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blow up the Austrian parliament.
The amount Of New York clearing house
certificates has been reduced to 81, 900 0OO.
The employees on the Big Four have decided
not to strike IN consequence OF Acut In wages
A strike has been commenced by the rail-
road men at Memphis and may prove serious
The foreign admlrals at Rio de JAneiro
have persuaded De Mellas not to lombard the
city again.
Tho trainmen employed by tho Union Pa
oific have voted not to accept the 10 per cent
cut In wages, aud strike may follow.
A dispatch recely ed on the Goth from Brazil
says Santa Catharina, an important fortified
island Of Brazil, surrendered TO the rebels.
The city of Mobile wAs partially inundated
on the 2nd by high water, caused by n south
wcst gale. An enormous amount OF damage
was done.
party of Bohemians tried to jump cow
boys claim in the Cherokee Strip Friday and
he killed two of them. The settlers then
turned out and lynched another.
Omaha was the scene of two big fires on
the End. The Farnam Street TheAter was
DESTROYED. Six fremen and one by-.tander
we're injured and one fireman killed.
The monetary conference of the Latin
states will meet In Paris October 8. Italy VIII
be represented by Senior Derenzir, the Italian
minister NJ Brussels, and by Deputy Zepu-
Baron Hirsch has sold Italian rentes to the
amount OF El ,00O,OOO and has Invested the
money In American railroad securities, In
Guiding some iow-priced stocks which pay no
dividends.
Advices from all parts OF England indicate
that the keenest distress exists among the
striking coal miners and their families. A
further stoppage of many large mills has oc-
Cured owing to lack OF fuel.
1t is leArne d the donor of 100000 to Har-
and msiutain a reading room, the identity of
whom has created a good deal Of speculation,
wus the late Frederick L. Ames.
special meeting of representatives of
newspapers interested in the Associated Press
was held at Chicago on the 4th. 1t was de-
cided to increase the capital stock to 800, 600
for the purpose Of extending the Scope Of the
organiI alton.
Some cases Of cholera have been discovered
on board the Italian ironclads AtondAtore
and Italia which have been ordered to the
Lazerette Asinars, the small island near Sar-
dlnia. The Italian ironclads at Asinara Will
undergo = thorough course of disinfection.
Colonel Bill Root has left Laramie with a
carload of fine elk for England. They are for
the magnificent estate of Sir Peter Walker,
near London. The elk arc from the plains of
Wyoming, and It is the biggest herd that has
ever been seen In captivity in this part OF the
country
Archbishop Satolli, the papal legate. has
about completed the purchase of the house ut
Warrington formerly occupied by the late
Justice Bradley and which WAS once the home
OF Stephen A Douglass, while senator. The
house Is on the corner OF Second and streets,
Northwest.
The Chicago Terminal Railway Co mpany
has been purchasing site for 3 tremendous
union depot in that city which will accommo-
date 500 trains per day. Thirteen big roads
have already agreed 10 use It. The tracks
leading to 1t through the city will be elevated
above the streets.
Too liberal appropriations have drained the
Texas state treasury and the state has only
half enough money to meet It's obligations
maturing October /. Governor HoxR has
suggested that state employees do not take
their pay for sixty days and has requested
county and district officials to withhold their
demands for like period.
! Ten persons, three of them children, were
Killed, and a large number injured by panic
resulting from a hre in a church at Psranga-
riento, state of Michoacan, Mexico. Sunday.
The people were attending religious festi-
val, when rocket set fire to the roof. Some
one rang the bell, starting the panic, And the
unfortunates were crushed to death.
genuine sensation was created in the Dis
tr!ct court at Colorado Springs by verdict of
guilty brought in In the case of W. Z. Me-
Lain, q ell-knowu real estate man of that
city charged with forgery. The forgery con-
sisted in interlnentions OF a document which
he borrowed at the county cerk's office for
the alleged purpose of making a copy of 1t.
banks shows the following changes: Reserve,
increase 81, $40 800; loans, increase, S34s, 800;
specie, increase. 81, 1913 500; legal tenders, in
crease, 81, l45, 100; deposits, increase, s. ,033,
306; circulation, increase, sTs5,3oO. The
banks now hold $2i. 10. .50l In excess of the
requirement of the % per cent rule
Owing to the advance of tho Matabele I'm
pls In South Africa, Colonel Jamison has de-
termined to attack them. Consequently col
uuins OF colonial troops. fully equipped, will
start Immediately from Forts Victoria and
Charter. with the intention of meeting the
enemy. 1t is believed bloody engagement
may be looked forward 10 In the near future.
According to a treasury statement issued
by Mr.. Carlisle, the total amount OF money In
circulation In the United States October was
81, ,T0l, ,9309ls. The average circulation per
capita, estimating the population at67 300, 600,
10, therefore, i26.2y The net Increase in cir
culation during September was FL ,377 ,247,
the greatest TEN of increase being gold coin,
viz: sl4 ,i29,7;l
Reports 10 the Maritime Exchange warrant
the statement that the August hurricane was
the most destructive In the history Of the
country The property loss to sailing vessels
alone WAS $4,000 COO; loss of life, 5G4. Forty
vessels foundered. carrying everything to the
bottom, Twenty-four are still missing,
eighteen were abandoned at sea, fOrty-six
stranded and thirty were damaged.
Twelve new of yellow fever were re-
ported nj Brunswick, Georgia Sunday, ten
white and two colored. This epidemic effec-
tuaily dispes the idea that negroes are by
nature exempt from the disease. The fatali-
ties among the negroes are greater than
among the whites. Having partially exhaust
ed itself among the lower classes, the disease
10 attacking the more favored population.
Miss Lizzie Gallagher, come ely and we'll
known young lady, who is stopping on a
ranch near Laramie, attempted suicide by
taking strychnine, but by the prompt appli
cation of erneties her life was saved She Is
still IN a very critical condition, but will
probably recover. A love affair Is supposed
TO be at the bottom Of the young lady's
trouble.
A. L. New, ollector of internal revenue,
has received letter from Acting Commits
soner Wilson relative to the recently raised
question as to taxes on national bank certiil-
Gates. The decision is that obligations Of
the national banks are free from the 10 per
cent, tax, though the certificates of state
\ banks and kindred Institutions are subject to
/ IL
Governor Mcconnell OF Idaho will not np-
| point delegates TO the Pan-Americau b.
Metallic Convention at st. Louis for the rea-
son that the object of the meeting Is not in
accordance with his ideas Of true American
! ism. In his opinion the meeting Is division
! OF the United States into trade districts or an
array Of the South and West against the East.
and be thinks the country has had enough Of
sectlonallsm.
! 1t Is learned that instructions have been
sent by the Chilian government to its minis
ter In Washington, directing him to find out
what the United States government thinks of
the Idea OF calling convention OF the South
America republics and the United States to
consider the silver question. Chills sugges-
tion Is to have such n convention take action
ns to the future course of the countries inter
csted relative to the coinage and use of silver.
An official of the Lake Shore road says the
authorities Of Noble county, Indiana, are in
possession of conclusive evidence to show that
John Connors and Eva Flint, who were ar-
rested al Kendailville last Wednesday In con-
nccfIon xiIh the lakn Shore robbery xere