| Show IBY BY TELEGRAPH fam ram Tia tin mann xann une una A AMERICAN 11 E iri C A N NEW YORK IS 18 the tribunes washington says frenchs franchs Frenc hs letter to stanford has created a sensation the secretary of the interior in gerior lias has as yet received no official communication upon this very important subject anahis and his letter is regarded as somewhat extraordinary in view of the fact that commissioner french went west a few weeks ago w with th the expressed opinion that the central pacific was diverting its earnings 0 to the detriment of the government and was determined to bring it to books las last t winter too rewrote he wrote a letter to congress charging that the central pacific was evading the provision of tile tiie thurman act which required that twenty nive five per cent of its net earnings should be deposited in the treasury to accumulate a fund to secure the government the repayment of moneys advanced andthil and that lie believed in substance that the directors of the 0 P had themselves appropriated tile the money due the government charges of this kind were made very specifically by auditor french Fren hren cli ell in writ writing ing and verbally before the hou house committee on pacific railroads if and it was on tile the basis of these statements that the attorney general instituted a suit for an injunction to prevent the central pacific from declaring a dividend out of the net not earnings until a further investigation french went to the pacific coast at the instance of the Government to procure evidence to assist in he further prosecution of the company it appears that lie has now written a letter to the president of or the C P road traversia trav traversing ersin all tile the essential positions tiong which hemr french took before congress the subject it is said paid was wai brought to tile attention of the president and mem bers r the cabinet last night who expressed very great surprise that such a letter should have been written inquiry into the circumstances will bo be made A times reporter interviewed grant who said I 1 have returned to new york now to remain here permanently manent ly I 1 shall go to long branch for the summer frummer in a few this city is to be my future homo home the general declined to talk upon politics or the thu caution bi ill lulon of or tile senatorial fight in this state but to the question whether lie he intended to go to albany to talce take part in it he be gave for answer a very emphatic ano no arondin AT jondon dispatch fays says parnell and his big associates in parliament are now doing their best to advance the land mand bill through the committee this there is good authority for saying is in accordance with an under standing that forster will retire from flom the chief at the end of the session quietness has lias been ic ie stored restored in ireland A few unimportant arrests have been made under the coercion act this week but the state of the country is very unsatisfactory crops promise well and the weather is favorable as the farmers say providence is killing the league the land bill will certainly reach the upper house by the first week ili in july the narrow division on Hene ages amendment last night had no significance indeed government had made that amendment alm open question and 40 of the supporters voted for it deputations of ulster farmers have done much to dl disarm arm the hostility of the opposition most of the farmers in that province being sound tories and orangemen Oran gemen they thes say that the bill with one or two im amendments as to length of tenure will be highly acceptable to the tenants of th the north the premieres premiers miers mieres constituents will give him an enthusiastic welcome it is probable that in th the 0 cou course arse of or it his is speeches speech es there he will deal at length with the retaliatory movement which is making great headway among the working classes in edinburgh and glasgow the sugar finers refiners re of ilo lie the clyde will ask him to give hh ith views on the advisability of levy ingan im v post duty on continental beet sugar to onet offset the tho french bounty system DENVER col 17 the tribunes Kokomos ays says this afternoon hi higgins i a well known desperado and phil foote ex marshal marshai of kokomo kokomos being beina intoxicated began firing re a llan dom shortly thereafter meeting mayor doncaster of decene ite Ile cene Hi higgins gins fired nt at him the shot ahot just juat grazed his ills head police f man brown browd or ori deret lerel them to be lie quiet and was shot and dangerously wounded by Hig gli the dc Lopera does then tied to Rc cenea small email vil lage on the suburbs of kokomo kokomos and prepared for resistance the marshal and po pose posse se pursued and after wounding higgins in the face captured him and anti foote they were taken to leadville to avoid lynch ing much excitement A colorado springs special says pays the denver and kio grande railway have declared a dividend of 11 1 per cent payable on july A leadville special says the chronicle announces this evening that ox ex alderman aiderman J at mccombe was shot and probably fatally wounded by james McDo mcdonald a well known variety actor mccombes bug buggy gy was hitched before the tile house when mcdonald medo McDo requested