Milford chronicle., 1883-08-24

I his tIldl u6db ny MOSS anu Lee.
The liabilities of the Shaw Brothers,
who failed in Boston, Mass, aggregate
81, 500, 900. Assets, good and bad, only
about $5, 100000.
The banking house of E. @. Stead
man & Co., of New York, made an as
signment. Speculations by junior part
ners was the cause.
The anti Malone or straightout Re
publicans, of Virginia, in convention at
Richmond, adopted platform favoring
a strict adherence to Republican princi-
Piles and protective tariff, and indors-
ing James @. Blaine for the Presidency.
The platform opposes mixed schools,
and favors civil service reform and the
honest enforcement of the recent acts of
Congress.
The government has secured title
to the property on which the Washing
ton homestead in Westmoreland county,
Va, was located, and memorial edifce
will be erected thereon.
The remains of four white men per-
forated with bullets and hacked with
knives, were found in a railroad camp |
on the Cincinnati Southern, near Cum
berland Falls, Tenn. The entire affair |
is shrouded in mystery.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
In the House of Commons Mr.. !
Gladstone rebuked Mr.. Healy for his
'habitual violence" and Mr. Healy ex-
planned that a state of war existed be-
tween England and Ireland.
King Alfonso has been warmly re-
'eived on his journey through Spain.
Germany is about to establish
olony on the west coast of South Africa.
Spanish journals give a narrowing
ccOunt OF the execution of four ser.
eants. Three volleys were required to :
nish them. As the troops marched ,.
asst the bodies one wretch staggered |
p, begging tor mercy. He was shot
so. The shooting party was composed :
fellow mHtlneers who had returned to '
leir duty at the call Of the colonel.
England has asked Russia to give n
4 explanation of the expulsion Of a "
ritish Jew. Il
Twenty-Five Russian students have h
zen sent to Siberia. a
Colonel Badens made sortie sup b
)rted by a gunboat. He proceeded n
'rthward and Outfanked and drove off II
e Annamites, with heavy loss. The Il
'ench loss was light. 10
1t is intended to organize a company " "
Ireland to supplement the govern - -
mt grant for emigra ton. ~ ~
AT a League meeting in Limerick II
licial rents were denounced. 10
The workshops at La Seyne dock 81
d IN Toulon were destroyed by fire on br
ursday. ice
The Canadian artillerymen made a he
y small score in the firing at Shoe wi
yness on Wednesday. blt
The government has decided to ex- KIN
from France, M. Boland, a Belgian no
rnalist, who declared that he had oe
)ed two members Of the Chamber of III
0uties, but on an inquiry being made SP'
unable to verify the charge. Ioe 10;
French spectators are said to have vi ri.
ed funds to corrupt the Spanish army orl "r
cause a rising. So
AT banquet in Paris on Thursday, i'm,
eches were made in favor of Prince ORD
tor, son of Prince Jerome Napoleon, ha,
.hief of the Bonapartists. sta
"A riot occurred at Agram, caused ing
he government using in some official cor
ces the Hungarian language, which up
fensive to the Croatians. ing
The chief of the Austrian staff
ted from Vienna, Wednesday even lnt(
to make a tour of inspection of the tell
on the Roumanian frontier. carr
The Austrian Electric Exhibition so
opened Mt Vienna, Thursday. won
The members of the Bremen Senate hun
} a banquet to the German gentle Won
now on their way to America to at nor
the opening of the Northern Pacific 50
road prior to their departure on the man
nship Elbe. Sole
The italian Envoy at Tangier has tect,
red his flag, and an Italian squadron won
eparing to enforce certain claims ting
| Morocco. bull
While thirteen men were being thou
ed to the surface of mine near the halr
of Redruth, Cornwall England, Solo
nesday, the rope attached to the car de
7hich they were standing broke.
We of the men were precipitated to
bottom of the shaft and instantly
l.
It is stated that China has ordered GC
arge irOn-clads to be built at Kiel. of g
rhe River Nile is falling and there and
10 longer anv fears of a 1osd in drai1
It. Nj
The recent imperial meeting is con- e;5oa ga "
I'd a guarantee of friendship be- sl;'1s Slt'os
| Germany and Austria. l.aiS;. nliAe
he yield OF wheat In France will be tart
four tifths OF the average crop of make
-st ten years. sligh
/ party of men shot and severely tart,
1ad a farmer ,,aaY, KiIIor,,ox1 Tre tO fo