Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-11-22
LATEST NEWS.

LONDON, Nov 1S---Marquis Tseng has de-
clared in an interview that the situation Of
affairs between France and China is most
critical, and all the indications point to war
if immediate negotiations do not result in an
amicable settlement.
! Moody and Sanky have closed the first two
weeks of their mission at Islington.
Servian rebels captured by the government
troops are being punished with great sever
ity.
The steamships HymettiS and Condor have
been wrecked off the Dutch coast, and many
lives were lost.
The Crown Prince of Germany reached
Genoa last night on his way to Madrid, and
will debark at Valencia on Thursday.
Agrarian troubles have broken out in the
south of Russia, and encounters between the
soldiers and the people have taken place.
An Egyptian force has been cut to pieces
by the rebels in Upper Egypt, and the whole
army must retire if it is not at once heavily
reinforced.
The railroads throughout the country have
adopted the eastern time, and have regulated
their time tables to correspond.
At Petersburg, Va, Albert Slade dropped
dead in the Ettricks Methodist Church while
about to engage in prayer.
The American Line Steamship Company's
wharves in Philadelphia, with large amount
of freight, has been burned. Loss $l50,0CO.
Judge Cox, of Washington, has reversed
the decision of the jury in the case of Hallett
Kilbourn against x-Sergeant-at-Arms
Thompson, and the case will be retired.
fire at Jersey City destroyed the freight
depot of the Central Railroad of New Jersey,
together with twenty-five box cars loaded
and a vast quantity of miscellaneous freight.
The loss will probably be in the vicinity of
$50 600.
The steamer S. n. Parisot has been de-
Itroyed by fire near Natchez, Miss, with g.
&4 bales of cotton and other freight. Loss
IF over $3.50, ,OO0 The steamer was run ashore
and the passengers escaped in their night
clothes. 1t is feared that several passengers
were lost.
Owing to the depression in the iron trade
several iron mills in Pittsburg, Johnstown
and Reading, Pa, have shut down, and it ia
reported that over $4,000 men altogether are
thus thrown out of work at the beginning of
winter. Tie Bessemer steel works at How
stead, Pa, have also decided to suspend
work.
The business portion of Belmore, Ohio, has
been burned, causing a loss of $4,000. The
principal losses are: George Speaker, resi-
dence and store, and j. p. Ash, hardware,
5000 each; Helfrich & Ash, agricultural i'm
plements, 5000.
Friday night band of masked citizens
went to the drug store of c. G. Sutton, at
Romney, Ind, bound him, and then destroyed
his stock and totally destroyed the building.
Sutton sold whisky, and the destruction of
his uroDerty was effected on. that account.
Elder Morgan, OF the Mormon ChHrch,
passed through Kansas City en- route for Salt
Lake City, with seventy eight recruits from
the Southern States. The proselytes are of
the most ignorant class, and appear to have
no idea of Mormonism. They say they have
been promised homes with no restrictions as
to choice of religion.
George, alias "Tid' Brimmer, the fugitive
incendiary, has been captured in Harrisburg,
Pa, and returned to the Lancaster jail. In
effecting his capture the officers fred num-
Der of shots at him, one of which took effect
in his arm. Ike Buzzard, another of the es-
capped convicts, was in Brimmer's company
up to within a few days, but left him at Har-
risburg to join his brother Abe in the Ephrata
Mountains. Brimmer is the third of the
twelve escaped convicts who has been re
captured.
Reliable information confirms the previous
report of an accident near Bradford Station,
Tenn, on the Southern Division of the Hi
nois Central Railroad. Train No. 3 going
south was tagged at Bradford for orders.
While the conductor was in the telegraph
Office getting the orders, his engineer, who
had failed to see the flag, rang the bell, and,
on receiving an answer by the bell-cord, left
the station without the conductor. Unsuc-
cessful attempts were made with freight
engine whistle to call him back. When two
miles below Bradford lady living along the
ling tagged the train, and it was coming to
a stop when north bound passenger train
came round a curve at the rate of 40 miles an
hour, and the trains coming together both
were wrecked and five cars burned. Mr.. Co
burn, an express messenger; telegraph line
repairer and a colored porter were killed.
The engineer of train No. was seriously
hurt, and seven or eight passengers were in
jured, but none seriously. Major Burke, of
the New Orleans Times Democrat, and wife,
were MESSENGERS, The Major escaped unhurt,
but his wife was slightly injured.