Show BRIEF the chief justice announced that the court would adjourn for the term the first monday in I 1 may and would hear no arguments after the of april there were several bad smash ups on the seventh avenue drive in new york on sunday five persons were very badly hurt in runaways and collisions the rapid introduction of refrigerating machines in large houses and business establishments in new york threatens a revolution in prices the trade in the washington market will be supplied with freezing apparatus this summer Galves Galveston tona tonJ 7 the News san antonio col breckenridge president of the first national bank of san antonio has closed the purchase purchase 1 of acres of land in de the state of mexico brict delegate to the national convention at cat chicago A resolution was adopted to use all honorable means to accomplish that result kansas city 7 the journals mexico special all the stores in the re public are closed today to day in protest against the stamp tax efforts at a compromise between the merchants and the president have failed the latter insists on collecting the tax at all hazards there is somi some talk of finin fining the merchants for violating the sparil spirit of the law minister morgan is unable to protect the property of amerl amenn cans ad against the enforcement of the decree ce ro all business is suspended no sto stores will be opened tomorrow to morrow unless the police open them there is great anxiety and a riot is fear feared ed bradford pa 7 at a spiritual s entertainment given at the opera home last even evening ing by john davenport after af ter a few simple acts lasting a few ew minutes davenport announced the he performance was over of about LOO doo persons in the house some 40 rushed for the stage door announcing announcing their intention of assaulting davenport ile he escaped by the back door was chased up mal cstreet by the mob but reached the hotel safely the mob did lid not disperse till nearly midnight duill threatening to watch davenports davenporte Daven ports departure from the city philadelphia 7 the union pacific railway company which succeeded to the he franchises of the U urion R to 11 p pacific 1 I cit ell I 1 c railroad tall tali road company has filed a petition asking that the order which made oliver olive ames receiver of the credit modeller mo beller belier be vacated and that a citizen ze n of re pennsylvania be appointed instead the removal of ames is asked for or on the ground that he did nothing to wind up the affairs of the credit modeller mo beller belier which it is alleged is insolvent and has no assets except what may come out of the suit on a promissory note for brought against the union pacific I 1 railway company and now pending in boston considerable interest is manifested in new york on the fate of the bill before the legislature regulating the he height ag lit of dwelling houses the fire de department P rement say they cannot cope fairly 1 with I th a dry fire more than 65 feet high and if it is 75 feet it is at the extreme 7 point tint lint they can touch what can they yo do then with a fire in the upper part of a house feet high they answer that the only thing is to wait till it burns down to the point within their reach yet within about two years more than one hundred dwellings have been erected in new york of which the lowest is five feet beyond the maximum and GO 06 of which are dwelling houses boston 7 the annual meeting of the mexican central railroad was held heid today to day the report shows gross earnings for the past year operating I 1 expenses the supplementary concession april 1883 provided that the entire system must be completed by april ISM 1830 the lamount ful of subscriptions 1 2 3 and 4 aggregating 31 1193 OW have been paid in and se settled ih full full fuli after the lection election of the directors thomas nickerson was chosen president and D S robinson general man manager arper arler the ra road ad will be opened april loty loth toledo 0 I 1 commercial telegram will tomorrow to morrow publish a new version of the story of the riots the home papers do not tell all their reporters know about the riots that the coroner does not hold an inquest because the testimony would show snow there was no mob no need of the military no need of them to open op tire that they fired on the unoffending people and such of the policemen and militia as were shot were not shot by the militia t that hat sheriff hawkins has no brains and louthis lost his head that the firing was uncalled for and cowardly that the bystanders could not believe that bullets were being fired until they saw the men fall fail fort wayne ind 8 A heavy sno snow w storm set in this evening and between five and six inches have fallen it is st still ill ili snowing chicago 8 andrew cunningham of chicago has laid claim to the state estate e of the notorious kate townsend of N new ow orleans who was murdered by tris ville sykes cunningham alleges that the deceased was his sister r louisville 8 at a meeting of the directors of of ike the board of trade today the action of the new york chamber of commerce asking congress to stop the coinage of silver dollars was endorsed san francisco 8 the wheat panic in chicago has attracted much attention throughout the state prices are depressed and it Is believed the causes which produced it will have havethe the effect of stopping a further increase of the wheat acreage of this state land ca can n be made more productive in pro producing ducIn fruits new york 8 A committee of ex confederate soldiers and G A R representatives presenta tives met tonight to night and made nal ninal preparations for the tae mass meet ing in cooper union in aid of collecting funds for the establishment of a soldiers home at richmond va the no speakers will include gen J B gordon of georgia rev T do witt talmage and W T sherman davenport iowa 8 for some time the residents of this city have been missing articles of wearing apparel and household use in the most mysterious manner and the police proved unable to cope with the case finally suspicion through a number of small circumstances cum stances fell upon the wife of a prominent minister of the gospel the police visited the house and alithe all ali the missing articles were found kleptomania official clai cial information says the government has hag made arrangements with the merchants regarding the stamp tax which will remove all