1 alu, NEWSOF THE WEEK. -James R. Whiteley, a blother of W, N. Whiteley, the great reaper manu- facturer, committed suicide in Spring- field, Ohio, on the 31st ult., by shooting himself, —The total coinage of the U. S. Mints during October amounted in value to $6,553,870, including 3,450,000 standard dollars, —A gasoline explosion, followed by fire, occurred early on the morning of the Ist in the cellar of the grocery store of Michael Newman, 1a St. Louis, The grocery, a two-story brick build- ing, and those adjoining, were demol- ished, and thirteen persons, including the wife and five children of Newman, and two families living in the other houses, were buried in the ruins. When the flames were extinguished and all were rescued it was found that eight were dead and three seriously in- jured, Besides those injured in the building in which the explosion oc- curred many persons in the ne‘ghbor- hood were more or less cut and bruised by flying splinters and bricks. For several blocks on either side of the streets the concussion shattered the windows,and in the immediate vicinity, on the opposite side of the way, the fronts of buildings were demolished, and scarcely a door or window remains, Walls cracked, floors gave way and plaster fell in almost every house within a radius of a hundred vards —A telegram from Albuquerque, New Mexico, says intelligence has just been received from San Pedro county { the murder of Jose Gutteriez, Major 16 Loaguade Ranch, a sheep ra by a gang of cowboys, A party of ten armed Mexicans has started for the scene,and more trouble is expected. Mrs, Cedilate, her brother, Joseph Parker, and her son, Frederick, aged 14 years, living in Cincinnati, were poisoned by arsenic in a cranberry pie on the 31st ult. Mrs, Parker, 60 years old, the mother of Mrs. Cedilate, was ar- rested on the 1st, on the charge of hav- ing administered the poison. Mrs. Cedilate’s husband died of poisoning last Christmas. The family will re. cover. Alfred IIahn went to Chicago, on the 1st, and identified the remains of the man found murdered in a car- riage on a freight car as those of his brother, Frank Hahn. He left with the body on the evening of the 1st, for Rochester, Ot th Dom y of tl — Nearly all the guests at a dance and supper in Delhi, La., on the even ing of the 23th ult.,, were poisoned by something in the food. Seven have since died, and nearly thirty others, men, women and children, are dauger- ously sick. tis not known how the poison got in the food, public debt statement, issued shows a reduction of $16.- October, The in the Treasury is $407 38! During October there was au in $10,141,886 in the net gold Treasury, and an increase 204 in the circulation of the silve . Vy during total ot of dead bx a box at the rs Moines, Iowa, on 18( placed in a common checked throngh as baggage. stigation proved the corpse to be the dy of Katie Dunn, 19 years of age, 10 died in St, Josaph, a few days ago, he Coroner’s inquest developed the ct that the box containing the body ad been shipped from Chariton, by Dr. Gillespie, of Des Molnes, He was placed under arrest. He says he re- ceived it from a man he did not know, iv , tel dy of a girl aliroad tha iit veen —There were four new cases of yel- low fever and two deaths at Tampa, Florida, Ist. A very slight Father Swem-~ burgh, a Catholic priest, who took the place of Father Peterman, who died last week, has also died. on the —Neveral of the night miners at the Chamberlain Colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa., were ascending in the elevator on the morning of the 1st, when some part of the machinery broke, dropping the car to the bottom, Moses Thorn- ton was instantly killed and another man badly Injured, J. R. Gloninger, a prominent business man of Pitts- burg, was run over and killed by a railroad train on the morning of the 1st. He was 50 years of age. An en- gine exploded near Hack Berry, Cali- fornia, on the evening of the 31st, kil- ling Engineer Schroader, Fireman Long and brakeman Trapp. Willie Herbert, 8 years of age on the 1st shot and killed his seven-year-old sister, while playing with a shot gun, in Bor- dentown, Lackawanna county, Penna. —In South Wilkesbarre, on the 1st, the Lehigh and Wilksbarre Coal Com- pany, after years of labor and an ex- penditure of nearly $100,000, struck the great ‘‘Baltimore vein” of coal nearly 1100 feet below the surface. This 1s the deepest shaft in Pennsylvania. The vein is from 18 to 20 feet in thickness, and it is said, will net the company fully $3,000,000. ~ Mrs, James Hoar and child, while walking on the railroad frack at Fiteh- burg, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of the 2d, were struck by an engine and killed. WU. 8. Naval Surgeon George Arthur fell from a tfain near Salem, Virginia, on the 24, and was instantly killed. He was on the plat. form, and it 1s supposed a sudden lurch of the train caused his fall, No one saw him fall, John G. Beattie and Mrs. Hattie