Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-11-29

The bandit Aquero and his followers have
left Cuba, it is said, with the acquiescence
and perhaps the assistance of the govern
ment
The liabilities of the Mississippi Valley
Bank at Vicksburg which suspended We'd
nesday, will reach 100000, and may reach
S1,O00,OO0
The reported loss of the propeller Man
istee on Lake Superior, in the gale of the
18th is confirmed. Her entire crew of TWEEN
tyfive persons probably perished.
Mr.. Alfred Mace, son of the celebrated
Jem Mace, the champion pugilist of the
world ia et present giving series Of evan
celical lectures at Newcastle upon-Tyne, and
draws crowded houses.
Five hundred Norwegians and Swedes from
Illinois and Wisconsin, who came to this
country as immigrants many years ago, left
Chicago for New York to return to their na-
tive land. This is the second detachment.
District Attorney John McKeon died at
New York, of pneumonia. Mr.. Mckeon was
at his office on Monday. He was born in
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two terms in Congress, having been elected
in 1886 and in lS4l.
A heavy rain fell at ST. Louis Wednesday.
The day was the darkest ever known, requir
ing the burning of gas through
out the city for several hours. Mckenzie
creek. in Reynolds county overtlowed, and
nj Piedmont several houses were swept away,
Il, rhtl aFAr n
portcd drowned.
Andy Taylor, the last living of three 1ay-
Tor brothers, who murdered two sheriffs and
captured railroad train with one hundred
passengers aboard, compelling the engineer
70 carry them twenty mile, at dangerously
high speed, about year ago, is to be hanged
TO- morrow at Loudon, Tenn. While being
taken from Knoxville TO Loudon, he slipped
revolver out of the pocket of one of the
guards, and though heavily manacled, man
aged to get the muzzle of the pistol WITHIN a
few inches of the head of Sheriff Foute, OF
Ioudon but owing TO the fact that Taylor
,bought the pistol a self-cocker, he was
knocked down before he could raise the
hammer of the piston. He remarked, III l
had not mistaken the pistol for self-cocker'
YOU would have got to hell several hours De-
fore me-" Taylor is but twenty one years
! old.
Awell- to do farmer near Philadelphia pre-
fers the meat of dogs and cats 10 beef and
mutton. and frequently serves up his butch
,red CANNES and fcllnes on his table.
Whether he keeps summer boarders or OF
is not stated. - Philadelphia CdlL
At Jackson, Mich, four persons. namely,
Jacob ID. Crouch, aged "a, widower; Henry
White, aged 3S, son-in-law of Mr.. Crouch;
Mrs. Eunice White aged 80, daughter of Mr..
Crouch, all of Summit, and Moses Policy,
aged q. of Transfer, Pa, were found muir
dered in their beds. all having been sho'
through the head, just behind the ear. 1t is
supposed they had been chloroiormed first.
Mr.. Crouch was farmer worth S2,OO, OO,
living seven miles from Jackson, and owner
of an extensive sheep rancho in Texas. 1t is
rumored that he had just received about
$1,000 from Texas.
LONDON, Nov. 2l.---Admiral Courbet and
Admiral Meyer have, it is announced, carte
blanche orders to make a naval demonstra-
ion on the Chinese coast during the attack
on Bac-Ninh. 1t Is reported that China has
sent fresh proposals to France. The Marquis
Tseng yesterday had an interview with Nj.
Ferro.
Reports of the hardships endured by De
Brazza in Africa have been received.
James Davis, secretary of the London and
san Francisco Bank, has absconded from
London with funds to the amount of $50 0O0.
Twenty one of the crew and passengers of
the French brig Vocaberg have been landed
by the American ship Thomas Dana at
Fayal The remainder of crew and passen-
gers, Ss in all, are believed to have been lost.
Postoffice inspectors have arrested George
d. Bauer, of Portsmouth, clerk on the line
between Columbus, o., and Ashland, KY,
charged with embezzling and rifing letters.
The main weaving and spinning building
f, of the New Albany (Iud.) woolen and Gotten
mills have been burned. A hundred twenty
five operatives escaped with difficulty; loss
estimated at $40, 900.
Ex-senator George f. Spencer, of Alaba-
ma, has been arrested at Austin, Nevada, by
order of Attorney General Brewster, for con-
tempt of court for not appearing in the star
route cases. He left with two deputy mar
shals for Washington.
! A special from Batesville, Ark, says: "a
cyclone struck Melbourne. Ex-Sheriff John
! HinkIe and his wife and two children were
! killed and Mrs. Henry S. Hinkle was Grip
Pied. The courthouse, two churches and
! several stores and houses were blown down.
VIM. P. Snyder, at Allentown, Pa, has
| forwarded his resignation to Attorney Gen
eral Brewster as special assistant attorney
general in prosecuting election cases in
! South Carolina He says the government
does not give its officers proper assistance
! and encouragement.
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