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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. LONDON, Oct. 30. The Daily Telegraph, in its financial articles, says: Private telegrams received in this city confirm the report of the capture of the Peruvian ironclad Huascar, one telegram is understood to assert that the Huascar's crew were all massacred. The Huascar was captured by the Admiral Cochrane and another Chilean Ironclad, which placed the Huascar between two fires? and compelled her to surrender after all three vessels were seriously damaged. An Alexandrian correspondent reports Cleopatra's needle, while being removed for shipment to the United States was seized by the creditors of the government. PARIS, OCT. 30. De Lesseps delivered a lecture on Monday on the Panama canal, and announced that he would start for Panama early in December. New York, Oct. 30. On the arrival of the Arizona it was found that among the Mormon emigrants on board, John Smith's family was ill with the scarlet fever. This raised much consternation among the other immigrants and their numerous children. The affair is being investigated because the cases were not reported to the authorities. London, Oct. 31. A dispatch from Belgrade says: Within a three hours' drive of Belgrade, a band of 30 highwaymen hold the country roads. They murder travelers, extort money from the peasantry, defy the government, and prevent the taxgatherers from performing their functions in that region. Halifax, Oct. 31. A disastrous hurricane occurred in the eastern portion of Nova Scotia yesterday, such a one as was never before witnessed in that section. Five schooners were run ashore, many buildings were destroyed, and wharves were damaged. RAWLINGS, Wyo., Nov. 1 Joseph Burnet, a courier, came in from White River late last night with dispatches and mail. He reports numerous pony tracks and plenty of Indian signs in Cold Creek canyon, near White River. All the war correspondents at the front came in this evening and report the same. Mr. Dillman, a government farmer at the Uintah agency, came into Rawlings last night. He left the Uintah agency with an interpreter, and by representing themselves as Mormons they were able to pass through the camp of the hostiles and gain their confidence. Jack, a Ute chief, told Dillman that if the war continued they would be aided by bands from the Uintah Utes, the Arapahoes and other tribes. He was not satisfied with the peace talk which he had with Adams?, and wanted to have another talk with Merritt. This Chief Jack, or Yampa? Jack, is the worst Indian in the Ute tribe. NEW YORK, Nov. 2? The new rule? adopted by the police heard yesterday that neither a pistol? nor a baton shall be taken in the hand of an officer except in case of need? be? A stern warning to the force which it will be wisdom to heed. M?, Nov. 2. No new cases have been reported since Thursday. Last night was the? coldest? of the season. The thermometer at seven o'clock this morning had fallen 37 degrees. The Appeal? and Avalanche? will both resume publication of full size issues tomorrow. The merchants? report a rush in business, and ? physicians all agree that the ? of last night swept away all the lingering germs of the fever. LONDON, Nov. ? Sir Stafford Northcote?, in answering ? letter calling his attention to the particular? distress in southwest Ireland, and suggesting immediate action by the government in providing work for the people, but can only refer them to the Irish executive. He adds that direct interposition by the government would be open to great abuse. CHICAGO, Nov. 2? 3? Senator Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan, was found dead in his bed yesterday morning. Dr. McVicker, who was immediately called, is of the opinion, from partial exammination [examination], that death was the result of sudden congestion of the lungs, brought about by cold which was contracted at Jonesville. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. The following executive order has been issued: Executive mansion, Washington, Nov. 1, 1879. The sad intelligence of the death of Zachariah Chandler, late Secretary of the Interior, and during so many years Senator from Michigan, has been communicated to the government and to the country, and in proper respect to his memory I hereby order that the several executive departments be closed to public business and their flags and those of their dependences throughout the country, be displayed at half mast in the day of his funeral. Signed, R. B. Hayes. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. The treasury department issues a circular defining the provisions of the law relating to the use of grain bags in the shipment from foreign countries to enable them to enter free of duty, and furnishes the form of a certificate stating that they are of American manufacture or that they were expected from the United States and are intended to be reshipped to America, which our consuls must verify and attest. The president appoints Thursday the 27th, Thanksgiving day. SCRANTON. PA. Nov. 3 A tremendous explosion of fire damp occurred in the Delaware and Hudson mines at Mill Creek, Pa., this morning, George Wassle?, David Rupp and J. Kinney have been taken out dead. Two men in the mine yet are believed to be killed. |