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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. At Taylorsville, Ill. [Illinois], Miss Emma Bond, the victim of the recent outrage in the schoolhouse by tramps, is failing rapidly and there is no hope for her recovery. Forty-two out of forty-seven applicants appointed by Congressmen for admission to the military academy at West Point arrived and all passed their medical examination Aug. 28th. At Brownsville, Texas, on Aug. 2?th, there were 82 new cases of yellow fever; eight deaths, six Mexicans. Six deaths occurred at Matamoras, but there are few new cases. At Denver, Col. [Colorado], on Aug. 28th, Jacob Daub, an old German butcher, was foully murdered and robbed on Platte River Bridge. He formerly lived at Erie, Pa. {Pennsylvania]. There is absolutely no clue to the murderers. A report from Dallas, Tex. [Texas] says: Wm. [William] June Grant, alleged cousin to General Grant, guilty of the ??? of the funds of the lodges of anti-Catholic negro societies, will be indicted if he does not refund. On opening Harmony Hills at ???. N. Y., on the morning of the 28th, a general break in the strikers' ranks took place, and there are now 3,000 looms in operation, with a proportionate number of operatives in other departments. A Tucson dispatch, of Aug. 20th says: At Deming, yesterday, a desperado, name unknown, assaulted a Frenchman and desperately cut his throat. Officials took the murderer to jail. Shortly after, the citizens took him out and hung him to a telegraph pole. General Sherman will ask to be placed on the retired list in November, 1883. He would be compulsorily retired in 1884. He retires early in order to give General Sheridan, his successor, a chance to express to Congress his views on the best interests of the service. At Pittsburg [Pittsburgh], the threatened strike of the miters?, teasers and fillers of the South Side glass factories has been averted by mutual concession being made. The workmen withdrew the obnoxious agreement which they wanted signed, and the manufacturers will hereafter recognize them as skilled workmen. The factories will resume next week. Dr. D. W. Bliss has written a letter to the board of audit appointed to settle the expenses of the illness of the late President, in which he says his practice, worth $15,000 (?) a month, was broken up by his attendance on the President. His health was broken down, and his direct loss was $15,000. He wants $25,000. At Leland, Ill. [Illinois], on the evening of the 27th, Mrs. J. M. Stratton, wife of a successful lawyer, shot her husband and then herself, both dying immediately. No cause is assigned for the deed. They had been married but a short time, and were supposed to be living happily. A short time before the shooting, neighbors heard loud words between them. At a call of O'Donovan Rossa, 10 contributors to the Irish skirmishing fund met in New York on the 27th to take measures to compel an accounting from the trustees. Threats of violence were freely made. Rossa stated that there was $89,000? in the hands of the trustees, and finally a committee of seven as appointed to demand an accounting. A dispatch from Monroe, N.C. [North Carolina] Aug. 27, says: The party of six young ladies engaged in walking across North Carolina have reached here, 120 miles from the starting point, and go home by rail. One night they camped in a cemetery and slept by the graves; another they came upon a bear. The recap of their journey contains 1,200 pages. A Pittsburg [Pittsburgh] dispatch, dated Aug. 29th, says: Anton Strouse, of Millin? township, and his next neighbor, Mrs. Strausser, quarreled about their children, last evening. Mrs. Strausser struck Strouse in the mouth when the latter pulled a revolver and shot his assailant through the head. Mrs. Strausser is still living, but will die. The murderer made his escape. On Aug. 28th, one hundred and twenty-five mutes from all parts of New England assembled at Norwich, Conn. [Connecticut], to participate in the Bartlett memorial services at the Park Congregational church. Letters of regret were received from ??? mutes, and an original poem was recited by Angie Fuller, of Illinois. The Bartlett memorial tablet, which is placed on the wall of the church, was unveiled. An Erie, Penn. [Pennsylvania], dispatch of the ??? says: About two-thirds of the old ??? of puddlers and helpers in Mount Hackly? Iron Works, went in yesterday at the same wages paid before the strike, and the balance are expected to go in tomorrow, when the puddling department will start a double turn with a full complement. The men who return sign individual contracts agreeing to regulate their own affairs with the company without reference to orders of the amalgamation or any other association. A Washington dispatch of Aug. 18 says: Secretary Folger has decided to ??? another call for bonds, which will probably be made to-morrow. It will embrace all continued sixes remaining ??? called and which have not been surrendered for exchange for new threes. It is estimated that there are about 4,000,000 of this class of bonds. Secretary Folger said he saw no necessity for anticipating the payment of bonds embraced in the 15th call, which matures Sept. 13th. Belle Boyd, the notorious rebel, spying Shenandoah Valley during the war, has been arrested at Philadelphia as an accomplished female swindler. How many people this notorious woman has victimized is at present hard to estimate. She was arrested on Saturday for uttering a forged check on a pawnbroker for goods she had pledged, but she was afterwards released; the money being made good by her friends. Further important developments are expected, should the merchants victimized institute proceedings against her. Says a dispatch from Alberquerque [Albuquerque] N.M. [New Mexico], of the 27th: A freight train ran over the body of a man this morning near Alamillo, Valencia County. It was so close when discovered