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REDPATI’S WEEKLY.
A monnment is being erected to his brother, Jerse James,
by the desperado’s widow.
HE FAR WEST.
The, Crow Indians complain of raids by Piegans and Flat-
The Great Northwestern Railroad war is still unsettled.
The presidents of the roads are in this city trying to come to
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HOME
Crime has been fearfully rife throughout the country dur-
ing the past week, A stranger, reading the daily papers,
would naturally conclace that Americans were the most law-
Jess of peoples, and would wonder why it is we can always
see the mote in Ireland's eye, without being able to discern
the beam in our own. Here area few items from the New
York papers of the past two days only, and they do not in-
elude probably one-tenth of the crime of America.
Thomas Parker shot and k‘lled Samuel Varnon at Plano,
Texas; William Abner, of Norwich, Conn., quarrelled with
his wife, slashed her to death with a razor, and then shot
himself; a deeperado named Smith, who has killed five men,
and is the husband of as many wives, has been captured in
man at Havana, Illinois, has acknowledged
that he murdered his aunt who was found dead at her home,
a few days ago; Joseph Stout murdered and robbed a eitizen
at Crawfordsville, Indiana; an aged man in Jersey City was
stabbed tc death by his son; Morris Berwald was robbed of
his week's wages and fatally stabbed by two bighwaymen in
one of the streets of New York; Charles Follmer, a stranger
in this city, was robbed and flang into the Hudson river;
Taylor Dunbar, an Indianapolis grocer, was killed for four
‘a bad record for two days. If it were cabled to England with
flash head lines and exclamation points, as what is called
“Trish crime” is cabled here, John Bull would recommend
the passage of a coercion act for the better preservation of
life and property in the United States.
The anvual report of the Board of Police of New York
7,000 police court cases
and several laps.
THE EAST.
Soma wealthy New England lumbermen propose spending
400,000 in building a railway into the Adirondack wilder-
ness.
‘our more victims have been added to the list of killed at
the fire in the factory building at Providence, R. 1, last
we
eek.
‘The Manhattan Elevated Railway of New York bave had a
number of their employees sworn in as depnty-sheriff4 so as
Sunday.
‘The ninety-ninth anniversary of the evacuation of New
York by the British was celebrated with imposing ceremonies
on Saturday, under the auspices of the Old Guard, assisted
by several visiting military organizations.
Melius, the brakeman on the Chicago express train at the
time of the Spnyten Duyvil disaster, was acquitted of man-
slanghter, notwithstanding the judge's charge against the
prisoner. The jury justly held the railroad authorities guilty,
for forcing one man to do two men’s work. /
The police of New York city made 1,861 arrests last week,
and the police of Brooklyn 438 arrests. .
Bishop Wiggar laid the foundation stone of the first convent
of the Order of Dominican Sisters in this country, at Newark,
N. J., on Sunday. ~
"The works of the Standard Oil Company, at Newtown
Creek, opposite Long Island City, New York, were completely
destroyed by fire on Sunday. Several men plunged into
Newtown Creek to escape a shower of scalding oil, and two of
them were crowned.
‘wo men were killed and three fatally injured by the acci-
dental precipitation of a quantity of ice down a shaft they
were sinking, near Scranton, Pa.
The iron and steel works at Scranton and Pittsburg will not
close on account of dullness in the trade.
THE WEST.
In the Trades Congress at Cleveland, a resolution was
adopted urging members of Unions to buy no cotton goods
bearing tbe trade mark of an Eastern firm that had reduced
the wages of its employees. The Unions intend to boycott all
such firms.
Fravk James was brought into court at Kansas City, and
pleaded not guilty to the indictment for murders and bank
robberies.
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WASHINGTON.
Commodore Schufeldt’s negotiations with Corea are ap-
proved.
The President's message will recommend a large reduction
of the Internal Revenue tax and a revision of the tariff,
The Commissioners of the District of Coluwbia will not
allow apy more telegraph poles to be erected in Washington.
ood!
The Garfield Monument Fair was opened by President Ar-
thur, on Saturday.
President Arthur has removed Charles E. Henry, Marshat
of the District of Colambia; D. B. Ainger, Postmaster at
i M. Baker, his assistant: M. D. Helm, fore-
man of the Congressional Record, and George E. Spencer,
Government director Union Pacific Railroad, for improper
conduct in relation to the star route trials. Good!
Marshal Henry indignantly denies the charges made against
hiw, and for which he was removed. Ofcourse! ‘The halter
is drawiv
The President has appointed Thomas M. Tullock Postmas-
ter of Washington City in place of Ainger.
Bills providing for a large reduction of internal. taxation
will be introduced soon after the opening of Congress.
FAMOUS AMERICANS.
