Passaic City record., 1893-08-26
South and West.


A CABIN five miles north of Charleston.
Mo-, was destroyed by fire. It was occupied
by an old coIored woman and several small
children. The old woman was paralytic,
and was burned to a crisp. An eight-year-
old child was SO badly burned that she died
three hours later, and one child, ten years
old, was believed to have burned to death.
E. M. DONALDSON, of Marion, Kan, is
missing. He was President of the Union
failed, and of the First National Bank of
Marion, which was closed by special
examiner. Donaldson has fed the country
and is probably in Mexico, defaulter to
the amount of at least 100000.
EXCESSIVE rains have injured the corn and
cotton crops of Mississippi.
The Mayor of Brunswick. Ga, advised
people to leave that city on account of the
presence of yellow fever.
The boiler in J. W. Willett's saw mill in
Bushnell Township, Michigan, blew up. w.
N. Eckhert was instantly killed and two
other men fatally injured. The mill was
wrecked.
Two dead men were found beside the car
cass of a butchered yearling near Bagtickalo,
in the Choctaw Nation. It is thought they
were shot by ranchers who had caught them
stealing cattle.
WESTERN New YORK, Delaware and West
Virginia celebrated at the Worlds Fair.
GOVERNOR Bo1Es was renominated by the
Democratic State Convention of Iowa. at
Des Moines the convention adopted COM
promise silver plank.
THERE is falling off in the cotton crop in
Texas, and owning to the financial string
ency the banks are unable to advance plant
ers money to move the product.
AT railroad crossing between Lexington.
Ohio, and West Alexandria Mrs. William
Hapner and her daughter, aged seventeen,
were struck by a train and instantly killed.
A little girl aged three was seriously injured.
Washington.
W. j. POLLOCK. the Superintendent of
free delivery in the Postoffice Department,
has resigned, and A. w. Machen, the As
sistant Superintendent, has been appointed
to the vacancy.
ORDERS have been issued by the Treasury
Department to all ub-Treasurers to pay out
gold over the counters, the same as other
classes of money. The effect of this is to
practically place the gold reserve among the
available Treasury cash assets.
The Hon. James H. Blount. of Georgia,
Minister and Special Commissioner to Ha-
waii. arrived in Washington and went to the
Shoreham. After brief rest he went to the
State Department, and by previous appoint
ment, had an interview with Secretary
Gresham. Mr.. Blount was quite reticent,
and referred all who inquired to Secretary
Gresham.
DocToR CHAUMoNTEL Councillor of State
in the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, while de-
scending the Scharwzenstein Mountain in
Tyrol slipped into the crevasse of a glacier
and disappeared. Rescue was impossible.
The President sent to the Senate the ap-
pointment of Joshua E. Dodge, of Wiscon-
sin, to be Assistant Attorney-General vice
William A. Maury, resigned.
The President has approved the joint res
olution making Immediately available the
appropriation for the payment of mileage to
Senators and members of the House of Rep
resentatives
SECRETARY SMITH has approved the lease
of 5000 acres of asphalt lands in the Uintah
Indian Reservation to the American Asphalt
Company.
The official copy of the decision made by
the Bering Sea Board of Arbitration has been
received at the State Department from the
Hon. John W. Foster, agent of the United
States at Paris.