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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


were brought to a close on the 2S5h.
THE Iowa Republicans nominated Sena-
tor Lara bee for Governor, Hull for Lieu
Governor and Judge Beck for the
Supreme Court.
DR.. II. P. LYNCH of Sturges, Oak, was
murdered on the Och by Corporal Ross of
the United States Infantry, and the lat
ter was lynched by mob.
SEVEN opposition papers in Spain have
been seized by the Government for their
vigorous attack on Germany.
The contract for the construction of a
Courthouse and Post-oflice at Denver,
COL, has been awarded to Hayes 81 Nc
Curry, of Colorado, at their bid of
Sj0COt Armago (Col) stone has been
selected as the material to be usel.
The fireworks factory at Clvita Vec-
CHA, Italy, took fire on the 2G.h, and was
destroyed. Ten bodies have been recov-
cred from the ruins.
WHILE IN the act of going aboard the
italian line steamship Archemids on the
9th Saltwater Pietta, an alleged fu giti
IRON Cincinnati, was arrested on char ge
of having appropriated and fled with
money deposited with him by his coun
trymen.
THERE were AIT new cases of cholera
and 1,49S deaths from the disease re-
ported throughout Spain on the Goth.
AT Clinton, Ind, on the night of the
90 h, burglars blew open the safe in the
Post-otflce and secured $40 in stamps
and money. There is no clew f the per-
petrators of the robbery, which was not
discovered until the next morning.
THE run on the Spring Garden Bank at
Philadelphia, Pa, has subsded.
UNITED STATES MINISTER SrALLo ar
rived al Rome on the 18th.
GLADSTONE says his trip to Norway
greatly benefited him.
The German Lutheran Synod began its
annual conference at Rochester, Mimi,
on the 2Sth.
ADMIRAL CoURBET's remains were in
tered in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris,
on the 2Sth.
FIRE at Tallman, Mich, on the 2Sth
destroyed Butler & PETERS saw mill, also
a iuA 80 lOG " lullbIl lllA oulliE AOo'
IT is reported that Russia is making
overtures to Turkey for an alliance
A GREAT boom is reported in the Bear
Mountain mining camps, recent runs OF
metal assaying ry satisfactorily.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have hem opened in
Gal cia for the benefit Of the exiled Poles.
A TELEGRAM was received at the De-
partment OF Justice on the oath from a
man in West Virginia, asking if he could
kill man for drunkenness.
A QUARTER of million dollars worth
of property was destroyed and 400 people
made idle by fire in London ON the 2S h.
The Treasury Department paid out over
10000, 900 of pensions during August. Il
is therefore expected that the decrease Of
the public debt for the month will not be
as large as usual.
BUSINESS failures throughout the coun-
try during the seven days ended on the
2Sth were: For the United States, 16j;
and for Canada, "a; or total of 1S9 fail
ures, as compared with the total of IT,
the week previous.
Two policemen named McNatt anC
Grant were murdered at Geneva, Ill, or
the night of the 9th. The deed is sup
posed to have been committed by burg
lars.
Hon. A. NJ. Kelly is the guest of Sec
rotary Bayard at Washington. He is re
ported to have resigned the Austrian mis-
sion.
A PETITION will be presented to thu
Home Secretary of Great Britain, pray
ing for the suppression of the sale Of OBJ
scene prints.
HUNDREDS of laborers have been swim
dledlin Chicago by labor agencies who sen
them to the Canadian Northwest on falls
promises of work to be obtained there.
A. WILSON NORRIS, late pension agen
at Philadelphia, having failed to settl
his accounts, has rendered himself liabl
to prosecution for embezzlement.
CoLoRED soldiers at Fort Meade, Oak.
who undertook to wipe out the town 0
Sturges because Of the lynching of Hall
were captured and returned to the fort
The crew of the whaling brig Isabella
cru shcd in the ice July goth, 1884, arrives
IN Halifax on. the 2Sth with the loss O
only one sailor, who died Of scurvy o.
the voyage home.
MARSHAL HENRY HOLLAND, while en-
deavoring to arrest counterfeit shower
at Cape May, N. j., ON the SSth, was beat
en- into insensibility, and E. G. Merkle.
and others who came to his assistsnc
wey0 roughly handled.
1T is now learned that three pilot boat
and fourteen members of their crews wer
lost off Beaufort, S. c., during the recen
| cyclone.
THERE was a large crowd at Duluth
Mimi, ON the 18th to witness the hangin
of Waiseman, who murdered Farley las
spring and then burned the latter's shant
to hide the crime. The execution too
place at three O'Clock Only a few pee
pie were admitted to the Enclosure, chief
reporters and officials of neighbor in
counties.
VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS and wit
have returned to indianapolis. Ho ha
given up his California trip and will re
main at home until Congress convene
with a possible brief visit to WashIngto