Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Home and Foreign News.

In the Wi Ite House the visiting cards
are saved and sold for waste paper. In the
month of May there were G00O cards
-.An insect is eating the oysters in the
beds at New Haven, G.. 1t Is estimated
that only 10000 bushels are left Of 100, 900
bushels planted.
Til. English Cabine, has decided to en-
tIrely abandon coercion in Ireland, and rely
on the strict administration of the general
law
A brother Of Lady Salisbury, wife Of
the prime minister Of England, is editor Of
paper in Montana. lie married Pitts
field, Mass. girl. =
Two women at Rockford Ill.,, who we're
under the mind cure treatment have been
sent to a lunatic asylum.
Gen Eaton Of Colorado, has been asked
to send arms to Southern Colorado. There
Is great excitement among the people, fear
ing an Indian outbreak.
-Adolph Spreckles Of San Francisco, has
been acquitted of the charge of assaul,lng
with inten, to murder VI. H. DeY oung. pro-
prietor Of the san Francisco Chronicle.
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1i6 national banks were organized and the
charters Of 73l national bank, were e.
tended for period Of twenty years.
James Russell Lowell has just present
cd to the library Of Harvard College coll
lection Of books, numbering SIS volumes.
picked up BY him in the past eight Years
abroad.
Mrs. Lucille iseult Dudley was taken
to Middleton. \. Y. insane asylum, FRIDAY
She carried in her satchel over 800 letters
she had received from all over the country
congratulaing her on the verdict
The bes, argument in favor Of short
sermons was presented recently b, South
ern re,lvalist. who preached jus, sixteen
minutes and raised 81 900.
Joseph Mackin Of Chicago, was CON
Sicted Wednesday, Of perjury. in con
nection with election frauds IN that city.
last fall, The penalty is FIVE years impris-
onment.
The men employed 10 the wire depart
.nenis Of the Cleveland rolling mills Joined
the other strikers Thursday morning, max
lnS now 1900 idle men 10 \ewburgh, Ono.
VIM. Calhoun who has Investigated the
system Of keeping books in the Nay, De
pattment has recommended an entire change
Of the system. He favors the adoption of
the system used bs the English Nav, De
partment
Hon. Eben F. Pni,bury, collector IF
internal revenue for the Eastern District of
Massachusetts and custodian OF the post
,tt,.- 49,. a.. 4 ~.
go IN number) in his two departments.
-Four OF these are deputy collectors.
Miss CleyeIAnds book i, 10 be pub
lished IN Eng and and in tins country The
author has refused TO insert her portrait in
the volume and she wants II to stand
on its own merits. IL is dedicated to NIX
countryw omen
1t looks now as if il would be Kelley
or nobody at Austria. The general feeling
is that the administration will not recall
Kelley, but If Austria refuses 10 receive HIM
the place will be left untitled.
John Schuyler, a barber Of Morris, Olse-
20 county, \. y, quarreled with his wife
Thursday afternoon and knocked her down
several times. He then seized his three
year old daughter by the legs and dashed
her brains out ON a block.
-Fillipo Caruso's murderers have been
awarded the death penalty at Chicago. The
jury found that Azara, Gelarde and Sill
vestri were perpetrators OF the crime. Car
uso was killed in Chicago, and his body
packed into a trunk and sent to Pittshurg
Pa
AT the alumni dinner at Amherst Col
lege, Wednesday, President Seelye an
nounceI that 100000 was paid into the
treasury from various gifts and legacies, IN
Guiding $4,000 given by Henry Winklev
Of Philadelphia, for protessorship of his
tory of political economy.
Thursday afternoon lightning struck
powder magazine and mill north of Che,-
enne, W. T., causing frightful explosion Of
three tons of giant powder. \ house in the
vicinity was blown in pieces, its occupants,
Mrs. Walker and her infant. being serious.
ly injured.
The Apache Indians are still on this
side of the Mexican line and have recently
had battle with the whites in New Mexico,
both sides losing several men, according to
the flying rumors received. There is vet a
threatened uprisings Of Indians in Indian
Territory.
A despatch from Albany, n. y, SAYS
Lottie Watson, the woman with the iron law
with Van Amburg's circus, met with an ac-
cident Wednesday afternoon tina, will cause
her retirement from the ring To exhbi,
her great strength of jaw she has been in
the habit of holding Suspended from her
mouth cannon which was discharged Will.
in mid air. The daring of the performance
is increased by the fact that the woman
is hosted from the ground and hangs head
downward during the feat. "Wednesday af.
ternoon she was assisted by the Freeman
and Rice Brothers. athletes, who superin-
tended the apparatus and had raised her 10
the proper height firing the cannon, when one
OF the pulley ropes broke. The heavy piece
of ordnance and Mile, Watson were pre.
clpitated to the ground a distance of about
six feet. She struck the cannon, head first
with terrific force, and was picked up mn.
conscious. For time the widest exeite-
ment prevailed in the audience, but il Quick.
ly subsidized as the injured woman was re.
moved and the show went on according to
the program. When taken to the hospital
she was found to be seriously wounded. Her
forehead was crushed in. the wound taking
the form OF star, her mouth was cut and
two teeth knocked out, the right hand wa.
badly bruised, and some internal INJURIES
were received about the stomach,
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