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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD Yakoob Khan has plenty of ammunition. Washouts have obstructed the Hoosic [Hoosa]c tunnel. Petersburg, Va. [Virginia], suffers of a protracted drought. No case of death by starvation has lately occurred in Ireland. Gen. [General] Gonzales is likely to have been elected president of Cuba. The railroad from St. Louis to Leadville was completed yesterday. John R. Neil of Salt Lake City has been appointed governor of Idaho. The Russians are still making extensive navy movements towards the Pacific. Russia's efforts to secure the aid of Portugal and Japan against China have failed. Wisconsin and Michigan have again been visited by heavy and damaging storms. A timber raft with forty persons on board recently perished in the rapids of a Russian river. The general impression in England is that the Irish compensation bill will not become a law. Col. [Colonel] Cash was arrested yesterday, at Charleston, charged with the killing of Col. Shannon. On the first of August 25 per cent of the government printers at Washington will be discharged. One hundred and thirty-five deaths occurred in 24 hours in New York, 70 being children. Crop reports from the north-west are still conflicting; the showing for wheat, however, is not very favorable. A large number of, soldiers or their heirs, are kept waiting for small sums due at the close of the war. Sam. [Samuel] P. Bowles, ex county engineer at Cincinnati, has been sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary, for forgery. There were rows on the San Francisco sand lots, yesterday, between the mob and the police. Kearney was absent. A small boy letting of firecrackers in the lumber yard of the Haskell & Baker car Co. [Company], caused a fire which destroyed lumber for $25,000 to $30,000. DEADWOOD, July 12 - Captain I. M. West, superintendent and the contractor for the Black Hills Sheer[?] Mining Company, which is building an eighteen-mile flume and erecting extensive hydraulic works at Rockerville, is short about $4,000, in his accounts with the employees, of whom there are nearly 400. The company of which Alexander Shaler, of New York, is President, will take hold of the flume and works and complete them as speedily as possible, as the ??? is the largest in the Hills, estimated cost being $50,000. West's deficiency is accounted for from the fact that he lavished money upon fast women, of whom he is keeping two or three, and by reason of his heretofore excellent reputation, introduced them into the best society as daughters, neices [nieces], etc. The affair has created a profound sensation, as he has a highly respectable family living in Boulder, Colorado. GENEVA, July 12 - The earthquake on Sunday was one of the most severe and widespread that has been known in Switzerland for several years. Two persons were killed. Several meters of the Summit of Schnebelberg (?) near Quarien (?) fell, overwhelming a large wood. An earthquake at the Island of St. George, one of the Azores group resulted in the formation of another island, 81 yards distant, and about 1,800 (unreadable line). NEW YORK, July 12 - The weather continues frightfully hot, with the thermometer among the nineties. The infant mortality is something awful. The telegraph reports New Orleans several degrees cooler. CHICAGO, July 12 - Army officers stationed at Fort Keogh, now in the city, give an account of a buffalo hunt which recently took place on the Yellowstone. The Crow Indians getting a little short of meat, went in pursuit of bison, and on Friday they saw a herd of 4,000 and attacked it savagely. The animals became infuriated after a while and started in a panic for the river, followed by the no less excited red skins. Soon there was an indistinguishable mass of Indians, buffaloes and ponies in the stream, and the current being strong many of each were drowned. It is estimated thirty savages went down to death, and that ponies and buffaloes almost innumerable met a similar fate. CHICAGO, July 12 - The Times says the upward sweep of the price of pork has occasioned a lively awakening on change, and has been discovered by capitalists who have sold largely of the product for future deliveries. Amour & Co. [Company] have hold of both ends of the string. This enterprising firm, it is understood, not only controls the cash pork, but all the Chicago product for months to come as well. It is having things pretty much its own way. Of the 200,000 barrels of pork in stock here at this time, Amour & Co. have 185,000 barrels contracted for August, September and October delivery. A profit of from three to four dollars a barrels [barrel] is supposed to have already accumulated on these meats, and the "deal" has several months yet to run. Whether the Amours intend to put on the screws and gobble everything in sight or let the speculators down easy after taking all the loose change, is a problem for the lender (?) to worry over until the day of settlement is reached. Amour & Co. are also supposed to control the New York Market. It is estimate not less than $5,000,000 is employed in the corner. NEW YORK, July 13 - The World's Washington correspondent denies the story of Hancock's resignation from the army, adding the president and all sensible people here understand that were General Hancock to talk of resigning his office, he would show an indelicate confidence in his election to the presidency quite out of keeping with his character. |