Robeson avnounces his intention of ‘retiring from
ities” at the end of the coming session and devoting him-
self to the practice of law.
State Senator John J. Kiernan, accompanied by his son,
Rev. E. J. O'Reilly aud ex-Assemblyman John Shandley, left
New York on Wednesday for Florida, to take a few weeks’
rest. . - a
Since General Sherman's name bas been mentioned for the
Presidency, several papers p)oslaim bis incompetency for that
position on account of his wiie’s ‘pronounced Catholicism.”
We do not remember that objection being brought forward
when the General. started on his victorious ‘march to the
sea.” Phil Sheridan is a Catholic.
‘Mr. Hannibal Hamlin, United States Minister to Spain, and
wife, are passengers on the Servia. Mr, Hamlin is returning
home on a furlough.
Wendell Phillips recently made to the Boston Public Li-
brary a gift of 1,303 bound volames and 4,682 pamphlets.
01 A. Hendricks is now almost convalescent, and
hopes to resume his professional duties in a couple of weeks.
‘Anna E. Dickinson is said to have resolved never again to
appear on the lecture platform, nor on the dramatic, stage.
She is now living quietly at Honesdale, Pa., with her mother
—a venerable Quaker lady of 87—avd younger sister. *
Congressman 8. S. Cox, of this city, tells the Chicago Tri-
bune that all the causes of the recent Republican defeat can
”
be summed up in the one word ‘* badness.
2 ABROAD.
AUSTRALIA. . .
The following story, told by the Sidney Mail, of Sidney,
Australia, is a horrible illustration of the inhuman barbarism
still practiced in that quarter of the world by its British civ-
ilizers + ‘, ~ OS
‘A young British police officer was out with a detachment
of colored ‘boys’ hunting for some of , the Myall tribe of
placks who had boen suspected of stealing a quantity of flour.
“They came upon a camp of Myalls.’ says the account, ‘ sur-
prised, surrounded them, and forced them to be hospitable.
‘They ate their kavgaroo, drank their water and made them
corroboree. After all was ended, that the blacks might not
get away in the night and steal more sbeep, the officer sai
to his ‘boys,’ ‘Just you pull out your revolvers and shoot
them.’ The ‘boys’ did not like to do so at first, but the of-
ficer was peremptory, and was obeyed. When the Myalls
sapling. The ‘bo;
officer and the yonng gin thus secured. Presently a stranger
came along (and it is he who tells the story), and the two ate
and drank together.” When it became time to move it was
remenibered that the young gin was tied up. ‘ We must loose
her first,’ said the officer, and felt for the keys. He had no
keys; the ‘boys’ had taken them away.’ What was to be
done? ‘I cannot lose my handenffs,’ he said, and before
there was time for remoastrance he had drawn a pistol and
shot the gin through the brain, and then backed off her feet
at the ankles, and so saved his irons,”
CANADA.
‘The Montreal Trade Council have alopted a memorial to
the government asking to remove the tolls from the Canadian
canals, to enable them to compete with the New York canals.
Right Rev. P. T. Crinnon, Catholic bishop of Hamilton,
Ont., died suddenly at Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday of heart
disease. Bishop Crinnon was consecrated in 1874.
CHILI.
The Chilean Government foresees danger to Chili herself
from her rampant soldiery unless peace is made. Mauch is
hoped from the negotiations now being carried on with Presi-
dent Calderon.
The Chilian Government contemplates the introduction of
2,000 Basque families from Spain to found a colony,
The Bishop of Ayacucho, while attempting rer
quell a riot at Huanta, was shot by the rioters.
CHINA.
The Chinese troops are to be withdrawn from Corea, which
is now tranquil
The neighborhood of Canton is in a disturbed state and the
hostility to missionaries is revived.
EGYPT.
The British Government has approved Baker Pasha’s
scheme for an Egyptian gendarwie. This regenerator of Egypt
is the Valentine Baker who was imprisoned and cashiered
from the British army a few years ago for an indecent assault
on a lady in a railway car, who then joined the Turks, and
won notoriety as the apologist of the Bashi-Bazouks, and who
cently to
[December 7, 1882.
deserted from the Turkish army the other di
English in robbing the Sultan, whom he serv.
The Khedive is prepared to refer to Great Britain the ques-
tion of proceeding with Arabi Pasha’s trial. The trial has
been again postponed,
No arrangement has been completed with regard to the set-
tloment of Egyptian affairs. ”
Unconfirmed advices from the Soudan say that the False
Prophet has been defeated and captured.
Drunken British soldiers stationed at Ramleh met an inoffen-
sive Arab returning howe and bratally beat him to death.
