HONTINGTON ARRESTED The Railroad Magnate Charged With Violating Interstate Commerce Law, INDICTMENT FROM CALIFORNIA. the Issusnce of a Rallroad The Charge Based on Southern Pacifio Pass--Ap- plication for n Warrant of llemoval to His Own San Franecisco---Released on Recognizance, President of the ern Pacifie Railroad, was nt New York City on an indictment found by the Grand Jury of the N District of Calif having © mitted a United in wi of terstate commerce act. arrested rthern rnja, charging him with me against the Rtates the pr lation i violation charged in the in hat Mr. Hunt- ington is seotif a free pass over al Pacifle LARS xeepted or privileged « section of the interstate His claim is that the pass was given to } as a matter of personal favor and friend te ry Withers lore examine all the this case, and ascertain to what extent the pass system has been employed, if at all, by the pany, in fas fav ffleers of the Southern Lom fuen f free He Was the Champion and Once sold for S12, Dog, 300, h is about the highest pric :. He was brought to this troops, id | ; 1801, and remained in when Mr. Bears # the New York Herald, when Mr, Reick disposeed of his ken. vere was sold to C, A, Ark., the owner of the Argyle lor Sir Bedivers was perfect white markings and shadings. He was gentle and affectionate in disposition and gifted to a remarkable de. gree with the charncteristie intelligence of the St. Bernard. His pedigree showed blue blood extending through several generations of canine ancestry, orange, dense Tocreased Wages for 24,000 Men, The mills at Fall sumed operations under the seals of wages in operation previous to August 20, 1804 Twenty-four thousand workers were bene- fited. There is every prospect of a falrtrade during the coming summer, as the mills are now fairly well sold ahead, Since the last reduction of wages there has been the greatest scarcity of help ever known, River, Mase., have ree Dropped Dead at a Convention, While reading a paper before the Florida Btate Medical Association, in at Gainesville, Dr, J. P, Wall, of Tampa, Fla., dropped dead. He was one of the ablest ptysicians in Florida, session Food Dearer in New York City, The advance in the price of meat, partion. arly Western beef, is becoming seriously felt in New York City, and some of the hotels sud restaurants are already inereasing thes sharges for beefsteak and roasts on their bills of fare to correspond with those they | we compelled to pay iu the markets, School Girls May Be Whipped, London's School Board has decided that girls may properly be whipped, and more severely, too, thau boys, ''beesuse they are wore epitetul,” | arou Pratt, of | with | black | A DEMAND ON CUATEMALA. The State Department to Take Up Cases of Abuse of Americans, The State Department at Washington has ade a demand upon the Guatemala Govern. 14 A RDUSH ment for an explanation of the allege of American citizens in G said that Henry J. Stibbs and other om of American vessels have besn se Guatemalan ports and { ed int . and that tominl intemaia, AMERICAN FLEET "Inest Squadron Sent to Civil War, irope Since the and Nicaraguan disturt without our {aterventior only. CHICKASAWS WACE WAR, Insurgents Put the Governor of the Na. tion to Flight, Couriers from Tis the Chickasaw Nati battle raged betw: ernment, {nsurresti eight w greatest Y The of recognize Noah MeGill a Legislature the Gov Govern Bheriffs, Constables . out the Nation to repos with When the nd the G r's raged men, headed by MeGill and brothers, rushed from adjoin a deadly riot followed, The session of the ray his official retiny tol n the The G of the 1 existing stat r Mosel ArTDA, Verne uses | vern rin then virtually CAMPOS IN COMMAND, He Takes the Field in Cuba With a Force of 6000 Men. General Martinez Campos left Guar mo, on the day after his arrival in Cuba fro Spain, for the fleld of hostilities with 6000 General Masso, an insurgent leader, (as 8 manifesto declaring death to any commission, The insurgents have 9000 n and are gaining strength every day § control the provines of Bantiago de Cuba General Campos lssued a proclamation ask ing the support of the various political par. | ties, and promising to implant reform at the conclusion of the rebellion, which he ho will be speedily terminated Eo : The town of Las Palmas has been burned by the insurgent leader Cebreco, and th town of Bayamo was besieged leader Crombot with 500 men. Double Crime of 8 Wealthy Man. A. Bchieiter fatally shot his wife »* Grove, Iowa, and then killed himself, He had evidently been planning the erimes for some time, A few days before he made a | will leaving the bulk of his pre perty, about | $60,000, to his children. Mrs, Schieiter was his sscond wife, and