Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-07-09

The government expenditures during the
nscal year ended June 30 were t3lO, OOO, 900,
about t',JOO,O0J less than the estimate. The
reduction Of the public debt was about SIS.
10000.
Commissioner Black Tuesday approved
over ,2O pension cases This Is the largest
number Of pension cases granted in any one
Gay In The history Of the pension office.
lhe coinage at the various mints during the
month OF June was 81, $50 sol, of which 2,275,.
100 was In standard silver dollars,
The cholera bulletins report l,322 new case
and b22 deaths IN Spain.
a sensational double suicide occurred AT
uison, Illinois, "Wednesday, the Victims being
Melissa staplcton, a well known school teacher
and her afllancCd T. EIward Sutherland. The
Two had been long time engaged and the
nuPtiaIs bad been set several times, but when
tue time came suthcrlanJ's circumstances
were such that the event was postponed. Her
iolks strenuously opposed his suit. Tuesday
ne refused to marry her That evening she
bought ra, poison, afterwards exchanging II
Tor arsenic, and took dose Of the latter in
the morning and died. When Sutherland
heard oil the tragedy he borrowed rifle, went
lhto The timber mile away aud shot the
whole top Of his head of.
AT Buckhannon, West Virginia, the family
OF nr. P. +. Pinnell, seven in number, were
poisoned by drinking coffee which contained
arsenic.
"eorge stciiy, who has been in the Innrm.
ary at Nlncenncs, Indiana, for ten years, dumb
aud helpless, suddenly recovered his speech
while engaged in scuflc, and now talks
easily and nationally. lie has no recollection
Oi his Ten years Of silence.
AT an inccndiary fire in Cleveland mother
and two children were burned to death, and a
number OF persons injured in lcapng from
windows.
twenty-five hundred employees Of the Clcye.
Ianu Rolling. Mill company struck against
reduction Of 10 per cent in thcr wages. All
Tue Mlniow.glass factories in the Pittsburgh
district have shut down until September /.
Forest tires are destroying valuable tracts
OF timber in the great Egg Harbor swamp in
NcW Jersey. Two tobacco factories at Liberty,
virginia, burned with loss Of S3j, OOO
lILe lonulat on OF Sioux City, Iowa, has in.
creased from 1895 In 1850 to 1880.
The ttal of Adolph b. sprccklcs, son OF
the sugar king, for an assault with intent to
XIII NJ. II. Dc Young, Of The San Francisco
Chronicle, ended in a verdict Of acquittal.
According 10 the new directory of New
York, tie population Of that city is now 1853.
| 100.
Fifteen Mormon missionaries arrived n, New
YORK recently, with 5l4 Swedish and Danish
converts, who will settle In Utah and Mexico.
Tie ONO prohibtionsts have nominated
Rev, a. b. Leonard, Springfield, for governor,
or a full ticket was placed in the field, and a
platform adopted demanding a prohibition
amendment, opposing cense or regulation
ot the liquor tralllr, and denouncing both of
the old parties.
The announcement is made that Mr.. Kelley,
recently APPOINTED minister to Austrla.IIun.
gary viii not he recalled. lie will 90 To
vienna, aud II the Austrian government re.
fuses To receive him the United States will re.
main uurcprcscn,cd at that capital.
samuel {, ShuiICr a Kansas CITY rcal.cstste
operator, has been arrested on charge Of EN-.
bczzlng S2S,OJO from John |. Blair, New
Jersey capitalist
AT joplin, Missouri, July 4, William shcl.
lenbarger was assisting in firing a mortar.
when from some unknown cause there wa, A
| premature discharge while he was arranging
the fuse. The charge struck him In the left
arm taking of that member below the elbow
and about the head and face, shocking out
both his eyes and laceratlng his neck in a
/ irighttul manner. Little hopes of his recover,
are entertained.
Malcolm Hay has resigned as first assistant
postmaster general, and cx Congressman
Stevenson, OF lIliuO 4, has been chosen Ms HIS
successor. Judge Lambert Tree, Of Chicago.
has been appointed United States minister TO
Belgium, and cx.COngrcssman John +. Lamb.
Of Indiana, United States district attorney for
Indiana
The new directory Of Boston indicates that
the population Of that city is 52O0OO.
Gold aud silver coins valued at 81 900 have
been uncarthcd ON Il farm near Racine, Ohio
including number OF old and rare American
aud fercign pieces. There have been ira.
ditlons OF buried treasure in the neghborhood
since Its earliest settlement
During tile last seven days there were 2OI
business failures In the United States and
Canada, decrease Of from the preceding
seven days,
The imports OF merchandise at New York
during the past week were yulu ID at 80 SO
80. The specie exports were S3iS, 2tjO, and
the specie imports sou 4Es.
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