka and fol
arty from St. Michael's. the
Lard and pork have declined in :
rice in Chicago but there have been felt
W transactions. VIII
Two men who were caught in the 70,
It of cutting the wire fences to Texas wa
title ranches near Fort Worth were Ter
lot and killed. =
The brakes of a street car got out of m ma '
der as the car reached the top of at
eep grade on Sandusky street. ALE -
eny City, Pa. The car ran through the San
ties at the crossing Of the Fort Wayne agg
1road and cOllided with a passing -
light train. The car was wrecked and rem
the passengers in it, twenty-five in are
mber, were more or less injured.
The disinterment of the North Caro- Par
a confederate dead at Arlington Ma
nal Cemeteryis is completed, and all the Al.
dies taken to Alexandria, where thev Ill 11;I
be placed in fine caskets for ship pr5
mt to Raleigh 0y
Supervising Inspector Starbuck. -
IS conducting the investigation in tbn tIol',
amy into the explosion on the tug y ~ .
blnson, reports that piece of the - y, -
loded boiler has been taken from the GO. GO
r and examined. One of the fues TSop TecI'
reports, was found collapsed. and -. tIea
iron, which seemed of good quality. O'H'
badly torn.
"A large majority of the nations fa- cro,V orc
a conference to establish a common
ne meridian. Some of the leading sl,iro
yers OF Europe have not, however,
ressed themselves.
The Post Office Department is in L"Eas bon9
ned that burglars broke into the i10OU
Office at Gloucester, Mass, and =, =
the contents Of the safe t! SIe
"A colored speaker at a Virginia --'i''
ucaI meeting was murdered by one -
MS auditors, who shot him while @ ael'aI
king. Woun
The Court of Appeals rendered a de- o-,-9,
IN sustaining the purchase of the Helo5 1tI I
ual Union and Atlantic and Pacific lSVo "a
5raph companies by the Western ua4oI VI an
IN Company and the issue of stock i"'e Ia ~ =
lend by the latter corporation. ii0 Ca
A severe wind storm effected con- "A
able damage at Lexington, Ky. ll[lila ia[lle
The schools at Mattoon, Ill. are '''----
d as one precaution against the -
I'd of smallpox. iadael
There ,voro 90 ooo i,., juring
Castle Garden last month.
A convention of those interested in n
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