that it was impossible to stop in time. The train men at once went back and found the body badly mangled, but perfectly cold. It proved to be that of Felipe Chaves, a wealthy and influential stock man of Valencia County, known to have a large amount of money on his person and supposed to have been murdered, robbed, and placed on the track. There is no clue to the murderers. The Tucson's, Arizona, Star's special from Guaymas, via Hermossillo, dated Aug. 26th says: Three hundred more troops have just arrived on the transportation steamer Mexico, and will immediately be sent to the district of ???, to act in conjunction with a large force under General Reges, who is now operating there. This makes the federal force in the states, including ??? impressed prisoners, over 1,000. The national guard in the field is upward 500. A courier is expected daily from the scenes of the late depredations which are on the Rio Chico, in the Alamas, ??? district. The Chicago Tribune of the 27th says, editorially: "It is stated in dispatches with some show of positiveness that Don Cameron's cause in Pennsylvania is lost and Bower's? canvass is already practically defeated. If this shall be proven to be the case, the result will be due solely to the brutal obstinacy and stupid follies of Don Cameron, himself. He ruled by stupefied and minionized politics in Pennsylvania ever since he had control. Republicans of Pennsylvania are tired of having this upstart political cowboy for a master." An Augusta, Me. [Maine], dispatch of Aug. 28th, says: Joshua Nye, a temperance worker, yesterday procured a warrant against Hoyt & Co.'s express, doing business by the Boston boat, for bringing malt liquors to this city. The deputy sheriff found the store house locked up and broke the lock and seized sixty-two cases of beer addressed to different parties, nearly all known to be fictitious names. An immense crowd gathered, some of whom pulled the men from the [unreadable line] the beer away and threw stones and bricks at them. They snatched the beer and made way with it. Several persons were severely hurt. Less than half the beer was recovered by the deputy sheriff, who was badly cut. The city officials did not interfere. Nye gave notice to the officers a week ago to stop the sale, which they allowed to go on. A Knoxville, Tenn. [Tennessee] dispatch of Aug. 27th says: Feud has existed for some time between the Mabrey and Lusby families, both well known here, growing out of the shooting of Wm. [William] Mabrey by D. C. Lusby last Christmas. Mutual threats passed between members of the families. On Saturday, D. C. Lusby and his father, Moses Lusby, were in the city hunting for Gen. [General] Joseph H. Mabrey, father of the murdered man, letting it be understood that they intended to kill him on sight. Lusby was arrested on complaint of Mabrey, who with his son, Jas. [James] H. Mabrey, Jr., appeared as prosecutors. During the hearing, the prisoners made some disturbance, when two shots were fired from the direction of the Mabreys and Moses Lusby fell dead, and D. C. ??? wounded. Nobody seems to know which of the Mabrey's did the shooting. They were arrested and admitted to ???. FOREIGN. The physicians of the Archbishop of Canterbury announce a mitigation of the worst symptoms of his illness. A London dispatch says Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate, has given his name for a scheme for the erection of a bust of Longfellow in Westminster Abbey. The Siberian plague is appearing to an alarming extent in the most widely separated quarters of European Russia. One death from the disease occurred at Odessa. On Aug. 28th, a special Grand Track cattle train was thrown from the track over a sixty foot embankment near Highland Creek, Canada, and completely wrecked. A dispatch from Mexico, dated August 2?th says: This morning, two Legislatures were organized in Zacatecas; one composed of friends of the general and State Government; the other of friends of General Garcia Cadena, who has presidential aspirations. Last night, a fight occurred between Cadena and his friends and the state troops. After a sharp contest of twenty minutes, of which one rebel was killed and three soldiers of the State were wounded, Garcia Cadena surrendered with his followers. Zacatecas is quiet and no further disturbance was anticipated. News from Calcutta on Aug. 28 says: ??? riots between the Hindoos and the Mohammedans have occurred there. Several Mohammedans have been arrested. An eye witness says he saw the disembowled [disemboweled] body of a Mohammedan ??? on the ground, and the headless corpses of Mohammedan men and women on every side. Mohammedan houses were burned and the principal? mosque almost razed to the ground. The heads of pigs had been thrown in with the corpses of Mohammedan children. Troops are still patroling [patrolling] the streets. A Brockwell, Ont. [Ontario] dispatch of ??? says: A man who gives his name as James McMinnis, aged 47, delivered himself to the police to-day and says [unreadable line] ago while he was a waiter in [unreadable line] Hotel, London, England, in company with two or three whom he did not know, murdered three men, all unknown. He was induced to do it through fear of his own life. He came to Canada a few days ago from ???. The crime preyed on his mind so that he could neither eat nor sleep. He has been committed to jail and inquiries will at once be made to ascertain the truth of his statements.>br><br> The funeral of Charles J. Kirkham, ???, took place at Dublin Aug. ???, when 10,000 persons accompanied the remains from the late residence at ??? in Kings Bridge depot, whence it duly was conveyed to Tipperary. Several ex-Fenian prisoners and Dillon, ??? and Healy, members of Parliament, were present. The agitation among metropolitan ??? has subsided; they being satisfied by the assurance of the chief commissioner and Lord Spencer, who promised an inquiry to be made into their grievances. |