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Show NEWS OF THE DAY. Annexation to the United States is the common talk in Montreal. She must get vaccinated first. Kichard S. Dement, of Illinois, was 3resterday appointed by the President to be Surveyor-General of Utah. It has been decided to extend Kiel's reprieve until after the appeal in his case has been heard before the Imperial Privy Council. Mrs. E. Watson, of Greensburg, Ind., wants a divorce from her husband because be-cause he sealed her lips with court-plaster court-plaster in order to stop her talking. Hog cholera has broken out on many of the farms near Lincoln, 111., and hogs are dying daily in great numbers. Some farmers have lost every hog they had. The school authorities of Little Eock, Arkansas, are trying to decide whether the children of a Chinese father and a Caucassian mother shall be permitted to .attend school or not. It isn't often that California gets' in a reform mood, but when it does it comes down with both feet. An amendment to the school law of the State provides for the expulsion from the public school of all girls who chew gum. Jack Dempsej' of San Francisco, and Dave Campbell, the Oregon champion, cham-pion, are to fight in Portland, Oregon, on the 2d of November, for $1,000 a side, Marquis of Queensbury rules, eight rounds with three-ounce gloves. John Steinhart, of Barnesville, N. Y., a quarryman, swallowed a rubber plate with five false teeth on it while coughing, a few days ago. The physicians were unable to remove the plate, and Steinhart, after suffering greatly, died night before last in agony. Emigrant passengers to San Francisco are now carried on the regular passenger trains, to which the emigrant sleepers will be attached on ihe Central and Southern South-ern Pacific roads. By this arrangement two days' travel will be saved between San Francisco and the East. There will be a billiard tournament in New York in December to give the New Yorkers a chance to see Maurice Viguaux, champion of France, handle the cue against the American champions, Schaffer, Slosson, Sexton, Daly and Dion. It is to be a handicap tournament. In Ellaville, Ga., Charles Blackman, colored, who shot Captain Tondee, white, a popular young business man of that place, because of the latter's attentions to a pretty colored girl whom Blackman was courting, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged November 2d. An Indian Territory dispatch says: "The Indians who were recently taken into the United States service as soldiers have just received the first money due them, payment being made at Fort Reno. The experiment has been a success. It is understood that an effort will soon be made to organize a regiment composed entirely of Indians." The first cane rush that has occurred for a great many years at Harvard took place the other night between the freshmen fresh-men and sophomore classes. About 600 students were engaged, and they turned the buildings and grounds into a babel for several hours. Many students were severely injured.' Clothing was torn and many private fights were indulged in. Mary Anderson made her first appearance ap-pearance after two years of success in Europe, Eu-rope, at the Star Theater last night. She was supported by an English company, the same that was with her in her first appearance in England. She was most heartily welcomed by an audience that crowded the house to the doors. The play was "As You Like It." Mary is coming West and will play in Salt Lake. Captain Hanson, of the bark "Pauline," "Paul-ine," from Cardiff for Quebec, recounts a strange phenomenon. In latitude 55 degree west, longitude 40 degrees north, on Sept. 20, during a rainstorm, a brilliant bril-liant ball of fire lodged on the deck, and for a few moments played about from the cabin to the f )recastle, prostrating the captain and two seamen. With a loud report the fiery visitor disappeared as suddenly as it appeared, without damaging damag-ing the vessel. The work of counting the standard silver dollars in Washington, is now going on. As all of these coins are new the count will be by weight. Three million one hundred thousand dollars have, alreadv arrived from the Carson City Mint, $10,400,000 were brought from New Orleans by water, and they are arriving at the rate of $000,000 a day from the various vari-ous mints. It is impossible to predict how long the count will last. A dispatch says Turkish mobilization up to the present has brought under arms 120,000 men. The Turks are laying their plans with great skill. Two large armies are being formed, one at Adrianople, the other at Uskup. The first army mentioned men-tioned intended to advance into Eastern Roumelia if the diplomatic offorts failed ; the other corps is within easy striking distance of Sofia, andean threaten the Bulgarian capital while watching both the Servians and Montenegrins. The Turkish position is much improved. President Cleveland has decided to go home and vote m tne isew iwk. &ia.ie election. The exact day of his departure has not yet been fixed. It is probable ho will leave Washington on November 2d, to cast his ballot -for Hill the following day and then return to the White House. The President is a voter in Buffalo and his name is registered in the Ninth ward. He will be accompanied as far as New York by Secretary Manning and Colonel Lamont. Manning votes in Albany and Lamont in Courtlandt county. Spiritualists are very much excited over the exposure of Mrs. Eugene Beste, the illuminated materializing medium, well-known in New York, Philadelphia and Washington. During a seance at the house of a leading believer in Hartford, Conn., says a dispatch, some incredulous persons at a prearranged signal rushed m, seized the supposed materialized spirit and turned on the gas. Mrs. Beste, very much undressed, was disclosed, and uttered piercing screams till relieved from her embarrassing plight. She afterward after-ward made a written confession, stating that she had produced her effects by means of underclothing soaked in a solution solu-tion of phosphorus and spattered with luminous paint. These articles were, of course, concealed by her other clothing when she entered a room, and she brought them into view after the gas was turned offby removing her dress, bhe refunded the money she had received and was allowed to go. , , |