Turner were run over and killed by a train at Steubenville, Ohio, on the evening of the 2d. ~On the morning of the 24, accord- ing to a despatch from FPalquemine, Louisiana, a portion of the town at the head of Tinnls alley caved into the river. So far the levee is not in danger, —John Hodel, a silk weaver, living in Hebron, Connecticut, shot and killed his wife, on the evening of the Ist, and then set fire to the bed in which his two children were sleeping and they were burned to death, Hodel had balf a dozen barrels of home made wine and cider in his cellar, and drink. ing fiom these made him crazy, Charles Overhelser was shot and fatal. Jy wounded by Herschel Adking, aged 22 years, near Allegan, Michigan, on the evening of the 1st. They had quarrelled because the murderer had disgraced Overheiser’s sister, who died last summer in her shame, Henry Pritchard was arrested in Dobbs Ferry, New York, on the evening of the 1st, for fracturing John Hughes’ skull with a buse ball bat. Hughes was a boarder in Pritechard’s house, and jeal- ousy was the cause of the assault, It is thought Hughes will die, William E. Tracy, of New Britain, Connecti- cut, who was found dead in his barn on the 31st ult,, it has been discovered was murdered, At Kamloops, British Columbia, on the evening of the 20th ult.,, a balf breed Indian named Me- Lean, being drunk, fatally shot two Indians and wounded a third, He was soon afterwards shot dead by other Indians. William Sims and Harry Howard were arrested in Pittsburg on the 2d on suspicion of being the mur- derers of Frank Hahn, whose body was found in a carriage on a freight car at Chicago last week. Scott Ray, the third party suspected, is In prison, at Rochester on the charge of disorderly conduct. It is stated that Ray and others assaulted a woman named Ken- neay at Rochester on the evening of the 20th ult., and that the murdered man was an important. witness, ~ Early on the morning of the 24d burglars entered the residence of Samuel MceCreery in Flushing, New Jersey, and carried off 81500 in cash and jewelry. Mr. and Mrs. Wangler, son-in-law and daughter of Mr. Mec- Creery, were awakened, but one of the burglars told them to cover up their heads and keep still or he would shoot them. The frightened couple did so and the thieves completed their work. The people of Musquodoboit Harbor and Jessore, in Nova Scotia, are terror- ized by highway robbers and burglars. A few nights ago Dr. Stoddart, a well- Enown physician, had his wi stopped by a highwayman, but escaped by applying the whip to his horse. The robber fired after him, but missed Lis aim. Four stores in Jessore were plun- dered in one night recently, A gang of Mexican bandits entered the store of Magdalen Flores, in Hidalgo county, Texas, on the night of the 3lst ult., tore out the building, unhinging th door and smashing the windows stole everything it contained. : said they ‘*would clean out the entire community before many days” A despatch from Holbrook, Arizona Ter- ritory, says the north and south were robbed by one man about night Oclober 31st, between Johns and Navajo, The only passen- ger was robbed of eighty dollars, won mails mid- On St. -The decision of the United State Supreme Court upon the petition for a writ of error in the case of the Chicago Anarchists was announced on the af- ternoon of the 2d, Chief Justice Wa opinion. The Court h first ten amendments to Constitution are limitation upon Fed eral and not upon action; tha the jury law of lllinois is upon its face valld and constitutional, and that it is similar in its provisions to the f Utah, which was Court; that it does record, t court sho “sf i +3 read the thant +} Lilet LID far State statute sustained in this appear in the upon the evidence the trial Lave the juror He objection not declared Johann examination the prisoners iy compelled t Was presented in the trial court, and that, therefore, no foundation was lald for the exercise of this Court's jurisdictic aud that the questions raised by eral Butler in the cases of Sples Fielden, upon the basis of their foreign nationality, were neither raised nor de- cided in the Btate courts, and therefore cannot nsidered here, The writ of error prayed for was denied, + 1s emseives, be ¢ of into by —The bodles of nineteen victims the Vernon disaster were taken Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on the 2d, harbor tugs. ~—Thers is great excitement at Spen cer, Ohio, over a supposed double mur- der, on the 25th uit,, at the house of A. D. Garrett, a farmer, which was found on fire, Neighbors extinguished the flames, and, upon investigating, found the fire had started in the sleep- ing room of the two grown-up imbecile daughters of Garrett, who were found on the floor dead. The faces of both bore marks which led to the belief that they had been murdered. The floor was saturated with coal oil and covered with leaves and dry grass. The Coroner is at work on the case, —Full returns