| Show BY TY telegraph PH I 1 rca ysa cri URI ON TO ut LINZ AMERICAN CHICAGO 16 the first day of the triennial triennial conclave of knights arof the united states opens bright and cool with every prospect of pleasant weather throughout trains with excursion parties are arriving at the depots every hour of the day and every train is crowded to its utmost capacity with knights and other visitors the streets present a scene of unusual animation es especially bially along the line of march i where ornamentations is profuse in the vicinity of bf the tile lake front where tents are pitched and arches erected abbush tha rush has haa been continuous since esterday yesterday morning except for a few hours after midnight here the throng throngs th ds impenetrable at time times 4 and thac is increasing at it every fresh arrival of a various depots are supplied with escorts for tor ali ail all the incoming knights who are shown at once onee to their quarters all trains arrive late pate on account of the numerous specia Land excursion trains which are running the brilliant display made by isolated bands of knight knights artio occasionally march through the streets Js is bata but a small indication of what the significant body will be marshaled together in the parade of tuesday and the subsequent drill yesterday 1 people le came into camp but owing M to t the t e failure of most of them to ta announce their thein their i arrival arnival arrival some inconvenience wa WAS experienced the influx of ahlet thieves thi evea erea T pickpockets pick pockets and burglars is very kery 9 large and they began oberd eions yesterday by capturing some sonie uniforms from the tent the them police hya hava have been beed instructed to arrest arnest all known bad characters or exen even i sus hus licious pi cious onesi ones and locktu lock them th ein eln up during the conclave 1 i over jover one hundred newspaper re per ers have arrived representing the principal papers in the country there has been no general musical rehearsal the bands being for the most part ato sto late ate in arriving but th the 6 streets are axe well supplied with mu pic pla jans ians whose appearance always att attracts attracta raeta the crowd and elicits hearty j applause I 1 from the exposition building south to the park row a distance of a anile the ground brouno is completely cover edwith tents of regular army my pattern facing this array on the ae west are the beautiful residences of michigan avenue many of which ari adl are handsomely decorated tius tins attus nills aliis Tt us afternoon and evening the trains brought in iu irgin immense 1 ew p number I 1 of orv visitors and it is estimated that over strangers will wiil wille willbe be lyer lyre on the thi streets tomorrow to morrow the hotels are jaxes to their utmost and nd nearly evary private vate yate residence ric lic e ibis ihas ats its guest large share bhare of the commander aes aes are in their quarters having ar jived most mostly y during the afternoon ackern oon and neld eye oye evening n the trains have emptied tir their ingy ingi human uman freight into the depots with inconceivable rapidity tida bida tto sto day it is said sald that since an early hour this morning the arrivals of trains on on all the roads combined have haie been at the rate of one train every niver fiver minutes from 4 to 8 this evening thirteen trains arrived 0 over eithe elthe the hock rock island railroad and probably as many more over each of the oth other e r roads J 3 every train brings as M many passengers gers gera as can crowd in the coaches NEW yom YORK 16 the commercial BuZ bur bulletin letin says of the removal by china of trade restrictions unless twease we are mistaken as to the scope of this change if it will prove to be one of bf the most sign significant events to the commerce of the century the op operation bration of the new conditions may matiy beelow bealow be slow siow but cannot ultimately wa be a matte of small moment to the commercial nations in ln that people of whose external commerce is low now limited to imports and exports are now as da freeto free oree to cultivate external trade as any other nation one important result will lai bea that thata the foreign trade will no longer be con eon confined to the five treaty ports i the natives at dt any of the jaum numerous erous populous cities on thelast the vist seaboard of the empire will hence forth beat be at liberty to traul transact l laet act wet business bess ness with any country there is value in this event to foreign merchants ohal chai its who will ultimately find their way of doing business through the natives esat at the ports which they are now excluded through the absence of treaty arrangements the chance of opening markets in the heart beart of china gives more promise than a hundred of the colonies colonie fitter jitter which Euro european veau peau governments are so fio eagerly straining 1 I the agrarian murder at new ross is snot not attributed to the rejection of the compensation bill the plots against st the victims are of older date the projected popular demonstrations rations have not been a success the CIe Cle arwell meeting was a notable failure many dublin correspondents correspondent spon dents dent s assert that notwithstanding the agitation in a few places