, 1889-04-07
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

Ex-President Cleveland has returned
from the South.
A heavy snowstorm prevailed in Yir-
ginia and West Virginia yesterday.
A fire in Savannah Ga, Yesterday de-
stroyed property valued at 81 500, 900.
President Harrison will go to Baltimore
Monday to take a cruise in Chesapeake
bay.
Joseph j. Mcdowell, a prominent iron
broker of st. Louis, was found dead in
his office.
The principal business portion of
GAINESVILLE, Miss, was destroyed by fire
yesterday morning.
Washington was visited by a driving
snowstorm made somewhat remarkable by
flashes OF lightning.
Yesterdays temperature: New York,
420; Chicago, 36o; st. Paul, 280; Wnni-
peg, 800; New Orleans. 64o.
A Gettysburg, Pa. dispatch says: Snow
has. been falling here all day and is now
fully a foot deep on South mountain, ten
miles west of this place.
Col. Swords, formerly sergeant alarms
to the Republican National convention,
has been appointed inspector of furniture
IN the treasury department.
Oklahoma boomers threaten to burn all
the bridges on the Santa Fe road on the
night of April 81, or sooner, so that nc
trains can get into Oklahoma on the odd.
The steamer La Bretagne which arrived
in Havre yesterday made the trip from
New York $3.50 miles, in seven days and
a few hours, one OF the fastest on record.
w. A. Maginnis of Ohio has been APP
pointed superintendent of the railway
mail service and assigned to duty in the
office OF the second assistant postmaster
general.
Prof. M. G. Vinion, the representative
of the great English syndicate that has
recently raised a million of dollars to con
troll tie tin market of the world, has ar.
rived in New York.
Herbert l.. Coddington of Trinidad,
Colo, has been arrested in Newark, N.
D., under three charges, incendiarisn
robbery and kidnapping. He will be
taken to Colorado for trial.
Twenty members of the LIST regiment
Illinois National Guard, who were Arrest
ed recently in Chicago while witnessing a
prize fight between two members of the
regiment, were arraigned in the police
court this morning, and each paid a fine
of 81 and costs.
Gen. w. B. Franklin, United States
commissioner to the Paris exposition, and
wife, and United States Assistant Com
missioner NJ. H. DeYoung, wife and
family, are among the passengers on the
steamer Bourgogne for Havre.
The Rochester street car strike has re
suited in a riot. While factory employees
we're enjoying the noon hour a mob at
tackled some cars and smashed the win
dows. One or two shots were fired. The
police finally dispersed the mob and ar
rested twenty five persons.
The various labor organizations in
cluded in the National Federation of La
Dor are making preparations for a big
demonstration in Pittsburg July A.. SINH
lar celebrations will be held In all the
leading cities Of the country with the OBJ
lect to AXE preliminary steps towards en-
forcing the eight hour system.
Since the disaster at Samoa the secre-
tary of the treasury has received PROPOSE,
tons from several wrecking companies
offering to go TO Samoa to undertake the
work of recovering guns and other prop
erty of value lost in the destruction of the
Trenton and Nandalia. No action will be
taken until Admiral Kimberly reports
lave been received.
DR.. George L. Miller, the veteran Dem
ocratic editor and politician of Omaha,
has just received a bronze bust of tie late
Horatio Seymour. 1t is of heroic mold
and is to be erected in a park of SOC acres
near Omaha owned by DIR. Miller. 1t is
a splendid specimen of art and a striking
reproduction of the New York statesman
facial form and features.