The News

Work has been commenced on thej löarfleld memorial hospital. I Rear Admiral Joshua Lands. retired.l U 8. N. is dcad, at the age of 89 yeare. The strike of the Washington streeti car drivers and eonductore is practically ended, I the places of the strikers belng very readilyl fllled. Major Nickerson, tho muchly-mar-I ried arniy offlcer, ia in Thosold, Canada, wherel heassumes a defiaut attitude, feeling confidentH that he cannot be extradited. The conimissioner of intornal revenue has decided not to remove the office of collector of customs from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, N. M. He does not thiok the interest of the ervice calis for a change. The supervising inspector who was letalJed to investígate the eause cf the exploion on tho tug Robin6on at A'bany, says that he explosión was caused by the grossest careessness and negligence of all in charge of the boat. A report was industriously ciruulated he other day, in effect that U. S. Consul Sey nour had been assaf-sinated at Cantón, China. :t came flrst from Pari3 to Washington. Amoug rther things brought out was a pen-pieture of vfr. Scymour by telegraph from hls home at _a Crosse.Wisconsin. The report bas been denied on authorlty. The value of importa of merchandise or the 12 months euded August 31 was $706,504,564; for the previous 18 months, $743,008,)13, a decrease this year of $33,304,349. ïhe ialuc of exporte of merchaudise for tho 12 nouths ended August 31 was $820,710,910; for he prevlous 12 months, $737,325,758, au iureasc this yc-ar of $83,385,161. So niceiy has the supply of the threeent stamps, about to be displaced by the two ent stampa, been adjustei to the demanil, that he stock in the hands of the contractoi s ha reen completely exbausted. Had any of these tamps remained in the posses3ion of the contracors on Mouday, Oct. 1 the Government would ïave been obliged to pay for and destroy thern. The New Orleans National bank has irought suit against Postmaster Genera) iresham for $600,000 damages alleged tohave jeen sustaiued by reason of bis recent order ilrecting that money orders addreseed to the mnk, but intended for a lottery company, shal) lot be delivered. The plaintifE considera that he order was intended to charge the bank with rauduleut practices aud illegal business. Some Unio ago it was reported thal he project of erecting a monument to Garfleid n Washington bad been abandoned, and the unds collected for this purpose were to be ap iropriatcd toward the erectiou of a monument n Cleveland. General Swain deoiea this statenent,which probably aro3e from the fact that i monument ís to be erected In Lakeview cemtery, Cleveland, la addition to the one ir Washington. The secretary of the treasury has deiided that green plums are free of duty under he new tariff act. Quite a large trade in thie ruit is cairied on over the Canadiau border, ind the questian arose whether it was dutiabli' inder the provisiou wbic'i impo3es a duty of me cent per pound on "pmnes, dates and aluias." The seeretary liolds it does not comt ïndtr thie provisión, but U a "fruit not otherifiae provlded for," and free of duty. Counsel for Sergeant Mason, the soldier who attumpted to shoot liuiteau, rejently applied to the seeretary of war for f xipy of the judge advocate general's review of ,he proceedings of the conri maitial by whicl) Vlason was trled. The secretary refused the ipplication on tbc ground that the document was a confidential communieatlon. It is said. lowever by the prisoner's friends that the sec retary withholds the report because it is favor ible to Mason and cuntrary to hls own view ol .he case. Counsel wil], it is reported, apply tt tbc President for the fuH record. It is said by "fficers of the Post Oiiic Jepartment that Mie uew po, tal notes are prov Ing a great convenience to lottery companiop, and to the many lirms aud corporationijhroughout the couutry whlch have bten black istcd by the Department aud denied the privieges of the monej order and registry syetems. These companies and firms are now having re mittanees made to them in postal notes, whicb do not come withia the 6cope of the Department orders forbidding the payment of moue orders that have been declared fraudulent. The risk of loss is,of course, a ltttle greatei with postal notee than with money orders, bul jiractically the íormer are a satlsfactory sub itute for the latter, a,od enible firms and (.