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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. IN MAKING excavations for the public gardens in front of the cathedral in the City of Mexico, the column of the old cathedral, erected in the year 1628, was discovered. THE Prescott (Arizona) Democrat states that a shooting affray took place Wednesday night at Garland's Shop, and Martin Ryan killed John White. Ryan escaped arrest. THE ASSOCIATION for the reform and coalition of international law will hold a congress at Cologne, beginning on the 10th inst. Delegates are expected from Germany, Austria, England, the United States, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Italy. ADVICES from Idaho Springs say the storm was the severest ever felt. Several houses in Virginia Canyon were carried away. A six-year-old girl was drowned. Nearly all the railroad and county bridges between the forks of the creek and Idaho were swept away. Nearly all the houses in the business portion of the town were flooded and streets were damaged. The damage in Idaho will amount to $20,000. It is estimated that it will take 100 men forty-eight hours to repair the damage to the railroad track between Idaho and Floyd Hill. No trains are expected to depart or arrive in Central until late to-morrow. The indications point to a stormy night. SAN DOMINGO, July 29.-At Puerto plata, on the night of the 10th, a tremendous fire destroyed the fortress, and 230 lives were lost, principally by an explosion. GENEVA, Aug. 8.-A Zurich socialist here has appealed to the federal tribunal against the local prohibition of the socialist congress. The anarchist organ publishes the resolution of the socialist congress in London, specially referring to Switzerland, recommending dynamite for the destruction of existing institutions. [UNREADABLE]-A steam thresher boiler exploded this morning, killing five persons. CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-The Amana Society's woolen mill, Middle Amana, Iowa, burned yesterday. Loss, $75,000, partially insured. [UNREADABLE] Aug. 9.-Laughling nail mills at Martin's ferry, burned this morning. Loss from $?? to ??. Two hundred people out of work. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Aug. 9.-Judge James D. Colt, of the state supreme court, suicided in his private room to-day, sending a pistol ball into his head. His health was very bad lately. OMAHA, Aug. 9.-Yesterday, on the east bound Union Pacific train a lady from Oakland, Cala., gave birth to twins in a Pullman car, one of which died. She stopped at Grand Island to recover. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.-C. Lyne Smith, German naturalist, was murdered by natives of New Britain Island. Natives from other islands in the vicinity all speak of increasing treachery and animosity of savages. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 9.-Chas. W. Curry [unreadable] resulting from ??man refusing to allow Curry to visit his daughter. ??man died this morning. SENICA, Ks., Aug. 9.-News is received that nearly the whole business part of Pawnee City, Neb., turned last night. The fire started at midnight in the read of Reid's drug store, and destroyed twenty-four buildings, two banks and the Republican printing office. The loss is unknown; insurance small. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8.-A dispatch from Oraville says J. T. Moakee was taken from jail this morning by a body of masked and armed men, conveyed a short distance from town, and hanged in a tree. Moakee murdered an old man named A. J. Grinn at Chico, three weeks ago, by kicking him to death. BERLIN, Aug. 9.-Anti-Jewish disturbances have occurred at Jastrow, West Prussia, during which a rabbi was wounded, his assailants escaping after a regular fight with the police. Further disturbances of the same character occurred at ?? Pomerania. So many towns and villages in western Russia, whose population are principally Jewish, have recently been burned that it is impossible to resist the suspicion of systematical incendiarism. Up to the end of June sixteen towns and villages were burned. Since that fresh fires have occurred. Two of the most terrible were at Korez and Minsk. From ten to twenty hotels and shops were destroyed at Korez, and thirty-nine persons were killed. The bulk of the survivors are rendered destitute. BERLIN, Aug., 8.-Four houses were burned yesterday and the palace of Count ?? was damaged to the extent of half a million marks. PARIS, Aug. 8.-Eleven artillery men were injured, four very severely, by an explosion in the government cartridge factory at ?? to-day. NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Edward Northrup, a prominent attorney, shot and killed Joseph O'Donnell, clerk of a lumber firm, in the Crawford House to-day. Northrup had been administrator for the estate of O'Donnell's father. O'Donnell claimed that he was defrauded and a fight ensued. Northrup surrendered. LONDON, Aug. 8,-An express train from Manchester came in collision, to-day, near Blackthorn, with the Liverpool and York express. Many people were fearfully injured, several believed to be fatally. There was great destruction of property. Later-Five persons were killed, and twenty severely injured, many of whom are not expected to survive. DENVER, Aug. 8.