, 1888-06-28

The New York state prohibition conven.
ion yesterday afternoon nominated state
ticket, selected electors f,r the national
ticket and adjourned. w. Martin Jones, of
Rochester, heads the ticket Tor govei nor.
dispatch from Shanghai SAYS that nine
government officials at Seoul have been De.
headed IN The streets by the populace. For
e,ghers have taken refuge at the cons sulates
The outbreak is attributed to Chinese insti-
gallon.
The Mexican Central freight depot and
ADJOINING buildings in Paso del Norte,
Mexico, burned ut 1850 last evening also
about seventy-ireight cars A large amount
OF freight was burned The estimated loss
Is $2U0, 900.
George Wilson, the wife murderer, was
hanged at Albion, New York, yesterday.
he stranged his vile in bed owing to
complication growing ou' of his associa.
ton with pretty siXteen. .year-old Laura
Thompson.
John j. Rogers, secretary Of the Joint
committee on base ball rules, announces
that the committee has unanimously voted
to take bases on balls from the error col
umn. Bases on balls will remain as factor
In earned runs.
The president has allowed the act to au.
thorize the Paris, Choctaw and Little Rock
railway company to construct and operate
a railway and telegraph and telephone line
through the United States territory, to be.
come law without his approval.
The owners of the eitablish m.nt at
Munich from which the oily Porter and
Frank Buck, the American cracksmen,
niaue large haul OF jewelry, have arrived
in London, and have identified nearly
every article Of the plunder found In Porter
and Bucks residences.
The steam pleasure yacht Erie was
struck by the steamer James Baldwin at
Newbursh, n. Y, last evening, aud is
ter. Miss Annie Miller and Mrs. Benjamin
Olds were drowned. Three others are de.
lerious, but will recover.
The Society OF Authors, London, OF
which Lord Tennyson IL president. has re.
solved to invite James Russell Lowell and
all otter American authors In Lopdon, to
public banquet on July 25th In recogni-
tion of the efforts they have made in be-
half of an international copyright.
A Calcutta dispatch says that the Mon
soon rains are fortnight overdue owing
to the detection of the current to Burmah,
where heavy rain has fallen for days. The
crop prospect ins Bengal especially as re-
CARDS rice, are extremely serious on &C.
count of drouth. Prices are rising.
In the republic Of Mexico. last Monday.
elections for electors, who will choose a
president and mem oers of congress, n week
from next Sunday, were held throughout
the country. Returns now in show there
was no opposition worth mentioning to
General Diaz and the ticket Of the admin
istration party.
De I.esseps is blamed in Paris for trying
to float the whole Panama canal loan at
one time instead of Issuing half now and
half in December. The syndicate which
engaged to take one quarter OF ihe loan II
the remainder were subscribed for, have
been released from its contract, subscrip-
tions having been received for only half
the loan.
The czar has sent lengthy letter to EN-
peror william expressing thorough friend-
ship for Germany and sorrow for the loss
sustained in the death of Emperor Fred
erlck. 1t is said that General Pape will
carry to the czar Il nperor Williams reply,
in which the emperor promises to follow
his grandather's advice respecting friend
ship for Russia.
Temple, the American bicyclist, met
with Il serious accident while practicing in
Amsterdam, Monuay. He was going at
the top of hls speed when he fell from his
wheel, striking the ground heavily. He
lay insensble four hours. No bones were
broken, but he is ieariully bruised. His
companions Morgan and Woodside, are
constantly watching him.
Some 400 representative horsemen from
Tennessee, lllir ois, Iowa and Dakota at
tended the auction sale ofth late Conimo-
dOre klttson's trotting stock at Midway
Park, ST. Paul yesterday. Captain Phil. O..
Kidd was the ctioDeer Forty-twO horses
were sold for S54 600, The famous mare
80 So was bought ny +. ID. Stout, of Du-
buque, Iowa, for IS 500, the highest price
ever paid for brood mare in America.
The Vermont republicans have nomi-
mated Ion. w. II. Dillingham; for COVE r.
nor; Urban Woodbury., by acclamation,
for lieutenant governor; w. II. Deboise
for state treasurer Chas. w. Porter for Sec
retary OF state, and Hon. L. X. Howell for
auditor. The platform heartily endorses
| that of the Chicago convention as clear
| and forclble presentation Of the principles
Of the party, and with Harrison and Nor
ton inscribed on this banner as .he person.
iication OF high character and clean poll.
tics, aud a sure guarantee that the pledges
will be kept: promises majority in Sep
| tember that will carry hope and inspira-
tion to the republicans; extends hearty
thanks to the Chicago delegation from Yer
mont; deprecates the issuance OF railway
passes to state officers and members OF the
legislature as a decentralization, and de-
mandS that such practices be prohibited
by law; favors AN embodiment in the state
laws OF the long aud short haul provisions
OF the interstate commerce law, and calls
upon voters to roll upa majority of 30,0Ot
for the state ticket.
CHICAGO, June 26.-The sub. committee o
the national committee Of the Republican
League OF the United States held meet
ing this morning. 1t was decided that
meeting Of the executive committee and o
the snb executive committee should b,
called to meet In New York. on Wednes
day, July IL, and the presidents of Il var
ions state leagues will be notified to NEE
with the league for conference. The meet
ing is called in order to more clearly dein
the work of the league and to formulate
plan of campaign to be pursued by the re
publican league clubs of the United States
The committee officially request all repnb
| Ican clubs I'm the limited Stai % tn call N, eot