¦ompanies that have been declared frauduleut o regard with comparative indiffereiace th( (irders of tht Postmaster-Gcueral deprivlng ?hem of money order and registry pi vueles. The Secretary of state in behalf oí Ifce President, lately addressed a letter to th Commissioner of Agriculture, stating that in kgruuch as certain foreign governments have Miarged that the hog producís of the Uniteö (States are affected with disease and not propei Hor export pu rposes, the President has decided Ito appoint a eomaiitsion to thoroughly investí Igate the curlng of pork in this country, and Kas nanied as the members of such coinmlesiL'n Hon. Geo. B. Loring, Prof. C. F. Chandler,E!i phalfit W. Blatchford, T. D Cartis and Prof.l E. D. Salmón. The President states that hel has no authority to guarantee the expenses oíl the commissioc, but has m dribt that in vlewl of tWfe maguitade of the commercial Interestel involved Congress will meet all bllls incurredl for this purpose. The Commissioner of Agri-I culture as Chairman of the commission is di-l rected to summon hts assoelates and procecd tol work without delav. GKN ICkA 1O"K18. From November 7, 1882 to J une 30,1 1888, 16,606 immigrant landed in Phlladelphia.l From a statement made by the direc-l tor of the mint It is learned that irom 1 378 tol June, 1S83, 123,447,480 ounces of silver have been purchased and 119,206,224 ounces coined. The New York Herald proposes to Iihow that it can get along without the aid of the newsdealers, and has established stands iü rarious parts of the city for the sale of the Herald and other papers. The Corean embawy have been busy í in Washington inspectlng the workings o( the I jvarious departments. Upon thcir requesttheyl I have beeu furalshed with a set of postagtl sstamps, cards and documenta illustrating thel iworklngs of our postal system. The New York railroad cornniissionl íhavemade a report on the Long Island railroad I jcollision of September 11, in which they charge I ïthe engineer of the colliding train with grossl Icarelessness and the conductor withgross 1 llect. The reilroad eompany are censured. Judge Yorkers ef Philadelphia re-l ïfuses toerantnaturalization papers to Chinese I Ibasing his decisión upon a section of the re-l ïutricting act of 1882, which provldes "That I Ihereafter no state court or court of the United I [States shall adrait Chinese to eltizenship." The verdict of the. jury in the Phi)a-I delphia street car accident holde both the rail I road company and the street car company I blamablefor the accident, alleging that incom-1 peteut men were cmployed in important posi I tione. The Street railway company was particu-l arly censured for employing one man to dol the workof two. The express company's safe on al train on the Wabash road was robbed nearB Peru, Ind., of $1,500. The oar was broken in I to by three masked men, who bound and gag-B ged the baggageman, Burt C. Loomis, (a De. I troit man). After securing the money the rob-B bers locked the baggaee car and escaped. TheB eondition of the baggage-master was not dis-fl covered for some hours after the crime had I been committed ¦ Car dj-ivers on several lines of streetBJ cars in Washington struek the other night bj order of the knights of labor, and the care were wilhdrawn. The strike was occasioned by the refusa! of the superintendent to reiDstate a driver discharged bccause hurcfused to instruel a uon-union man in his duties. About 200 drivers and more than SO conductora quit work. Street car travel was suspended on every line in the city except two, wlüch ua comparatively unimportant. Gen. Roger A. Pryor sailed for! Europe on the Scythia, of the Cunard line, oe the 4th in8t., to aid In orrangiug the details o) the defense nf O'Donnell, who killed Carey, the informer. He said, "I can positively tel aothing regarding the line of defenee to b( assumed, sinee I have uot sutneient knowledgi 0 enable me to speak on the subject. Tbat will be decided upon by