The National tribune., 1883-07-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Crimes and CasaaItieS---Personal and
Poli!ical---Capital Topics.

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in the Agricultural Department. There were
rressnt the members Of the general commits
sioners and the FIVE local examiners VINO nave
been appOintcd, Messrs. 4. l. aBlpDell, OF t1e
Interior: o. ". Longan, Of the War; Isaac =.
Slater, Post-t lice, and z. W. Clarke ana a n
Tadson Treasury Department AessTs. lamp
bell Eoneal and Juds9n supervised the eaaslAl-
nation, In aid Of Chief EZasn.ner yInan- Inc
examination WAS for $3.50, $1,000, and @i.&JJ
slerkships About ninety persons were present
for the ordeal The subjects embraced ia Tue
examination were ofthosraphy, penlnansalp
aud copying. arithmetic, fundamental rules,
fractions and % rccUtage. interest. discount,
elements Of bookkeeping and Of accounts
clements of the English language letter writ
ing and the proper construction Of sentences
aud elements Of the geography, history, ana
Government Of the United States.
Within few days large reduction VIII be
Toade Ia t!ie force At present employer IN lle
Census Baatsa. This reduction as made noceS-
safy 81 tho 5psUilciency Of tie appropriation
Tor the current fiscal year, and because The
present force cannot be probably employed II
continuing the work which remains 10 pc
done The cost OF maintaining the prescnG
force is $1,000 per month, and the e1t4Fe APP
preparation t0g the year IS alet-JoJ. me pres
enf force 81 the Census Office numbers one
hundred aud niuety-three, and il IS proposed
10 cut Is down to about one hundred. AT enc
tinle &. ere were nearly eighteen hundred PEP
sons carried On the Census Bureau pay-ro!ls.
The work Of tearing down the south wing Of
the Patent CGice binding, which isto be erected
according 10 the plan Of the north and east
wings isnoW under fall Roadway. The library
room aii be very much enlarged. ne new
wing VIII be thorsg hly arepro9f The work
Is being done under the personal supaTIntenu-
eace Of 8.r ado ph Cluss. o. the firm OF Cluss
d. schultz. who were the architects of the north
and pess Wings 1t VIII take about yea to
complete il.
The Presidential party viii leave Rawiins,
on The Union Pacific Railroad, on the Sd Of
August Il viii consist Of President Arthur,
Gov. CROSBY. % Montana; Secretary Lincoln,
General Sh ridan, Surrogate Rollins, OF New
York. and Senator Ksst. The party viii travel
over the mountains IN Wyoming TO the Ell
loYstlne park and then east over the Northern
Pacific Railroad.
The greater portion Of the philosophical,
chemical and astronomical apparatus Of the
celebrated Dr. Joseph Priestly, the dlscoEerer
Of oxygen, have been sent 10 the Smithsonian
institution in this city.
cRIsIEsAND CASUALTIES.
The river Thames, which flows through Lon
don Ont. rose last week to an unprecedented
height, and much property has been destroyed
Eight houses have been carried away, and rail
road travel stopped by washout. Several
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the score A number Of persons are missing
and the following are known 10 have been lost
in the food: Mrs. Hopkins, OF kensington
four children Of Z. +. Lacey, Of London West
q woman. name unknown; the seTen-yeaT-old
daughter OF blr Orr Of Ann street; three chill
dren OF George Stratferd, OF Napier street
three children Of D. Z. Mclean, of Biaekiriar.
street; one child Of William Moylan, Of Ann
street James Spackman, wlfe and Bhree-year
old sons total Of II.
An English steamer has lust brought the ia
teilieence that the steamship Niagara. Of tht
New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company
and which left New York on the 7th inst
for havana. has been destroyed by fire OF tn
coast OF Florida Her passengers We're al
saved and brought to Havana by the absYe
mentioned Enelish steamer The Niagara wa
run ashore near the ligator Relief Lighthouse
Of Indian KY. When raised she win process
70 Havana. The Niagara had on board twenty
FIVE passengers. one Of whom was lady. Tn
fire Is supposed TO have been caused by the ig
milton Of petroina. creosiRe, or some othe
acid store near the engine rooms.
A dispatch from Cokato MINI, says at
o'clock Saturday morning lightning set FIRE {
hotc there which was full OF Failroad an
travelina nen, three Of whom, James Whiting
hslD, Richard Kelley, and young man name
Shepherd al section mens were burned I
deatb before they could escape. 4 large nnn
Der CT others received ininries more or lel
severe a travelling man named Storm br0k
his leg By jumping from window. The fit
spreading burned twenty-one buildings
nearly the whole business part Of the yillag
The loss is stated 10 be $4,000
The ere at Colunb;a, Tenn, Thursday 1lorl
ing destroyed the Williams block and ell
st0Te-hGusos. los, Sjs.u33. The new bUlldil
Of the Inliuna University, at Bioomingto
containing he laboratory, brary, and museuI
was burned Thursday night There were il
600 volumes IL the library, and the museG
contained the famous Owen & .Iourdan collie
ton Of fishes. The FIRE was caused by Ugh
ming striking telephone wire. Loss, $4,000
insurance, $4,000.
Gates and Smith, the murdcreTs of z.
Chingin. q Polk City, Iowa, We're surround
at Xix Horn Grove Friday night. Smith "
captured and Gates killed in the fight. CO
Tossing before dying that he had killed Chnga
and also Mayor Stubs year ago. One u;
Of the attarking party was killed, and II
Othcrs wounded.
The boiler IN the Giens Falls Y. Y. par
mill exploded on Monday afternoon, complete
wrecking he building and seriously injuri
anumhcr cf persons. The boiler was throw
distance of AGO foet. The buildings were
on fire by the explosion The loss is betwe
$4,000 and 100000. Several of those injul
win die
FRIDAYS gale extended throughout northe
Kansas INC southern counties Of AeDraSka, q
large portions Of Missouri. Iowa, and IllinC
Near browning 30, train was blown fr
the track. Conductor Watson badly hurt, 2
six passengers injured.
At Lcnont, IL, on Friday, heavy derr
fell among q crowd Of fifty lab0rers, iIstan
killing John Cash, Andrew Hansen, 10
Kohlman. and Thomas Ward.
Near Dallas, Ohio, Thursday night Era
Dion shot and killed his matheF-in-law, D
AoeeAer. nli5taking her for burglar.
PERSONAL.
Chas Hcvroo5 Stratton, better known to
public rs sen Tom Thumb, died nj his r
dence al Mi3dleboro', Mass, on Sunday, If a
plexy. The dec .asod Was born IN Bridgep
Conn, January 3. 1888, and WAS consequcu
forty-five years old. Al the age Of fourteen
entered the service OF p. T. BarnUm. and
been before the public eyeE since. He leav
widow, who has been on the STAGE with
since their MARRIAGE. in Isf3. She was
pretty and og.gpcaousiy petite Larinia v
rem, sister 81 Ike equally pretty aid still sBla
Minnie M&fwea, 10 whOm the late Commo5
Mutt paid devoted attention Tor long Il
and whom lie afterGarfs married. 7
Thumb welaing, in Grace Church, New j
IN 1855, W:s q saaneGs event, ard the ccTeIa
was wtucsa by D distinguished crowd.
and Mrs. Tom Thumb Travelled all over IA
lea and together visited En GLAND and the
ftro41f M fgursno g-lsnrri AZ. pa- 4.a~nf-ad IN