‘And still the Arabs, like the ‘turbulent ” Irish, refuse to ac-
cept the blessings of English “ civilization.”
Wilfrid Blunt writes to the London Times appealing for
help to defray the cost of the defence of Arabi Pasha.
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.
‘The Skye erofters are preparing to defend their island
against an invasion of po! ice and have resolved to use every
lawful means to prevent any one from taking a farm from
which the tenant has been evicted,
Stafford Northcote expects the next session of Parliament
will be 8 critical one for the Tories.
‘Mr. Tomlinson, independent conservative, has been elected
member for Preston, defeating the Tory candidate.
There are prospects the landiord will yield to the just de-
mands of the Skye crofters.
Sir Charles D.lka, Under Foreign Secretary, says the gov-
is sure Spain will not maltreat the Cuban refugees. But
she is maltreating them and in a most barbarous way at that.
‘A sea captain passed off the coast of Norfolk a large raft to
which three or four corpses were lashed.
A railway bridge at Bromley, near London, fell on Friday
and several persons were killed.
Lord Salisbury taunts Gladstone's Government with having
adopted the Egyptian policy of his predecessor, and says he
envies the United States their Supreme Court where appeal
may be had from unconstitutional decisions of Congress.
Hngh Childers, Secretary of War, is going abroad for his.
health.
Parliament has spent the week in discussing the cloture
bill. It is progressing slowly. It will be a far more danger-
ous weapon for the Tories than for the Irish members, and
the former feel it keenly.
A train fell through a bridge at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scot-
Jand, on Monday, and 14 persons were killed.
FRANCE.
M. Soleillet, the French traveler, announces that he has
taken possession of the Bay of Tajoorab, on the African side
of the Gulf of Aden, which he says has been ceded to him by
the local Sultan.
The Paris municipality have voted in favor of demolishing
the fortideations around the city.
The Sisters of the Rue de la Lune Convent, Paris, are to be
reinstated, the courts having decided that they held the prop-
erty under a deed of gift, dated 1693, which cannot be over-
ridden.
The French Chamber adopted a bill prolonging the powers
of the Commission to settle the compensation to French and
American citizens during the American civil war and the
Franco-Prussian war.
Typhoid fever has been epidemic in the town of Saintes,
“ France. * Several’ Sisters of Charity, attending the stricken,
have died.
‘The Cathedral of St. Denis, near Paris, has been robbed of
treasures worth 100,000 francs.
The negotiations between the envoys from Madagascar and
the French Government, relative to French claims over a
portion of that island, will be shortly resumed.
"The Madagascar Aimbassadors in Paris have refused the
ultimatum. requiring Madagascar to recognize a French pro-
tectorate,
‘MM. Gambetta accidentally shot himself in the hand with a
revolver. The wound is not dangerous.
Delegates have gone to Paris to represent the views of
English Trades Unions in favor of completing the Channel
Tunnel.
GERMANY.
Count von Hatzfeldt, German Secretary of State, has re-
turned from Silesia to Berlin in order to hold an interview
i e Giers, the Russian Foreign Minister. Baron
Mohrenheim, the new Russian Arobassador at London, has
also visited de Giers at Berlin. The armed peace of Europe
may be turned into war at any moment.
Germany and Russia are making a public display of friendly
feelings toward each other.
‘The German rivers are rising. Tho Rhine has reached a
height of 80 feet, and is still rising. Tailroad traffic is im-
eded.
It is reported that the Prussian Reichstag is about to be
dissolved, as the Government consider it is impossible to con-
duct public business with the Prussian Parliawent Corserva-
tive and the German Parliament Liberal.
Bismarck is to return to Berlin on Friday.
ITALY.
The Italian Parliament has been opened in Rome. Thirty
Radical mewbers absented themselves, so as to avoid taking
the oath of allegiance. The King’s speech recommended the
Chamber to devote itself chiefly to economic, social and ad-
ministrative questions.
JAMAICA.
The vational agitation in Jamaica is assuming a serious
aspect, the whole colony being united against the Govern-
nt. Jamaica is governed by the British after the manner
of Sicily by the Consul Verres. The clearest statement of
the causes of the present agitation in Jamaica was contained
ju the articles on ‘A British Crown Colony,” by Erigena,
ablished a short time siuce in Redpath’s Weekly. ,
JAPAN.
n continues to progress. Electric lights are
largely introduced into the prominent establisuments in ‘that
couutry and thay are talking of constructing elevated railways.
By-and by they will have a Ring, a Syndicate, pork aud
Deans, and a political tidal wave. ,
MEXICO. |
The opening of the branch of the Mexican Central Rail
road connecting the great mining region of Gnanajuato with
the city of Mexico, was celebrated at G j ii
rejoicing. , wanajaato with great
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