andy ands and lie claims received permission to take some children riding nid rid ing he put several children in the tiie buggy and drove round the tile block on his return mccombe I 1 was in a rage and regardless of the children fired twice one ball striking mcdonaad medo McDo Al in the head bead mccombe has been prominent in politics having been a candidate for lieutenant governor and mayor and last spring was lefore before the people as nominee for city treasurer NEW NEV YORK IS 18 conkling and platt are at present at the fifth avenue hotel tho the two ex sena 1 tors receive few callers conkling was found in his hia rooms but was extremely reticent about speaking on tile the subject of the senatorial contest he observed that the political interests of tile were ii 1 i such a condition of chaos at present that it would be imprudent for him to speak on any subject and especially on one so intimately connected with the honor of those who are concerned in the investigation aaion conkling said that any dap day day might bring about the tiie climax which has lias been so ear earno earne earnestly nestly neatly itly desired and so eagerly sought one of the principal matters to be considered ty ky tile sst fet alwart lea eiers tiers today to day and tomorrow to morrow is the preparation of te testimony for tile tiie in ting committee next week senator conkling conklin said some pome pame startling developments might be expected 1 it I do not see bee said platt how the tile matter is going to end I 1 see no immediate prospect of either an election or an adjournment vote will break up next week albany 18 Con klings vote jacobs 34 conkling con Fon kling 20 wheeler ay cornell clapham 5 13 crowley 2 folger 1 I 1 platt piatt vote depew 11 14 II 11 kernan 34 31 platt 17 cornell 5 wheeler I 1 crowley Or owley 3 lapham 1 adjourned in the assembly a concurrent resolution for final adjournment for the was tabled four democrats only voting in its favor the heralds Hart hartford ford rord special the chinese government recently sent instructions through the embassy at washington to the chinese educational commission in this city to establish a department of tele tole graphy and operations will be com corn fenced next week at present there is no telegraphic communication 1 in the chinese empire excepting between a few of the larger places on the coast it is understood that communication Is solely in english or other tongues than chinese Chine sei sep and that no system has yet been devised by which they can communicate by wire in their own language the project as zus reported here contemplates of a government telegraph system to extend to all of the tiie empire with operators who are to be thoroughly instructed alike in the theory and practical operation of the elt eit etric tele iele telegraph graph it will be necessary to prepare a system of telegraphic signs and symbols which indicate chinese characters it ig is proposed to have the students here in learning learning the art use the ordinary system of the country and as they are arc well acquainted with english they could in their own country either cither telegraph in english and tran translate glate glato into chinese or use the proposed system of chinese telegraphic gim sim symbols bols bois the students selected for the telegraphic class are those advanced in their studies in this country and who are shortly to go to china gresham B hubbell who has lias recently resigned the position of the hartford of the western union Coni company inny lany has deen engaged by the commission as A correspondent of tho the boston writing from fort wingate N M describes in enthusiastic language an the divico discoveries veries verles made by F M cushing gushing who was keut kent out by the smithsonian institute two years ago to investigate in pueblos bew new mexico the history story lii ill and customs of the natives gushing cushing who lias has made zuni the last of the indian pueblos the seat of his residence is said to havo have acquired great influence and a prominent position among the people so that every facility for investigation vesti gation gatlon and stu study dybas has hns bednar been afforded him even to tilo the disclosure of facts which religious superstition had jealously guarded OMAHA 18 the tho dirst surveying party sent out our by chief engineer house of the missouri pacific railway in bebr nebraska iska are now at work near louisville about 20 miles south of this city they are surveying north from that point the probability being that they will strike the union pacific either at papillion or gilmore it is likely that trains will run into omaha over the missouri pacific from one of or tb the e above places the latter iatter place being only 10 miles routh r of here the missouri pacific will cross the burlington and mis alls sour railroad and the missouri river biver at louisville CLEVE CLEVELAND LAND 18 A severe storm passed over a portion of northern ohio last night trees were uprooted buildings blown down or unroofed and considerable damage done by lightning an edifice at rugles grove fell by a cyclone cv clone and several orchards were more or less damaged barns torn to es and cattle cattie killed or injured the storm track was wes half a mile wide and the duration one hour 20 it is stated