Show GENERAL NEWS by union NEW YORE july 16 before the wallace senatorial committee today supervisor of elections continued his testimony in regard to the manner in which judge conducted the naturalization business the proceedings conducted in an irregular manner and a kind of mock court was held witness gave the names of men who had been naturalized before being in he country six week the witness the said number of per sons who registered on lent certificates in 1876 was and in 1878 it was reduced to of these only about 1200 voted and be would hare prevented it hf could he denied conducting the of bis office in any partisan manner and in fact had been aci aused by republicans of favoritism davenport mentioned tho name patrick giff who he slid appeared ag a witness for persons desiring to be naturalized one thousand an I ninety six cases of certificates were sold in blank to applicants for na they were charged from fifty cents to four bun dred of these papers were laken in one day by goll to kings county many of the blanks were also taken to the river counties for sa leand in saintosa SAi atosa county were offered for eile daenport then continued and read from a number of the records ot the to show that the issued exceeded the number of persona who actually op eliod for naturalization papers and aso to show th ita large number of from thu books of the court were and that the addres gag given bad no existence and frequently represented vacant lots and atone yards NEW 16 the heroine galena special says it is authoritatively tat ively stated here thang rant will re turn to galena before the ast 1st of au jilt bettle up bis affairs and go to new york where a position is own for his acceptance the general hi B been tendered the presidency of the american branch of the canal company at a salary of 25 a year this he has refused on the ground that the enterprise would not prove a financial success during the lives of those now interested in the scheme he could not lend bis name 10 an undertaking in which hh friends likely to embark and no returns from if they do not entirely lose their investment two brutal prize fights occurred here yesterday one was conducted in central park and after few rounds the principals and teven spectators were surrounded and captured by the police about a thousand spectators escaped neither principal acs seriously hurt the other fight was conducted to finish on a wharf piles of lumber several rounds were fought w when bufe principal was knocked ins in me and afterwards taken to a hosi pital nu arrests were made in this cabe A Ft IlOTT CHICAGO july 17 tho times has a special detailing exciting events in carroll county arkansas by which a thievish tramp and two citizens lives john W myers a farmer living in that county found upon returning to his house from the fields that it bad been plundered iu his absence he immediately save chase and ran the thief down in boott county missouri where he bad stopped over night at the house of mr kimberling he soon had him covered with a rifle nd the tramp smiling eaid be would sui der but live seconds later dr drew a pistol while his captor was off guard and shot him through h the heart the tramp then escaped iback anio arkansas where eight men finall yran him down at the house of an old man sup to be hia ather they surrounded the house and when ho appeared in the doy opened fire simultaneously causing dust to fly from his but not fatally wounding him he returned the fin with a pistol in either hand and while they reloading took to the fields the pose pos e followed and fired another volley and broucht him to the ground apparently dead but when one of the parly a mr jones went up to take a look at the most daring man that ever lived the fellow pointed a pistol directly at li is bead and fired i mr jones falling back dead the desperado desperately wounded in places soon alter expired am s believed ngern ed in many dark deeds of late in this section of eliw york july 17 the ammar euil eullet M bay the steamship Cy phryne now at montreal was one of the pioneer mail steamers in the pacific at one time she run in at the monthly mail line be tween sidney new south wales ancsan francisco she then entered the china trade and on her lau voyage her gross weight on tea from hong kong to new york was she wa then chartered by uart brothers co of montreal to cargo of 1700 tons of delih coal she ha had her baloon pat accommodations taken away and ia fitted up for car crying cattle instead which pays much better than carrying pao aeng among her crew ore isome twenty veritable alg at singapore perhaps the largest number of celestials Celesti als ever seen in montreal ti lr fluit july another thunder storm pawl over th city abi morning was considerable damage done by lightning A ri near the centro of the city wa astruck and burned two oil tanks one of 1200 barrels and the other vt were also struck andare now burn ing orcil excitement prevails th people are out in force fighting the fires tha damage will bo very great an engine arrived at midnight from OIe anNY on ho platform with which 10 blow to burning oil tank aal arratt all further abw july 16 of in the Chicago hannibal and st joseph railroad was filed to day with the circuit clerk the in corp orators are win dolc jay gould russell sage myron P bu sli S dillon E of new york john B lyon chas B farwell georgec geC walker st joseph K J B jar eon and james capital stock in of each the road will be duill ns heretofore explainer el by tho choit cat route to chicago the kofl ir of tho chicago burlington ft ainey to ecal their line from quincy to carthage was by the company tilt i july 10 hot WM fired in to the second awn fag banle at cuter city at this morning to draw off the oil and thereby prevent an overflow ever the work was commenced too late and after the oil boiled over furiously and set fire to the tank it became a seething sea of fire there arc three other tanks in the immediate vicinity last evening a tink al custer city spent its force tonight three tanks were burned in all at custer and one at kansas branch alie loss on these together with the wooden tank destroyed by wednes day nighta storm will reach the loss on oil in the iron tank burned is sustained by general aver igo assessment in ill portions of the united lines bood amad tor july ac the annual report of of the ag ri cultural department avea interesting facts concerning farm labor and agas in the mining states and territories wages for farm i without board is better in montana and 2250 in wahington te of the northern stater eat of the missouri minnesota pays her laborers the best wages with figard being 1633 while vermont pays only 1260 in the southern states llie pid range from 1226 in louisiana to in south carolina the cost of subsisting tho laborer for the average of the whole country in is a month against the demand for laborers i good in all sections WA july 16 all the states show a wool clip equal to or greater than last year except new Uan apshire ind california kasab reports an increase of forty two per cent and nebraska fifteen A vast increase in abo territories is indicated by reports received amounting to twenty per cant in texas alone a fifteen per cent increase is reported n fruit apples in full average condition aro reported everywhere excepting in the southern atlantic and gulf states where thero is a falling off in peaches tho reports show the condition ot the crop about the same as apples n full average excepting on the pacific coast where the prospect is not very good in grapes the crop is reported favorably in all localities as having enjoyed better conditions for growth BO far than cither peaches or apples il july 16 freeman assistant attorney general for tho post office has decided that where third or fourth class mail matler is deposited in a post office insufficiently prepaid pre paid or where first class matter is deposited without ono full rate the postmaster should not forward hut if by inadvertency it is forwarded the postmaster at the office of delivery should only collect the postage remaining unpaid lie also decides that if first third or fourth class matter bo deposited in aa post office without being prepaid pre paid it be held but if forwarded by mistake tho amount collected upon delivery should be double the postage which should have been prepaid pre paid |