Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
News Items.

ard silver dollar are alOat.
The revolutionary outbreak in
Mexico is reported to be extending.
A great fire occurred Monday in the
lumber yards in st. Louis, destroying
100000 worth Of lumber
The steeple of the German Lutheran
Church in East New York was demol-
ished by lightning on Sunday night.
TIE United States Senate yesterday
passed the OleOmargarine bill in an
amended form by vote of 81 to "a.
The ways and means committee has
agreed to report a resolution for the
adjournment Of Congress on July 28th.
The investigation of the New York
custOm-house by the civil-service COM
mission is expected to begin this week.
Hail stones as large as hens eggs
fell at Nyack, New York, Sunday,
breaking windows and doing other
damage.
Hail stones as big as walnuts fell in
Winchester county, Va, on Sunday af-
ternOOn, covering a tract nine miles i'll
length and half mile in width.
The funeral of E. z. c. Judson,
("Ned Buntline'' took place at Stam-
ford, New York, on Sunday afternoon.
1t was the largest funeral ever held in
that village.
Secretary Greener, of the Grant
monument fund, has written to Sena-
tors and Representative urging the ap-
preparation of $3.50, 900 for the proposed
monument in Riverside Park.
On the 10th of August Mr.. Blaine is
to open the campaign in Maine for the
| Republicans, and every Democratic
paper in the country has noted the fact.
Any other prominent politician might
make a speech every day and no notice
be taken of it.
1t is said that the reason why Con-
| gresham Laird struck Congressman
| Cobb in the mouth the other day was
| because there was no other place to hit,
| though he weighed $50 pounds. This
is a sly insinuatiOn that Mr.. Cobb had
a mouth little larger than the regula-
ton size.
Wheat harvesting has commenced in
Southern Minnesota and Dakota, and
will be well under way in the entire
southern tier of countries this week.
1t is the general expectation that Min
nesota and Dakota will not produce
more than tn ree-quarters as much
wheat as last year.
The new revolution in Mexico, which
it was promised would sweep the exist
ing government from the face of the
earth, turns out to have been a very
contemplate affair. Less than two
hundred soldiers were sufficient to
crush the much-vaunted uprising and
kill or capture its leaders.
The cOmmmitte appointed by the
creditors of Z. L. Dwyer, who recently
bought 100000 bushels of wheat on
$50 capital, to investigate his financial
resources, met in Chicago yesterday
and reported that there was fail
chance of holding G. S. Ingraham, the
former special partner, liable for the
claims.
' The twenty gypsies who arrived il
t New York Friday from Palermo, Italy
. and who were landed at Castle Garden
= were sent over to Wards Island Satur
/ day. They will be detained there un
til the emigration commissioners de
eide their fate. Tt is probable the,
g will all be sent back on the steame
e which brought them over.
a At Wimbledon Monday Rigby mad
e fifteen consecutive bull's-eyes at 60
q wards. SOuter, of Aberdeen, won tn
+: first prize for the grand aggregate {
O the series with a score of 326. Th
shooting for the Lcndon corpOratiO
@ prizes, confined to marksmen from tn
It colonies, the highest scores were: Barn
> hill of Canada, and Davis of India, 4
It each.
" Three years ago seventy-five peopl
were drowned at a riverside reso
near Baltimore by the breaking of
rotten wharf, which was crowded wit
., excursiOnists anxious to reach the boa
III This accident came near being dup
Gated last Sunday at ROckaway Beacl
of where forty or fifty persons were pr
i'd cipitated into the water, but fortunate
at ali were saved. Both accidents we
caused by rotten timber in the wharve
st The new extradition treaty wi
IN Great Britain looks like a good one
D., ratify. Article X of the existil
of treaty defines as extraditable offence
Murder, or assault with intent to COZ
T. init murder, arson, robbery and forge
81 or the utterance of forged paper.
Og these the pending treaty adds ma
oS5 slaughter, burglary, embezzIement
n larceny to the extent of $50 and
~ wards and malicious injuries to pre-
Dr. crty whereby life may be endangere
W. The latter count is specially intend
ire to reach "dynamiters."
~ ~ At Milwaukee, Monday, in pronol
an an cling senten ce upon Frank Hirth, 9
"a "a Simon and Auton Palm, Anarchi'
0U convicted of conspiring to burn
court house and melting people
lie. deeds of violence, Judge Sloan said :
.m. had some doubts as to whether II
/ were visionary cranks who liked
vim hear themselves talk, or real Anarch
asst like the Chicago crowd. However
,olt Judge, Jury and witnesses had b'
the threatened by their friends. he wo
red otherwise have DONE" He orde
Is their imprisonment at hard labor
months each. The limit is one yea