Smyrna times., 1885-02-04
News Items.

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Extreme cold weather has devastated |
the cattle herds of Kansas.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
in Westchester county, n. Y, on Sat
urday morning.
Over thirty persons, many of them
Philadelphians, were injured by rail-
way accident Friday, at Greenville,
N. J.
Ice fields are again interrupting the
navigation of Chesapeake Bay and i'm
peding the entrance to Baltimore har-
Dor.
Secretary Teller proposes that the
Oklahoma lands be purchased from the
Indians and thrown open to settle
ment.
Lizzie Kaufman fell dead in ball
room in Cincinnati, at o'clock Sun
day morning but the dance was not
interrupted.
In Pittsburg on Saturday fifteen per-
sons were injured and as many houses
damaged by three explosions Of natural
gas in one block.
The anti-dynamite resolutions of
Congress have been referred to a sub
committee Of the National House of
Representatives, and it is probable
they will never be heard of again.
The health board of New York
claims to have discovered that quinine
is adulterated to an enormous extent
by the druggists of that city. 1t is cx-
pected that many arrests will be made
in a few days.
During the storm in Chesapeake
Bay last Wednesday night, the schoon-
er Wake was driven ashore and be-
came a total wreck, at the mouth of
Nandon Creek. Two of her crew of
six men were drowned.
The English shelled the rebel camp
at Hasheen, near Suakim, Yesterday.
An uncontirmed report Of the capture
of Metemneh has been received by
WOlseley. General Earle will make
his attack on Brit to-day.
Cunningham, who is charged with
causing the explosion at the London
Tower, is about p years of age, five
feet five inches in height, with
swarthy complexion, broad features,
dark brown smooth hair, dark sunken
eyes and smooth face. He has scars
on his right hand
The Nicaraguan Treaty is regarded
in Washington as dead for the pres
| cnt session of Congress at least :" as
even if the vote upon it should be re-
considered, there is no prospect OF a
| two-thirds majority for its ratification.
The Spanish and Mexican treaties
are regarded as even dealers than the
| Nicaraguan.
If there is any truth in the report
| that 10000 lrishmen have been thrown
out of employment in England because
! of the dynamite excitement, il is dtli-
| cult to see how the United Kingdom
| has thereby been advanced. The
effect Of such prescription would be
to increase the number Of desperate
men to add fuel to flames already al
most beyond control.
Mr.. Bayard appears to have some
what damaged his Cabinet boom by
his anti-dynamite resolution. Never
mind, Mr.. Bayard. Your action has
added to your reputation as high
minded Christian gentleman and states
man and that will amply make up for
the loss of the State portfolio, should it
have that result.-Pittsburg Commercial
Gazefte.
The Generalization in London on
account of the dynamite explosions is
50 great that thunderstorm on Sat
I h. hn I,oln ,tr s,,4
a panic. Fear and distress NAV be
read in the cOuntenances of men,
women and children, not one in
| thousand of whom is even remotely
responsible for the wrongs of Ireland,
which the dynamite conspirators plead
in justification for the murder of the
innocents and the wanton and whole
sale destruction of property which this
/ coWardly method of warfare involves.
Monday afternoon jeremiah O'Dono-
/ Van-ROssa, the notorious Irishman
agltatOr, was shot by woman on
/ Chambers street, near Broadway. At
! the hour the streets were full of people,
making their way toward the Brook
lyn bridge and uptown, and the ex-
cltement over the shooting, although
the man was recognized by very few,
was intense. The first shot fired took
effect in O'DOnovan's body and he fell
to the sidewalk. The woman con-
tinued to shoot until she had emptied
her tive-chambered revolver. Only
the first shot took effect.
She offered no remOnstrance, but al
lowed herself to be pulled through the
crowd and taken to the City Hall sta
tion-hOuse. She gave the name of
Yuseult Dudley and is an English
woman.
In credulOus people will be apt to see
IN 1t an effort on the agitator's part to
advertise himselfand his paper. Others
will suspect that it is the result of rela-
tons having nothing to do with dyna-
mite, politics or the freedom of Ire
land; while Rosa and his friends
assert positively that he is the victim
Of English hate The story the
wounded man tells, of course. sustains
this last view. The woman says
quietly that she shot him " because he
is O'DonOvan ROssa." That might
mean several things. Moreover She
Is as calm as an oyster.
We do not sound a needless alarm when we
tell You that the taint OF ScTOfula in your blood
Inherited or acquired, il is there and Ayers Sar-
uff f1H af..Hn..