Fair play., 1884-07-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


@TRf shops OF the Cclum bas, Hooking
LIST, throwing over 800 men out Of employ
ment, caused by the striking coal miners.
THE President, nominated j. E. D.
Couzins, Of ST.. Louis, Marshal of the
United States for the Eastern Qis. rict Ut
Missouri. ~
Ii is intimated that negotiations are OF
foot between Englan! and France regard
ing the Dutch succession.
THE German Government has given an
English firm of ship-buiiders an order for
the largest torpedo-boat ever built.
THE pork slaughtering house of J. and
L. Scr th, Cincinnati, burned on the u,
and with it l21 live hogs. Loss, $500.
LOWELL, United States Minister to En-
gland, has improved in health, but he has
given up his anticipated Fourth of July
dinner.
RiroRr is that France will demand 800,
600 0,000f. of China as an indemnity for vio-
latiOn of the Franco-Chinese treaty at
Lang San.
THE anti-Slavery Society had its semi
centennial celebration in New York on the
4th. F-'.
PATRICK CoNNELLY, of Clarendon, Pa,
was blown into minute pieces by the ex-
plosion of nitro-glycerine on the 4th.
In the cholera hospital at Toulon, France,
there were 11J patients on tie I'd. The
outlook at Marsei!les was reported betssr.
Deaths, four at Marseilles- and sig at Tou
Ion. -
WAsHINGToN'S statue in Riverside Raak,
New York, was unveiled on the 4th, the
statue being gift to the public schools.
An unknown man was killedsst Hast
Saginaw, Mich, by sirayssae frcm a
gun of military compaNyl9o6sfng at
target shooting. z;
IT was rainy, chiily and disagreenble
generally in New York before noon of the
4th, AMI the excursion boats were aban-
doned, and the parks depopulated.
DIR. RoBEL, naval physician, died of
cholera at Toulon, on the Attn.
THE gulf coast of Mexico is quarantined
against France on count of cholera.
NEWSPAPER proprieiors and job printers
Of Toronto, Canada, contemplated reduc-
ing printers' wages on, the sth, owing to
dull times. 80
The entire business portion of Port
Perry, Ontario, was burned on the 4,h.
This was the second disastrous fire within
a year.
THE intercollegiate regatta did not take
place at Saratoga on the 4th. on account Of
strong wind and rough water
THE Pan-Presbyterian Council at Bel
fast, Ireland, has concluded its work and
adjourned to meet in London in 1883.
EMIGRATIoN to America Of Jews in
Southern Russia is increasing very rap
idly.
The London Times points out the compli-
rations of an international nature that
would arise in tiic event of a war between
China and France.
4 STATE encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic began on the 81 at
Buffalo, n. Y.
TRUSTEES of the Miami University, Ok
lord, Ohio, have decided to reopen the col
ege September next with a freshman
lass. X. W. Mcfarland, Professor of
in the college when closed,
was chosen President.
The Coke Producers Association have
iecided to close down all ovens in the
region hereafter two days Il
.eek. This move is considered necessary
,wing to the depressed condition of the
,oke trade.
JOHN VANDEUR, crippled janitor at the
iramercy Flats, New York, was sand
Jagged, red-peppered and robbed Of $500
'ents collected by two robbers in the cellar
If the flats. The robbers escaped.
THE Lake Shore management contem
,lates leasing the Pittsburgh, Cleveland &
Toledo line, and extending it from New.
,astle, Pa, to Akron, q.
The SiameSe embassy sailed for Europe
IN the 5th. ~
FIRE at Lachine, Canada, on the 9th, de-
'troyed forty houses, rendering 800 poor
people homeless. ssfEt
WILLIAM OrrEsREKGEe, of Osborne, O.,
murdered his stepdaughter, ten years of
lse, on the 9th.
THE grand stand at the Butte ON. T.)
'ace-track fell on the 9Th, killing one boy
and wounding many others. 80
The Newark Machine Company's works |
It Newark, O., burned on the 5th. Loss,
$50 ,00o: insurance. $200,0o0.
Ex.MINIsTER SARGENT, arrived in New |
/ fork on the 9th.
GorTFRIED OSWALD. of indianapolis, |
nd quarrelled With his wife ON the 9th |
md then hanged himself
The body of man supposed to be W, L. |
King. of Florence, kaS., or J. B. Smith, of |
Mo-, was taken from the river at |
Ieokuk, Ia, on the 9Th.
GERTIE PHILLIPS. a young woman of |
Alliance, o.. was found dead in Il grove at |
hat place on the 6h with bulle; hole in |
er head. Two known Young men |
Re in custody awaiting developments. |
RUDoLPH MI rcHELL. the st. Louis agent
or Thomas II. Potter & Co., of Philadel- |
hia, was arrested on the 9TH on a charge
f embezzlement. He was released on
ond.
WHILE standing on the street in ST. |
.ouis on the 9Th, Humphrey Jackson was
truck in the face by bullet from an un-
nown source. The wound was a painful
ne, but not dangerous. Y
RUFUS BARR, a wealthy Indiana farmer,
. \ JEALOUS rage on tine 9th shot his wifesi
vice and tlen killed himself
The yacht Wasp. of Chicago. owned BIZ
aptain Prindeyille, won the race be-
syeen the Chicago and Milwaukee yachts
n tliebth. : ~, ,I~ili
. YJVuITu ~NEGRESS