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Show NEWS OP THE DAY. . The Killarney National League has decided de-cided to boycott all stores selling Pnglish goods. The English cricket team, after a brilliant bril-liant record in America, sailed for home yesterday. yes-terday. The marriage of Sir Charles Dilke and Mrs. Pattison will take place at 1 o'clock today to-day at Chelsea. Street cars in South Bend, Ind., are to be operated by electricity, the Common Council having granted permission to use an electric motor for that purpose. A dispatch to the London Daily Tele-ffrapfc Tele-ffrapfc says that 6,000 Russians have crossed the Danube into Bulgaria and reached Kou-v Kou-v mania by special trains in the night. It is said at the White House that the President and members of the Cabinet will attend the Virginia State Fair at Richmond, Virginia, on the 22d instant, if the pressure of public business does not prevent. Two workmen at the Anaconda smelting works, near Buttfl, were injured bv the fall of a derrick yesterday. Joseph Mead died two hours after," being crushed, and Con Driscoll, though seriously injured, may recover. re-cover. Mr. Cleveland is now the heaviest President Presi-dent that has ever occupied the White House, and if he continues to gain he will weigh over 300 pounds before the expiration of bis first year's service. It is good, solid flesh, at that. The Crown Prince of Germany has become be-come possessed of an overture composed by Frederiok, the Great, and caused it to be performed by the band of the Silesian Grenadiers. Gren-adiers. The piece proved a sucoess and has become the talk of musical circles. A formal announcement has been made that the annual reunion of ex-nrisoners of war will be held inBloomington, 111., October 21st and 22d. Every ex-prisoner will be a guest of the people of Bloomington, and will be provided with lodging and board and entertained during his stay. The Rev. J. W. Haney, of Springfield, O., having publicly remarked that "the Democratic party is the road to hell, and the Republican party the road to damnation," damna-tion," his parishioners should hasten to present pre-sent to him a copy of the revised edition, which evidently he has not seen. A Little Rock, Arkansas, dispatch says: Yesterday the dead body of William Sale, suspected of murdering Deputy Sheriff Geo. Johnson in Crawford county, last week, was found in a creek near the residence of the murdered man's brother. His hat and shoes had been sunk in the creek, his throat was cut and one eye gouged out. Governor Tritle, of Arizona, and Governor Gov-ernor Ross, of New Mexico, at a conference to-day considered the Indian situation. It was determined to put the militia of the two Territories into the field to co-operate without with-out reference to Territorial boundaries. It was also decided to occupy as nearly as possible pos-sible every watering place in the hostile infected in-fected districts. At the meeting of the Independent oommittee of 100 last night, in Brooklyn, President Cleveland's Administration was endorsed and the support of Ira Davenport, the Republican candidate for Governor, was urged. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said he was still a Democrat so far as Grover Cleveland Cleve-land was concerned, but a Republican in regard re-gard to the State ticket. The President has issued an executive order directing Dr. E. O. Shakespeare, of Pennsylvania, to proceed, under the direction direc-tion of the Secretary of State, as a representative represent-ative of the United States to Spain and other courts in Europe where the cholera exists, and make an investigation of the causes, the progress and the proper prevention and cure of the disease, in order that a full report may be made to Congress during the next session. The Acting Third Assistant Postmas ter-General has called upon the postmasters for a report of the first week's special delivery de-livery business. The officers of the Department Depart-ment are not discouraged by the comparatively compara-tively small business done yesterday at 'the principal postoffices. They feel the public has not yet had an opportunity to acquaint itself with the advantages resulting from the use of the new plan and believe it will steadily stead-ily grow in popular favor. Mrs. Christian, living in Chicago, last Sunday evening became the mother of two large, and, with one exception, well proportioned propor-tioned girls. They were joined together from the top of the breast bone, or sternum, to the lower part of the pelvis in front, having hav-ing two perfect heads, four legs and arms and only one abdomen, similar to the famous fam-ous two-headed nightingale, Millie Christine. Chris-tine. The infants lived but a short time, and were subsequently intered in Oakwood cemetery. Dr. Goodall secured some photographs photo-graphs of the twins, the parents objecting to their being embalmed. Nearly 100 cases of small-pox in Montreal were reported yesterday, and many houses were disinf ectecLThe new wing at the hospital will be ready to-day, when room will be had for some fifty patients. The removal of Eatients to the exhibition grounds will not e begun. The civic hospital is f ulL For six days ending Thursday night there were 276 deaths in the city and G6 in the adjoining adjoin-ing municipalities. This afternoon the Prince of Wales Rifles proceeded to the exhibition ex-hibition ground to relieve the Montreal Garrison Gar-rison Artillery doing duty there. No trouble is feared, but there might be trouble on Sunday, when the workingmen will be at liberty. James Donellv, of New York, and Edward Ed-ward Berry, of New Haven, Conn., fought a desperate four-round fight yesterday morning morn-ing in a ring pitched in a narrow curve in Beck's Run, five miles from this city. The fight was for $250 a side, London prize ring rules. The whole affair was projected in secrecy, and bo quietly and effectually were the arrangements carried out that only about thirty-five persons were present. Berry forced the fighting from the start and was punishing Donelly severely, when pepper pep-per was thrown into his eves by Donelly s friends, entirely blinding him. His seconds raised the claim of foul, which was allowed by the referee, and the affair broke up in a general row. . When the work of unloading the treasure treas-ure ships "Swatara" and "Yantic" was commenced, com-menced, it was found that many of the bags in- which the money was carried were infested in-fested with ants and eaten so badly that they burst when the attempt was made to lift them, strewing the coins over the floor of the room in which they are being unpacked. Other bags were damaged by the dampness of the vessel's hold and burst in the same way as those eaten by the ants. In some cases the coins were carried loosely, the bag3 having given way, and it is said some of them worked their way through the crevices of the boxes. It cannot be told until the money is recounted whether or not any is missing. In nach bag were carried a thousand dollars, with four bags in each box. Some three or four hundred of the bags opened yesterday were found damaged. The riots in Montreal are said to be the outcome of an organized conspiracy on the part of two corruptionistsin the city council there, who have, ever since the outbreak of small-pox, pandered to the prejudices of the ignorant French Canadians and sustained them in their opposition to remedial measures. meas-ures. This is vouched for by the health officer, whose bureau was wrecked by the crowd. He has since fled the city, his life being threatened. The active ringleaders ring-leaders were four French Communists, who led the mob on, shouting, "Viva la France, "Viva la Commune," "Bravo Bael," "Down with the English and vaccination. ine greatest excitement exists and business is at a standstill. Sectional feeling runs high, but the educated French class denounce the rioters. |