The Globe-republican., 1891-05-27

JOHN BARDsLEY, city treasurer Of
Philadelphia. whose method Of deposit
ing the city funds in the Keystone aud
| other national banks is now a subject
of investigation, has rendered his resig.
nation.
The Boston News bureau says: I'VE
hear from good sources that the liabili.
ties involved in the assignment OF Mr..
Joseph Davis will amount to s. 0O0, 900
and that fifty cents on the dollar may
be realized 6y the creditors"
A TACK combine is announced
p. a. CHEATHAM and John Whaley,
two planters, fought duel near Liber-
ty Hall. S c. Both were severely
| wounded.
OSULLIvAN, the iceman, convicted of
the Cronin murder, says he will not
confess until the Illinois supreme court
announces its decision.
The Steele, of Paris, reafirms the
truth of the reported Itata agreement
and says that the Gillian steamer will
be taken into a United States port and
that when she arrives there an embar-
60 will be placed upon her.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May 81 num-
bered 254, compared with o37 the previ-
Gus week and 222 the corresponding
week of last year. Trade was gener-
ally healthy.
AN explosion at the Pratt mines, Ala,
killed ten negro eonvicts and a free
miner named Tom Moore.
DURING April s5.OO1 immigrants ar
rived In this country, against 64.213 in
April, 1890. OF the immigrants arriv-
ing last month, Germany furnished q, :
755. Italy Is, 1913. Ireland 9, 4s2, England
and Wales 5,543, Austria Hungary s, 7O9.
Sweden and Norway $500 and Russia
4,272
THE Botlkin impeachment case at To-
peka, Kan, resulted in the Judge being
acquitted
The Bank of England has reduced
its premium on gold, the demand being
considerably easier.
THE machine shop and bolt works of
the Knoxville (Tenn.) Iron Co. were
burned the other night. Loss, $50, 600.
UNION sailors drove off all the non
union men hired by the captain of the
steamship West Indian at San Francisco.
The troubles on the Queen & Cres-
cent route have been adjusted by Chief
Arthur of the engineers and Chief Sar-
gent of the firemen.
d. E. POWERS, attorney for Plenty
Horse, asserts that he secured evidence
at Pine Ridge, which will positively &C
quit his client of the crime of murder
ing Lieut. Casey. American Horse, one
of the head and influential chiefs of the
Sioux tribe, will be witness for the
defense.
WALTER JOHNSON was hanged at
Petersburg, Va. for rape on Elizabeth
Majors. Johnson's neck was broken.
ALBARIGo ARNoNE, aged 26. was NOR
tally wounded by Giuseppe Cangro, on
East One Hundred and Twelfth street,
New York, during quarrel. The
murderer escaped. All the parties in
the tragedy are Italians.
WILLIAM H. WANAMAKER, one of
Marsh's bondsmen, offered reward of
81, 600 for the arrest of the fugitive and
has employed detectives to run him
down. Marsh is an absconding banker
of Philadelphia.
A PASSENGER train on the Monon
route was wrecked near Lafayette,
Ind, by broken rail, but no one was
badly injured.
AT Monte Carlo banker of Munich
named Speckart committed suicide be-
cause of heavy gambling losses Six
suicides have occurred at Monte Carlo
since May l.
THE society of American civil engin.
GERS is in session on Lookout mountain,
Tenn.
HENRY SPRINGER, colored, was hanged
before 5000 people at Magnolia, Miss.
ADDITIONAL DIsPATCHEx
TIE trial of Capt Loar and the dep
uties, charged with murder in causing
the death of strikers on the occasion of
the recent coke riot, ended in the &C
quittal of all the accused.
A cABLEGRAM from Buenos Ayres
says a revolution has broken out in the
province of Cordoba The insurgents
have cut the telegraph wires.
FEVER is raging at Malta aud there
is an average of forty of the officers and
men of each of the vessels of the Brit
ish feet Frustrated with the disease.
The Malta hospitals are already ter
ribly overcrowded by the unceasing in
Aux of patients
The Gillian government steamers
Imperiali, Almirante Condell and Sar.
jente Aidea landed 200 men in Talltal
and stormed the custom house. That
place is now in the hands of the gov