cause for trouble and anxiety the situation at no time has been as alarming as reported po arted new york 8 typhus fever has broken out among the roles foles on the cast side in the tenements the dise disease asels Is traced to the emigrants in the two steamships lately ai arrived rived montreal 8 the government inspector I 1 of f live stock reports four fifths of the sheep in laprairie county infected with disease the infected districts have been quarantined general stanley will be assigned the command of the department of texas i the president has recognized thomas hellman consul of turkey at new orleans the philadelphia press is urging that fremont be placed on the army retired list denver 8 the annual meeting of the colorado coal iron com company ally rily was held at colorado springs to today day the following nine were e elected A 1 A danforth john H small henery E sprague Spra gneW W B lawrence J ED E devlin evlin A rutten W A dick coleman benedict and thos J ryen the palmer faction represented and the anti antl palmer ralmer shares of f the total henry sprague will wili probably be chosen president washington 8 the republican district tr 1 ct co convention nv antion for th the c nomination of delegates to the chicago convention has been geen in session all day and at this hour lao iao am has not succeeded in a agreeing Teel teeing ng upon any one to represent the district disputing quarreling and s speechmaking speech bech mt making ikin has been the order of the day and evening the disgraceful scenes enacted at many of the primaries last night and the disorder in the convention today to day served to give a decided check to the suffrage movement in the district nominations thomas were fox united states consul at plymouth En england giano giand win wm rockhill of maryland secretary of the legation sf the united unite states to china jotin john J burns joburns JB urns postmaster sprague washington territory confirmations geo J pace postmaster at raton new mexico the house committee on judiciary today to day adopted representative may burys adverse report on the joint ra resolution proposing a cons constitutional amendment to give rive women the right of suffrage Dorsheimer agreed to report on the ground that it is inexpedient to extend the right of suffrage now but was of the opinion it would be aaris advisable at some future time to give women the right to vote representatives reed brown of indiana and E B taylor of ohio will submit a minority report the postmaster general has received a dispatch lis ils patch stating that from and after the loth dinst the central pacific railway wa y company will run a fast mail train fro from in ogden west covering the distance between ogden and san fran francisco in 29 hours this will complete lete the fast mail new vork york and san francisco and save 24 hours between these points be boston S ton 9 th the e steamer grecian is landing immigrants assisted from fund nearly all have started westward the most of them had been evicted from irish estates atlanta 9 0 the press association met here today to day fn an full numbers and passed resolutions in favor of the newspaper copyright bill and against the postal telegraph bill lynchburg va 9 the entrance to t the he coal mine was opened today to day the bodies of the victims will be received tomorrow to morrow several bodies were seen today to day on opening the entrance mt nit carmel penn renn 9 the heaviest snow storm of the winter it has is been ra raino raging t ino r throughout the coal region since ea early r ily this mornin morning 9 many collieries colli eries suspended tided at noon railway tra travel velis veils is much impeded baltimore 9 thi the heaviest snow fall of the winter today to day and melted as it touched tile the earth the railroads report telegraph poles down in all direction from the force of the gale indianapolis 9 T the he indiana farmer oi of this city has a crop report from every county in indiana illinois and ohio which show the following per er cent of wheat acreage compared with the average average crop indiana 95 05 illinois 89 ohio 97 the condition 0 of j wheat indiana 86 illinois 99 ohio 84 san Francisco 9 the schooner oun alaska geo M stoney Stone yin in command and sailed today to day for alaska S stoney tolliev goes to make further exploration of the great river ds discovered covered by him last year ottawa 9 0 the minister of justice has informed premier smith of british columbia that the bill passed by the british columba legislature prohibiting hi the immigration of chinese into that p province rovin cef ced as disallowed columbus ohio 9 0 the adjutant general has issued an order placing lacin under arrest F B mott blott and beo aeo geo if phillips colonel and lieutenant colonel of the fourth regiment of the ohio national guard of dayton for disobedience bedi bed lence ence of orders and misconduct while on duty for ti tho I 1 0 suppression of the riot at cincinnati A court martial will soon be appointed to try the cases boston 9 the supreme court in the a appeal eal eai for relief from the tax imposed in by the county commissioner upon pacific railroad bonds bond holds rall rali railroad bonds are not public bioc stock or securities within the ordinary ord inari meaning i of these terms or an any y meaning the legislature have by implication given we them loy iny and the prayer of the petitioner is therefore tU granted the atlantic pacific road says the transcript is to bs be continued to the western coast and the mojave molave line is to be paralleled unless C P liun lian huntington t in will sell it at a reasonable price chicago 9 galloway manager of the chicago and grand trunk has accepted the position of assistant to managing director ames of the union pacific senator mahone left lef t washington for petersburg this morning the star leports his hig condition is worse than has been given out in the jeannette investigation R L newcomb naturalist of the jeannette expedition took t the e stand and gave an account of the troubles between himself and melville ile he thought melville had a spite against him ile he also described his trouble with delong witness thought all the hands on the expedition were at strife most of the time timi and after the jeannette got in the ice and it was believed tile the expedition would be a failure delong lon tried to foment strife in ord order e r to lay the iche blame on the men |