there is unmistakable improvement la ero pro movement ro d in public opinion in irethe times says since the connecticut republicans closed the bloody chasin chasm between hartford ananew and new haven by nominating a man from one place for governor and one from theother the other for lieutenant governor the democrats have become thoroughly thoro ugly alarmed they met in state convention on wednesday A big row is anticipated unless they are fortunate tort lort enough to effect as aappo a compromise between the two towns as their competitors did one or the other of them will probably go almost solidly against them thear sixty seven sevea bussian russian emigrants some of tile tiie survivors of the party of 50 which left russia in 1877 for brazil have arrived here sick and destitute they found the south american climate unsuited to them there was frost in the interior counties last night at stamford delaware county ice lee formed the temperature there at 6 a in was wa 62 degrees washington IG returns to the department of agriculture since august show an increase in the condition of the cotton compared with july the present avera average 9 e condition for the whole country is general aKe ave average rage of corn crop on august 98 93 against on july ut the condition of spring wheat is 88 89 against 81 for lat last year the early months were very dry and the rams which came were too lame late to restore the loss california and oregon report the hl highest hest best condition for several years T tobacco bacco shows a general average for th the e whole country of 86 gen walker is ilot so sanguine 1 e as to the veracity of the census geskus returns as at finst first he stands ready to defend the ther veracity of the returns and would not listen to criticism since auth Caro carolina ilna llnA came along and some of the counties show phenomenal results he admits that it looks cooki a little singular john cessna chairman of the penn Venn pennsylvania sylvania republican committee writes ites a friend here that every re port received so far from clubs in the state inform him that they have from fohn fohr to forty democrats on their thor tolls who are going goin to vote for garfield and aidt arthur arthun hilf hiir the strongest accessions are iii in the tariff distri districts p acts DENVER denven col 16 the tribune h has his is a long special from Mes sala saia N M to the effect thad thac there is much excitement throughout Bl essala valley over th e elopement of father a pries priest 0 Cof of las la cruces and a b beautiful I an and d brillia brilliant nt young lk lady miss 1 I 1 ss margurita garcia gareia from the convent of sisters of laret recently entered the convent it li is said atthe at the solicitation of thet the pil priest lest iest against the washes wishes dlf her parents after continued continue d scandalous proceedings the couple coupie eloped and fald were overta overtaken kenat at a small hamlet whence in the priest appeared in an dishabille andaas and ana was struck and ay iy would have been killed by an uncle of ihie the giglia girl if officers had not interfered the priest and girl were finally married the former tells horrible stories about bishops bud and other pel pil priests 1 ests FALL fabb 16 the report of an accident on the wharf at mount Hope gope appears to haye have been ted toed hut but owing to the darkness there being no lights on ou the wharf it cannot be ascertained tonight to night bight whether any person was drowned the wharf parted in the middle precipitating from 50 to 75 persons into the trough many of them clung to the wharf nd others plunged into the wamer water many were taken out unconscious and almost lifeless but were resuscitated the news of the acci endl endt to a portion of the spinners excursion party at mount hope created graat anxiety in the city and hundred hundreds of anxious enes at once rushed to the landing to leam learn news of their friends at midnight the jail JaA boatload boat load joad came over the marshal was with the party and reports the excitement at the scene of the acci acel accident dent as being intense and the screams of those who bad fallen added to the confusion owing to the tide the water was not more than five to seven feet deep and it is believed not more than two were drowned although it is impossible on account of the darkness to obtain accurate information asto j A number of people eople are known to have been injured GALVESTON 17 the mews news special says A two minute cyclone at goliad collad demolished two houses and five persons were injured two farmer farmers johnson and have had a fight and both were killed BOSTON 17 A large crowd witnessed the trials of strength and speed today to day between the irish american and scotch canadian athletes for 1000 and the championship of the world the former were represented by thomas lynch boston and james C daley new york the latter by duncan dunean 0 ross boss and E IV Jo linson both of canada the irish irysh americans were victors by three points springfield mass 17 john 0 taylor secretary of the masonic mutual relief belief association of western massachusetts and wife were drow drowned in the connecticut river last night mrs taylor leaped from the boat in which were her husband and tind two other women he sprang after her and being