-A Central City special says: The most destructive flood in the history of the country occurred this afternoon. At 2:30 a heavy storm cloud appeared, accompanied by almost incessant thunder and lightning. About 4 o'clock citizens were startled by an almost unearthly roar to the west, and almost instantaneously a volume of water, between four and five feet high, came rushing down Nevada and Eureka streets, taking everybody by surprise. Heavy quartz teems standing in the streets were overturned and carried down stream like feathers. Rocks weighing 300 and 400 pounds were rolled along the streets like pebbles. Animals and everything in the track of the flood were swept away. In an incredibly short time the streets were cleared of people, everybody seeking shelter. During the flood large masses of debris were carried through the streets at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour. The whole length of the gullies from Nevadaville on one side, and the head of Eureka on the other, presents, to-night, the most desolate scene imaginable. The roadway is entirely destroyed in many places, ruts being five and six feet deep and extending for hundreds of yards. The entire length for about three miles is strewn with debris of every kind. At several points between Central and Black Hawk the debris is piled twenty-five feet high. Eureka street for a quarter of a mile is one mass of rocks and rubbish. On Main street four feet of sand is deposited. The flood was caused by the bursting of a rain cloud a little west of the city. The natural channel of the stream became dammed, ?? water into the streets. The only loss of life known at present is that of Joe Gerrick, whose body was found in Black Hawk. The flood lasted but twenty minutes. The damage is estimated at about $3?,000, $20,000 of which is sustained by the highways. A number of small houses were upset and washed away, and many residences and stores were flooded and mud and sand deposited on the floors and in the ?? to the depth of several feet. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-Christiana Tyler, an aged negress, confesses today that she killed a little boy and girl, aged three and six years, respectively, near this city on Saturday night. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8.-The hottest day of the season, and hotter than for forty-five years. At 2 p. m. a sheltered thermometer was up to 108.8 [degree sign], and on Fourth street from 104 [degree sign] to 108 [degree sign]. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 9.- Il S. Storbird, husband of the postmistress, Henry, Bay County, was arrested for riffling the mails at that post office, and brought to this city yesterday for examination. His thefts amounted to about $600, in sums varying from $5 to $?00. In defalt [default] of $2,000 bond he was lodged in the county jail at Independence. CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-P. W. Crowe, of Peoria, who is here, makes the startling statement that the infernal machines about which so much has been said cost $70 for the entire lot, and that the scheme of sending them to England was a put up job by which a member of the United States Irishmen's Society secured a reward of $10,000, he having notified the British consul in New York of their shipment. The $10,000 obtained from the British government has gone into the Irish fund, to be used against Great Britain. Vernon Harcourt, home secretary, is said to have acknowledged this statement of Crowe's to be a fact. LITTLE ROCK, Aug. 9,-A Gazette special from Fort Smith says the following telegram was received here to-day: Pauhaska, I. T., August 9. To V. Dallus, Marshal: Have been in pursuit of Little Buck five days; ran on him to-day; he with five others showed fight, resulting in killing Little Buck. Indians report wagons waiting for me to pull out; which will compel me to wait a day or two for the excitement to subside. (Signed) Lew Marks, Deputy Marshal. Little Buck is one of the chiefs of the Osage tribe of Indians, which although one of the weakest tribes in the territory, is the most lawless. At the last [unreadable] at Detroit. Deputy Marshal Marks and posse, while on the way to this place, were beseiged [besieged] by a band of about ?? Indians who demanded their release. After much parleying he was allowed to proceed on the promise that he would not again invade the territory. It is feared that he will experience much difficulty in getting out of the country in safety. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Herald's London. Our correspondent at Sebastian telegraphs this evening: "The King and Queen of Spain have safely arrived at Ferrol and were received with much enthusiasm in the fine arsenal, where half of the actual navy of Spain now lies inactive. The authorities had prepared the dock yards, quays and vessels, so as to give the best possible idea of the state of the navy. A large force of royal marines and chasseurs lined the streets and navy yards. the guns of the fort loomed forth royal salutes as the royal flagship appeared at the head of the harbor, and again when the governor of Ferrol, according to custom handed to the King the keys of the fortress. Ferrol is crowded with peasants in strange costumes. The Queen stood the fatigue of the voyage very well. She delighted the admirals and sailors by telling them that the scene in Ferrol convinced her that Spain was yet a naval power worthy of the days of the Great Armada of Phillip III. Their majesties will be present at the launch of two frigates, the laying of the keels of two sloops, and the inauguration of a floating dock before they leave for Santiago, and visit the ancient scenes of Gallicia." LEXINGTON, Va., Aug. 10-Several negroes were killed near the town by a slide in a cut, upon which they were at work on the Richmond & Alleghany railroad. Six of the negroes were convicts. DUBLIN, Aug. 10.-A mob smashed the windows of the rector and other respectable inhabitants of Tipperary, who did not illuminate their houses in honor of John Dillon's release. MADISON, Ind., Aug. 10.-Leonidas Robertson, a wealthy farmer, always level-headed before, clothed himself in his wife's dress and sun bonnet, yesterday, and hung himself. DUBLIN, Aug. 10.-A procession of 2,000 persons with bands, banners and torches to-night marched to John Dillon's residence to congratulate him upon his release from imprisonment. American flags were freely displayed. Dillon thanked the gathering. BURTON, Mo., Aug. 10.