Milford chronicle., 1883-07-13
NEWS OF THE DAY
aRNERA1 ITEMS

tain treaty stipulations regarding tis
cries, on the Cd of July, 1885.
Sentence Of dismissal from the nav
= against Commander Mullan has bee
y approved by the President
Active preparations are being mad
for the opening of the National Expos
ton at Denver, Col.
Postmaster General Gresham ha
handed in his decision in the Louisian
Lottery case. He upholds the order c
Postmaster General Key forbidding tn
payment of money orders to the lotter.
> managers.
President Arthur intends to visit tn
Yellowstone Valley late in the summer.
r The captive Apaches are to b.
placed ON the San Carlos Reservation,
where they are to be under the contro
Of the army.
The Massachusetts State Work,
house at Bridgewater was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Theinmates all escaped
uninjuned.
Two physicians, brothers, were
drowned at Reading, Pa.-One while en-
deavoring to save the other.
Two men met horrible death in
boiler at Chicago by the accidental turn
ing of steam on them.
"A rigid quarantine is established at
Galveston against yellow fever.
Lightning struck house in East
Jacksonville, Fla. One woman was
killed and several others were seriously
injured.
The commander of the revenue
steamer Corwin, writing from Sitka,
Alaska, to the Treasury Department, re-
ports that the Territory at large was
never more quiet and peaceable than at
present.
By the falling of derrick in the
stone quarries at Lemont, ILL.,, three
men were killed, and six men and one |
young lady seriously injured.
By the Congress act which was ap-
proved on Feb. 12, 1873, and became |
operative on April l of that year, trade
dollars were made legal tender to the
mount Of S. The legal tender quality |
was Withdrawn by joint resolution Of
both Houses Of Congress on July %, 1876.
By that resolution the Secretary of the
Treasury was directed to limit the coin
age of trade dollars to the export de-
mand. Since the passage of that reso-
luton 26, ,672, COO trade dollars have been
coined, making the total amount coined
$35, ,995, $50.
Chief Moses has, ON certain condi-
tons, virtually agreed to surrender his
entire reservation in Washington Ter
itory and settle with bis people else
where.
An execution at Ysleta, Texas, was
bungled, the rope being so i'll adjusted
that the culprit, after being once dropped
was replaced ON the scaffold and hanged
again.
The mining village of Little Bay, {
n. F., was totally destroyed by fire.
The sum of $3.50, 900 damage by fire
is said to have been sustained by Evans
vile, MINI.
Seven icehouses were burned at
Lake Pawtucket, MINI.
The New Hampshire Legislature {
las passed bill prohi biting the sale o
10Y pistols.
"A newly arrived German was robbed +
md drowned in the Delaware River by 1
Philadelphia thieves.
The net funded debt of the City of {
New York is given at S95, 800, 173. 10 in /
he Comptroller's quarterly financial re-
lOrt
An excavation for a sewer at Albany n
aved in, burying two men, one of whom s
vas taken out dead. ~
Seven houses were struck by light t,
ing near Dover. N. H., on Wednesday, d
llllng Martin Frost, Of Frost Hill; /.
!. Elliott and Oliver W. Knowlton, of te
Durham. d
General Crook has arrived in Wash Il
lgton for consultation about the g
indians. u
The cadets of the Virginia Military II II
Institute visited the City Hall and re- l1
-ored to the city of New York the fac az
the l64th New York volunteers.
layor Edison making the reception til
beech. The cadets called upon Presi- SC
ent Arthur at the Fifty avenue Hotel. D.
"A revolt in the State Prison at Sa- va
m, Oregon, resulted in the escape of Of
ght convicts, the wounding of two and M
ling Of three more. ID
james L. Jones, democrat. has been
ected to Congress from the first dis
let of Alabama.
"A year-old child of John Darby was
'headed by the cars at HOOsic Falls.
Y. The frantic mother saw fifty cars po
IS over the infants body, and she car. tll
ID the head away in one hand and the s5pi
dy In another to her house. 40
-Jamison, the hunter, of Skipwitb. mr.
ss., placed the muzzle of his rife TO IF
8 side, and then compelled his seven mn
lr-old son to pull the trigger. VIII
A Washington judge decided that dol
'ycles have the same rights on the tut
IDS as other vehicles. adv
Damage by fire in shoe factory dol
South Abingdon, Mass, is put at viii
$1,000. avs
The Dauphin County Almshouse. Y
lrlsburg, Pa, was burned Monday. In:
the inmates We're got out, two being elgl
erely burned. Loss 5000, 600. mel
The Commissioners of Taxes and tual
of the city of New York sue
united their annual list of taxable upo
perty to the Board Of Aldermen. tlze
Q total value of real and personal puir
lte in the city and county, as assessed pun
1888, amounts to 81, ,276, ,677, ,164. uhel
John Roach & Sons were the lowest iaI ieOS
ders for the construction of the new 9 li"9
al cruisers, their bids being much be- aiti ''LiG
those Of any other builder. They UI'I i
e as follows: For the construction Sal
the Chicago, $3.50, 900; Atlanta. 10Y pouI
1000; Boston, S619,OOO; Dolphin, E';1Ia KIM,
the
Mr.. Enoch Pratt has presented to for f
Guy Oh Baltimore magnificent free be r,
ny ana so53, ,555.33 to be invested for sligI
and support. inai
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