The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
Harry Seyburn, teller OF the Wheeling
bank, who got away with $4,000 of the
banks money, has confessed his guilt.
The Cherokee commission has arrived
at Tshlequah.
Assistsnt-Secretary Tichenor was taken
suddenly i'll in the treasury.
There is another coal mine strike in
Pennsylvania.
Near Pineville, KY, two prominent fam
ilies-the Smiths and the Lashers-have
gone an into armed feud on account of q
81 hog.
disease has broken out among cattle
10 Lincoln, Neb.
The wretched time of 1:5l was made by
Bessie June, winner, in the mile race at
Saratoga.
A strike is in progress at the Pennsylva-
mia coke works.
Sullivan's benefit at New York has been
indefinitely postponed.
Plainfeld, N, j., is threatened with q
food from defective dam.
Miss Andrews was drowned while bath
ing in Devils lake.
Sullivan said he was willing voluntarily
to go back to Mississippi.
There are over $7O0,0O0,000 in the
United States treasury, of which $780,
100000 is actual cash.
Congressman Breckenridge delivered
the Grafton at the Pilgrims monument,
Plymouth, yesterday.
A San Francisco special gives full ac-
count of the business of seal fishing in
Behring sea.
The Pilgrims monument, at Plymouth,
Mass, was dedicated.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Tichenor, speaking of the Black Diamond
affair, says England claims everything.
A Southern Zoe trust is forming. Capi-
tai, $5,O00,000.
Forest fires caused loss of half mill
lion in Montana. tlrHfi4.usf
In Carthage, N. Y, Fred Farr shot his
wife, then killed himself.
There is another strike Of $4,000 miners
in the great Pennsylvania coke region.
johnson 4 Co., leather dealers, Boston,
failed. Liabilities, $260,0OO.
The 100000 treasure on board the
steamer Granada, lost at Manzonillo, has
been recovered.
Gen. Macfeely is acting secretary Of
war in the absence of Secretary Proctor.
The committee appointed by Secretary
Noble is investigating alleged Irregular
ties in the pension department..
Brown Princes won the mile race at st.
Paul yesterday in 1:4219.
Billie Murphy had his arm broken in
the prize fight at San Francisco.
The national bureau of engraving is In
! financial distress.
An English syndicate is about to corner
the American patent leather trade.
Charles digger and Harry Smart were
I hanged for murder at Louisville.
The Cherokee commission have arrived
at Tahlequah. AH.
Near Goldthwsite Leroy Beck, good
citizen, while riding with his 7-year-old
daughter behind him was assassinated
from ambush. No clue.
An army deserter named Mckee sur.
rendered to Chief of Police Arnold, of
Dallas.
Dallas knocked Houston into pi by 10
to 5, and Fort Worth did up Galveston 21
tot.
At Abilene Merritt Hart was fatally cui
| by Louis Hillger, who claims to be resentl
| ing an insult to his sister.
A mass meeting of citizens was held at
Huntsville In aid of the Confederate
Home at Austin.
A dead body was found floating in the
river below Jefferson.
FOREIGN.
Emperor William was entertained By
his grandmother, Victoria, at a family
dinner at Osborne.
The British government is celebrating
on the question Of jurisdiction of Behring
| sea.
Great preparations were made to meet
Emperor William at Portsmouth, England
The British and dervish armies are CON
fronting each other ia upper Egypt.
The sultan has called out the Turkish
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reserves.
A machine gun exploded aboard the
French training ship killing eight persons
The royal grants bill passed its second
reading in the commons.
Citizens of Victoria, B. O., are indig-
nant at the seizure Of the Black Diamond
The Canadian government is investigat.
ing.
The Egyptians under Gen. GrenfelI at.
tackled the dervishes in Toski and drove
them out of the town.
On the London turf the Prince of Wales
stakes, 200 sovereigus, we're won by the
Duke of Portland's FLY Semolina.
Boulanger attributes bis defeat to am.
bilious candidates.
The Haybrick trial is progressing in
Liverpool.
The house of commons refused to CON
sider DR.. Tanners sentence.
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