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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. American. The tariff commissioners are in public session at Long Beach. The apple crop of New York State is understood to be a dead failure. The internal revenue bill has been laid over until the next session of the Senate. Forest fires are again raging in Michigan. The loss is very great. Secret organizations are being formed to wipe out the Apache Indians in New Mexico and Arizona. Geo. (George) Miller and S.A. Hartley were instantly killed by lightning near Loomis, Ill. (Illinois) on Friday last. Tea and silk-loaded trains have been making extremely fast time between San Francisco and Chicago. Many hogs have been fatally attacked by cholera in the eastern part of McLean County, Illinois. Leading citizens formally organized the Kansas City exposition company, capital stock. $500.000. It is believed that the government of British Colombia have been defeated by a large majority at the last election. About 2,000 brick-makers are out on strike in the Pullman brick yards, Chicago for and advance of 25 cents per day. Indians attacked a wagon train near Clifton, N.M. (New Mexico) on Tuesday. Casualties, one teamster killed and two others wounded. One Indian killed. Provost-Sergeant John Henry was fatally shot on Wednesday night by John O'Neill, guard in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Two freight trains on the Milwaukee and St. (Saint) Paul Road collided on Wednesday last near Mcgregor, Iowa. The fireman and two tramps were killed and several other persons were injured. Secretary Chandler is reported as satisfied that Rear-Admiral Nicholson commanding the European station, acted properly and discretely in protecting the American interests in Alexandria. In New York and neighboring places, the heat is steady and oppressive; night brings no relief. The death rate increase in consequence, has been enormous. The Erie Railway Company offers the striking freight handlers the increase demanded on condition that the men abandon their Union. This condition was rejected. The British ship Glengron arrived on Tuesday at New York with the first cargo of new teas, of this season's crop. She made the passage in 11 days, the quickest time on record. B.H. Cummings, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's agent at Poinroy, W.T. (West Texas), was found murdered in his house on Thursday. Two Chinamen are suspected. Object, robbery. Appalling mortality in New York, 1217 deaths in one week, the largest in a similar period, in 10 years. Eight sun-strokes and eleven deaths from heat on Saturday. Five sun-strokes in Brooklyn. Yellow fever has broken out at Matamoras, Mexico. Brownsville and Matamoras have been quarantined against lower Rio Grande towns. Great consternation and excitement exists throughout the neighboring towns. C.H. Martin Beckett, committed to jail at Hampton, on Saturday, for assaulting a white girl twelve years old, was taken from jail on Tuesday night and lynched. On a placard on the body was written, "our women must be protected." The Minden mail stage was robbed by two masked men, thirteen miles from Shreveport, La. (Louisiana), on Thursday. They cut the mail pouches, securing thirteen registered packages. Four passengers and the driver were relieved of their money and jewelry. The robbers escaped. J. Clark and John Pettigill were confined in the same cell at the Bridewell, Chicago. Pettigill was considered an imbecile but not dangerous. Next morning however, it was discovered that he had unbuckled Clark's wooden leg during the night and with it beaten him to death. The river and harbor steal has been concurred in by the House of Representatives, the report of the conference committee, as approved by the Senate yesterday, being adopted by a vote of 111 to 82. There is reason for believing that this bill will be vetoed by the President. The general sentiment is that the measure is a monstrous swindle that should not receive executive approval. |