The Progress., 1894-09-22
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
lntere.tips Items Carefully Selected From
tho Leading Dailies.

lucky TO help MIN dV the ~ ''ha
election. Most of them hold places IN
the government service secured by
Mr.. Breckenridge. About thirty OF
his ce-holding proteges are from
the government printing oftic. Every
part of the government is represented
in the crowd.
An abstrac. OF the condition OF 5'9'
national banks, July Is, shows an IN
crease in loans and discounts. COM
pared with year ago, of $40, O0o,ooo.
an increase of stocks and securities OF
Sc, OOo, 900, a decrease Of lawful money
reserve OF 1913, 900. 600, an increase OF
individual deposits of IS, 900 and
an increase in flls payable OF s|o)''
600.
The Central j 'ust company OF New
York has fled a bill in the United
States court at 'enver, COL, asking
irg for an order:for the sale OF the
property of the Denver City Cable
company, which has deianted in the
payment of interest on the mortgages
aggregating 81, 10000 and the APP
pointment OF rcceiV,a
Peter jackson has Refused to sign
the Sioux City articles for the fight
with Corbet jackson said the arti-
cles would not do. The fight would
have to come off within three months
instead of next May or June. "lt's
three months or nothing,' declared
Davies, and Jackson added, That's
right,n and the deal was Off.
The constitutional convention OF
New York in committee Of the whole
the other day adopted a resolution
changing the term of governor and
lieutenant governor from three years,
as at present, to two years and pro-
viding that in all cases the state en-
gineer shall be practical engineer.
The weavers in the Globe woollen
mills at Utica, N. Y, have struck and
complain bitterly of repeated reduc-
tions in wages. Some 10000 men
have resumed work in the Braddock
manufacturing district in Pennsyl-
vania in consequence OF the passage
OF the tariff.
Ten persons were killed and twenty
injured by the wreck of the Paris and
Cologne express train recently. The
accident happened at Apilly, Belgium,
and was caused by collision of the
express train with freight train,
which was being shunt~d.
Tn pope is said to have expressed
desire to arrange the troubles be-
tween China and Japan, but is pre-
vented by France, who fears the in
tervention of the church would undo
the work France is carrying on in the
east.
Thomas Dyson, a farmer of Nod
away county, Missouri, has sold
the apples of new orchard Of
thirty-one acres, on the trees, for
$4,000 and he Still has the fruit Of an
old orchard which he will gather HIM
self.
Five hundred representative citi-
zens met in respone TO the Chamber
Of Commerce call of New York, and
adopted an address to the public stat
ing the reasons why all good men
should unite to defeat Tammany Hall
At Piedmont, Ala. James and Sallie
Downs, aged ~ and IA years, have
died from drinking poisoned we'll
water. Two others worry i'll, Andrew
Finlay, dischargen servant, has bee n
arrested for poisoning the we'll.
A dispatch from Shanghai says the
Chinese transport Chean White, pro,
ceeding to Formosa with 400 troops
on board, was wrecked in the Che
Tung pass, but that all the soldiers
and crew were landed safely.
|: President Greenhut denies the ru-
mors Of receivership for the whisky
trust. but Acknowledgement Maloney
of Illinois says the trust will be dis
solved by order of court and re.
ceiver appointed.
j. A. Van Meter of near Malta Bend,
Mo-, recently lost his large stock born
by fire. Quite q number of very fine
'hOrses were burned to death, ranging
from $500 to $1,000 per head.
| J. Coleman Drayton has begun sui,
in New Jersey for divorce from his
wife, the daughter of the late William
.Astor. Hallett Alsop Borrowe il
is named as correspondent.
| Emma Aumann, the common Law
wife OF Billy Plimmer, the pugilist
committed suicide at the Coney Is
land hotel. New York, by inhalins
gas few days ago.
= In a dispute over a lawsuit Attor
ney Carl Walle was badly wounded b,
Attorney Leo Kooder. at Chicago
a few days since. Wales wound /.
dangerous one.
At Ashland, Pa, recently, an ex
plosion OF gas at the Centralia collier,