Western appeal., 1888-07-14

Tariff bill was resumed At the evening
session numerous bills granting rights of
way through Indian reservations to various
railroads were passed.,
FROM WASHINGTON.
The President on the 9Th vetoed the bills
granting pensions to Nathaniel D. Chase,
Harriet Cooper, William NJ. Campbell, Jr.,
and Julia Welsh, and,the bill for the relief
Of Van Buren Brown,
THERE were 149 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th, against 204 the previous seven
days. The total of failures in the United
States from JANUARY 1 to date is 5,4O1,
against 5,243 in 1917
AT the Generalr Land Office patents to
agricultural lands were issued during the
last fiscal year as follows: Cash entries,
B,68; homestead; 1852; timber culture,
l,S43; desert land, 80; scrip, 523; total,
1880. There were.also issued 1,G4 patents
to mineral lands, III TO coal lands and SO to
private lands under grants
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 7th aggregated
1873, 123, 574, against 1926 414 or the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing week of 1887 the increase amounted to
IL per cent.
THE number of post-ofices established in
The United States: during the last fiscal
year was 1864; number discontinued, 1,642;
number of fourth+class postmasters ap-
pointed during he'year, II 1852; number of
Presidential postmasters appointed during
the year, 436 Totalf number Of Presiden-.
tial post-eff1ces, 2,503, an increase during.
the year of 1865. >,.~>r~
The National Department of Agriculture
reported on the 10th that the crop con-
ditions Of the, country greatly improved
within the past month. -
A CONVENTION Of the American party, to
nominate candidates for President and
Vice President, has been called to meet at
Washington on the 14th of August
Over $500 bills had up to the 10th been
introducedin in the Senate this session. In
the two sessions tofs the Forty-ninth Con-
gress there were only $685. and that was
more than the Senate had ever produced in
any previous Congress.
., THE EAST.
ON the 9th the. United States steamer
Swatara with General Sheridan on board,
resumed her voyage to- Nonquitt, Mass, ar.
irving at New York during the day From
all accounts the sufferer was doing nicely
A COLLISION oIrthe 9th of Pennsylvania
railway passengers Srains near Nanticoke,
Pa, fatally hurt a fireman and thirty pas
sengers were badlyshaken up
On the Sth the Swatara, with General
Sheridan on board, arrived at Nonquite
Mass. The Generals condition was quite
favorable. 49,. JS&l ,-'
EIGHT THOUSAND italian immigrants in
New York wereHbn the 7th said to be in
want of food.
A coAL-TRkIN was struck by cyclone on
the 7th at Dayton, N. j., and Conductor
John Dyer, of Trenton, with two of the
trainmen, were blown from. the cars and
fatally hurt. "a
OFFICIALS of the Union Bank of Provi-
dence, r. l., received word on the 7th that
the S700, 600 in securities stolen recently by
Charles A. Pitcher, the defaulting teller,
had been recovered in London
On the 7th the Republican committee
formally notified Levi P. Morton. at his
home in Rhinebeck, n. Y, of his nomina-
tion for the Vice Presidency
GOVERNOR HILH has called a special ses
sion of the New York Legislature for July
II for the purposepf making an appropria-
tion to continue work by the two thousand
convicts in the three State prisons.
A GIRL and three men were killed on the
sth by flash Of lightning near Scranton,
Pa. rr-.s
AT Allentown, Pa, the boiler of the Ad-
elaide silk-milf exploded on the 9th, killing
three men and:wounding three Others
GENERAL SHEHipAN passed quiet day
at Nonquitt, Mass, on the 9th. The physi-
clans said his appetite was good and his
pulse and respiration showed improve
ment.
ALL the low lsnds in the vicinity of
Uniontown, Pa, were overfiowed on the
9th. At Leith, the whole place was sub
merged. Great damage to growing crops
was also done. .
NEAR Rochester,, N. Y. great damage
was done on the 9th to farms, mill-races
and other property by a flood caused by a
breakage in the Rrie' canal
EDWARD A. ,DHAcoNs, who last August
murdered MRS. Ada Stone because she re-
fused to give him food, was hanged at
Rochester, N. T., on the 10th.
GENERAL SHERIDAN passed a comfort
able day on the. 10th and exhibited a fair
degree of strength *
New York Repu blicans will hold their
State Stat &c eonventiGnaat Saratoga Springs Au-
WEST AND SOUTH.
FIVE men were found dead in the Kin
uishi mountains, fInd. Il, on the 9th. They
were probably killed by Indians.
Ex-GovERNoRI HoUsER, of Helena, M. r.,
says that this year the Territory would
produce gold, silver and copper to the value