, 1892-11-19
TELEGRAPHIC TALES.

WIU. Ma1er was hanged in Wheeling, w.
Va, for wife murder.
Sylvester Critchlow is the first of the
Homestead strikers to be tried for murder.
Several persons have been indicted in
Kansas City for violating the federal cleo
ton laws.
Ex-senator Edmunds, of Vermont, and
family, will pass the winter in Southern
California.
The Denver Tramway company has alb
sorbed the lines and works of the cable
company of that city.
c. II. Davidson has been arrested il the
City of Mexico for forging $4,000 on the
bank of Hamilton, Ontario.
Vice-P President-elect Stevenson is TO at
tend the opening of the new Commercial
club house in Atlanta, Ga.
The Blackstone, Mass. cotton manu-
facturers will advance wages December 5,
prices not yet been made known.
It is announced that his Grace, VIM. J.
Walsh, archbishop of Dublin, will be made
cardinal at the approaching consistory in
Rome.H
The carpet corporations in Lowell have
followed the lead of the cotton mills and
raised wages five per cent. beginning Dec
ember 5.
No trains have arrived in Dayton, Ohio,
over the Panhandle since pm. Thursday.
A landslide near Richmond is the cause.
The wires are down and the report cannot
be verified.
Advices from Samoa say disturbances
have occurred among the natives of the
Tutuila Islands, arising from claims OF
rival chiefs to the title of Manguo. Some
of the fighting occurred at Pago bay, where
the town was almost destroyed.
The Kansas & Texas railroad has entered
into a contract with the American Express
company to perform the express business
over the Missouri, Kansas and Texas sys-
tenn from February L, 1888.
Five employees of brush factory at Mar
co, France, have died in the past two days
of a mysterious illness resembling plague.
The victims had been engaged in inserting
Dristles imported from Paris. The factory
has been closed.
ID. S. CarrWay was arrested in Washing
ton, ID. c., for attempting to pass a check
for 500, upon whicn had the forged en-
doreement of James G. Blaine. He was
ex-clerk OF the pension office.
Lieutenant Peary wants to go to the
North Pole on another expedition, but Sec
retary of the Navy Tracy will hardly give
him another three years leave of absence.
The village Of Durham, in Washington
county was totally destroyed by cyclone.
Every house in town except the school
house was demolished. No lives lost but
the damage to property was great.
At st. Antonio, Texas, 1900 pounds OF
dynamite and other explosives have been
received for the government rain making
experiment, two miles east of this city.
The tests will be made Monday.
Two of farmer Beetles children, at Hi
awathia, Kansas, found match and set
fire to a straw stack. Their clothing caught
rre and they burned to death before any
one knew it.
E. G. Betties, ex-secretary of the An
acouda Mining company, and the present
treasurer of the Standard Gold company
of Denver has been found short in his ac-
counts of $4,000. He is missing and is
thought to be in Southern California or
Mexico.
Commissioner Roosevelt of the civil
service commission has recommended that
the civil service laws be extended over the
employees of the District of Columbia. 1t
is also decided to extend the civil service
regulations as far as may be practicable to
the police.
Thomas Ryan, minister to Mexico, has
been in Washington, d. c., a few days, in
consultation with the president. He will
leave for his post on Saturday.
In the state Of Illinois 866, $40 votes were
cast for presidential electors. Cleveland
got 424, ,149, Harrison 397. .425, Bidwell "a $50,
Weaver 20,865. Cleveland's plurality over
Harrison is 26,7 ,724 but he is Is ,551 votes in
the minority in the state.
ELGeneral Isaac Cantlin, of Brooklyn, has
been mentioned for the Office of commits
sioner of pensions. General Cantlin admits
that he was aware of rumors coupling his
name with that office commissioner, but
declared he did not know where the rumor
emanated.