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Show AMERICAN The tariff commission is still in session at Long Branch. ONE hundred yellow fever cases at Laredo, Texas, six fatal. TWO women were drowned in Mason Co., Ky., by a flood last Tuesday. THE family of Richard Barnes were drowned near Manchester, Ohio. TWO women and five children drowned near Maysville, O., by a flood. THE damage by the Licking River flood is now estimated at $100,000. COUNTERFEITERS captured with the proofs upon them, at New Comerstown, Ohio. LARGE quantities of beef cattle are being shipped east daily from Montana. GOVERNOR St. John's election for a third term in Kansas is said to be assured. INSURRECTION has broken out among the Creek Indians near ??, Indian Ty. [Territory]. MEXICO shows an increased revenue amounting to $4,500,000, during the past year. FIRE at Dillon, Mo., caused by boys firing off crackers. Loss $22,000, no insurance. FOUR elephants escaped from a circus at Troy on Wednesday night. Several persons injured. THE ship North America and Gen. Ben. Butler's yacht America have started on a 600 mile race. THE damage by the collision on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern R. R. are expected to reach $200,000. FOUR hundred cases of yellow fever at Matamoras up till Tuesday night. Sanitary condition frightful. TROOPS are to be sent to aid in quarantining against Matamoras and other points in Mexico where the yellow fever is spreading. REPUBLICAN and Democratic meetings are in order in Kansas, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois and Rhode Island, and other States. Judge Julius Schultz, of Austin, a well known Republican politician and editor of the Rochenblatt was killed by Hiram Heap, a bad citizen. BISH Pemberton and Richard Speakman charged with an unmentionable crime against Mrs. Garrett of Tompkinsville, Ky., were shot to death on Tuesday near Louisville. BOB and Charles Ford, the brothers concerned in taking the life of the notorious Jesse James are said to be "enjoying life" in Chicago, with the proceeds obtained for their services. A WATERSPOUT on Monday broke near Millersburg causing great damage to crops. The storm was confined to an area of four by six miles. The farmers in the large north-western territory are jubilant over crop prospects. MRS. Aflinger of Omatilla Co., Cal., committed suicide on Tuesday. Cause her reason became unhinged from false accusations of robbery made by young men whom she prevented from associating with her daughter. P. W. CROWE of dynamite fame, has returned home to Peoria, Ill., from a Chicago convention of Irish-Americans, who belong to the explosive school. The organizers have a chemical laboratory on the Hudson, above New York where powerful explosives are being made. |