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Show A NEGRO FEUD. A Eloodllilr.lj' Encounter TVes riace In SL UmU nllli Fatal Itesnlt'. BEP0RTE3 MUTINY OF SIBERIAN CONVICTS. Tic l'riceof StaMInt. ilurat Hal- tt-ad aud Ilia Clurinillli 'Comultrt!al(;wlte.', A Jtcro5loollnx M.lth. St. Louis, Oct. 27. A schcotinc aflray. which resulteJ iu the klL-Injj klL-Injj cf ooo and the wouhJIur of otben-, occurred tn the Levee this nfleraoon. An old feud existed lie-tween lie-tween John McCunc, a negro tttamboat roustabout, aud Byrou jr. Scott, captain of tho watch. As Scott was walking up the lvee he met McCune aud t oother ntgroes. JlcC'une drew a knife and made a hostile movement towards Scott The latter pulled a revolver and fired four shoU In rapid succession. succes-sion. McCuue dropped and died. The other two men, Abe Thomas and Walter Stevenson, received serious wcunds. Scott, wholsaljo a negro, wasarrcrUd. JInlluy In Mbfrla. St. PErnnsnuno, Oct 27. Advices Ad-vices from Yakutsk, Siberia, report a mutiny of Siberian convicts on board a steamer on the river Leva. The inhabitants of the village which thesteamernaspassingcame to.lhc convicts' asslstanceand helped them to disarm and bind the guards of the escort. The governor of the Crovince sent troops in pursuit, who illed two of the fugitives aud recaptured re-captured five. rlftrar! lloe. PiiTShunu. Oct 27. Word was received here Tonight from lirowns-viilc, lirowns-viilc, Pa., that four hundred hogs being fattened at a distillery had died, and had been buried in a trench. The State veterinary sur geon, alter a careful Investigation, pronounced the disease heg cholera of the went kind. Meanwhile the rest of the drove. tome 700, had been driven through the streets of Brownsville aud shipped east, mainly main-ly to Philadelphia. Many of the hogs dropped dead on thettreit,lmt were puked up and shipped with thu living. Many of the animals owned by faimers in that vicinity have since died. lcrnlnt Mrlkt. St. Paci., Oct. 27. All Uie cpera-tors, cpera-tors, thirty-seven iu number, iu the Western Union Telegraph Company's Com-pany's office In tills city struck tonight, to-night, aud all thu company's wires are idle. The walkout Is on account ac-count of the discharge, by the company, com-pany, a few days ago, of six operators opera-tors supposed to belong to the brotherhood. The di'charged mm called on Superintendent McMi-cimcb McMi-cimcb iu Minneapolis, this afternoon, after-noon, to try and (.-fleet an agreement, agree-ment, but were not recoguU.'d, and the strike is the result. The telegraph company sent at once for the day force to take the uight rut u's places, but the strikers nut them on the street nnd kept the most of them from going to work. A majority of the 150 operators, employed em-ployed by the Western Union in this city, are members of the brotherhood, broth-erhood, and it Is osrerted that all the day men, belonging to the organization, or-ganization, 111 go cut fu the moru-mg. moru-mg. Thu men here think the WtternaUnIon operators in Chicago and Omaha will also strike tumor-row. tumor-row. lle InllnniTronIilrMtiue. Denver, Oct. 27. Telegrams and letters iu great numbers have been addrvs-ed to Governor Cooper during dur-ing the post month, asking that steps be taken to protect the settlers in Jtoutt County from the depredations depreda-tions of the Ute Indbns. The latest lat-est advices are that the Indians are becoming very bold and the governor gover-nor has telegraphed the government urging ImmHliate action. Ifoeu-(ortiril. New YonK,Oct. 27. A Montreal special says: Hans Hemken accused ac-cused Kmil Slajton of Xew York of snindling him out of nearly $150,000. lie induced Hemken to come to Xew York and open a fancy dress goods store, villi a branch iu Chicago and one In Montreal. lie claims that through some hocus-pocus hocus-pocus Slayton has gotten away with the business, leaving him (Hemken) in the cold.., Notiir (hlnz VTrons Bosrox, Oct. 27. The UUfe fays the politicians are greatly e-xiited over the discoveries of glaring Inaccuracies In-accuracies in tho congressional elections elec-tions of two years ago, which those Investigating the matter find Itdifii-cult Itdifii-cult to explain on the ground of carelessness. Thu discrepancies