Messrs. Gay and Sulivan, the barristers lmmediately in charge ol he case, and with whom I am to be asso ciated. The Newton express. on the North Pennsylvania railroad, rau into a Philadelphia treet car loaded with people on their way t work, smaehing it to fragments. James De vine and James Hammell had their legR cut of and died iu6tantly. The following are ainont he most terribly injured, several of whoir vi'I die: Gco. Fredencks, Fred Young, Henrj 'ostel, Chas. Benglass, Miss Annie Shaw, Ienry Schults, Jas. McIIenry, Charles Young. Adam Creamer and Jacob lscmingcr. Thi ewton express was late. The driver was iu ide collceting faros. The gatee at the crossng were open, and the flacman is allegod U iave not been attending to his business, tt ie ilso alleged that the driver knew the traii was coming, out failed to stop Ma car. Tui train struek theear ninidshipj.an'l the passen gers wc.re tossed into the air, coming down ii a Meeding, groaning mass. Aftera trial lasting 10 days, carne te ia end the famous libel sult of Rct. II. Root, president of the. Farmers' and merchante' nat ional bank of Valley City, Dakota, against tin Valley City Daily Times. Root clairncd dam ages of $117,00; He had been charged by tl Times with perjury, embczzllng, and robhim the First national bank of Valley City oí ítW while cashier of that institution: with swindling a horse dealer, and wit'j other crirues. imong whioh was that of having stolen coppert trom the Brainard Sunday school to buy hlm self a gold-headexl cane. As the last ehargi was the only one not proved by the Times, ani as the Barnes county grand jury had airead} indicted Root for perjury, the jury brought ii 1 verdict in accordance with the instructiom of the court, 6lx cent damages for platntift on tin Sunday school count, therebv proving Rooi suilty of peijury, etc. A fire broke out in the great exposi tion buildings at Plttsburgh, Pa., and in lest than an hour the entire structure, also ma chinery and horticultura! halls, wcre in iiame6 The country was lightcd up for 10 milet ¦round. All the structures with their con tents are a total loss. The exhibite representen all Industries, with many valuablc relies, amonj them the Arabian, tne flrst locomotive ever built in this country. The loss is fully a million oi lollars at the lowest estimate. The Cre swepi down to the Allegheny river, destrsying scorcf of freight cara. A large portion of the Pittsbdrg & Western railroad trestling and thi Union bridge were partlally destroyed. The cause of the flre is unknown There are s"veral theories as te tiow the lire origlnated. One Is that it wat :aused by a spark from the fire works exhibition which ocenrred sbjut threc hourt liefore the flre was dl6cov-red, and when there ¦Tere over 20,000 people in the building. Ar-B jther is thnt Prof. Warner is responsible forB the fire. Warnir was flxiug a baloon, puttingl a preparation of llusecd oil and oaS on it I Since the flre Warner cannot be found. ThercB are many rumors of loss of life, but these arcB Ithought to be erroneous. The building con-1 Itained over 500 exhibttions, and while thel ¦goods were all destroyed they were in almostl ¦every case in6ured. Col. James Tullís, a special landl ¦agent of the government, whohaa been inve6ti-l Igating land frauds in the territorles of thel Bttocky iuountains, and who is in Salt Lake,l Bsays there has been some big swearing by wit-l Bnesses in some of the land offices, and largel Btracts of land have been patented by per6onfl ¦who had in no wise complied with the landl ¦laws. The desert land enlry act has been vio-l Wated with a recklessness that was positivelv I Bastonishing. In many cases it was found thatl Babsolutely nothing had been done toward re-l iclaiminE the lands, and yet whatl are known and regarded as goodj cltizens, have gone before thel land ofBcers and made solemn oath that thel land had been reclaitned and all the eondltlonsl of the law complied with, while, iu fact, nol mark made by human hands could be jouudl upon the entire tract. üther tracts were takenj up under the desert act that are no more des-j ert than the valley of the Ohio river. 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