The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-09-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL

hLNBEAi-
At a meeting in pittsburg the Executive
Committee of tho National Reform Association
ordered that a call bo issued for n meeting in
every County in every State and Territory. to
protest against opening the Worlds Fair on
Sundays collector Erhardt, Of New York
has estimated that twill require $iS4i7, 352 TO
get the goods out OF the warehouse in there on
Sept. J, 10 avoid the action of the Mckinley
tariff lll.--John Hallam, OF Toronto, Canada
wants reciprocity league established for the
purpose of iurthcrng the interests OF rccipro-
city aud enliFhtening the people on economic
questOug.--Sn0w has fallen in North Dakota
aud Minnesota aud freezing weather Is gen
orally reported though the Northwest. Tile
Treasurer of the United States makes state
mcnt contgAdicting tho report that the Govern
mcut is endeavoring to discredit the new silver
notes by paying them IN gold aud putting them
out OF circulation. BY order Of the President,
and in order to relieve the stringcncy in tho
money market, the Treasury Department viii at
once redeem the per cent. currency bonds, 10
an amount not exceeding $1,000 900 in interest,
and will pay si.2J for 1 per cent bonds
The Grand Jury of COyingt0n Co, Ala, has be.
gun action on trivial tcchnicalites against u.
:. Deputy Marshals who were engaged in pro-
tectiug the property of tho Government, con.
sistins OF seized timber much to the annoy
anco of the citizens who adopt this method of
reprisal. The Government crop reports show
that tho average for corn is 70l, the lowest
since IN 1881. The average fOrboth Spring and
Winter wheat IL To- The rye crop IS small and
the condition Of oats is the lowest ever reported.
Barley promises q fair crop, and tobacco has
improved materially during tho month. The
general average of cotton 10 reduced to S55.
Mr.. Chauncoy NJ. Depcw aud Archbishop
Corrigan arrived home in New York from
Europe on the Teutonic In speech 90 his
friends who welcomed him, Mr.. Depew ex-
pressed his entire approval of Nice President
Webb's action in regard 10 the strike on the
New York Central. Andrew ID. White, OK
President of Cornell, aud Miss Helen Magll,
eldest daughter Of Edward II. Magill ex Prcsi-
dent Of Swarthmore College, were married by
Friends ceremony at Swarthmorc, Pa.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
John s. Waters, farmer, was shot dead by
George Knowles, near Laneayille, Conn Wa.
tiers was assisting Jay Knowles, neighbor, to
enter his house, which had been taken posses
sion of by knowless brother. George Knowles,
Jay Knowles nephew, was defending the en-
trance and 1t is believed tue fatal bullet was
intended for his uncle-The food that
sweled the streams and did considerable dam
age in southern New York and northern Penn
sylvania Is subsiding but traffic in Emira and
canisteo. n. Y, is still interlered with, owing
to washonts on the railroad. A slight rain is
keeping up the flood in the West Branch of the
Susquehahna.--lwos strikers named Cain aud
Buell. wero arrested and taken 30 Albany on
the charge of wrecking the express train on the
New York Central. Anna Wood, % years
old, who said she resided in LansdOwne, Pa,
was found by the police wandering about in
New York, whittier she had been brought by
Charlie Niece, whom she claimed had betrayed
and abandoned her-FranS Kelly. of Phia-
delphia, was arrested mt POttst0wn on the sus-
picion OF having been implicated in the mur-
der of an unknown man whose body was found
near tho Reading Railroad tracks.---Rev. g.
W. Arney, of saranac, Mich, tho Methodist
Episcopal minister who got up h0rse-race
explained the matter to the conference in ses-
sion at Muskegon, and they passed his charac-
ter--George w. Wallace, of Danbury, Conn,
on being sentenced to IL years Imprisonment
for stealing $4,000 worth of jewelry, tried TO
attack the judge. but was prevented by the
court oiiicials.-Misa Ellen Il. Sullivan, Miss