-A vagabond named Jackson, having insulted Mrs. Langford, her husband attempted chastise him, but was stabbed nearly to death. Mrs. Langford then appeared on the scene and shot Jackson in the breast, and he tried to stab her, but fell from loss of blood. Langford died, Jackson will die. NEW YORK, Aug. 10-Shiorio Louisa Wakayama; the daughter of Nenkasee Wakayama, of Tokio, Japan, formerly Japanese financial commissioner to the United States, is said by her father and the Japanese consul of this city, to be unlawfully detained in Brooklyn, by her guardian, Miss Knowlton, and yesterday the American Law was invoked in favor of the young woman. Miss Knowlton kept a boarding house where Wakayama went to live when he was in New York. Soon after his return to Japan, Miss Knowlton visited that country, and returned about five years ago. She brought with her the young person now in question, then seven years old, with authority from her father to act as her guardian, and see that she received an education. It is alleged that Miss Knowlton diverted money, not hers, to her own use spending it in traveling and visiting watering places, neglecting the child's education. Miss Knowlton, it is said refused to surrender the girl, unless she received about $2,000, which she says she has spent from her own means, and for the child's support and education in default of remittances from the father. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 10.-Yell County reports another cowardly assassination. The victim was a school teacher, Mr. Stordevant, who, taking the part of a child that was being abused by a ruffian name Burgess, was waylaid and shot dead. Burgess escaped. BISMARCK, Aug. 10.-A special to the Bismarck Tribune from Fort Yates says: Sitting Bull when he heard of the killing of Spotted Eagle, said it was a fit ending for a fool. Bull claims that he surrendered when he should have kept on the war path. Appeals ?? made from the settlers along the Missouri, to send more troops to Forts Yates and Lincoln, as it is admitted by officers in command at Yates, that the force is wholly inadequate to squelch an outbreak should one occur. To-day two squaws were caught carrying amunition [ammunition] and guns into Sitting Bull's camp. He undoubtedly means mischief, and if he says the word, many of the young bucks will follow him. The Indians are independent, and trouble may be expected at any moment unless more troops are sent to this vicinity, as power is the only thing Indians respect. PARIS, Aug. 11.-In the international Electrical Exhibition a machine will, in a few days, be in operation in the Edison show and manipulated by four clerks, which will telegraph 1,200 words per minute. EAST DEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 11.-James Goteley, a laborer, has been arrested for clubbing his wife to death. The wall and ceiling of the room were bespattered with blood, while the victim, with her head smashed, lay in a pool which had soaked through the bedding to the floor. GENEVA, Aug. 11.-Switzerland is beginning to suffer seriously from drought which, except for a few showers, has lasted for two months. The grass is burned and there is no chance of making the usual second hay crop. Great scarcity of water prevails in most parts of the country. In the mountain pastures, in several cantons and in Savoy, the beasts are perishing for lack of water and from heat. Whole herds perished in the canton of Schewyz, in the Naudois, the Alps, and in the valleys of the ??. If the drought continues a week or two longer, it will go far to neutralize the effect of the excellent grain crops and the vintage which bids fair to be one of the most abundant on record. LONDON, Aug. 11-Rev. John Hill Burton, historian and telegrapher, is dead. CHICAGO, Aug. 11-Another case of triplets at Decatur, Ills. The happy father this time is a newspaper man, Harry Bemberton. All girls. HAVANA, Aug. 11.-During July ninety-eight deaths occurred from yellow fever, and during the week ending August 5th, thirty-six died, with ?? cases in the city. During June 225 [unreadable] yellow fever at [unreadable] OTTAWA, Aug. 11. [missing] aged 71, and Margaret Doherty, aged 69, having married, some roughs harassed them from 11 p. m. till 2 o'clock this morning, and then broke in the door, demanding money. The old man beat them off and then followed them out. This morning his dead body was found by the roadside with his head crushed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-General Maximo Jarez, Nicaraguan minister to the United States, died suddenly at his residence here, about 5 o'clock this afternoon. Gen. Jarez had been about during the day, and had called at the Executive Mansion early in the afternoon, returning to his residence before the usual hour. Not responding to a call for dinner, a messenger went to his room to call him, and found him sitting by the open window dead. Death is supposed to have resulted from heart disease. OGDENSBURG, N. Y., Aug. 13.-A terrible accident occurred on the Grand Trunk Railway this morning, which resulted in the death of the engineer, serious wounding of the fireman, baggage-master, two negress messengers, and various injuries to a number of passengers. The train was the 10 p. m. express from Montreal to Toronto, and consisted of six Pullman sleepers, four first and second class coaches and the postal express and baggage car. The cars were filled with returning excursionists from Montreal, who were nearly all asleep. After leaving Prescott, while at full speed, an obstruction was encountered and the locomotives jumped the track, carrying with it the ?? baggage car and the mail and express. Cars were scattered in every direction, and pieces of wood and iron strewed the track for rods around the scene. the escape of many passengers is wonderful as the express and some passenger cars were smashed to splinters. The cause of the accident was a cow on the track. PROVIDENCE, Aug. 9,-The residence of Dr. Wm. Bowen, in ?? burned last night with the barn. An infernal machine operated by clock work was found in the ruins of the barn. Doubtless some diabolism was used on the house. Dr. Bowen has been very active in enforcing the law against liquor selling. |