in one district alone are over a thousand thous-and votes. Interesting developments develop-ments are promised soon. ItarnlncorArrlr.il Ylllitceo. Zanziiuk, Oct. 7. Admiral Fremantie lias attacked and burned seven villages oil the Yilu coast. The villages were speedily evacuated. evacuat-ed. 2to casualties arc reported. He I roposed to attack Vitu Sunday night. The Sultan lias rtfued to appear before the consuls or deliver up natives implicated in the recent murder of Germans. V4m II llrnrol l'i. Loxuox, OcL 27. The Tdcyropit appeals to Stanley to clear up the llarttclot affair. Konny says that lie advissed Itarttrlot tliat many tilings could bu said against his brother that had better be left un-aid, un-aid, and therefore he ought to suppress certain passages in the diary. Uonny emphatically denies that there was any ground for the deduction that Ilarttelot had insulted insult-ed his murderer's wife. The "CO. 51." In Etllntmrch. EDiMiunoii, Oct. 27. A meeting of Llb rats wai held here today, at which Gladstone deliveied an ail dress, lie said tbe Literal puty was prepared to wait for an expression ex-pression of the country's opinion regarding re-garding home ruin before announcing announc-ing a premature scheme. He urged tin peojle to closely watch the naval and military expenditure, expendi-ture, which, he declared, bad gone teyond the boundsof prudence and iroprlety. Referring to the foreign policy of the Government, Gladstone b'amed Salisbury far sending an accredited envoy to tbe Vatic in. The sending of Simmons to counsel with the Pope regarding the rights of the Catholic Church in Malta came dangerously near to supporting the papal claims to clerical cleri-cal dominion over part of Italy. The accounts of (ppresslon in Ilusela raised feelings akin to abhorrence, and he trusted the world would soon be favored with bttter reports le-garding le-garding Armenia and the misrule of the Porte. lie said the long series tf outrages committed by the Turks on the Christians might eventually seal tbe doom of the once great Turkish empire. Referring to home politics, Mr. Gladstone said there were seven test ?uestions apart from home rule in reland. namely, temperance, tho eight-hour day, disestablishment of tbe Scotch church, dicstablishmect of tho Welsh church, woman suffrage, suf-frage, home rule for Scotland, and allotments; but he cautioned the liberal party against dividing one largo army Into seven small ones hy declining to support a candidate who does not accept a particular test, lie praised Lord Salisbury's South African arrangements as tlio best that the circumstances permitted. per-mitted. SM Sklum. ClIICAiio, Oct. 27. A prcmiueut Ann of furriers received a cable from their London agent today that at a sale of this year's catch of seal skins the prices brought wero nearly doable those reallnsl last yea.'. This ln-crcaso ln-crcaso is due to tbo small catch of the present year. Furriers ny the skins sold today wilt bo in tho market next year, but. although the pricM do not directly affect tho goods no. ,uiho retail market, the owners of skins will raise tbe price at once to the point indicated, so tliat from today seal Koods will be 100 per cent higher than heretofore. , -Vo Xml for Xolie. New Yoiik, Oct. 27. Murat Hal-stead Hal-stead was wen this afternoon by an Associated l'res reporter lu regard to tho statement tint ho had sold a portion por-tion and rosy be tho wholo CI bl stock In the Cincinnati CtowwrrrtjJ aairltr. Haistead said ho had aKreed to sell a portion of hUstockanddidn t see why tfcero should bo a commotion about It. There is no df ep political schemo behind tho matter, nothing revolutionary or In any sen remarkable. remark-able. Ho said: "The rumor that connects con-nects with the transaction tko names of two distinguished lwliticlacs is iritbout any foundation '' The lleunrftvrj- Tiuti!. New Oiilkvss, Oct. 27. A mass meeting of citizens called by the com-niluee com-niluee of fifty was held tonight. The committee submitted a report to the effect tliat $33,00.) were required to carry out the plans to secure the arrest and ccnv!cJon of Hennessey's assassins, as-sassins, ltesoiutions wcro aJopted approvlnc the con rso of the committee commit-tee and pledging Its support. |
