Milford chronicle., 1885-07-31
TEE NEWS.
WKLEcRAPuIC RKrORrs OF WHAT ~
TltANHPfRrNG OF IMPORTANCE IN
GENERAL frEMs.

ei1oovefe0 on the previous day, have beer
loenties. as having belonged TO a woman
hahe'. Nette Haley
I'm burning building In New York an ex
plosion occurred by which nine firemen were
severely injured.
Over 100000 worth OF warehouses
sugar and molasses was destroyed by fac al
Cardenas, in Cuba, on Wednesday. II is not
believed that any lives were lost.
"A Judgment for s24O, 159 II was entered f.,
the Superior Court in favor Of James II. Good
sell against the Union Telegraph Company.
An explosion occurred on the South Penn
eylyani0 Railroad, at Sheepsl1in Hollow Gut
ono and half miles south Of Fort Littleton,
Trenton county instantly killing one Hungar-
ian and twO Italians, and probably fatally in
luring John Martin, the foreman, and an I'M
known negro.
The cyclone which swept over Highmore,
Dakota, on Wednesday, left 200 families ut.
terly bereft Of their possessions at that place.
Six persons were drowned in Walnut
River, Kansas, by being swept away by tho
AT Bedford, Iowa. a young girl who had
been wronged by a married man, went into
the latter's store and shot him dead.
Abraham Denser, wealthy German far
mer, who lives near Danvers, H., a few
months since married a young wife. She had
him arrested for cruelty, when he set fire TO
his house and barn, burning them up. He is
supposed to be insane.
AN east-bound passenger train on the
Atohison and Santa Fe Railroad was wrecked
near Wallace, N. NJ. The engineer, two fire
men, and an extra fireman we're killed. One
passenger, name unknown, had leg broken,
and the express messenger was dangerously
injured.
The New York and New England Company's
car shops at Norwood Conn, with valuable
machinery, were destroyed by five. Loss,
500, 900.
The body Of Mrs. Annie Mcintyre of
Weland, Ont, who fell into the Rapids at
Goat Island few days since, was found float
ing in the second eddy in tho Niagara River.
The big plaster Of paris mill Of j. O. King
q Co., at New Brighton, 8. l., was burned
Sunday causing loss of quarter of a mil
lion dollars.
John Roach, the famous shipbuilder
made an assignment for the benefit of his |
creditors. He says he was forced into bank
ruptcy by the course Of Secretary Whitney in |
reference 10 the Dolphin. He secured his !
leading creditors including his bondsmen.
Tho Chinese Restriction bill has been
passed through tho Ottawa Senate without an
amendment. This excludes the Chinese from
Canada.
The Rev. Samuel Irenmus Prime, D. D.,
senior editor OF the Observer and one OF the
highest ecclesiastical authorities in this coun-
Try, died at Manchester, Vt, in the seventy
third year of his age. He was born in Balls
ton, N. Y, and edited tie Observer for forty
i've consecutive years
WASHINGTON NOTES
1t is said Capt. Howgate, the fugitive ex-
disbursing officer Of the Signal Corps, is NO.
gotiating terms of surrender with the author
tiles through friends. He is supposed to have
stolen over S25, 900 during his term of Office
Secretary Manning is sending out a circu-
lar letter to manufacturers and others stating
that investigations prove that the tariff laws
are largely evaded by differentiation. He
asks them TO give their views as to the FEAST
bility of simplifying the tariff and changing
the adYaiOrem duties TO specific The infOP-
nation is sought to be laid before Congress
and as an aid to the improvement Of the Gus
toms system. Information is also asked with
regard TO the relative cost Of manufacture in
this country and Europe.
Senator Henderson, who has been inves-
tigating the condition of New Mexico, saws
that ON account Of the general Ignorance Of
her inhabitants she is not ct to be admitted as
q State to the Union.
The Cheyenne Indians are hemmed 10 by !
lhe United States troops, and a rising Is
looked upon by the authorities as improbable.
Under date of July Admiral Joubert has
sent to tho Navy Department from Savanilla 0
q report OF the condition Of affairs in the
United States Of Colombia. He makes men 1
ton of recent battle between the Govern
mont forces and the revolutionists, in which a
] 900 men were said to have been killed. ?
The chief Of the Bureau of Statistics re- (
ports that the number Of immigrants arrived /,
in the United States during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1885, was 387, S2l, being 1922
Ol3 less than the immigration during the pre- n
roding fiscal year, and 401 III less than during r.
the year ending June 3d. 1882, the year Of the r.
greatest immigration.
FOREIGN ITEMS q
Two houses Mt COLOGNE. tenanted by six Ell
cen families collapsed. Three dead bodies
md seventeen persons moro or less injured
ave been recovered from the ruins. Fifty d
more remain beneath the debris. And nearly pl
II are seriouslyi if not fatally injured 4.
In the shooting for the Elcho Shield, at NJ
England scored 1875; Scotland, e.
,5GS, and Ireland, 1854. "a
Twelve shocks of earthquake, ono OF I'll
7hich was very severe, wore felt in Cashmere
N July is. co
in tho English House Of Lords the Land so
'urchase bill passed the committee stage with 5o
ut amendment. ",
1t has boon decided to add fifty torpedo =,
oats to the Russian feet in the Black Sea. ~
"A lfeboat containing fifteen men, started ~
rom Yarmouth, England, to the rescue Of the DC
rev Of a brigantine, which was in distress. an
iefore reaching its destination, however, the
feboat struck a sunken wreck aud sank. l.
light Of its oceupants2Were drowned. va
Inc steamer nCclh COlllueQ Win the Liver -
DOL and London steamer Cheerful at Plymouth 70
j fog. The Cheerful foundered and eleven tn
ersons were drowned. Gu
Dispatches from Aries, on the Rhone, III,
late that terrible explosion occurred in that III
ity, The kilograms say that the explosion ~
1ginated III q large gunpowder and petroleum sOl
0rehouse, and that number of persons we're tro
He'd some Of whom were blown to atoms. pei
"A dispatch says the King of Dahomey WI
estern Africa, with large army has massa- ma
cd the French in the protected villages.
he King has also. the dispatch says, captured q
uOO persons, and he and his followers pro- no
ose to eat them. res
"A dispatch from Cairo says, news has the
aehed there from Kassala to the effect that of
large force Of rebels had attacked that place NJ,
ID made several attempts to carry it by as n
ult. They were finally repulsed, and the an'
rrison at kassala following up their victory the
ptured the rebel camp, with 1000 oxen and wo
eep, and zoo rifles. The enemy lost 5000 Gov
IN killed and wounded, while the garrison's %!
5ualties were small by
Tho Russian harvest prospects continue OF
scouraging. ties
-Four Arctic expeditions will leave Ger JUG
any next winter haI
The recent earthquake shocks in Bengal be
suited IN serious loss OF life. Fifty deaths the
2 reported. There was also much damage M
property. ''''
The balloon in which the aeronaut Elroy
'ended from Torrent, on July IA, and
itch was last seen drifting toward the sea,
8 been picked up by Dieppe smack. Moth sale
was seen Of M. Elroy, and he is presumed alol
have persisted. i've
"A soldier in the Madras native infantry, sbo
o had been reduced in rank shot dead sew -
y native officers. IA !
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