Show TO tae DESERET NEWS hews gy imph GENERAL bedo aedo toledo the state fair opens here today to day the entries already number sixteen hundred being a large increase over the entries the first day last year washington Washing tou ton the report of admiral hoff concerning his investigation of the facts attending the execution of two americans at santiago de cuba have been sent to the state department with a view to the foundation of a claim for damages it is officially stated that the design in recently placing many naval vessels in commission was merely to prevent them from injury bylling by lying idle portland me ale the election is very quiet the vote will probably be smaller than last year bud buc the parties relatively are nea nearly the same as then the hackborn Hick born ticket takes off less than ten per cent of the republican vote in the places heard from which will not be enough to defeat the election by the people philadelphia the parties charged with attempting to murder revenue officer crooks rooks were up for a further hearing coday dav ap evidence enbe of importance was s pr produced 0 4 i they were held to ball bali ball bail for a further hearing T the doctors report r t that brooks may adleat die at any moment men t evansville Ind indiana laua the city is filling with people from the surrounding towns coming to attend the humboldt centennial tomorrow to morrow the opera house was densely crowded tonight to night the exercises were interesting consisting of english and german speeches and music from the orchestra and singing societies louisville the celebration of the humboldt centennial commenced tonight with a grand instrumental and vocal concert by all the german singing societies and the leading professional and amateur talent of the city A few days since near stanford kentucky a party of thirty unarmed negroes rescued from the officers of j justice us a negro who was being conveyed to jail for an attempt to shoot another negro Clein cicinnati nati warren kennedy a stationer in vine street near fourth this evening by jumping out of the fourth story of the window above his store plymouth pa the late disaster at avondale leaves 73 widows and fatherless children the number of the latter will be increased to nearly the receipts of the treasurer of bf the relief fund amount to nearly pittsburg extensive preparations are being made for the humboldt centennial tomorrow to morrow president grant will arrive in the city at noon after his reception he will be escorted to the grove an incendiary nire fire this morning at wellsville ohio destroyed an entire block loss atlanta ga early on sunday morning six one story brick stores on marietta street ana one large building at the corner of Marlet marietta tit and peach tree streets were burned loss insurance wilkes barre the miners union unhesitatingly states that no one will believe the fire at the avondale mine was the work of an ali incendiary they regard the report as a subterfuge to turn the public mind from the responsibility resting on the railroad company utica A frame building at watertown undergoing repairs fell this evening and buried nive five men all of whom were rescued one is not expected abre tb recover at st bouls bouis louls louis A number of leading citizens and railroad men left this afternoon noba by the pacific railroad to celebrate the completion of the road between atchison and leavenworth which is really an extension of the pacific road portland midnight little interest is manifested in the elections one hundred towns almost half the state give chamberlain smith hichborn 2384 this indicates a total vote of of which chamberlain should have smith and hitchborn so that chamberlains majority should be about against last year in a total vote of the republicans last year carried fifteen of sixteen counties this year they iose lose one or two more they will probably elect twenty seven of thirty one senators although on account of a split plit in the ticket the remay be no choice in a few cas cases caseb esIas as it requires a mai maj majority brity to elect senators the republicans i lose a number of representatives on a account of votes as in the case of representatives the plurality elects but they retain a large majority in the house as far as heard from cherich the hichborn party panty has elected no candidate philadelphia all the democratic candidates for city offices withdrew this morning and reported that an entire new tic ticket ilet liet had bad been selected richmond charles Whit lesy who defeated the wells candidate for congress in the alexandria district has been appointed by general canby attorney general vice bowdin new york an investigation of the charges against sheridan shook and others throws no new light oa oja the allegations of fraud james me llanas stable at hunters point was burned today to day with five valuable valuable horses including the famous mare corad Co coradill valued at ile loss is another stable adjoining containing five more horses and two dwellings were also burned total loss advices advises from scranton state that the excitement is subsiding the miners are at work except at the avondale m mine ine lne 1 where no labor will probably be done for a year springfield mao mass the paper mill of john carrell at mill river biver was