Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-11-01
GENERAL NEWS.

ana hungarian delegation, mat the relations
between Austria and other foreign powers
were satisfactory.
Many of the inhabitants of Smyrna are
fleeing from that city on account of their
fear of further earthquakes. The govern
ment has sent sufficient quantity Of lumber
to construct 1000 sheds for those rendered
homeless by the recent catastrophe. The ed
itors of the local newspapers have formed a
committee for the aid of the sufferers. Slight
shocks are still occurring at long intervals,
but are doing no damage.
Nashville, Tenn, has prohibited fortune
telling within the city limits.
Three hundred children died from diph-
liberia in and around Greensboro, n. c., re-
Gently.
The Marine Hospital surgeon at Browns
vile, Texas, reports that the yellow fever is
travelling north
W. II. Stuart, who has returned to Tomb
stone, Arizona, from the Swisshelm Noun
tains. says the Apaches have been routed by
the Mexican troops with great slaughter
The Mobile Register says: IF the Mormons
send eighteen missionaries to the Southern
States, as they say they will do, they will
send eighteen candidates for tar aud feath-
ers."
1t Is announced that work will soon begin
on the construction of the New York, Phila-
delphia and Norfolk railroad from Delmar
south through Salisbury, Nd, to Pocomoke
City. When completed it will be 26 miles
long, and be great feeder to the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore road.
Advices from Austin, Texas, say that Post
Office Inspector General Edgerton, of st.
Louis, who has been investigating the affairs
of Inspector P. Fostor at that place, has
found evidence showing that Fosters course
for the past five years has been highly crimi-
nal, and disclosing the Justification of vouch-
ers for large sum and various other irregu-
lar and corrupt practices.
General Rosecrans is out in n card denying
the accuracy of a report in the Washington
Republican, in which he is represented as re-
flecting on the conduct of General Wood at
the battle of Chickamauga.
Fifty-fve murderers have been committed
in Logan county, KY, since 1865, and not
one of them has been hanged. Only two of
them were sentenced to life Imprisonment,
and one of the two was pardoned.
One of the Mexicans implicated in the
murder of four men near Gardner, Col, re-
Gently, was captured, a rope tied round his
neck, the other end made fast to horse and
the horse frightened into a run. The culprit
was dragged until life was extinct.
Specials from Casa Grande, Mexico, con-
firm the reports of an engagement between
Indians and Mexican cavalry near that place
The Mexican authorities refuse to tell the
number of wounded and killed, but from an
American surgeon at that place it is learned
that the hospital is fnll. The Indians have
broken camp and separated into rowing
bands of eight and ten, and are raiding the
surrounding country.
There has been heavy fall of snow in
Vermont and Sew Hampshire.
The medicine factory, packing house and
offices of DIR. J. H. Mclean, Cincinnati, have
been burned. Loss about S150,O0O.
The wholesale clothing house of Stern
Trautman g. Co., Philadelphia, has failed
with liabilities amounting to $40 0JO.
Albert FINER, of Fryer's Creek Valley,
near Newcomerstown, Ohio, murdered his
wife and three children and then committed
suicide.
The sharp municipal contest in Baltimore
has been decided at the polls, and resulted in
the election of Hon. Ferdinand G. Latrobe,
democrat, for mayor by 3,485 majority over
Mr.. J. Monroe Heiskell, the candidate of the
citizens party.
Two strangers called at the farmhouse of
James Crawford, near Clinton Falls, Ind,
and asked for supper, and while it was being
prepared knocked Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford
senseless with clubs and stole SIS. The aged
couple are not expected to recover.
In New York, in the case of DR.. G. Fayette
Taylor, who sued the Elevated Railroad Com
pany for damages for running their trains
past house he had rented for hospital pur-
poses previous to the erection of the road
the jury awarded the plaintiff $40 600 dam
ages.
The Commissioner of Pensions has sus-
pended from practicing in his department j.
M. Rouse, Frank N. English, F. G. Mcdonald,
E. H. Taylor, Geo. w. Johns for issuing
fraudulent circulars and charging illegal
fees. The Commissioner recommends appli-
cations to made direct to the departments,
where justice will ssbe done to them.
The Civil-Service Reform Association of
New York, George William Curtis president,
gives notice that its constitution absolutely
prohibits the use of the name or influence of
the association for the purpose of procuring
Office or promotion for any person or in aid
of any party, and that neither the name or
influence of the association will be so used"