of the election in Delaware,on the lst, shows that 14,431 votes were cast in favor of a Constitu- tional Convention, and only 308 against it, “Though failing 1209 votes short of the strict letter of the act under which the election was held (which re- quired that at least 15,640 votes be cast in favor of a convention), this vote shows that a clear majority of the qualified voters favor a convention, and is generally accepted as assuring the election of a Legislature pledged to call a convention.” ~ While removing the debris on the 2d from the cellar of the Newman building In St. Louis, where the ex- plosion occurred on the morning of the 1st, it was discovered that the explo. sion did not occur 1n the Newman building at all, but In the cellar ad- Joining, under the house occupied by the Devere family, The foundation wall separating the two buildings has two holes each about six feet wide and some twenty feet apart, kuocked in it, and the heavy masonry of the wall was blown into Newman's cellar. This confirms the report that there were ‘two explosions, and further examina tion may reveal the nature of the agent used, and a clue may be ob tained to the identity of the lend who perpetrated the diabolical act,” ~The house of T. 8, Oliver, In Faulkner county, Arkansas, was burned a few days ago, and his three little grandehildren perished in the flames, ~John Haldemaker and Walter Klostermar were drowned on the 2d, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, by the cap- sizing of their boat while duck hunt. ing, ~The house of Willlam Wade. at Chester, New York, was burned or morning of the 3d, during the tempo! rary absence of Mr. Wade, and the re- mains of his wife was found in she ruins. The Chicago Club House, in Chicago, was damaged by fire on the morning of the 3d, A panic occurred among the guests in the Palmer House, opposite, and in the Clifton House, adjoining on the east, and many of them rushed into the street under the impression that the hotels were on fire. The employes of the club, who were asleep in the building, escaped to the roof of an adjoining building. The loss is estimated at about $30,000, and is fully insured. The steam gin, to- gether with one hundred bales of cot- ton, on the plantation of James Henry, al Natcitoches, Louisiana, was burned on the JOth ult, Andrew White, col- ored, has been arrested on suspicion of having set fire to the gin, A number of dwellings and small bulldings in Ramson, near Findlay, Ohlo, were burned on the evening of the 2d, caus- ing a loss of $20,000 upon which there is $14,000 insurance. Every business building but one in Trenton, a village near Helena, Arkansas, was burned on the evening of the 2d. The loss is placed at $25,000. A fire at Oil City, Penna., on the evening of the 3d, de- stroyed Joseph Reld’s machine shop and foundry, the Eagle Spoke and Hab Works, the armory of Company D, and part of Trax & Kramer's wagon shops, Loss, $50,000; partly insured, ~TFourteen persons living in Soho, a district of Pittsburg, were poisoned on the evening of the 2d by tainted milk, They were all out of danger on the 3d, be milk will be analized, T T iin of passenger and conveying Robinson’s circus tering the Union Depot at | the afternoon of the 31, derailed, and some of t dashed into a freight train op a siding. | Lreorge DQuUires, a Canvasman, was | killed, and two other circus attaches, named Fuller and Isle, were severely injured, the smash- animal cs flat cars were bro- ken, and a tiger, two lions a juguar, an ibex, and caped. ‘The wildest } motion followed, policemen Warn n up some of the ges on the ’ Railroad of ran frant 5 ng, and there was a g stampede from the 3 beyond, The circus depot men then made animals, The leopard crouched under a freight attempt was made to lass failed, and the iver, bit a man way out, bounded ce, and then into the wis bes after ically about, ing and quick thie streels searct was Car. for Hd rintend by EEVEral two or three ransom ice, He 1, and, him, and ng fired at him tarpaulin and sex ie nals were found aplare ured. One by 1 i» ible were capture but i dark that ti over and the exc until nearly itement a hall Ig It is claim nearly glgnatures hs obtained to the petitions sent companies of policemen are now quar- tered in the jail, near the Anarchists cells, Capt Black says he expects to go to Springfield with the petition of amnesty on the evening of the 7 ~ Ex-Governor Warren, of Wyoming Territory, was in Chicago on the 7 and saia his people were greatly inter. ested In the Anarchist cases on account of their Rockfalls riots two years ago, in which 80 many Chinamen were bru- tally butchered, The spirit of anarchy manifested then by certain classes was still feared, in fact, the Government, which, under the treaty, had to protect the Chinamen, still kept two compa- nies of regulars at Rockfalls, Their people hoped to see the sentence execu- ted, swiftly and surely, as a warning to all such turbulent