burned this morning loss san franeisco francisco 13 seward has bus returned t health and excellent spirits the germans yesterday commence commenced d the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the birth of humboldt the festivities will last three days A heavy shock of earthquake was felt at san luis obispo yesterday a li light shock wak wai feltar felt feit at sacramento today d Y A party vouched couched for as reliable writes to the bulletin from san sau buenaventura that a document was found on the beach at that place on august 30 much mutilated the finder was requested to forward it to the secretary of the admiralty in London or to the british consul at the nearest port the address was printed in six commercial languages A portion of the document was filled with writing relating to sir john franklin and party the document was evidently cast into the water in latitude sixty nine degrees thirty seven minutes and forty two seconds and longitude nine ty eight degrees four minutes and five seconds it gives an account of the desertion of the ships erebus and terror the party numbered one hundred and five at t the time of the desert desertion ibn and was under the command of B R F M crosier they succeeded in reaching the above latitude and longitude where they found a relic relle of the late sir john ross boss the document states that the party wintered at beechy island in 1846 7 and that sir john franklin died on the lith of june 1847 and contains many interesting incidents connected with the expedition legal tenders 74 washington hon flon jno ross boss and A J johnson the british and american commissioners for the adjustment of claims under the oregon treaty have pronounced an award of in gold to bo be paid by the unk united ed states to the hudson hudgon bay and puget sound companies in extinction of their rights in the territories west of the rocky mountains tales irrespective of their claim for the navigation of the columbia river cincinnati 14 the school board continued in session till near midnight A committee was appointed to confer with the catholic church authorities concerning the terms OH OR which the catholics will send children to the public schools resolutions solutions Be to exclude the bible from the public schools were laid on the table for the present petitions protesting against excluding tue ane bib bible bibie 1 signed by over ten thousand perso persons 1 were presented by two members of t the committee the cincinnati red bed stocking base ball club the first nine will start accompanied by hauton halton for san francisco today harry wright will lecaptain be captain of the entire field brainard will be pitcher allison catcher gould first base second waterman third geor george e wright shortstop short stop leonard left f nield field le I 1 mevey right field taylor tay tny lor substitute they will play the first game on the recreation grounds at san francisco on saturday sep 25 st louis perry butler who came here last week with dan vorhies as his attorney to defend the suit against him by the tho First national backwash ington was arrested today to day on a telegram from washington charged wit with being privy to the fraudulent passage through the new orleans custom house a of five hundred baags of coffee about I 1 fifteen th thousand busand dollars worth of goods shipped fral frai frainey New york consigned to hays co of ottawa kansas have been attached in their transit by the this county as the property of perry fuller which however he denie denies s stating that hays who was former formerly his big clerk was the sole owner vorhies sued out a writ of replevin and while the bond was being made up fuller was arrested on the revenue charge the temes times of this city asserts that it is a malicious proceeding having its origin with some of the officers of the first Nat national iopal bank at aft little rock nock which failed some time ago the US court held fuller in fifty thousand dollars bonds to appear tomorrow to morrow which he could not hot give but the matter was arranged without sending him to jail by ex gov fletcher and other prominent citizens becoming personally responsible for his appearance Ch chicago leago the germans bommen fenced the celebration of the humboldt centennial last night by a festival in the turner hall the pro gramme consisted of music by a splendid orchestra and a large chorus who performed several choice vocal and instrumental selections also a series of tableaux and an elaborate oration on humboldt by mr of the staats at the close of the performances a torchlight torch light likht procession marched into the gouth south division of the city ser evading yar var various ito ous newspaper offices etc tonight to night a more elaborate celebration will occur at the derae house at which a poem composed by caspar butz for the occasion will be read A festive cantata also composed expressly for this celebration by nang hans balaika Ba latka will be performed other appropriate ceremonies will be gone through aschen A scientific and literary club will also be organized under the name of t the he H humboldt society washington specials say there is reason to believe that the president has tendered the chinese mission to senator Freling huysen of N J and has decided not to appoint geo wilkes