The banner-enterprise., 1883-10-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

suffrage passed the house Of the Wash.
ington Territory Legislature Wednesday
night.
The managers OF the California lines say
that 1t Mr.. Willard will but con6ne him.
self to the traffic agreement recently made
he willhstetpight.
rlNkrbIck Of New York was shot
near AltdSns. IA. Thursday, BY a young
man named w. Burns. with whom he
was travelling. His object was robbery.
On the east line narrow guage railroad,
neal Sulphur Springs, Texas, Thursday,
q train was blown from the track by a cy-
clone, and a number of passengers were
injured.
Complete preparations have been made
ct Lafayette, Ind, for defending the coun-
ty Jail in case any attempt should be made
to lynch. Neling. the murderer of Ada At
kinson.
In Youngstown, Ohio, about midnight
Thursday, Sonney O'Connell stabbed Da-
vid Powell, making a frightful cash with
a knife 10 his left lnng, from which he
died. OConnell was arrested.
During an oyster supper in a Methodist
church at Bayville, Long Island, Thurs.
day mint, u rang Of roughs entered the
place, &ndA nght ensued, during which
the congregation escaped panic-stricken.
DirSetor General Burke, Of the worlds
industrial and cotton centennial exposi-
ton, Of New Orleans, on Friday issued a
prospectus and general announcement
concerning the exposition, and explaining
its objects.
County Comptroller Speer, Of Pitts
burg, who has been examining clerk of
the court Arch Rowand's books, has
completed his examination and reports a
deficiency Of $4S, 900 for a period cover
ing two terms of office.
The committee of creditors of +. Shaw
Il Bros, tanners, of Boston, who recently
failed, reported at a meeting of the credi
tors Thursday, that the assets Of the firm
were worth 50, $50, 900, and the liabili-
ties SIS, 344, 900.
At Wilmington, Del, Friday, the body
Of Joseph Madden, colored, of Richmond,
Va, who had been employed by the
Edgewood Iron Company, was found in
the Christiana river, after having been
missing for four or five days.
The official report Of the anthracite coal
tonnage Of all the carrying companies for
the nine months of this year gives the to.
tai as 23,035, 529 tons, an increase of O.
257,273 tons as compared with the cor
responding period last year.
A series Of resolutions practically aboI-
ishing the code OF ethics of the American
Medical Association, which has been
adopted by the Academy of Medicine in
New York, failed to pass last night for
lack Of Q two-third majority.
The democratic city convention of
Brooklyn, N. Y, Tuesday night nomi-
mated Joseph G. Hendrix for mayor. Mr..
Hendrix is thirty-three years old, and for
the past ten years has been the Brooklyn
reporter of the New York Sun.
The population of Altata, Mex, has
been decimated by yellow fever. The
number OF deaths for two weeks averaged
20 a day. On the Sd instant Altata was
struck by a hurricane which killed several
persons and destroyed the greater part of
the town. -
The Women's Congress, in session at
Chicago, Friday elected for the ensuing
year.: President, Julia Ward Howe, of
Rhode Island; vice presidents, from each
State; Secretary, Ella G. Chapman, of
New York; Treasurer, Henrietta l.. It.
Wolcott, of Massachusetts.
Edward Hyams, OF the suspended dry
goods firm of Hyams Bros, was arrested
near EIko, California, Friday, at the in.
stance of q creditor, who alleges that
Hyams was about to fraudulently dipose
Of his property. Mr.. Hyams has applied
for a writ OF habeas corpus.
Senior Gennaro Ralgosa has left the
City of Mexico for New York to arrange
for the loan Of $4,000, 900 for the Mexl-
can Government. 1t is understood that
MI. Henry B. Hyde, of the Equitable
Life Insurance Company, is conducting
the negotiations in New York.
Col. M. Lewis Clark, president of the
Louisville jockey club, has called a meet
ing of the southern and western a~ssocia-
tons to be held at the jockey club offices
November 81, for considerations of uni
form weights and rules, and promoting
the breeding and turf interests of those
sections.
One death and three new cases of fever
were reported at Brewton, Ala, Thursday.
Contributions are being sent in freely.
The experts have not yet rendered a decis.
ion In regard to the disease, but a post
norton examination made by Dr.. Cocl-
ran, state health officer, has convinced
him that it is yellow fever.
The postal telegraph and cable compa.
ny was Incorporated In New York Friday.
The lines are to extend throughout the
United States, Canada and Mexico, and
from Greenport, Long Island, to London,
Liverpool and Paris The corporators are
Henry G. Gardner, Luther r. Marsh. T.
H. Dupuy, Andrew W. Kent, and Du.
mont Clark.
The African Methodist Episcopal Can.