The Greenville times., 1894-09-08

Europe. on the 2sth. on the steamer
New York.
THE president left Washington, on
the 2eth. for Gray Gables. accompanied
by Secretary Lamont and Private Sec
retary Thurber.
The St James Gazette Of London
says that George Gould will revisit
England next spring with new TWEEN
ty-rster designed by Herreshon-
COUNCILMAN DoUDoUssAT. of New Or
leans. was arrested, on the 18th. with
the marked bills upon him with which
he had just been bribed TO vote for an
ordinance.
SAMUEL ]. KIRKwooD, Iowa's famous
war governor. died at his home IN
Iowa city, on the lst, from old age
He was 81 years old. and had been fee
BILE for several years.
Ex-PREsIDESr BENJAMIN HARRISON,
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs
Mckee, arrived in New York, on the
3ist, and put up at the Fifth Avenue
hotel. The general refused to discuss
politics.
OK the sist DR.. S. A. Steele, secre
tary of the Epworth League Society Of
America, officially announced that the
next international conference of the
society would be held in Chattanooga,
Tenn, June, 1895.
The United States has demanded an
immediate, open and fair trial of the
American citizens arrcsted at Blue
fields and carried to Managua, Nieara-
qua. In default Of which their instant
release will be demanded.
SECRETARY GRESHAM received ca
BILE dispatch from Minister Baker, at
Managua, on the sist. simply stating
that decree had been issued banish'
ing the Americans and English ac-
cused of fomenting the trouble in Blue.
fields.
The associated banks of New York
city issued the following statement for
the week ended the 1st: Reserve, de-
crease. s9s7, ,s25; loans, increase, ST..
Ii6, 200; specie, increase, Si43, 900; legal
tenders, decrease. sa93. 500; deposits, in.
crease, slss. 100; circulation, decrease,
SIS, 100.
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THE big Cunard ocean greyhound
Lucania arrived at New York, on the
slst, from Liverpool, her time from
Queenstown being days, hours and
IS minutes, beating the best previous
record, made by her sister ship Cam
pania two weeks before, by fifty-one
minutes.
An inquiry, completed on the 30th,
among the best Representatives of the
mercantile community of Chicago
establishes the fact very clearly that
business has recovered its old-time
health and vigor. There is no general
boom, but trade has revived from its
lethargy.
THE government of Nicaragua has
decided TO Danish British Vice-Consul
Hatch and nine others OF the Bluefelds
prisoners Messrs. Hampton and Wilt
bank, American citizens, will also be
banished. Patterson. Ingram, Taylor
and Brownrigg will be kept as state
prisoners.
AT Asheville, N. c., on the Goth, !
Louis Belrose, Jr.. aged As. of Wash
ington, ID. c., in fit of mental aberra.
tion as a result of his brain being af-
fected by tuberculosis, placed the hilt
Of a sword against a tree and fell
on the point of it three times, fatally
injuring himself. Belrose was former
ly in the United States navy.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT has made
a sweeping reduction in the force of
the government printing office, about
500 employees receiving notice, on the
30th, of dismissal About 200 printers
are affected by the order, the others
being bookbinders, folders, pressmen
and other employees naturally affected
by the suspension of the Congressional
Record.
The British garrison has been tenn
porarily withdrawn from the island of
Cyprus. This action has no political
significance; nevertheless commercial
circles there were thrown into panic,
and the Christians resident upon the
island are also greatly agitated over
the report, to which they give cred
ence that Cyprus is to be restored to
Turkey.
THE change from the Mckinley tariff
TO the new tariff law, involving great
reductions in rates of duties and num-
berless alterations In matters of de-
tail, because of the well-oiled wheels
of government machinery, was accom-
plished, on the 2sth, as far as the
treasury department was advised, all
over the United States, without hitch
or break.
THE Cooperative Rolling Mill Co.,
which was organized several months
ago to operate the idle mill in Hub
bard, o., has declared its first dividend. |
The amount is per cent. All the en-
ployes of the mill, except the book
keeper, have left so per cent. of their
earnings in the general fund of the
company since It was started, and they |