spirits, ~A box containiag what was sup- posed to be an infernal machine was sent by post to Chief Justice Waite, in Washington on the evening of the 34. It was delivered by a special mail mes- senger. Inside the box was a syphon shaped glass tube, containing a dark colored liquid, and connected with a small quantity of giant powder. Two percussion caps were arranged appa- rently in such a manner as to cause an explosion upon the opening of the box. The wires which fastened the top of the box, however,had become loosened, and if any explosion was intended it did not take place. There 1s some dif- ference of opinion as to whether It was an attempt of assassination or a hoax. ~The engine of a freight train on the Fort Wayne Railroad struck a street car at a crossing in Allegheny City on the evening of the 34, and two passengers—John M, Culp, teller of the Odd Fellows’ Savings Bank, and Miss Harriet Weyman, who jumped from the car, were caught under the wheels of the engine and killed, The other passengers were not Injured and the only damage done to the ear was the tearing off of the rear platform, which was struck by the engine, The acci- dent was caused by the raising of the safety gates too soon after the passage of a train, the keeper not noticing that another was approaching, The car had succeeded in nearly getting across the tracks before it was struck, ~Early on the morning of the 84 several masked men stopped the east bound Balt Lake exprass on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, a fow miles east of Grand Junction, Colorado, and gompelled the engineer, fireman, mail and express messengers to leave the train, and while they were guarded by meeting on the Sti HE tH) <A) bh out. one of the robbers, the others passed through the train, relieving the passen- gers of thelr money and valuables, The robbers then entered the express car, but falled to open the safe. Mail pouches were cut and registered pack. ages and letters opened, The train was allowed to proceed, after belpg delayed over an hour, The robbers took to the mountains, —A despatch from Southwestern In. diana says the “White Caps’ visited the house of John Amy, in Harrison county, and, mn his presence, stripped It is said the ‘county officials are thor- oughly terrorized, *‘The case of Clas, Langford, of Mount Prospect, was pre- sented to the Grand Jury with proofs raged his family, but the jury refused to vresent a true bill, the masks from the faces of two of his ussallanis and recognized —An epidemic of typhold fever pre- vails at Mount Carmel, Penna, There have been several deaths, ~L.D, Loss, foreman of the mixing department of the Acme White Works, in Detroit, Michigan, caught in a belt on the 3d and Erick Wickstrom was taken sick in the Jarnum Iron Mine at Ichpeni Michigan, on the evening the got into the orehoist to reach the surface. When three hundred yor Mey Kg cage 4 $ haa ’ v aft i ing to the bottom the shaft, was ¢ Oi homas Aken and Edward were drowned ns the evening ZO0ing over » Work far tha Departments agree that strophe was caused by an exple id that no crime was S0 well satisfied urther investigat + Aare Lhe ons on He added: : tired of life ¥ brothers and frie: I killed W. ¥. Brune: hink he was {it to hive, a: 44 Bt 01 y £6 Al Leng f he 3d prevented Bee seized Michael J. Beisler, an ile boy, head, and then threw down stairs, )elsier was put to and died in a short time. beat in De aboat the Scott Ray i murdered Frank Harn, whose body about ten days ago, were lodged in jail at Pittsburg on the 4th, on informa- Lion preferred by an uncle of the murdered man. Howard, suspect, will be held as a witness police in Baltimore arrested a supposed to be “Billy” Williams, who murdered a policeman in Alexandria, Virginia, a few months ago, He was found under a bed over a concert hall, and on his person were founda revolver and a large dirk knife, ~-It 18 reported in Chicago that Cap- tain Thorp, master of the lost propeller Vernon, was In the habit of getting drunk, and that he often left port while drunk. Axel Stone, the only survivor of the Vernon disaster, says the captain was drunk most of the time during his last voyage, and on the evening of the 28th ult.,, before the steamer sank, was very drunk, and “kept taking a drink every little while from a bottle that Le carried in his coat pocket.” The reports of Captain Thorp's drunkenness during his voya- ages come from various persons who had at different times made trips on the Vernon. -~Patroltoan James H. Place, 57 years old, committed suicide at his home, in New York, on the 4th, by shooting himself in the head. ~Arthur B. Campbell, bookkeeper for the Armour Packing Company in Chicago, was on the 4th, sentenced to two and a half years® imprisonment for the embezzlement of $3200 from the company,- He is 30 years of age and married, MeQuoin, alias McCann, convicted of pension frauds in India- napolis on the 3d, was on the 4th, sen tenced to four years’ imprisonment. ~The importation of silver ore from Mexico at El Paso, Texas, during Oc- tober, was 5270 tons, valued at $2065, 808. This gives an average of 176 tons per day and an average value of fifty dollars per ton: The ore was of a lower grade than usual, The importations of silver bullion for the same month were $100,457; sliver coin, $720,160; gold bullion, $9656; gold eoin, $100,622, ~Major W. M. Way, Secretary for the Union and Empire Building and Loan Association, and agent for a number of insurance companies, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has dis. appeared, and it defaulter to the extent of 215,000, Wiliam Wooley, Bickands, Mather & 312.000 or Co., on the had been placed in the office } I. The bal 4th, when it was discharged. buried itself in the body of William J. Matson, the bookkepper, who died in a few minutes, Rev. Mr, Tate, whi le i by Ber- ran Charles was children, miner, his wife and he 4th. He was uncoupling cars, wheu the coupling broke, throwing him A crowd of men, children, assembled in women and walch a passing funeral, when Lhe side- walk broke down, precipitating a large wee behultz, 50 years old, —Mrs, Eva Binder, a helpless old lyn, New York, fell sister's burned to death, upon the stove on during her absence, and -~The conso which bored her a of a ol , ) ons of coteries, With little or itself in anger tears, Her heart, nevertheless, of the When the dignity seemed compromised or lowered —when insult, she hardened herself against at- tack, and one could then recognize in Drying Up the Zayder Zee, The question of drying up the Zay- der Zee is being actively discussed in Holland, The Royal Institute of En. gineers purposes holding shortly a pub. lic meeting of their body at Amsterdam to thoroughly examine the scheme for carrying out this idea by connecting, by strong dykes, all the islands that form its outer fringe, and so perma- nently excluding all inflow from the North Sea. ———— Revenge is a debt, In the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punc- tual, a EER THE MARKETS, PROVISIONS. 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Sessa mu casa RbE crassa nssnsns DD nwashed MOAIBI, covers ost onsnsssans iB og a | EE a | cannunsinn 8 loaaww axijiiiife - | SRR $¢ PPPPOTT EIgILi] al gi 16 6d 18 00 7 — & a VALUABLE SHELLS. of a Cargo of 8600 Posies of Pearls, A of about Cargo 3,600 pound Phillipine Island and it will no into artistic si fashionable 1 rived recently, One the wealthy is the household gods of of the latest affect addition to artistically execu sea and landscape paintings in ofl 1 mother of pearl shells, It is the hundreds who pure do the show w nature formed sheils for any other purpose than used in this style of ador 1 A large importer of shel manuiacturer of pearl goods, | with orter, ex of so many j alities from d the hund 10C purpose for wi “How man your business?’’ they are i8 are tl $1 finger PIAL ATs AGED oughly sear: cleansed and i8 each England, France, or this ceuntry. ingenuity and long experience become expert in King. W a manu- wWO1 wen order fora lot of shell cases in order to obtain those of the required thickness, and then not more than three or four buttons can be drilled out of the heav- jest shell. But then nothing goes to waste, for small buttons and other ar. ticles are made from the thinner parts, and then, by means of a circular saw, the ‘scrap’ is cut for inlaying or veneering, Pistol stocks require the very heaviest shell, A pearl worker in New York, having some time ago re- ceived an order from an army officer for a pearl handled revolver, was obliged to overhaul nearly a whole ship load before he could find two shells of the required thickness, Ile received “The business of pearl manufactur- ing is comparatively new in this coun- try, and the profits are so large that there is a tendency to monopolize the industry. In consequence all sorts of devices are resorted to in order to ob- tain the advantage. Some time ago a large house in New York bought a cargo of pearl shells to arrive at 70 cents a pound, While the vessel was in transit the markel fell about 40 cents, It was a lucky thing for the house that the vessel foundered off the Cape of Good Hope, for the concern would certainly have foundered had the ship come safely to port. Manufacturers here nrefer waiting for lots of pearl shell to arrive at New York direct from the fisheries, instead of ordering from London, knowing that the shells are assorted there and the choicest picked out for the English and French mars kets, There me several large manu factories of pearl work In Newark, Philadelphia, Germantown, and in this city, and since the establishment of his Industry here the importation, of pearl buttons from England has greatly fallen off.” ~At the late Medical Congress in Vienna all the doctors who spoke on the subject were in favor of crema- tion as a way of disposing of the dead,
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