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Show NEWS OF THE DAY. . Sweets to the sweet has been paraphrased by that New York judge to read "Ward to the warden." Pat Gilmore, the band leader, waa presented pre-sented with a $1,000 baton at St. Louis at the close of the exposition. - The total coinage executed at the mints during October was $5,252,908, of which $2,500,000 was in standard dollars. New York newspapers finished "nail- j ing" political lies this morning. They are now listening for something to drop. Chicago bicycle clubs give Chinese lantern lan-tern parades. Halloween night there were 100 wheelmen in line, each carrying a lantern. lan-tern. Hanlan reports that Teemer agreed to sell the last race with him. But Teemer didn't sell it, and that's what's the matter with Hanlan., The old State House bell over Independence Independ-ence Hall, Philadelphia, was tolled yesterday yester-day during the funeral ceremonies over the remains of General McClellan. A Little Bock, Ark., despatch says: Wes-ton,the Wes-ton,the Choctaw wife murderer, was executed after the Indian fashion at the reservation yesterday. His body was riddled with bullets. The severest wind and rain storm experienced ex-perienced in many years prevailed at Boston yesterday. The harbor was tossed into immense im-mense billows. Numerous vessels lying at the piers dragged their anchors, and several of them were badlvdamflffedhvhfiiTicr dashed together or against the docks. ' Jack Dempsey, of New York, and Dave Campbell, the Oregon champion, had their "mill" in Portland yesterday. It was won in the third round by Dempsey, who knocked Campbell out. This was the only knockdown knock-down in the fight. A large crowd witnessed the contest and $20,000 changed hands. Nothing is known at the Interior Department De-partment in reference to the reported movement move-ment of the "'boomers" into the Indian Territory further than the information con-, tainedinthe telegram from Commissioner Atkins now at Fort Reno, to the effect, that a very large number of people who profess to be grazing cattle, are now upon the Oklahoma lands. Preparatory tojthe great billiard tournament tourna-ment in- Chicago, November 16th, the "sharps" are indulging in practice games. In one balk line game Slosson's average was 33 6-18; his highest runs were 213, 80, and 67. Schaefer made 600 while Hatley was making 126, Schaefer averaging 25 and running 94, 92, and 78. Vignaux averaged 30 in a game of 500 points, his best rons being 159, 109, and 81. In an evening game he made a run of 195. lhe Canadian Pacific Kailway start their through train from Montreal to the Rocky Mountains to-day. It is a fully-equipped train of magnificent cars,including a sleeper, emigrant sleeper, and dining Car. The last spike in the British Columbia section, connecting con-necting the Atlantio with the Pacific sections, sec-tions, and so making an all rail route from ocean to ocean will be driven Thursday, anticipating an-ticipating the time allowed by the Contract by nearly six years. The real work of the election campaign throughout Great Britain will be begun this week. Every day important speeches are to be made by prominent men of all parties, at various places in England and Scotland. The most important and significant of the speeches is expected to be that of Harting-ton Harting-ton at Belfast. The visit of the Whig leader to Ireland is designed chiefly to arrange a compromise between the Liberals and Tories of Ulster to enable, the Loyalists to present a united front against the Par-nellites. Par-nellites. Nevada's first concert and reception occurred in Philadelphia Saturday. The audience was fairly large in numbers and decidedly so in enthusiasm. Before the entertainment had concluded, Nevada had established her reputation as, a conoert singer sing-er and enhanced her reputation as an artiste. Of the accompanying artistes, one, Mons. Edmond Verguet, made a fine impression. He is a tenor, with that rare union in tenors a beautiful voice and skill in its use. Nevada's Ne-vada's voice has gained in volume and breadth. . . A plan for the completion of the unfinished unfin-ished cruisers "Chicago," "Boston" and ''Atlanta" has been arranged and decided upon. Work will be continued at the yards where the vessels now lie by the Bureau of Steam Engineering and the Bureau of Construction Con-struction and Repairs, and they will bear the same relation to the Government as the original contractors did. The bureaus will be held responsible for what is done. The work will be done under officers representing represent-ing the bureaus. The Naval Advisory Board will have its representatives at the yards, who will supervise all the work and materials mater-ials as formerly. An excited meeting was held in Clarendon Claren-don Hall, New York, on Sunday, between two and three thousand printers being present. pres-ent. The report of the Typographical Union was rejected, and Reid's offer was spurned by thousands of voices. They demanded an unconditional surrender of the New York Tribune to the Union's ultimatum, that Reid sign an agreement to pay the Union scale and discharge its rats. The printers appear ready to follow the lead of the German brewers brew-ers and other organizations of aliens, giving their votes to the candidates who will pledge themselves to support the demands of their league. Antonio Salva, a young Chinaman, went to New York some time ago and established a restaurant. Yesterday his body was found at his place of business, horribly mangled. The assassins used a butcher's cleaver and the dead man's body was gashed by nine heavy blows, severing five of his ribs and cleaving his heart, kidneys and intestines. His head was crushed into an unrecognizable un-recognizable pulp by blow on blow. Eighty pieces of skull were counted by the coroner. Several Cubans have been arrested, but the police believe a Chinaman did the work for 1 the purpose of robbery. The body had been robbed and the till rifled. The greatest- interest is taken in Washington Wash-ington in the contest in New York and Virginia, Vir-ginia, and the Republican clerks have thought it prudent to remain at their desks. As yet there are comparatively few Democratic Demo-cratic clerks in the Department. The Democrats Demo-crats having votes in Virginia, Maryland and New York have generally gone home, but there are many who have not. Quite a number num-ber of colored voters are said to have gone into Virginia. The Star says the preachers in some colored churches announced on Sunday Sun-day that tickets could be had to take voters into Virginia to vote, and they were urged to vot9 f or Mahone's candidate. A steam dredge of the Atlantio Dredge Company left Providence, R. I., for New York at 9:15 Sunday morning in tow of the tug "C. E. Waite," Captain Tweedy. In order to keep the bilge clear, the steam pumps on the dredge were kept at work. Just before midnight, when nearing the race rock-light, Captain Tweedy, who was at the stem, notioed a moving light on the dredge and heard a voice, but could not distinguish the words. A minute later he heard an explosion ex-plosion on the dredge and saw fire, smoke and steam. The dredge sank immediately and the stern of the tug was drawn under the -water before the hawsers could be cleared. After searching in the vicinity for half an hour the tug headed for this harbor, arriving in the teeth of an easterly gale that prevailed. As soon as the storm subsided the "Waite" again went out to the race, br.S nothing could be found, not even a floating piece of the dredge. The tug returned to port. The names of the men on the fated craft are not fully known. |