The examiner., 1885-06-13
THE WEEKS SUMMARY.
Thursday, June 4.

| Thursday, June 4. lm. The Hesssian fly is doing immense iaraags Flo the Kansas wheat crop. The fortifcation board has arrs nged 7 programme for their future work An oil lamp exploded in a store in New l York and burned six people. One is ex- pected to die.
 James McConne1l clerk in Pittsburg drug
 store, was fatally injured by the explosion
 of a soda fountain. -.-.. l There was not priest to be seen along the
 entire route of Victor Hugo's funeral proces- l sion at Paris on Monday. sr g The Southsrp Telegraph company has | been abandoned by the Western Unicn. It
 operates about 4, 600 miles of wire. .s,s.z The steamships Weser, from Bremen, and 1 Polynesia. from Hamburg which arrived at 1 New York, have thirteen cases of smallpox on board. l Officers arrested at Oil City, YN., ons of | the members of gang which has been ex-
 tensively operating in that vicinity of late. Search revealed S15 900 in spurious coin. l The Canadian Pacific railway has notified
 American railway lines that it will no longer l carry passengers from the United States and ! the Eastern provinces into Manitoba and the | Northwest at immigration rates. l Arthur B. Marsh, who embedded $50 GOO
 from Koch, Sons & O., New York, and
 was arrested at Liverpool, offers to return | to New York on certain conditions, but Mr. l Koch will only accept his unconditional sur
 render. --..=.. ...... .. -f.. .< 1 Extensive preparations have been made at l St. Louis for the reception of Secretary Bay ard. He will be escorted about the city by
 ' company of politicians and business men,
 and given a reception at the Merchant5' ex- | change.
 l The Charleston, s. C., Electric Light com.
 pany, organized in 1881 with paid up cap
 ital of SIPS, 900, suspended operations. The l failure is caused by losses incurred in a fight
 with the City Gas company. All the stock
 is owned in Charleston. .-- A Baltimore colored political club has 1 adopted and will send to the president reso. l 1utions thanking him for sshis humane sym- | pathy in rebuking the Democratic party of l Hazelhurst, Miss, by withholding the com l mission of J. l.. Meade, who was, the reso- 1 lutions state, ttthe head and front of the out 1 rages committed on our race in Copiah l county"
 | s ...--s53 Friday, June 5. s.t. l The Halifax chamber of commerce adopted | Q resolution in favor of the use of British | gunboats to keep American fishermen out of | Nova Scotia waters. -.-. | The United States court at Cleveland | ordered the sale of the Lake Erie 6
 
 1 judgment for $130, 900, | The cabinet, at Washington, discussed without action the distribution of the $4O0, GOO l appropriated at the last session of congress l in aid of American steamships engaged in | the foreign mail service. .s:.s..s -. | ] Samuel Eby, ex-banker of Elizabethtown, Pa, who failed last January, has been ar l rested on the charge of embedding $6, 900 belonging to the estate of Edward Sweeney, ,R~ THT ,e %I,1a 1 President Cleveland will be asked to de- eide whether the executive order made by President Grant, in 1873, forbidding United States officials whose salaries exceeded @, 900 per annum from holding state or municipal l offices is still in force. | Masked burglars entered the house of Daniel Roth, an aged man, at Coplay, Le- l high Co.,, Pa, on Wednesday night, and 1 nearly choked him to death in an attempt to l make him divulge the hiding place of valu- 1 sables. The cries of daughter frightened 1 the burglars off.
 l Saturday, June 6. 1 been closed.
 It is believed that 400 people were killed | by the Indian earthquake.
 | Two lives were lost by the bursting of the
 Beaver Park, Col, reservoir last Wednes-
 day. E | A burglar in Sedalia, Mo, was shot dead | by a policeman while in the act of robbing 8 l store. |, Ferdinand Ward was again arraigned in | court and pleaded not guilty to four mora 1 indictments.
 l The International Typographical union 1 has passed resolution authorizing the pay | ment of ST week to strikers when strike | is ordered. - ... I ......-.. ,..E l ~ The house committee of the Illinois legis- 1ature on corporations has agreed to report l favorably on the bill to, repeal the charter l of the Chicago board of trade. Thomas Orig, Montreal Methodist 1 preacher, has perpetrated double e1ope- l ment-with woman and the funds of a
 sewing machine company for which he was 1 local agent. <~-..-- 1 It is rumored that the appointment of MT. l John Oberly, chairman of the Illinois state
 central committes, to be superintendent of
 Indian schools at &, 900 per year, is only 8 temporary one and that MT. Oberly will | shortly be made collector of the port of
 Chicago, with salary of $7,00O year. | Monday, June 8. A rate war has just begun between the
 Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk and Ameri- | can railroads.
 If the present favorable conditions are
 maintained, Gen. Grant will travel to Mt
 McGregor on Tuesday. June g. A great sensation has been caused in polit- 1 ical circles at Springfield, Ills, by develop
 ments of legislative bribery.
 Nothing has been heard from Battleford
 for many hours, and Big Bears movements
 are uncertain, though he is believed to have l gone North. - ...y... ..... ... .5 Hanlan, the oarsman, says he would row Teemer races of one, two, three, four and
 five miles each at $1 900 side for each racs, 1 or one three-mile race for $5, GOO.
 Archbishop Bourght, of Montreal, is 1 dying, and Bishop Favre was summoned to
 administer the last rites of the church to the l venerable ecclesiastic.
 1 It is possible that MT. Parneu will be re-
 turned to parliament at the next election by
 London, MT. Justin Mccarthy by Liver 1 pool, and MT. T. P. O'Connor by Glasgow | district.
 l Charles O. Baron, aged 30, of Lynn,
 Mass, threatened to kill his wife on Satur- | day evening. He went to 8 gun store, pur-
 chased a revolver, returned home, and shot