The national leader., 1889-07-11
LATER NEWS.

organized LABOR In alQ OF Ule JUUU striking
miners in Illinois and Indiana.
FRANK HoYT, paying-teller Of the First
National Bank, of Hoboken, N j., has been
arrested for embezzling SIS, 900 of the banks
funds. He lost the money in Wall street.
GEORGE H. WATRoUs, ex-President of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road Company, died suddenly at New
Haven, Conn.,, of Bright's disease in his
sixty first year.
The Cornell IN. ~ crew won the Childs
Cup from the University of Pennsylvania
eight at Philadelphia in tho fastest time ever
rowed-one mile and a half in six minutes
and forty seconds.
ALL the mines on the Monongahela River
in Pennsylvania are idle, the men refusing to
accept reduction of wages. Five thousand
miners are affected
GEoRGIA's new million dollar Capitol was
formally presented by the Capitol Commis-
sion to the State. Captain F. P. Howell
spoke for the Commission, and Governor
Gordon received the Capitol on behalf of the
State.
GOVERNOR Ross, of Texas, also issued a
proclamation against the fight between Sulli-
van and Kllrain taking place in his State.
JOHN N. MAGINNIs, a leading business man
of New Orleans, and son-in-law of the noto-
rlous William M. Tweed. was killed by light
ming in his bath house at Ocean Springs, La.
SHERIFF G.. E. BRANsoN and one of his
deputies Ed. Funk, were killed at Kerbyville.
No, by Bill and Jim Miles, the two brothers
now under indictment for the murder of the
Bald Knobber chief at Forsyth.
A CONVENTION was held at Chipley, Fla.
to consider the proposition of annexing
West Florida to the State of Alabama. There
were about two thousand people present.
DAVID G. CoLsoN, of Bell County, was
nominated for State Treasurer by the Ken
lucky Republican Convention in place of
John Barrett, who declined to run Although
but twenty-seven years old he is a member of
the Legislature, and has been in public life
seven years.
WARNER P. SUTTON, Consul General at
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been appointed
by Mr.. Blaine Secretary of the Congress of
the American Republics to be held in Wash
ington.
A GERMAN ship has been sent to convey
King Malietoa, of Samoa, back to Apia.
THE English have removed the French flag
from the house of Sultan Bountonkon at
Grand Bassam, Upper Guinea, Africa
France claims a protectorate over the Sui
tan's territory.
THE Government of Tripoli, North Africa,
has issued decree abolishing the slave trade
The Massachusetts, rifle team won its fifth
successive victory in England, defeating the
South London Club at Nunhead by forty
three points in the total.
THE Bulgarian Government has con-
cluded loan of S., ,OOO, 900 with New York
bank.
THE Worlds Sunday-school Convention
in London adjourned after deciding to meet
in America next year.
Two hundred people were made homeless
by fire in Wredenhagen, in the Duchy of
Mecklenburg, Germany.
Hon. JOHN NoRQUAY, for nearly twenty
years Premier of Manitoba, died suddenly at
Winnipeg of heart disease, at the age of
forty-eight.
EDGAR GILMORE, aged twenty, and An
drew Larsen, aged eight, were both drowned
while bathing in the creek at Williamsport,
Penn.
THOMAS EWING SIBERIAN, a son of Gen.
eral w. T. Sherman, has been ordained in
Philadelphia a priest of the Catholic Church.
The ceremony was performed by Archbishop
Ryan.
A RAILWAY collision occurred seven miles
east of jamestown, N. Y. Charles Efsman
of Meadville, engineer of freight and Louis
Wentz of Salamanca, baggage master of
passenger train, were instantly killed. v
81. Derby, and Arthur Sexton had their legs
broken.
Four incendiary fires took place in Dan
bury, Conn.
JOHN FOYER, aged seventy, and his nine
year-old granddaughter, Carrie were killed
while driving across the railroad track at
Akron, Ohio.
He'll d. MILLER, cashier of the Malta
National Bank, of Malta, Ohio, has fled, and
his accounts were reported s32, 900 short.
LYMAN r. WILLIAMS, for nearly thirty
years Superintendent Of Schools in Steuben
County, Indiana, committed suicide by
hanging. Mr. Williams served two terms as
County Treasurer.
The bones, representing all that remains
of what it is supposed were fourteen OF
fifteen persons killed and burned to death in
the late wreck on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, near Thaxton's Va, have been
buried in two coffins in the City Cemetery of
Roannka Va