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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. AN effort is making to remove Collector Haynes because he fled from Brownsville at the approach of the yellow fever. RICHARD Martin, of Adams' township, Michigan, died Thursday of genuine Asiatic cholera. There is no other case in the vicinity. At East Liverpool, Ohio, work has been resumed at four pottery firms at the old wages. The firm recognize the Knights of Labor. AT Philadelphia on Sept. 2d there were six cases and two deaths from yellow fever in the Danish bark Macae which is in quarantine. ON Sept. 2d, at Raleigh, North Carolina, Daniel E. Sherwood, for seventeen years a route agent on the railroad, committed suicide on account of being discovered pilfering registered letters. MR. Eckfret of the U. S. Mint Bureau, has gone to Carson City to investigate the charges made against Superintendent Crawford of the Carson City Mint by a discharged employee. THE Attorney General has submitted to the Secretary of War his opinion that the reclamation of the Potomac flats can begin before the question of titles to the Kidwell meadows and others to be improved is settled. THE first copper smelter is being erected in the new copper camp near Fort Laramie. The ore runs from twenty-five to eighty per cent in copper, and the supply is as large as the Lake Superior region. AFTER a meeting of the amalgamated association held at Pittsburg Sept. 2d, a few members were seen who had been in attendance. From them it was learned that a majority of the delegates appointed to the district meeting, were generally in favor of a continuation of the strike. A RICHMOND, Va. dispatch of Sept. 2d says the newspaper war between C. O. Cowardin editor of the Dispatch, and W. C. Elam, editor of the Whig, is so violent that the former has been arrested on the charge of being about to fight a duel. A warrant is out for Elam. A WASHINGTON special quotes General Sherman as denying that he will retire before the law requires, but he will relinquish command of the army, if the President will so order so as to give General Sheridan a chance to make recommendations to Congress next December. AT BROWNSVILLE on Sept. 2d there were 102 new cases and five deaths, all Mexicans. Many Americans are dangerously sick. Dr. Murray and force are doing good service. The fever is abating in Matamoras. There are four deaths and no new cases at Fort Brown. The weather is cloudy with slight northwest winds. A ST. LOUIS dispatch of Sept. 2d, says: There are some dangerous revelations regarding the order of the knights of the Golden Rule. It is said the order is $60,000 in debt, and quite liable to fall to pieces, and it is understood that charges will be preferred against some the supreme officers. AT ??, Texas, on Aug. 31st the State Greenback Convention met and organized. They had a big contest over the question of supporting the Independent movement for nominating a straight Greenback ticket. More than two-thirds are in favor of the Independent movement who it will undoubtedly win in the Convention. IT IS said on good authority that the statement of the Western Union receipts for the twelve months just ended shows gross earnings, $17,000,000 against $11,000,000 for the twelve months preceding. The net earnings it is alleged will show a corresponding increase, thus making over 8 per cent. for the year on stock. DR. E. O. Shakespeare, of Philadelphia, Dr. S. J. W. Arnold, of New York and Dr. J. C. McConnell of Washington, surgeons engaged in examining Guiteau's brain, met Sept. 2d and decided to issue their report showing results next week. The report will have no reference in Guiteau's sanity. It will be a comprehensive statement of the condition of the brain and the nature of the disease, if any. AT Omaha on Sept. 2d, Mrs. Copeland, aged 61, living near Omaha, Neb., was raped by a negro named Cloyd who was employed on her husband's farm. Mrs. Copeland was brutally treated and may not recover, owing to her poor health Cloyd was pursued and arrested. He was given a preliminary examination and is now in jail. There is strong talk of lynching him. AT Philadelphia on Aug. 31, a mortgage for $160,000,000 was recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds. It was executed Saturday, jointly by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company and covers the entire property of every kind together with all rights, privileges and franchises including all leases. This is the mortgage under which five per cent consuls were issued. The proceeds are intended to redeem all other outstanding obligations of the company so that it will ultimately become a first lien for the only bonds outstanding, namely, five per cents. FOREIGN. ENGINEER Melville and Seamen Nores and ??, of the Jeanette, and Commander Berry, of the Rogers, sailed on the Partha Sept. 2d from Liverpool for New York. A VIENNA dispatch of Sept. 2d says: It is stated that Count Von Walkenstein, the Austrian Ambassador at St. Petersburg, is charged with the establishment of an intimate understanding between Russia and Austria in regard to eastern affairs. This statement has reference to rumors current some time ago concerning the rejected visit of the Czar to foreign courts, and more particularly the courts of Vienna. A MANCHESTER dispatch of Sept. 2d says: At a conference of miners, held here to-day, it was decided to demand an advance in wages, and if the increase was not obtained by October to make a general stand for their terms throughout the kingdom. It was recommended that political associations be formed among the miners with a view to supporting candidates for Parliament who are favorable to the changes sought by the miners in mining legislation. It was resolved to erect a marble statue in memory of McDonald in front of the Miners' Hall at Durham. |