Daily Republican., 1885-09-08
News Summary.
WHOLESALE ROBBERY ny
bCaOOL FUNDs-SAFE ROBBED
or 81 400.
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.

LILO ohiVobtOu Dbily NoWb several
weeks ago charged that nearly q, ,OOO, 900
fund Of Texas by mismanagement of
the State land affairs. 1t now charges
editorfslly that the school fund has
been defraudsd of IL, ,459, 56S acres
worth e26, 900, 600. The school fund, 1t
says, ought now to have unsold located
lands amounting to 81, 1876, $50 acres,
but has In fact only 24.678. 29z. The
robbery, according to the News, has
been going on for ten yerrs.
Burglars entered the Ocean View
House at Nantasket Beach, on Sunday
night, took the safe TO the beach, blew
| it open and secured $1,000 in cash and
Quantity Of jewelry. $100 was found
yesterday morning on the beach near
| where the safe was opened. The bur
glars also entered the Hotel Standish,
helped themselves in the wine e,llar,
and took away liquors and cigars from
/ the case.
The schooner David A. Story, the
frat OF the Iceland feet, has returned TO
tGloucester, Massachusetts. She re-
ports the storm lest season on the Ioe-
land coast since 1857.
| Trouble IL anticipated in the Indian
Territory over the distribution OF $780,
900 recently paid the Cherokee Nation
10y the Government for ceded lands.
The freedmen in the nation claim equal
rights with the native born Cherokees.
The matter will come up at the session
of the CherokeeLegislature next month.
Senator Dawes is said to favor the
claim OF the freedmen.
The Union Bank of New York il
about 80 wind up its affairs. Is will
cease to receive deposits after the Goth
inst ,ead will pay from its assests divi-
ldend offs 200, 900, bsing 10) per cent.
on the capital stock, on and after Osto-
Der 1st. The balance Of the assets will
be distributed as soon as they can be
Iadvantageously converted into money.
The chemist of the Board of Health o.
Brooklyn reported yesterday that he
had found a number of samples of con.
Ifectionery containing chrome yellow,
and that at store he bought some can
ned tomatoes, in which an analysis
showed traces of lead, copper and tin.
Surgeon Main Of the Marine Hospital
Service, who has made an inspection of
Tampioo, Bagdad. San Fernando and
other Mexican cities near the border,
reports that there is no danger of the
introduction of an epidemic of any kind
from that quarter.
President Cleveland, ed by
1
ton yesterday morning, looking b ealthy
and sunburnt. After breakfast at the
White House he Immediately settled
ldown to work. The Cabinet meetings
will be resumed on Thursday.
Secretary Bowker, OF the American
Free Trade League, has written to the
Secretary of the Iroquois Club, accept
ing an invitation to the League to hold
It's next annual conference In Chicago.
The conference will be held on Novem.
ber 18 and 10.
Ross, rowed yesterday on Sheepshead
bay, Long Island, was won by Hanlan
by q length Lee being second. Dis
tance 3 miles, time 1921. The race is
described as be ing d" poor farce"
The Chicago Farmers Rev lew pr ints
to day summary of the corn crop out
look based on reports from its cores.
pondents, and says At this writing,
September 9TH, we Judge three fourths
of the corn of the entire country is past
danger from frost.''
Rev. Charles w. Price, a Presbyte-
rian minister of Cherokee. Kansas, hang.
ed himself on Sunday morning. 1t is
supposed his mind was unsettled by the
death ofa brother and sister.
j. NJ. Ivy Il Co., of Rock Hill, South
Carolina, failed yesterday for about
$3.50, 900. The principal losers are cot.
ton brokers in New York.
There was frost on the lowlands
around Pennington, Maine, on Sunday
night, which did much damage to corn
and vegetables.
Twelve deaths from smallpox were
reported in Montreal on Saturday, and
fourteen on Sunday.
Jeremiah Hayes, aged So years, died
ON Sunday afternoon at Sleepy Hollow,
New York, of "a disease resem bling
icholera"
The local option election in Milan
county, Texas, yesterday resulted in IS
majority for prohibition.