Milford chronicle., 1885-06-05

In the divorce case Of Annie Sulli val
against John L. Sullivan, the champion pugi
list, the defendant set up counter charges o
cruelty and intOxication on the part Of hi
wife.
More troubles are threatened in Cuba. 1
e said that twenty or thirty bands Of patriot
are under arms and awaiting orders.
The body of the young woman who com
mitted suicide at the Grand Union Hotel il
New York city, has been identified as the re
mains Of the daughter Of a farmer of Corning
N. Y, named Bedient. She Was a schoo
teacher, but became Respondent
Hungry Joe, known also as Henry L
Post, who pleaded guilty of stealing five 81
notes from John Ramsden, travelling Eng
lishman, was sentenced to four years in tn
penitentiary.
Chief Justice Mcdonald, Of Windsor
i Ont has sentenced a 15-year-Old boy name'
/ Patten to sixteen years imprisonment for lay
ing rails across the Windsor and Annapoli
Railroad track.
-Tornadoes again visited Nortonsville
| COTS, and Frankfort in northeastern Kansas
1 doing great damage to property.
WASHINGTON NoTEA
B. s. Snyder, the man who surrendered a
pension Of $40 per month, has an imitator.
Commissioner Black has received a letter from
a lady pensoner, who says she has fallen heir
ent, does not feel it right to continue to draw
her pension.
According to the records Of the hydro
graphic Office the amount Of ice and the num-
Der Of bergs which have appeared in the direct
path of European steamers within month is
Unprecedented. The forthcoming monthly
map will contain a statement Of the number
Of vessels injured by collision with icebergs
during the month, so far as heard from. The
Of r1nT NM altnra ftrn
not appeared south Of parallel Al, nor east Of
degree 40.
Gen. r. @. Drum sent the following tele-
gram to Gen. Schoheld: 'Replying to your
telegram Of this date, reporting the arrest on
American territory Of Gabriel Dumont und
Michael DUMAS, Canadian insurgents, who
belonged to hiel's insurrectionary force, the
Secretary Of War instructs me to say that the
military forces have no authority to arrest or
detain them Theymust therefore be released
from military arrest" Gen. Terry released
both Of the men.
Col. Hollingsworth, for the past fourteen
years Superintendent Of the Mount Vernon
estate, has refused to accept a reelection to
that Office because the vote Of the regents to
re-elect was not unanimous.
The National debt statement for May
shows reduction Of about s., 900, 900 during
the month.
The President made the following appoint
ments To be Consul General-Wendell A.
Anderson, Of Wisconsin, at Montreal. To be
COnsuls Of the United States William S.
Crowell, Of Ohio, at Annoy; William d. Warner,
Of South Carolina, at Cologne; d. Lynch
Pringle, of South Carolina, at Tegucigalps,
Honduras.
Col. Charles DENLY, Of Indiana, has been
appointed Minister to China.
Prof. Riley, the entomologist, has been
n fnon 10, Of 81
the Hessian fly in wheat fields on the Pacific
coast. Heretofore it has been supposed that
his pest did not extend beyond the wheat belt
sast OF the Rocky Mountains, and Prof.
Riley has been inclined to attribute the dam
lge to another wheat insect. He has been in
with Profs Hilgard, Dwinnell,
md other saVants in California, and has re- !
eived specimen insect, which he pronOunces |
o be the genuine Hessian fly, and there is no |
ouger a doubt that the insect has made its /
Tay to the Pacific slope.
-Beckford AIackey, the American Consul at |
rio Grande do Sui. Brazil, is in Jail for shoot |
ng an editor. He is held a prisoner, as the /
nence is not bailable. All the foreign Con-
uls have visited him in a body, and signed a ]
tatement iustifying his action, while hun
reds Of the leading citizens have rendered |
i'm their aid, and the leading lawyer of that
ruvince has volunteered for his defence. Mr..
Iackey is only % years old. He is the son Of
Judge T. ]. Mackey, Of South Carolina.
Attorney General Garland decides that In
ians preserving their tribal relations are not
ompetent to take the oath of office and can
ot serve as postmasters.
Secretary Whitney decides that the Dol
hin must be tested in a trial at sea.
The excess OF the value Of exports over
nports Of merchandise for April was S4,145,-
rs, and for twelve months ended April 80,
55,959,352. The total value Of the imports
merchandise during the twelve months
ldod April 80, 1885, were $780, 536, 102 and
lring the preceding twelve months, $780,
4, 409-a decrease Of S69, 1913, 500. The total
llues of the exports Of merchandise for the
'elye months ended April 80 1885, were |
746, 795, 454, and for the twelve months
lded April 80, 1884. $3.50, 75S, S50-a decrease
So, 1862, S9G.
The War Department has sent the follow
6 address to the Nest;-"Use every eXertion
ssible and call for all assistance of Federal
oops you may REQUIRE 10 suppress Indian out
oak in AsizOna and New Mexico. These out
ges must be stopped in the shortest .isae
ssible, and every precaution taken to prevent
cir recurrence in the future"
Prof Riley says the seventeen year To-
SITS, whose visit he has predicted, are HARM
IS to growing crops and do no injury except
the tWigs of forest and fruit trees ,
FOREIGN ITEMS
Dispatches from Gibraltar state that an /
rthquake shock was felt at that point on =
turday.
"A Russian naval officer has been arrested
Cronstadt on suspicion, it is reported, OF
ing connected with plot to acquaint Eng 4
nd with the method of the closing of the L
rbor of Cronstadt with torpedoes. y
Yokohama was the scene of an extraordi- C
ny occurrence on May 6. As the British
sn-of-war Agamemnon, Sapphire and Swift !,
,amed into port the Russian War-ship Vladi- q
r Monomakh, commanded by Admiral a
own, commander in-chlef of the Russian G
1adron in these seas, piped to quarters n
inned the guns and made every preparation u
immediate action. 1t is stated that had so a
lch as a rifle been fired from the Russian n
isel the Agamemnon would have rammed "
T. No explanation Of the affair was made
the Russian commander.
"A telegram from Ilentsin announces JnaT a
the articles OF the treaty Of peace between Il
ance and China have been agreed to, and it
expected the treaty will be signed at once. 81
The great strike of the Yorkshire eng Z
ID miners has ended, the miners finally ac- q
ting the reduction in their wages which had e
n proposed in the first place at conference =
the men and masters. II
AN official announcement is made in Ber-
that there is an Improvement in the con- 10
on OF Emperor William, and that the intes- w
Il arrangement from which he has been zt
'ering has been checked but his recovery is W.
lrded. 81
The municipal authorities of Paris have a
,lved to censure the Project Of Police and
police officers for their action on Sunday.
Reports are in circulation at Cairo that III A
ldi has sent Hussein Rhalifa to Cairo to az
&c terms with the Khedive.
The Spanish Government has prohibited
incubation of people with cholera virus M
ding the decision Of the Board Of in
It'll. ne
The scratching and DETACHMENT Of the pic tr,
8 on exhibition at the Royal Academy in fo
don still continue. The number Of ex- ma
Is already injured includes sixty pictures
one statuette. All Of these have been MI
in the reach Of visitors. to
The Marine Hospital Bureau is informed
during the two weeks ended April 4 wi
e were 1sS deaths from cholera in Cal ne
a. ma
CHceres's Capture Of TruInIO. thu
MA, May 27.-The papers give particulars VT
10 tabingof rrujillo by the Cacerist troops III
II Gen. Romero on the 18th inst. The OF
onrriqor was tf,o or,oII 70 raofsk