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Show LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. FOUND DEAD. Richmond, Sept. 19.-The body of Augustus Green, a well known and wealthy Englishman, was found in the woods near his late residence in Chesterfield county with a starving dog guarding the body. Green, it is supposed, wandered off in a delirium. RESOLVED ON MASSACRE. London, Sept. 21.-A ?? dispatch says: The leaders of the Albanian league at Scutari having resolved to massacre and too the richest Christians, including the English consul, two hill tribes marched to Scutari and prevented the massacre. The consul has asked that the garrisons at Scutari be reinforced. A VILLAGE FLOODED. Plainfield, N. Y., Sept. 23.-It has been raining continuously for 18 hours and the streams are much swollen. The streets are full of water and the damage to property is heavy. At 1:30 Grove Street bridge over Green Brook, this city, suddenly gave way when crowded with people watching the flood. Six people were rescued, but a number are believed to have perished. Both dams at Scotch Plains were washed out and water four feet deep is in the streets of the village. AN EDITOR SHOT. Little Rock, Sept. 22.-At Hot Springs this morning, Charles Matthews, editor of the Hornet, was shot four times and killed in an affray with Colonel S. G. Fordyce, vice-president of the St. Louis & Texas narrow gauge railway, and Col. Rugg, one of the proprietors of the Arlington hotel. The shooting grew out of a bitter newspaper controversy. It is not known whether Fordyce or Rugg fired the fatal shot. The quarrel began between Matthews and Fordyce, the former drawing a revolver and shooting at the latter. Fordyce, who was not hit, struck Matthews several times with a stick. One of Matthews' bullets hit Rugg in the thigh, passing into the scrotum. Rugg then drew a revolver and began firing at Matthews, who fell dead with a bullet in his heart, left temple and left wrist. CALL FOR BONDS. Washington, Sept. 23.-The Secretary of the Treasury this afternoon, issued a call for redemption for bonds of the 5 per cent. funded loan of 1881, contained at 3 ½ per cent. from August 12, 1881. The call is for $25,000,000, and the principal and interest is to be paid at the treasury on the 23d of December next, and interest will cease on that day. KILLED IN A DUEL. New York, Sept. 21.-A Herald St. Petersburg special says Lieutenant Stalchine was killed yesterday in a duel with pistols at fifteen paces by Captain Prince Skakowskoi. Three officers and Count ??, a son of the historian of the Turko-Russian war lately deceased were witnesses. The meeting took place at Pargolow a few miles from St. Petersburg. Skakowskoi fell at the first shot slightly wounded in the side but the ball which he fired in falling mortally wounded Stalchine. The cause of the duel was a long standing enmity which had lately broken out afresh. BOMB THROWING. Trieste, Sept. 21.-Overdank and twenty young men, for the most part deserters from the army, drew lots to see who would throw bombs at the Emperor Francis Joseph during the reception here. Overdank attempted suicide. A Russian at Kief prepared the bombs. The police of Vienna are making domiciliary visits. Some men were arrested after the throwing of the bombs into the ranks of the Society of Veterans August 20. Hearing of the arrest, Overdank confessed that they threw the bombs from his house door. FELL THROUGH A BRIDGE. Agram, Hungary, Sept. 23-While the Nixas passenger and baggage train was crossing the river Drave, near Iszek to-day a part of the bridge fell in, and the engine and baggage cars patched into the water, dragging with them some of the passenger cars, containing a number of hussars on furlough. Fifteen soldiers were drowned and thirty injured. The coupling chains were broken and the remainder of the train stopped on the bridge. The accident is attributed to high water. The bridge was of wood and was supported on wooden piles. WHOLESALE DUEL. Denver, Sept. 22.-Particulars of a twelve sided duel between cowboys have just reached here. George Howard, the owner of a herd of 8,000 cattle, and John Keeley, the owner of a herd of 1,000 were driving in company from Arizona east. North of Trinidad, on the plains, the two herds were separated, Howard to follow the Santa Fe trial [trail] to Kansas City, and Keeley to drive north to Denver. On the route accidental exchanges had been made and Howard insisted on having his stock out but was unwilling to deliver Keeley said it was agreed to settle the matter by a match between six picked men of each party. Accordingly, twelve men ranged themselves on horseback, the two sides fifty feet apart, and at a signal from their employers, the fight began. At the first fire four men were instantly killed. George Lester of Keeley's party was shot through the breast; one of Howard's men fell with a ball through his head, and two others of the same party were shot through the heart. Dismayed, this party with the exception of their employer, fled from the camp. Keeley then rode up to Howard and proposed that they fight it out. Howard declined saying he understood the matter was settled according to the terms of the battle made beforehand. This settled the matter in an equitable manner, and the change of the mixed cattle was then made. The dead were buried by the other men of both herds, and the drivers and those in charge separated for their different routes. WELL SHOT. Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 22.-In the fatal row here to-day the quarrel began between Mathews and Fordyce the former drawing a revolver and shooting at the latter. Fordyce was not hit and struck Mathews several times with a stick. One of Mathews' bullets hit Rugg in the thigh, passing into the scrotum. Rugg then drew a revolver and began firing at Mathews, who fell dead with a bullet in the heart, one in the left temple and one in the left wrist. THE QUEEN SHOT AT. New York, Sept. 23.-World cablegram from London. There is a rumor in town late to-night, at the clubs, that the Queen was shot at in the stables at Balmoral this afternoon. THE OIL MARKET. Pittsburg, Penn., Sept. 22.-The oil market is excited and under the influence of an easier money market and the report of a further decline in the production in Cherry Grove region. ?? certificates advanced from 78 at the opening to 84, and closed ?? at 83. Sales were large, aggregating 3,000,000 barrels and the excitement is intense. THE ASIA WRECK. Chicago, Sept. 23.-Toronto special: Henry Gauvas, another survivor of the wrecked steamer Asia, reached here this morning. He says, "I had my suspicions of the vessel, and was very cautious. She was laden so the forepart was thirty feet out of water, while the stern sometimes plunged into the lake and she refused to obey the helm, and rolled in the trough of the sea. Every strong puff of wind that came wheeled the forepart round until she actually moved as on a pivot. More than a hundred people were on board, half French, half English, all screaming at once, as the waves broke over the vessel. The officers could do nothing, their commands being unheeded in the confusion. When it became evident the vessel would go down, Gauvas, with a life preserver on, jumped into the lake, followed by a woman and child, who clung to him, and shortly afterward the vessel disappeared. After being two hours in the water, he and the lady were taken out by a smuggling vessel, and carried to Collingwood. The lady's name is unknown. She appeared to be wealthy. She gave Gauvas ??, and also money to the smugglers. DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION. Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 23.-A large fire broke out at Fort Smith last night in the business part of the town. At last accounts over a dozen business places were consumed. CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. New York, Sept. 24.-Wm. C. Rowson, telegraph operator on the Harlem Road, at Ninety-Eighth street, and Conductor Root and Brakeman Robbins, of the wrecked Newhaven train, have been arrested. Rowson is only 18 years old, yet he holds the responsible position of managing all trains of the company. Trains run through the tunnel between Eighty-Sixth and Ninety-Eighth streets, his station being the telegraph office at Ninety-Eighth street. The Newhaven company claims that Rowson should have detained the Harlem train until he received a signal from Eighty-Sixth street that the Chester train had passed that station. STAGE ROBBER ARRESTED. Seligman, Mo., Sept. 23.-United States Deputy-Marshal Roper passed through to-day with James Polten, the man who robbed the Eureka Spring stage a couple of weeks ago. He belongs to a gang of desperadoes who have been robbing in that section for a long time past. Detectives are on the track of more of the gang, and other arrests are expected soon. SUING A CITY. New York, Sept. 23.-In a suit brought by Allan Pinkerton against the city of St. Joseph, Mo. to recover $6,100 for services rendered in procuring the return of $100,000 in stolen bonds of that city, and the arrest of the thieves, an attachment has been granted against the defendant's property in this city, on the ground of its being a foreign corporation. THE CANAL QUESTION. London, Sept. 24.-A Paris dispatch to the Times says certain directors of the Suez canal have taken alarm at the view expressed by the Times in an article on the Suez canal. In order to dispel any anxiety in regard to England starting another canal they seem inclined to effect an understanding which would give England full satisfaction and perfect security for the future, while guarding the general interest at stake. This will probably be the way in which the canal question will be settled. WOLSELEY REPRESENTS THE KHEDIVE. Alexandria, Sept. 23.-The Khedive has issued a manifesto declaring that England has great interest in Egypt, both in regard to finances and traffic through the Suez canal, and that for the protection of these interests she was compelled to interfere, but she has no intention of annexing that he has authorized General Wolseley to represent him in restoring order and punishing the rebels. All loyal citizens are called upon to render Wolseley's every assistance, and any one refusing is to be treated as a rebel. |