Show GENERAL NEWS by W P to tb jefries jewries Jew ries suld U auction ST loci june 17 tho deaso hold and all the scenery fixtures and other belonging to dabars opera house were sold at auction today to day by order of tho probate court john W norton who lias been tho manager of the theatre for several yeara past was the purchaser at 1000 the lease hold has between two and three years to run norton will leave for the east at once to make engagements for next season ST louis june 17 J V kruger cashier of the defunct broad way savings bank was brought into the court of criminal correction today to day for examination on the charge of embezzlement the prisoner waived examination and in default of thirty thousand dollars bail was remanded the silling of SAN FRANCISCO june 17 at tho academy of sciences tonight to night there was a larger attendance than usual both of members and spectators including many ladies dr II 11 W vice presided surrounded by the staff of the jeanette as follows lacut aco W de long commander charles W chipp officer john W navigator G W melville chief engineer J M am bier passed assistant surgeon james J collins meteorologist R L newcomb naturalist W bradford artist and charles W brooks ex U S consul japan after the chairman had introduced delong and the staff a paper on arctic explorations written by dr A B stout was read delong then addressed the audience brielly referring to the manner in which private liberality and enterprise were combined with government assistance to send out an expedition under the best possible auspices as a national undertaking jio dwelt upon ho present as being tha first attempt to reach the pole by way of Behn straits and the likely to bo encountered and deemed it better not to say at present what they proposed to do but hoped to be held in remembrance until their return when tho recital of what had beer done will bo of greater interest 1111 opinion NEW boik june 17 J B houston director in pacific mailisand Mail isaid last evening that the company bad received no later information regarding tho acapulco and supposed she had been allowed to land her cargo lie regarded the resolution on the isthmus of about as much importance as an ordinary ordin iry free fight on the bowery however the british government always kept aman to protect british interest and it seemed proper that the united states should do the same travel with a party ottrice otTri cn ds in colorado the journey is intended to combine pleasure with business it 17 who cro gly assaulted and then mur dereu miss woodward on the fifth instant near hanged today to day by a mob of armed men caell the vital SAN FRANCISCO juno 17 detectives have discovered evidences which seem to directly implicate u negro named williams as the perpetrator of the recent assault upon ida dunn and cord at wheatland ho was taken to the county jail at ma roysville rys ville to day to avoid tha danger of lunching lynching lyn ching both the girl aro now likely to recover from their injuries their mails june 17 dispatch from Ui reservation reer tho indian council reconvened most of the older indians were present but the young warriors were generally absent and those present acro sullen in demeanor nothing definite was accomplished and the council adjourned till tha dinst when a full attendance is promised and some definite result may be expected 11 ll Flit lit juno 17 VW ial at Brackets ville in a fight with dr charles of tins place lieutenant boasen of alia infantry wad shot and killed the former shooting him five times 11 t NEW juno 17 captain eads of jetty celebrity having expressed a conviction that a canal can be constructed across the isthmus at half tho cost of lesseps scheme and in much less time and having elso suggested the route of the panama railroad as anost practicable ti 09 recommended by lie bulletin that the panama railroad charter from columbia provides that no canal shall ever be constructed across the without the consent of tho railroad company les tops and aisi adherents probably reasoned that the company would ask more for the surrender of their exclusive privileges than they were really worth and that on tho whole it would be better to choose a route with fewer advantages as regards cost and engineering than to to extortion tempered possibly with costly and embarrassing legal and diplomatic complications upon this thed y tho little attention paid in the paria congress i to the railroad level route ia intelligible enough tho announcement from paris that leaps has secured subscriptions of two million franca to hia no enthusiasm apparently on the part here llor an correspondent of the ames writing from isea mexico detailing tho affairs of the topeka and fe ays n boston company backed by unlimited capital have determined on the con nt ruction of ft road from this way meeting a road from this faida at a point called soldiers pare well 40 miles from los the present terminus and nearly midway on the route tho all rail from new york to willbo about miles only further than from new york to san francisco masia an average distance of ado nearer the i of china than fian of ft thou aal melr Mr lr SAI luna 17 jamea bowlan brur tiered hia wife nellie thia morning calling at the house where she obtained employment ns housekeeper and shooting her down on her refusal to resume martial relations with him mrs bowlan had left her husband on account of his brutal treatment deceased was a native of new york aged NEW YORK anno 17 arvander pool health officer at quarantine bays unless rigid quarantine is kept up there is a possibility of yellow fever biking its appearance in new york two vessels with ahe disease on board are in the upper bay discharging their cargo A blow for NEW june 17 the world today to day referring to grants reception and address sneeringly what grant meant was probably that landing to san franciscono Franci scoto deliver ft wonderful speech upon the chinese question niter the kind of that famous oration upon public schools with which he once scared himself into silence at des moines A philadelphia correspondent of the tribune says that neither party active canvass the state is conceded to the republicans by alie democratic managers if the campaign be loft to run itself without public meetings or any effort at organization further than to revive state and county corn mit tees it is believed that the republican majority on a light vote will bo about the same as last year 2000 sew ahn commends as the right sort of talk the following from the troy times on state politics only one thing need awaken apprehension on the part of republicans aliis fall and that is the intervention of politicians this s not the time for political jugglery and management in effecting nominations the next republican convention represent the policy of the party and voice its sentiments and convictions in all things the people are ripe for a change they demand one and mean to have it we believe furthermore they mean also to determine for themselves who shall represent them in tho contest that is approaching alne in the principal causes to which the recent london rise in silver is attributed are the suspension of sales by the german government the angue rumor that germany intends to restore ft bimetallic currency the decreased oll cring of council bills by the indian government owing to the recent and probably temporary change of policy the diminution in the reported production and the slightly increased gold production the considerable increase of silver in the bank of france an advance in thep rico of cotton which tends to increase silver exports atti India and s overloaded cd european marketa tp ver at our expense the times thinks nono of these causes make a permanent advance certain bismarck is more likely waiting for a rise in alio price than intending to abandon the single standard for he has already sacrificed o much and germany still has sixty to eighty seven millions of silver whenever the indian government puts its bills upon the market silver falls and wo cant count on its ability to refrain silver production fluctuates so violently that wo cant rely on tt continued increase court cs tenn juno 17 this afternoon during the trial of john J odrien for alleged seduction of miss lizzie vass and while ho defendant was testifying as to his innoccnzo of the crime miss lizzie arose from her seat near her counsel and walking towards defendant said you villain you murdered my father and now you want to ruin my reputation aa speaking she drew from her dres pocket but before slie could fire it jsn caught by a deputy sheriff who wrested it from her her father henry F vass had committed sui cido on learning of ins daughters the suit now is for live thousand dollars brought by the deceased stilled it ital june 17 tho proceedings ce ond findings of the court martial in the case of col D S mud col W B diazen of which general hancock was president his been made public general sherman approves of the proceedings and findings and nays the officers will resume their respective duties and add both parties ivill ba careful that tho will bo not injured by the revival of the subject tho court found stanley guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline and sen him to be admonished in general orders by tho general of the army colonel stanley will resume command of hia regiment boril lafty NEW YORK june 17 lord loftus the newly ap pointel governor of new south wales with his family were in tho bochnia today they will proceed aaros tho continent after remaining hero a few days lie balls from san franciaco on tho atu of july passing the ath in san francisco lord lol tiia wa till recently minister to st petersburg |