Crystal River current., 1886-12-04
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

MUJIlA[ Ii DlluIlllEN.
H. M. Hoxie, General Manager of
Gould's Southwestern system Of railroads,
is dead.
There were PIG business failures
during the week, against 242 for the preced-
ing week.
A company has been organized at
alt Lake 10 continue the Midland road
through Utah.
Rumors come from Mexico to the eff
feet that Minister Manning is involved in
some scandal there.
An incendiary fire in the Continental
Hotel oat Chicago stampeded the guests
The damage was slight.
John Bright does not think England
will return to protective duties until the
United States restores slavery.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany secured possession by purchase of the
Southern Pacific coast railway.
M. R. Mcclure, Chief of Police at AL
buauerque. who was shot by Charles Ross a
Baldwin Gardner, prominent stock
broker of San Francisco, is missing. His
liabilities are estimated at 100000.
A supercedeas has been granted in
the Anarchists case at Chicago and the
men will not be hanged Decembers
William Reed. Treasurer of the South
Boston Horse Railway company, is charged
with embezzlement and is under arrest
The. divoree suit of Lady Campbell
against Lord Colin Campbell has opened.
The evidence is of disgusting character.
The census of Germany for the year
1885 shows an increase in the population Of
All, ,125. The army demands one per cent of
this increase.
The North German Gazette (Bis-
marck's organ) prints an article on Russian
finances and warns the Germans against the
Russian loan.
The captain and seven of the crew
of French man-of-war who landed for
water were killed by the natives of Amba-
du, near Alden.
The Knights of Labor of Chicago ex-
pect to vote for George E. Mcneil for May
or. He is willing to run If 1000 votes are
pledged to him.
The report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue shows that the collections
made in this State during the last fiscal
year were s2ol, 49,
Ex-Governor Cheney has been ap-
pointed United States Senator to fill the
vacancy created by the death of Senator
Pike, of New Hampshire.
The striking tanners ut Salem, Mas
sachusetts, made it hot for number of nom
union men, one of whom severely wounded
A striker during the fight.
The District Commissioners have
ended the scandal among the Washington
police by fair distribution of dismissals
and suspentions among the officers.
A tornado swept path through
Girard, Kansas, from fifty to seventy-fve
feet in width, demolishing a number of
buildings aud injuring six persons.
IA heavy snow storm prevailed last
Neck in Southern New York and Northern
and Western Pennsylvania. At Bingham
ton a skating rink was crushed by the snow.
ne miners Ill tHe AuacOHua mine AT
Butte, Montana, refused to accept reduc-
tion in wages and the Manager ordered the
mine closed. This effects about 1.5OO men.
An application for supercedeas has
been made before Justice Scott. of the Illi-
nois Supreme Court, in the cases of the sew
en- anarchists, No decision has been given.
E. d. Coleman has sued the Adams
Express company for damages because their
detectives placed him under arrest at Tope-
ka, Ka isas, on the suspicion that he was
Jim Cummings"
Bids for the construction of new YES
sells for the Navy were opened at the Navy
Department. The limit was exceeded for
the 1900 ton cruiser but the others were
within the allowance.
Havana is to have a series OF gor-
geous bull fights. A famous fighter has
been imported from Madrid, and he has
brought lot Of fierce Spanish bulls with
him, as the Cuban bulls are too tame.
The various London companies own
ing lands in the County of Londonderry
have offered to sell to their Irish tenants,
and the offers have been accepted. Nearly
all of the county is embraced in the sale.
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