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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. A CASE of Asiatic cholera is reported to have occurred in Newport, R. I. recently. An extraordinary meeting of the board of [missing] physicians has been [missing] AT [missing] Sept. 7th. D. Sass' [missing] destroyed by fire [missing] The fire [missing] house, containing [missing] which was also [missing] on the stable and [missing] insurance $4,000. [missing] 6TH, AT Frankfort, [missing] from an unknown steamer [missing]. It consisted of the upper [missing] cabin, painted white, containing three state-room windows with painted blinds, a couple of doors, and some miscellaneous pieces of upper works. CHARLES Harris, railroad Pinkerton detective, was assassinated at San Antonio, a small station a few miles south of Socorra, N. M., Sept. 7th. Two men alighted from an emigrant train and approached Harris, who was standing on the platform, and shot him dead. Both men escaped. THREE thousand merchants from Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas and New Mexico attended the barbecue given by the Denver merchants on Sept. 6. Four thousand guests were seated at the first table. In the evening there was a grand display of fireworks. The whole was a great success. AN Engine of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad struck a wagon, one mile from Barnesville, Ohio, Sept. 7th, and fatally injured Mrs. Mary Kennard. Miss Steele, Chas. Steele and Lemuel Juest were thrown over the pilot and carried to town on the engine scarcely scratched. IN Philadelphia, Sept. 7th, the ship carpenters at Camden dry docks, companies yards, struck in a body under orders of the union. They were insulted because the company posted a notice that those who could not resist the temptation of pilfering ships and wood should leave the company's employ. Non-union men will be hired. THE New York Silk exchange is to establish a colony for the cultivation of the silk of New Jersey. It has not yet bee fully determined where this will be done, but it will be within twenty-five miles of New York City. Six families, composed with one exception entirely of women who have been teachers in public schools have already expressed their intention of joining the colony. MISS Phillipina Frengel, of North St. Louis, for the last three months has not taken a bit of solid food nor has she been able to retain liquids. She has been treated by several physicians who introduced food into her stomach with a tube but it was immediately ejected. She is not confined to her bed but helps her relatives with whom she lives, in light household duties. THE Star's special from Guaymas, of the 6th, says the powder house of Fridner & Van Barstell, at Guaymas, blew up on the afternoon of the 2nd. It contained upwards of 10,000 pounds of powder. One man had his legs blown off and died from the effects. Houses and all kinds of buildings were cracked and the roofs destroyed. Doors and windows were blown in. The damage to the city is estimated at $100,000. A BAKERSFIELD, Cal. dispatch says: Two carloads of sick Chinamen arrived here Sept. 6th, several of them in a dying condition and one dead. They were from the advance of the Southern Pacific in Texas, and a rumor that the disease was yellow fever caused so much excitement and fear that a coroner's jury could not be obtained to sit on the deceased. It is not known what the disease is, but the report of yellow fever is not authenticated. PHILADELPHIA dispatch, Sept. 7th Harrison G. Clarke, Grand Tyler of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, whose name figures conspicuously in the report that, together with Wm. Shinn, the librarian of the Masonic Temple, he conspired to libel Mrs. Edna Jordan, was suspended to-day by the Masonic committee, the Grand Master of the lodge being present. It was decided that Shinn was the innocent tool of Clarke. Mrs. Jordan has sued Clarke for damages. A NEW York dispatch of Sept. 7th says the executive committee of the independent labor party met to-night. A letter was read from Dennis Kearney, regretting his inability to leave the Pacific slope, but stating that all his sympathies were with the labor party. It was resolved to tender a reception to Judge Wm. D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, when he comes here, and to request him to address the working classes. FOREIGN. A BLOCK in St. Roches, a suburb of Quebec, burned this morning; loss over $100,000. ADVICES from Manilla state that 170 persons died there of Cholera Thursday, and 220 deaths