governor hoffman has transmitted to the state slate department the official cial elal ratification of the fifteenth amendment by the state of new york advises advices from georgia and florida say that about half the cotton crop in in those states is destroyed by caterpillars pennsylvanians ians who have been endeavoring deavo ring to secure the vacant cabinet position for that state have apparently received assurances that there will be no permanent appointment for forat at least two months nevertheless they are confident that when the appointment is is made it will be given to pennsylvania the state department has no official advises advices from minister motley which shows that no new steps have been bein taken for negotiations for the settlement of the alabama claims the members of the cabinet attribute this delay to an intention to wait and see if this government does not concede the british position in the alabama question by recognizing the belligerency of cuba it is understood th atthe department of state has requested the danish government to extend the time within which final action relative to the st SL thomas purchase may be taken by the united states an amaba dispatch says that mormon emigrants left for utah yesterday A telegram from cheyenne says that track laying on the denver road commenced yesterday further information from the recent stage robbery in montana shows that only two men were connected therewith one of whom was killed the other informed his captors where the treasure was secreted thirty nine thousand have been recovered the robbers who committed the first robbery have been traced to nevada and it is believed they will soon be captured I 1 san francisco 5 6 seward today to day attended the opening of the seventh industrial du exhibition at the mechanics institute Ins tiute he visited the public schools by invitation of the board of education ho he leaves tomorrow to morrow by steamer for san deigo delgo and returns overland and will probably participate in the breaking of the ground for the san diego and gila railroad railroads he departs from here on a panama steamer on the thirtieth for Manz manzan anvilla villa where preparations have been already made for his transportation to the city of mexico 0 under an escort the mexican consul ta day writes that his government Go will pre prepare are for re eption generals rosecrans rose Eose crans and sedgwick leave tomorrow to morrow for san D diego lego iego to in the work on the san ban diego and gila railroad rall Eail road funds sufficient to build a road to the gila river are already subscribed congressman axtell ac companies the party for the purpose of inspecting acting the harbor of san ban diego aux and aud report to congress the result of his observations Cle cie cleveland clevelend veland the procession this morning in honor of the humboldt centennial was very large and imposing representing the different trades and professions fes orations will be del dei delivered evered this afternoon st louls louis A meeting of the officers of the army of tennessee last evening passed resolutions of sorrow at the death deat of Rawlins Bawlin tand sand sympathy with his family the president expressing the opinion on that congress ought to erect a monument to his memory corinne utah dispatches si say that thirty thousand dollars have been recovered from the robbers and that there is is a fair prospect of the capture of the latter omaha track laying has commenced on the cheyenne and and denver pacific railroad the work it is expected will progress two miles a day new york loring of the harvard crew i is sick A dinner will be niven given them tonight to night by the boatmen of th thu city they will leave for boston tomorrow philadelphia col saybert Ba ybert stabbed by an assassin three days ago died thill thial thil this morning all ali the other persons who were shot beaten and stabbed within the last week are yet alive boston amos P wood an officer of the state prison was severely stabbed last night by a convict who wu was serving a twenty years sentence for burglary chica chiea chicago I 1 o the centennial anniversary of Hum boldts birthday was very generally celebrated by the germans in the principal cities throughout the country new york chas B conklin oneff the messengers of the M U express company who has been under detention nearly a month on suspicion of being privy to the robbery of the coy coly on the lith uit was brought before the supreme court today to day on a writ of ha hal beas corpus and discharged there being no evidence against him there was a grand banquet at del mo nicos nicols tonight to nigh night t in honor of the harvard crew they have accepted the hos of the city of boston the delaware lackawanna and western railroad rall Bail road has given for the relief of the avondale sufferers the company do not believe the fire was the work of incendiaries but was the result of carelessness on the part of a miner who descended the shaft with a bundle of hay which became ignited from a 1 lamp mp which he carried in his hat the adams express company contributed a thousand dollars for the sufferers the work in all the mines ia Is going on quietly except in the avondale where fifty thousand dollars and several months time will be consumed in repairs it is stated |