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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. The Northern Pacific Railway Company have completed two additional sections of its road, one in Idaho and the other in Montana. The two sections cover about 140 miles. A passenger and freight train on the Cleveland & Marietta railroad collided at Hilger's Crossing, Ohio, on the 14th. Both engines were wrecked. Miss Susie Carn was killed and many passengers hurt. A prize fight occurred on the 14th between Charles Schallenbach and Robert Turnbull at Harry Hill's place on Long Island. After the twelfth round the former was unconscious and lot the fight. There were no arrests. Wm. R. Warner and wife have been occupying rooms in the house of Greenleaf D. Brown, at 308 Ward Street, New York, ?? Warner, becoming jealous shot his wife and Brown both probably fatally on the 14th. A telegram from Senator Brown direct Aug. 14th, announce that Senator Huff would probably not live through the day, and requested that Senators and Representatives in Washington be communicated with, so that those who desire may be prepared to attend the funeral. Irish societies of Chicago participated in a demonstration to the memory of the late Anna Parnell on the 14th. The demonstration consisted of a procession, speeches by local orators, the passage of municipal resolutions, reading of Miss Parnell's appeal to her country women. Hon. J. B. Grinnell is in Chicago and says the town of Grinnell, Iowa, is rapidly recovering from the recent disaster. Between sixty and seventy houses are rebuilt, and John Q. Blair, of the Blair R. R. , contributed $12,000 to rebuilding the college, which is rapidly progressing. Patrick Mechan, an employee in the Pullman works, went to Chicago on Saturday night on business, leaving his two little girls, seven and nine years old, in his house. He missed the last train and had to remain in the city all night. On returning the next morning he discovered that the children had blown out the gas and were smothered to death. A dispatch from Long Branch dated Aug. ?? says ‘The guests at a hotel near Seabright are startled by the sickness from typhoid fever of a brother-in-law of Cyrus Field, Jr. and a relative of Seligman. They cannot be moved for ten days and the proprietor declares he will close the hotel to-morrow unless the friends of the sick men pay him $3,000. The money was at first refused, but was afterwards paid. The extension of the Denver & Rio Grande railway is completed to Cimarron, 300 miles from Denver and 107 miles from Salt Lake. As the company has now completed and in operation in Utah about ?? miles extending eastward from Salt Lake, less than 800 remains to be built to complete the connection on this link. Grading is nearly finished and preparations for rapid tracks laying indicate the opening of this new through line by December 31st. A few weeks ago two Swedes named Wilding and Robinson, who were arrested in Chicago on a trivial charge, confessed that they murdered a woman named Sophia Hollberg, in Stockholm seven years ago. The Story was not fully believed, but the men were held pending an investigation. The Swedish consul here has received a report from the Chamber of Police of Stockholm, corroborating the statements of the prisoners as to circumstances which leads to the probability that the story is a fact. Wilding recognized a picture of a woman as Danille Huldberg, who he says paid for having the murder committed. Following is the the record of the 14th At Grant City, Mo., twelve business houses were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $35,000 to $50,000. Insurance, $10,000. At Lancaster, Pa., a barn belonging to N. Welsell was burned by an incendiary. While the fire was in progress, the county insane asylum near by was discovered on fire and was destroyed. Loss, $70,000, insurance, $35,000. The insane inmates, 114 in number, were all saved. At Winfield, Kan. the flouring mill of Miss A. Wood burned yesterday. Loss, $50,000. As the mill has been shut down several days for repairs the origin of the fire is unknown. The hop crop of the United States indicates a small rate of yield. About 365 pounds per acre on over 30,000 acres is reported in New York. The total acreage of the state now slightly exceeds 40,000 acres. Indications point to a product of not more than 83,000 bales of 280 pounds each in that state. The area of Wisconsin plantations has increased in breadth. The Pacific Coast crop has increased. The following news of crimes was telegraphed on the 14th. A Louisville George Edan, the keeper of a saloon on Shelby street, near Pine, was shot and killed by some one who rode up to his door, fired, and then escaped. The murder is thought to be the result of a political quarrell. At Nashville, M. T. Bennett, a prominent merchant at Lebanon, was murdered and robbed on the night of the 13th and at Philadelphia, Albert Harrison, a