occurred in the neighboring villages. AT the sale of Danger's breeding stud, at London, Sept. 7th, a six-year-old chestnut horse, Raven Dorf, was bought by W. L. Scott, of Erie, Pa., for $30,000. ?? PRESIDENT of the Cabinet, says the foreign relations of France are excellent. France needs no alliance and her only aim is peace. TEN contributors of the Citager have challenged ten members of the staff of Le ??. A difficulty has arisen regarding seconds, but the duels are not improbable. A PARIS dispatch says that the rumor that England, with the assent of Russia, signed a secret treaty with Turkey relative to ultimate organization with Egypt, gains ground. AT 3:31 o'clock a.m. Sept 7th, there occurred at Panama one of the severest earthquakes ever known on the Isthmus. Many buildings were damaged, but no lives lost. At Montreal, on Sept. 7th, Judge T. A. Schereau dismissed the case of Fenwick against Anzell, which was a claim for margins on stocks, declaring that they were the same as gambling debts. THE difficulty between Japan and Corea [Korea] has been arranged. Corea [Korea] has agreed to pay [pound sign]500,000 as a compensation to Japan and [pound sign]50,000 to the relatives of the murdered Japanese subjects. A TELEGRAM from St. Petersburg was published at Vienna, Sept. 8th, stating that the convicts in the prison at ?? revolted recently and the guard was called out to suppress them. A struggle ensued in which forty convicts were killed. A BERLIN dispatch of Sept. 7th, says: Emperor William was not present at the Court dinner to-day, nor did he attend the military maneuvers, but it is officially announced that his absence was in accordance with medical advice on account of his previous exertions at Breslau. The Emperor to-day received a number of official reports and held a long conference with Count Von Bulow. THE Times in reviewing the communication from the India office in which the existence of cholera at Aden is denied, says there is no cause for cholera to be added to the enemy in which the English have to contend against in Egypt. LONDON dispatch, Sept. 7th: The returns issued by the Board of Trade show that during the month just past British imports have increased, as compared with the same month last year, by [pound sign]424,000, while the exports for the month have increased [pound sign]78,000 as compared with the corresponding month last year. EARL Spencer, in reinstating the dismissed policemen, in Dublin, granted them free pardon, but expressed regret and surprise that they should have been induced to take the step they did. Earl Spencer has intimated that 08, of the 223 dismissed Metropolitan police will be reinstated. PANAMA dispatch, Sept. 8th: The damages done by the earthquake turns out greater than at first thought. The Cathedral and many of the largest buildings are badly injured. The loss in the city is estimated at several hundred dollars. Several lives were lost. There is no communication with Aspinwall either by rail or telegraph, and many bridges on the line of the railroad are broken. THE recent speech, at St. Petersburg, of Gen. Drentein, Governor of Kieff, which advised the Jews of slander in asserting that the authorities connived at the anti-Semetic disorders, and advised them to give the country a little inordinate love which they lavished, caused much sensation. Gen. Drentein pointed out that many Jews had been obliged to return from Africa, and were starving in Palestine, but that they would be better off in Russia than anywhere else if they only knew it. PARIS dispatch, Sept. 7th: The commander of the French fleet before Tamatio has taken steps to prevent the landing of the cargo of the American ship Allen, consisting of arms and munitions of war. The African Consul at Tamatio has promised not to permit the landing of war materials without notice to the French commander, who has made arrangements to purchase them before they are delivered on shore, in order to avoid any difficulty with the American Government. A MONTREAL dispatch of Sept. 7th says: Three Americans William McKay, Geo. McBride, and John H. Flannigan, well-known in the States and Canada as accomplished cracksmen of the most dangerous kind, broke jail last night and escaped. They are believed to be the same parties who robbed the bank of Montreal and Hechelaga here of large sums of money two years ago. They are well known in Chicago and the Western States. After tearing out the window of their cell they let themselves down thirty feet by ropes made of bed clothes, and subsequently scaled a wall fifteen feet high. |