The times., 1884-12-12
VERY LATEST.

Henry Ivison. the well-known pub
Usher OF New York, died Wednesday,
in his 77th year.
Near Elizabeth, Kentucky, seven
men were killed by the explosion Of a
saw-mill boiler.
The wife of Hon. Alexander RAM
sey. of st. Paul, died Saturday, after
prolonged illness.
The French cabinet council has de-
cided to increase the duty on grain
about 90 cents per bushel.
The body of Hugh Campbell,
brother of the chief of police of Brook
lyn, was found in the Gowanus canal.
Chief Bushyhead has vetoed the bill
recently passed by the Cherokee coun-
Gil to exclude all white people from the
nation.
John d. Standsh, city assessor of
Detroit, lineal descendant from the
famous puritan, died of heart disease
Tuesday.
BY the fall of scafrold on Baptist
church in Lee avenue, Brooklyn, one
slater was killed and another was af-
tally hurt.
The lease of the Jersey Central road
to the Readsng company has been de-
clared valid by the circuit court of
Philadelphia.
A train on the Michigan Central
track at Detroit caused the death of
two ladies, named Green, who attempt
ed to drive across.
u. J.. Payne, for some years the
leader of the Oklahoma raiders, died
ut the breakfast-table of hotel in
Wellington, Kansas.
Joseph Bush, a gallant officer who
was retired from the army with the
rank of major, died Sunday at Somer-
vile, Massachusetts.
A negro named Howard Sullivan
was OH Tuesday executed at Salem,
New Jersey. for the murder OF a white
girl named Ella Watson.
Seven men in Jail at Helena, Ar
kansas, concealed themselves behind a
door, and made their escape hy knock
ing the jailer senseless.
Norman l.. Jarvis, q resident of
Monmouth, Illinois, steps to the front
to claim the honor of having heard
Lafayette speak in 1924.
Another company of Oklahoma raid
ers is said to be forming at Emporia,
Kansas, with the intention of crossing
the border at Hunnewell.
The banks of New York hold $42,-
267 COO in excess of legal requirements,
the weekly statement showing gain
of $2,021 ,060 in the reserve.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton of Chicago, has elected John V.
Farwell, Jr., president, and Cyrus Ii.
Mccormick, Jr., vice president.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of j. G. Pusey, chief clerk of the
Kansas penitentiary, who is charged
with the embezzlement of $1,000.
Since the election Ben Butler has
leased to the Senate, for committee
rooms, one of his granite houses on
Capitol hill, at SIC, 900 per annum.
Scalpers at st. Louis are selling tick
cts to Chicago at so cents. The Fitch
burg and West Shore roads have cut
rates from Boston to Chicago to $l3.
Hog cholera is raging SO violently at
Wheeling, West Virginia, that quaran-
tine has been established. The disease
has also appeared at Philo, Illinois.
A gentleman in New York, Sunday,
after witnessing panic caused by a
mad dog, calmly seized the animal by
the neck and cut its throat with a pen
knife.
A row in the Maryland Jockey club,
between President Bowie and Secre-
tary Ferguson, led to the resignation of
the latter, which the club refused to
accept.
OF six men who undertook to cross
the railway track at San Rafael, Cali
fornia, two were killed. one was fatally
injured, and the fourth had an arm
broken.
Freight trains on the Chesapeake
road collided near Henning's Station,
Tennessee, killing an engineer and
brakeman and burying two firemen in
the ruins.
A mortgage for $4,000 600 has been
recorded at Freeport, Illinois, by arail-
way company which proposes to con-
struct an airline track from Chicago to
Minneapolis.
Two confidence men of Charlotte,
Michigan, who won $50 at three-card
monte, were convicted of larceny and
sentenced to three years each in the
penitentiary.
The secretary of the Clydesdale
Horse Society Of Great Britain has ar
rived in Chicago to procure the extra
dition of Joseph Raeside for using
false pedigrees.
In document of nearly ten thous-
and words, the governor of Illinois or
ders the issuance of certificate of
election as senator to Henry w. Le-
man, of Chicago.
Benjamin Il. Cable purchased at as
signee's sale the stock and appliances
of the Buford plow works at Rock Is
land for $4,000, and will assume
mortgage of $103,000.
The superintendent of the Canadian
Pacific road promises to keep twenty
thousand men at work all the winter
on construction, and to complete the
road by October next.
In the county court at Angola, Indi-
ana, Judge Mcbride instructed the
grand jury to indict every person
shown to have wagered money on the
result of the election.
Boston dispatches announce the
death of Frederick ID. Klemm, q hotel
keeper at Dedham, who was liberated
from German prison through the eff
forts of Carl Schurz.
The governor and lieutenant govern
or of Missouri were greatly surprised
at meeting each other in Washington,
as neither knew of the others inten-
tion to leave the state.
William Barss, q farmer near Ches-