Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1891-11-10
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS 2
OF Brief Items Of Interest From
Various Sources.

A London cablegTam says: In the
court of appeals the Maybrick case was
commenced Monday.
Dispatches of Sunday say that destruc-
tive prairie fires are sweeping the coun-
try between MOnon, ILL.,, and Chicago.
Simonson & Weiss, cloak manufactur.
ers at Green and Canal streets, New York,
failed Saturday. Liabilities estimated at
$500 The firm began business in
1870.
Patrick McDermott, McCarthyite can
didate, has been elected without opposi-
ton to the seat in the house of commons
for no tn Kilkenney, left vacant by the
death OF Sir John Hennessey.
The treasury department, at the re-
quest of Secretary Blaine, directed the
New Orleans customs collector to
extend the usual courtesies to Mrs.
Mont, wife of the Chilean minister,
who arrived there Thursday morning.
The statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that there was a net
increase in circulation during the month
of October of $50, 80. 1875, and o net
increase OF. SO, 1872, 4O3 in money and
bullion in the treasury during the same
period.
The announcement of the failure of
the Maverick bank, which had $40, 600
of the funds of the First National bank
of Damariscotta, Me-, caused run by
depositors Tuesday and the bank has
temporarily suspended payment. The
bank is perfectly solvent.
A London cablegram says: Owing to
the fact that the employees of two firms of
bootmakers are striking, all London
bootmakers have agreed to declare a
lockout. Five thousand bootmakers
were locked out Monday and 90, 900 will
ultimately be treated in the same man
ner.
President Potter, of the American bank
was arranged before United States Com
missioner Hallett, at Boston, Mass,
Tuesday, and pleaded not guilty. His
bail was fixed at 100000 and that of
Jonas French at 100000. Dana is out
on $50, 900 bail.
A Dublin cablegram of Tuesday says:
The United Ireland prints another letter
from the late Mr.. Parnell's mother ap-
peaIing to Irishmen to vote for Parnell
candidates and adding that their great
rallying cry must be Remember Par
nell and his murderers."
A San Francisco dispatch of Wednesday
says: The following Chinese advices
have been received by the steamer City
of Rio Janeiro: Particulars of serious
riot in the province of Fukien have
reached Hong Kong. The scene of the
trouble is -Tehhua, which was attacked
and captured by 5000 insurgents.
"A cablegram of Monday from Constan.
tinople reports that ravages of cholera in
Damascus show an alarming increase
The record for the week past shows 100
cases and ninety deaths. Owing to the
prevalence of cholera, Hodeida is in
nearly as bad situation as Damascus,
but at Aleppo the plague has subsidized.
The bark Liberia sailed from New
York Saturday morning with fixty six
negro colonists for Liberia. Only thir-
ty-three Of them are adults. They 90
under the auspices of the American
Colonization Society, which delays ex-
penses of passage and of maintenance
for several months after they reach their
destination.
The debt statement, issued from Wash
ing Monday, shows that the interest aud
misunderstanding debt decreased dur
ing October g, 025, 527, this being brought
ABOUT by reduction of 2,919. O6O in
debt on bonds, the interest on which has
ceased, and 81. los, 467 in the debt bear
ing no. interest. The interest-bearing
debt has actually increased So, 900. The
total interest bearing debt outstanding is
1856, Os6, 72O.
Fire broke out in 1orillard's tobacco
factory at Jersey City, N. j., Monday
morning, on the top floor Of the old brick
building used as drying room for to-
bacco in the first process of manufacture.
Fifty thousand pounds Of tobacco were
stored there. 1t was worth Sit, 600, and
was totally destroyed. The damage by
the fire to that floor was $40, 600, and the
mage to the building and the floors
below was $a5, 1000. The loss was en-
tirely covered by insurance.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says: Notices of intention to contest the
right to the seats of six members elect
to the house of representatives 10 the
fifty-second congress, have been fled
the clerk of the house. They are as fol-
lows: Noyes, republican, will contest
Rockwell's seat from the twenty-eighth
New York; Miller, republican, contests
Elliott from the seventh South Carolina,
ard Mel uffie, republican, contests Tur-.
pins from the fourth Alabama district:
Three other cases are from Pennsy xania,
WHORE test y biiifcan
75sg-}SSit$:ss.