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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. MORE MURDER. Dublin, Sept. [September] 25 - A farmer named Hicken [?] in Tipperary county has been murdered for paying rent in violation of the local Land League and for assisting in the defense of some men employed in gathering the crops on the farm of an evicted tenant named Carroll. Carroll and his family were arrested. IN FAVOR OF THE JEWS. St. Petersburg, Sept. 28 - General Todleben speaking at Wilma [?] politely [?] expressed his belief in the patriotism and disinterestedness [?] of the Jewish members of that municipality [?] and hoped that their advice would be taken as readily as that of Christians. YELLOW FEVER. Brownsville, Sept. 28 - One death to-day, but no new cases. Fort Brown, Sept 28 - One death, a soldier, no new cases. Point Isabel [?], Sept. 28 - One new case, the old cases are convalescent. [unreadable], Sept. 28 - Here [?] was celebrated this evening with a grand display of fireworks and a ball, the conclusion of the fever. There are two deaths here of fever, but no report of new cases. The weather is cool and pleasant. Pensacola, Sept. 28 - Thirty-six new cases and two deaths. IRISH CATHOLICS. Philadelphia, Sept. 28 - At to-day's session of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union Convention an additional class to aid the widow and orphans fund was formed. Each member of the class is to contribute twenty-five cents to the name [?] of deceased members. Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy with the people of Ireland in their struggle to regenerate their native land. [unreadable] of Richmond was elected president of the union, and Rev. [Reverend] James Hems of St. Louis, treasurer. The delegates had a banquet at the Merchants Hotel this evening. EDUCATING THE INDIANS. Washington, Sept. 28 - Secretary Teller and Inspector Hayworth made the following distribution for Indian schools for the present fiscal year. Support of non-treaty schools already established $117,000 [unreadable] attendance of the fifty schools now established $70,000, establishing new industrial schools, $130,000; contingency expenses of agency schools $73,000; purchase of stock cattle for the industrial school, $80,000; completion of school buildings, outhouses, etc., for the industrial schools near Arkansas City, $13,000; for support of the above schools, $31,500; support of the industrial school at Genoa, Nebraska, $40,500; support of Indians in schools in the states, $17,000. TREATY WITH THE FLATHEADS. Washington, Sept. 28 - McCannon [?], assistant attorney general for the interior department, returned here to-day from an official trip to California and Montana. The reports [?] having negotiated a treaty with the Flathead Indians to allow the Northern Pacific Railroad the right of way through their reservation. The price to be paid for the land is $16,000. The distance is thirteen miles, and the Indians wanted $1,000,000 at first. POLITICAL ROW. Charleston, S. C. [South Carolina], Sept. 28 - A Lancaster special says at a political meeting yesterday, a row began between a white man and a negro and some indiscriminate pistol shooting was done but no one was hurt. Soon after a posse of negroes rode up and a general row resulted in which four colored men were killed and a large number wounded. MRS. LINCOLN'S ESTATE. Springfield, Ills. [Illinois], Sept. 28 - Hon. [Honorable] Robt. [Robert] E. Lincoln, secretary of war, this morning, gave bonds in the Sangamon Court, in the sum of $180,000 in administration of the estate of his mother, the late Mary Todd Lincoln. The estate comprises $72,000 in government bonds, the rest being in personal effects. CANAL SCHEME. New York, Sept. 28 - It appears that among other influences depressing foreign exports is the fact that J. and W. Selegman have been drawing on London and Paris a sufficient amount to yield between $300,000 and $600,000, which they have paid on account of the Panama Canal Company, De Lessape scheme [?], to stockholders of the Panama railway company, who a long time ago entered into an agreement to sell their stock to the canal company. |