worthless fellow, while intoxicated, stabbed his son William, inflicting a fatal wound. The son interposed to protect his sister who was being abused by the father. The Boston Herald's Montreal special says the customs authorities have been tracing the destination of all American flour imported from the Western States under bond as shipments to Great Britain and Newfoundland. The result has been a discovery of a gigantic fraud upon the revenue since the national hostility introduced four years ago. During the past twelve months alone as far as inquiries extended, it is found that Lord & Kann, importers, at whose warehouse the late great seizure of flour was made, sold over 10,000 barrels of best American flour to local bakers and that their warehouse bonds were cancelled for shipping Canadian flour as a substitute thus retaining a duty of fifty cents per barrel. Yellow fever news of the 14th. At Brownsville, Texas, there are twenty-two new cases of yellow fever, all Mexicans but one, an American. The Northern mail is sent back from above, and there is more alarm at a instance than there is cause for yet. A thunder squall to-day lasted half an hour, but no damages, and the physicians are apprehensive of a change in the weather. At Matamoras there were eight deaths for the week ending at 9 a.m. Total deaths from fever are fifty. A dispatch via Larado, Texas, says for the 21 hours ending at 8 p.m., Aug. 12th, Brownsville had 25 new cases of yellow fever and one death Matamoras had 23 new cases and eight deaths. FOREIGN. The revolution in Ecuador makes slow headway. A great scarcity of corn is causing serious trouble at Narigona, and the dryness of the season threatens a famine in the department of Chiquimala. The maize crop, on which the people are entirely dependent for food, it is feared will be a total failure. The Supreme Board of Health at London has decided to enforce immediately a strict quarantine against all vessels from Borneo, the ?? Islands and the Phillipine archepelago on account of the prevalence of cholera. On Aug. 14th, in Woolwich, England, the transports Lydian, Monarch and ?? took on board the last of the troops completing the army corps ordered to Egypt. The former vessel will call at Portsmouth for drafts from the Commissariat and Transport Department. Three thousand five hundred men have left Valparaiso for Peru. It is said the Lima garrison will be increased from 8,000 to 11,000 men and that no detachments will be kept in the interior in future. Raiding parties will leave the capital occasionally to collect forced loans levy on stock, etc. A Dublin dispatch of the 14th says that guns have been placed in the upper yard of ?? ?? other precaution taken in view of possible riots during the O'Connell demonstration. Large bodies of infantry paraded the streets with guns to-night, causing some excitement. The authorities are reticent in regard to the increased vigilance. By the accidental explosion of a barrel of gunpowder in a tradesman's shop near the schoolhouse in Grodino, Russia, on Aug. 14th, almost all the children in the schoolhouse, who were Jews, were killed. A large number of bodies have been taken out of the ruins. The windows and doors of the church and other buildings in the neighborhood were shattered. News from Peru states that the war is becoming one of extermination. The excesses of Chilian troops in the interior have excited the populace, who are rising against the troops. This news causes a profound sensation at Chili. Public meetings were held, at which the orators used the most violent language, and demanded that the army should at once march against Arequipa. A committee has been formed which has offered to raise 10,000 men for the purpose, and to furnish funds if necessary. The military authorities, however desire to withdraw all troops in the interior of Peru to Lima. A Dublin dispatch of Aug. 14th says: In the Commissioners Court to-day a decision was announced in the case of Timothy Burke, John Conner, Richard Savage and ?? Costello, found guilty of having perpetrated on the 17th of March, several outrages in the neighborhood of Fahey, County Kerry. Rorke was sentenced to fifteen years and each of the others to ten years' penal servitude. Three men found guilty of a savage assault upon a person named Sullivan, at Mallow, were sentenced to penal servitude for twenty, fifteen and ten years respectively, and the man who fired at the soldiers in Mullinger was sentenced to life long penal servitude. The jury who convicted Francis Hynes who is sentenced to be hanged next month for the murder of John Duloughty, a herder, near Innis, a few weeks ago, have made a formal statement denying that they were drink on the night previous to the day on which they rendered their verdict as alleged by O'Brien the editor of the Valted Ireland. The judge has expressed a hope that the Attorney-General will be directed to settle the matter. |