the union was not a happy one, An Oriental Triple Alliance, A telegram from Tokio says that the Mikado of Japan has expressed a desire to visit Pekin and discuss with the Chinese Em. peror the project of an allance, He pro. poses also to invite Slam to ally hersell with China and Japan, Carson Mint Dismantled, Mint Director Preston has ordered the re. moval to the San Francisco Mint of £580,000 of gold bullion and £130,000 of silver bullion now atthe Carson (Nev,) Mint. About 8600, 000 in unrefined silver now at the Carson Mint will subsequently be removed to San Francisco, This removal of the bullion from Carson practically completes the dismantling ai (hat mint; England Refuses to Arbitrate, England has refused to accept Nicaragua's Jropoen to submit their dispute to arbitra. by the rebel da | ACLEVER BANK ROBBERY Plainfield First National Bank Loses $22,765 in a Mysterious Way, | TAKEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. | One of the Oldest Institations in Northern New Jersey Vietimized-- Supposition That Clerk Stranger Engaged n in Convers While tion Confederates Reached the Vault, '¢ » ag to Rur ¥ ndow where COTTO A Mexioan Pest That Has the Just Arrived In South WK attacks ls with thus mad th the tan wend Isly : The Depart has appointed a skilled Br Tex 14 life, and ex AL the wnsville, history experiment the direction of logist of the ¢ and luring Ostracized Bocause of Tattoo Marks. Mra. Goorge Newhousa, of Ferry stroet, ymplained to Judge Mott in the First Criminal Court that her oo ‘upation of washerwoman was ruined by her husband who had tattoed various devices on her arma against hor will, thus making her an objet of ridicule in a laundry where she was om ployed, Newhouse was arrested and com peliod to furnish bonds for the support of his wife Kewark, N. J.. We Have the Fastest Squadron, ’ of During the recent run Rear-Admira) Meade's squadron from Port au Prince t Colon a speed of thirteen knots an hour was maintained-—-a higher rate than has hither bean attained by a squadron fn feet forma tion. A Hova Defeat in Madagascar, Despatches from Madagascar say that the Hova camp at Miadana was captured by the French, The native loss was 100 killed and many more wounded, No Frenchmen were killed and only three were wounded, He Stole Over 860,000, J. I Holland, Cashier of the Morohants and Farmers’ National Bank, of Charlotte, N. C., Is a defaulter to the amount of $60,000 or more, Mr. Holland's peculations have boon carried on for wight years, and he has managed till the last few days to hide then from discovery, He has confessad, Wandering Willies Scorned Work, The tramp overseer of Franklyn, Pens, tried to make the knights of the road, with ball and chain attachment, broak stones, but without susoess. The tramps were kept out all day, and although thorou hly drenched nnd receiving no dinner, would not Aagrace | Their Ix ! IS DR. NANSEN ALIVE? Rumors That the Intrepid Explorer Has Yound the North Pole, A Paris paper publishes a rmmor that Dr, Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explore: who was reported lost, is alive and has dis- covered the North Pole, Dr. Nansen salled from Christiania, Sweden, on the 24th of June, 1808, in a small steamer, the Fram, with the intention of boldly entering the foe pack in the vicinity of the New Biberian Isl ands, expecting to be carried by the drift, previously ascertained » be toward the northwest, over or near + North Pole, and southward again by the current that comes { down between Bpltzberger enland, If Dr. Nansen should « wu ful | rom his novel and wonderful vovage, no and Cire CENERAL M'COOK RETIRED. The Last of the “Fighting MeCooks™ b turns to Private Life, He. - flor having been continuously in the ser. riv<ihires r McDowell & army, a FIVE LYNCHED. The Killing Follows the Marder of a White Man in Alabama, "w Lid og BH ol He ugh miles ville the 8b into town, passing thr tation, three dista the five colored people, three women, hanging by their dies were cold dently been dead for » News reached Greenville of the near Butler, of Watts Murphy, a young white man, by three colored Murphy was a nephew of the late Governor Watts, Alter murdering him, the miscreants placed his body in a brush heap and burned the heap The ashes were examined, and parts of the victim were found, The balance of the body had been consumed, An investigation was instituted. Three were arrested. One of the confessed the erime, implicating two other men and three colored women. The officers arrested them, and were closely guarding the prisoners whan last head of, The report did not give the detalls of how the niob secured the murderers, except that they were taken by force, the men Drowned Herself