The Dillon tribune., 1883-10-13
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

CURRENT NEWS NOTES,
Salmi Morse's Passion Play didn't pay.
Pensacola Is again free from yellow f..
vAr.
Ohio has probably gone Republican by a
fair majority.
A negro murderer was lynched, at Hunts.
Vile, Ala, Wednesday, by masked mob.
Surgeon General Chss. II. Crane, Z. S.
A., died Wednesday night, at Washington,
u. c.
At Niagara, Wednesday, the steamer
Maid Of the Mist ran the lower rapids
safely.
The Republicans, of Iowa, carried that
state BY q much smaller majority than
usual.
A late dispatch says there Is no truth In
the report that Consul Seymour was assasi.
n,ted, al. Canton.
The fire in the Pittsburg exposition
building was caused by the spontaneous
combustion Of a balloon.
Two sailors belonging to the Jennie
Wood, in quarantine at Galveston, escaped
and went to New Orleans.
Right Reverend Augustus Short Bishop,
Of Adelaid, Australia, is dead. He was
born near Exter, England, in 1903.
Nothing Of an authentic nature has been
received regarding the alleged assassina.
ton Of the consul Seymour at Canton BY a
mob.
Twenty thousand people were in the
German celebration procession, at Newark,
n. J., on Monday. The city was hand.
so,nely decorated.
Hon. John Creighton Hazewell, for
quarter Of a century connected with the
editorial staff Of the Boston Zya,eley as
writer Of the review Of the week, which be.
came feature of that paper, died Saturday
morning; Aged 6o.
1t is understood that $4,000, 900 of Nor
thern Pacific second mortgage bonds have
been taken as follows: Windslow, Lanier
& Co., $+,ooo,ooo August Belmont s. Co.
$4,000, 900; Jay Gould, $,,oooo 900; Russell
Sage $,,ooo,ooo; D. o. Mills, $,,ooo,ooo;
and &. NJ. Pullman, $1,000, 1000.
The following statement shows the con.
dition OF the treasury. Gold coin and bullion
$,o6,SS331a; Silver dollars and bullion,
$l197s3,S9I; Fractional silver coin, ,$,6 ,66o-
7s,; United States notes,$5a1ao,S67; total
$4o6,436,ss,; Currency outstanding, gold
$sl+736,36o; silver, 7o,ssa,611; currency,
$ls,ooo,ooo.
The Postmaster General, of France, an.
nounces that 1t Is not intended,by the Gov.
ernment, after August 1884, to renew the
present contracts for the conveyance Of
mails between Great Britain and the United
States. Mails thereafter will be dispatched
as now. tri weekly from Queenstown. But
instead Of making long contracts the de.
partment will monthly select the most ef.
ficient vessels for their transmission.
The bi.centenniel Of the landing Of the
first German colonists upon American
shores was celebrated In fitting manner
by the Germans Of Pittsburgh, Penn, on
Monday. The parade was one Of the lar.
gest ofthe kind ever witnessed in the city,
fully twenty thousand men and five thous.
and vehicals being in the line. So great
was the crowd along Chestnut street that
the police were obliged to rope off the
sidewalks.
The National Bank, of New Orleans, has
brought suit against the Postmaster Gen.
eral for $1oo,ooo alleged damages in direct
ing that money orders addressed to the
bank but intended for lottery company
should not he delivered. Plaintiff considers
the order was intended to charge the bank
with fraudulant practices and illegal action
and has seriously damaged its business.
Public announcement has been made by
NJ. Edwin L. Wakeman, Of Chicago, of
new literary enterprise to be begun on
Christmas day. 1t will be weekly literary
journal, to be called the Current, 70, which
ample capital has beer: Crowded. Among
the list Of contributors are the names Of
many distinguishedliterary men and women
Of Europe and America.
At Port Townsend Custom Inspector
Matheson captured sloop with eleven
Chinese, being s,nuggled across from Brit
sh Columbia. 1t is reported that several
ooatloads passed up Puget Sound and the
Chinese successfully landed, as thriving
profits are made at the business. Two long
'horemen at Victoria said they had cleared
5000 last month. The Chinese acknow!.
edge paving fifteen dollars head fer the;,
passage.
At Albany N. Y, a Jury was obtained in
he Sessions. Bradley Legislative bribery
case. Bradley being sworn detailed the
well known story Of his meeting Sessions
At the Delevan House, and Sessions propo.
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