unable to swim both were lost NEW nely york 17 the heralds washington special says the treasury officials are considerably perplexed over the question raised by he the t entrance odthe of the chinese steamer into the port of san francisco it now appears that in addition to the tax of per ton if the wo chung is laden with merchandise from the sandwich islands her cargo will be subject to a discriminating tax of 10 percent per cent ad va lorem although the merchandise may under the reciprocity treaty with the hawaiian islands be entitled to enter free tree one thousand two hundred and forty six immigrants arrived rived in the tile last two days dast last night there was a heavy frost on thebinh the high lands above new york for fora a hundred miles the thermometer reached 32 degrees in several localities cali calit ties les there were several deaths by yol yd low fever in the hospitals I 1 here yesterday of couise coulse course jul sul ail all were imported d i 1 t i there have jia ave been be e n t h cases ca ses des of highway robb robbery eryin lin fin the streets of lew york within 24 hours and one or two of murder the sun sass says claims of gold and silver sliver discoveries have been filed pled within the past year in a the secretary of states stated office albany since june they have come in sometimes three and four in a day almost all of them appear to be located in the region that lies jn in hamilton fulton and saratoga counties which is really the southern edge of thEil thell thea Adirondacks nearly all claim discoveries of abad and abd silver while afew a few rew men mention gold or silver sliver alone rhe fhe follo following whig are said to be ascertained taets that oid old and silver wiver really exists that no one realty liy knows whether it exists in piang paying quantities or not that two mines are being worked that attempts have bave been made to alt salt s one claim blaim that almost everybody in that region has thee tho gold fever that therb there ae is more or less expert prospecting go ing on that there is a possibility of a very vry nich rich minin mining g country in the region described that the probability ty is it will cost more than it will vill come to to mine gold and silver sliver in northern new york statistics of ocean travel son show an inci increase ease of 4 american visitors to europe over last season son bon and it is estimated that americans A me ricans who have bave gone abroad 10 this season have hava spent and left in europe eurove about I 1 CHICAGO 17 the great day of the triennial cone Cont conclave lave lavo of knights templar tempi dr opened cloudy early early in the morning h a smart tain rain fell and laid thib this dust nicely the sun then appeared and at the hour advertised for starting everything was favora ble for tile the procession the di merent different comm anderies were hd however wever tardy in getting at the appointed place and it was nearly hearly 11 before the dif dlf different columns moved by that time t the he sky had clouded and some drops of rain fell it had bad no effect becton rion cion lion tile the crowds jhb thronged thron ged the streets and occupied eve every eveny ry available inch of space on the sidewalks the windows were filled shortly after eight and many people occupied their positions on the cross arms of th the e tele telegraph grap gnap IM h poles pol poi es the committee had wisely made the jine of march extend over gye nearly eight miles giving a fine opportunity for all to see along wa wabash hash avenue e thousands of temporary seats eats had bad been erected and were readily rented at good prices the de decorations cora were an a profuse and almost extravagant scale nearly every house display ing banners with m masonic a dav devices while e e evergreen ver wreaths and richly contrasting colors relieved their sombre hues on buildings an immense quantity of black was required to appropriately represent the historical subjects L s connected with the display of the conclave the newspaper offices were beautifully decorated especially those which were in the direct line of march the wholesale houses and the more important retail buildings were also covered with banners flap flags festoons fes and mottoes along state street the stores were radiant with devices several tho thu thousand usand dollars having been expended on some bome single buildings the 16 arches on Wabash Avenue between van buren n and street were completed during the nig night and excited gr great ea t admiration a d mira mi ration nation tion tiou for our their unanimity of resign def 1 and diverse d verse figures the line was kept open by a strong guard of policemen who flanked ilan llau ked the streets and who were assisted by rby continuous continuo ui lines of vehicles which were ranged on either side of the the street ea and occupied by bython tilo u sands of spectators the street streetcars cm poured apparently endless crowds into the streets and incoming trains continued to bring from the outside towns owns and cities multitudes of the knights gathered on four streets facing east the division on lake street the one furthest north moved first eastward to wabash avenue and upon reaching that thoroughfare turned south and continued to march to 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