at headquarters of the Texas pacific road at marshall texas yesterday that jay gould had bought a controlling interest of over two thirds of the stock in the east line and red river narrow gauge railway now running jennerson running over miles from orom jefferson of james scott its ita president who is a son of the tho late inte thomas A scott this is regarded as a checkmate by gould on the texas and st louis railway the texas pacific track is now laid ja miles out on the staked plains and is JF being pushed on at the rate of eight miles per week the extension of the missouri pacific to its intersection with the texas pacific at Bl minola inola was completed last evening and trains can now run through from st louis to san pan antonio without change also to houston Aust inand other far south po points in ts in texas c CHICAGO 11 CAGO 20 10 the times has information of a serious cyclone at harvard ills on the northwestern railroad the first reports indicated that the tilo entire town was destroyed but later though still incomplete report reports tell that though the destruction of property there was no widespread calamity telegraphic communication muni cation is cut oft off at present charters for five millions bushels of grain have been hence to new york by railroad companas comp anys at 15 cents per hundred the ci cl amento amenio of theniel the new rew york mana managers 0 wets gets seems seeing to have produced no effort the times says saya there is a prospect of a railroad war in colorado between the union pacific and a new company known as the denver western and pacific the is over the occupation of fall river pass tilo only feasible route for a railroad into the middle part of colorado both roads are making surveys of the canon callon and there is only room for one NEW 20 an albany s special bl ecial says A report came to albany ay last n night t of efforts being made in new york to induce grant to accept the candidacy whether the proposition is to put him in Con klings klinga place or plates platts is not known the new administration men here who have heard beard of it say they believe if he was nominated in conk Con lings klings place lie he would be elected but if tile the proposition was to offer conkling and grant it would only result in a more bitter fight than that now in progress there appears to be no ivason reason for supposing cornell corneli corn ell eli has lias made an announcement that lie he will not be a candidate he has told friends repeatedly that he could not bo be a candidate against Con conkling klinc so far as the long term candi candidad candidacy day dav is concerned the man is yet to be found who can declare upon authority that Gov Comell Cornell would refuse to accept the place it if chosen hon wm A wheeler remains here and today to te day received laige numbers of callers with many other republicans he is hopeful that during the coming week there will be an adjustment of the contest by the election of a stalwart man expresses belief that depew and cornel n el I 1 or rogers will be elected and before long the times says ex senators conkling and platt plait will to albany late yesterday afternoon gen grant returned to tile the hotel and last ov evening elling was alone with Con klink in n the tw room of tho tile latter conkling says there will be no attempt at public demonstration in his support KANSAS CITY cley 20 the number of dead bodies found in the missouri river at this point recent recently lybas hns has given rio ribo to suspicion that there is an organized band of thugs at work at some point on the river about here A few days ago the body of a young woman entirely nude was taken out ot the current yesterday tile headless body of a man was found floating and today to day the body of a man with his throat cut from ear to ear was found floating a few miles below the city NEW york 19 the tho heralds s limerick special says the evictions and process servings have llave continued throughout the week without resistance the bodies of police and soldiers have been so large largo as ai to over awo even the bravest of tho the would be insurgents the most threatening of the coming evictions are some v which filch are to occur at mitchelstown Mitchels town county cork where atwill it will bero bere be remembered a desperate encounter was barely avoided a fortnight ago on the occasion of evictions on the tile proper property tX of the countess of kings town in no part of the country are the populace more determined and reckless than at mitchelstown Mitchels town under the shadow of the famous galls gaims mountains where the rebellious spirit is strongest and where poverty has made them the people desperate and lawless recent events and parti the recent encounters have intensified the feeling of resentment towards the landlord and police there being no disturbances threatened in any oti oth er quarters I 1 visited mitchelstown Mitchels town which is a 10 mile drive from durmay one of the most important military stations in ireland the surrounding crun try is very picturesque I 1 firo first called upon father burton a most intelligent and courteous priest from whom I 1 learned how apprehensive he and those entrusted with the safety of the people were regarding tile next election day ho he feared that the |
