Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-11-08

LONDON, Nov. 1.-.-Orangemen took pos.
session of the City Hall in Londonderry, Ire
| land, yesterday, to prevent the Lord Mayor
of Dublin from delivering a lecture upon the
franshise. In the rioting which followed
one man was fatally wounded and others
were injured. The lecture was delivered in
the-evening in the National Institute.
The Hovas have opened negotiations with
the French authorities.
French troops have arrived on the west
coast of Africa bent on conquest.
A Paris correspondent says that war is in
evitable if the Fre1 ch attack Bach-Ninh.
The liabilities of Morris Ranger, the insol-
vent cotton merchant of Liverpool are re-
ported to be so 00O.
fire at New York on lighter loaded with
80 bales of cotton, taken from one of the
steamers of the Ocean Steamship Company
of Savannah, caused n damage of twenty
thousand dollars.
II is reported that the team H. B. Winship
and Hiram Bruce, trotting against the team
Frank and John May, at Providence, made
in the second mile heat the extraordinary
time Of .104.
Pete" Emerson, convicted of being an
20 Complice of ex-policeman Nugent, of New
ork in the attempt to rob the cashier of the
Orange National Bank of Jersey City of $10,-
CO.., has been sen fenced to ten years in State
prison.
Snow fell in Western Maryland on 1st inst
The Shenandoah Railroad Company has
bought the franchises of the Washington
road, with the view of making q feeder to
their road
The entire business portion of Garfield,
Col, has been destroyed by fire; loss over
$4,000. One person was fatally injured.
Many persons are left destitute.
Steve Raymond, the English forger,
convicted of passing forged coupons of the
Union Pacific Railroad, has been sentenced
to State prison for life in New York.
The loss by the recent fire at Savannah,
Gee, will exceed $1,0O0C coo, the insurance
not being more than one-third. James Cash,
white, and colored persons were burned to
death.
The debt statement just issued shows the
reduction of the public debt during the month
of October to be 1904, 1883. Decrease of
public debt since June so, 1888, $50, ,5S4, 40
30. Cash in the treasury, 1864, ,347, ,501.93.
Gold certificates outstanding, $50, 32S, $40.
Silver certificates outstanding, S99, $40, ,141.
Certificates of deposit outstanding, $12,620,-
90 Refunding certificates outstanding,
S325,ST0 Legal tenders outstanding, $780,
7S1.O16. Fractional currency outstanding,
$3.50, ,30331.
United States Marshal R. S. Foster, with
posse of detectives, went to Pike county
Ind, in pursuit Of gang of counterfeiters
supposed to be located in that portion of the
State. They succeeded in arresting nine OF
the gang this morning at Steinville, small
village about twenty-five miles from Evans
Vile, after desperate fight. The gang had
been operating in Southern Indiana, with
headquarters near New Albany. The coins
manufactured by them are half dollars and
dollars in silver and $3.50 and S. gold pieces.
The business was large one, the operations
If the gang extending to adjoining States.
The Freethinhers of Montreal are much
dissatisfied with the judges decision in the
case of the customs seizure of works OF Paine
and Voltaire. They intend importing books
of the came character again and forcing a
decision on the merits of the case.
Ex-Sheriff Oscar Mckenzie, of Morgan
county, KY, was called to his door by Ben
Reesener and two Of his brothers on pre-
text of making up an old feud, and was ia
tally beaten with clubs and left for dead.
The Reeseners escaped, but are pursued by
the sheriff and his posse
Capt. Adams, of the schooner Henry Den
nison, reports at Key West, Fla, that on
passing Swan Island, October "a. his vessel
was boarded by boat seeking provisions.
The Island people, fourteen in number, had
nothing to subsist upon but cocoanuts. The
people were expecting a vessel from Balti-
more with provisions, but she was very much
overdue If no sail passed since the Denni-
son left the Island, Capt. Adams says the
people must be nearly starving.