and a Child, A woman, apparently a nurse, carrying in her arms a child about four years old, walked into the lake at Chicago, Both were drowned, Two mon who saw her enter the water rushed in waist deep in an attempt to save her, but before they could reach her she bad plunged under the water and disap- peared. Both bodies were recovered. ut Canadian Parliament Opened, The fifth session of the Seventh Parlinment of the Dominion of Canada was formally opened at Ottawa by Governor-General Lord Aberdeen, Died From Riding a Bleyole, Mra. Mattie Minton, wile of George D. Minton, a druggist, living at Beabright, N. J., dropped dead upon returning from a ride on ber bieyele, Her death was caused by heart disease, due to overexertion, Twenty Bulldings Destroyed, Tha entire central business section of Duquesne, on the Monongahela River, twelve miles from Pittsburg, Pean., was destroyed by fire, The loss is about $100,000, Twenty bulldings were destroyed, the professor, —— An Ex-United States Consul on Trial for Conspiracy, | STATE DEPARTMENT'S ACTION. John LL. Waller Yan, Formerly a Citizen ot Sentenced to Twenty Years’ Imprisonment in Mad- mgascar and Then Hemoved to France Under a Strong Guard of Froops, Diemmah. fron } 1 it Mar Al Frar having ler, an A: Btates Consul ler guard | ly tried by eo twenty vears' of having beer H Vas, A ds Ona more ser has beer un Ma on ti tar 'rance, i tae Depart States foran apology and the French Governmet It is suggested that BIC Hobs BANK DEFALCATION. Institution Malet, the Brother-in-Law Seely Aymar Same Tis is In kod work Aymar worked | that of the re was a long row the bookkeeper bank gave him & most of the Jd a depositor it window “You needn't Blank, I'll take ¥ Gilad to get thr quickly as jg his 1 mst Ae i the depositor would hand his pass bo t Avymar, who would make the credit and return the book, If the depositor’s name happened to be on Avmar's Jedger he would eredit the amount on the ledger, and then put so much of the deposit as was oash in his pocket, Then he would charge to one of the large accounts on his ledger the amount he had pocketod from the deposit he had just good enough to take in order to keep the depositor from waiting. ad been Big Fire in Indian Territory. The main business Indian Territory, for six solid blocks on Caddo street, north and south of Main street, was destroyed by fire, Bixty business houses were entirely destroyed, The loss will aggregate $500,000, The United States Court House and jail were also destroved, The heat was 80 intense that the vault and safe fn the Court House were cracked and the court records partly destroyed, The Masonite Temple was also burned, Around the World for S410, Tourist tripe around the world are now advertised for $610, The Labor World, The United States has 15,000,000 working women, Parisian cabmen are not allowed to smoke a pipe while on duty. Beven thousand ecigar-makers are strike in New York City, Bmallpox is raging among the woolen mill employes in Cleveland, Ohio, London papers accuse the Salvation Army of having encouraged the “sweating” ays tem, Pera has chap labor and extensive coal fields whose product will be shipped to points on the Pacific by a new company formed for the purpose, on a portion of Ardmore, i TRANCEDEPORTSWALLER | | THE MARKETS, Late Wholesale duce Quoted in Prices o New gold fleldes have nn territory The United States Seg Over a miiiion a yea China has asked the tect the Chinese in Gun Judge Sinclair has d¢ braska irrigating laws are Alaskan papers say five times as migrants are going to the Yukon a living In New York, with a 000, only some 28.000 eitine: year income, The run of shad this vear The record of previous seasons has alread) been broken, A Paris paper urges the formation an woonomie and industrial league in Europe against the United States, At a bull ight at Barcelonia, Spain, the bull charged in among the spectators, % eral were injured, and the oivil guard who shot the bull killed a spectator also. Anna Thalen got #25008 from the Brook. lyn Heights Trolley Company for running over her and cutting off her feet, It has been decided by the Swiss Fedeml Assembly to make the manufacture of matches a Government monopoly. “Bddie” Bald, of Buffalo, N. Y., rode a mile in 204 in Oalifornia, lowering the world's bieyole record a full second, Wolf hunting on a systematic plan has be. gun near New Castle, Wyoming, in the hope of exterminating the wolves on the ranges, The new Spanish premier, Senor Canovas, is sald to be the homeliest man and the most saronstic orator in Madrid, The Senor was the cham of the abolition of slavery in Soain its dependencies, i= remarkable, r
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