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HERE'S YOUR MAGIC CITY.
THE IVPILATION OF GUTHRIE SOW
NUMBERS THOUSANDS,
AND THE CITT IS ON A BIS
The Ranking Life tf a Boeaier ia the
Oklahoma Metropolis.
Arkansas City, Kan., April 23.
Fifteen thousand home-seekers are
camped on the grassy upland of Outh
rie, the pioneer city of Oklahoma.
Their camp-fires gleam in darkness and
their tents loom athwart the sky like
an army in bivouac.
Guthrie, a hitherto insignificant town
in a wild and unhabited country, re
mote from civilization, has now a popu
lation of more than 16,000. All this
was gained in one afternoon. In no
country save America, and no part of
that country save the great West could
such a thing be possible. When the
first train arrived at Guthrie from Ar
kansas City, the embryo streets and
lots of the new city had already been
laid out by enterprising citizens who
had been early on the scene. Hardly
had the cars slowed down at the station
when eager men leaped from the car
windows, slipped from the roof of the
coaches and poured out of the doors in
streams. In a minute, the slope lead'
lag up from the station was blocked with
MEN RU8HINQ HEADLONG,
eager for coveted town lots. In two
minutes not one of the men who had
filled the train was left within speaking
distance of the railway.
By the time this crowd had reached
the top of the slope near the land office ,
men who had been running parallel
lines for streets and had driven stakes
for town lots were well ou their war
along the level strip of land east of the
land office. The crowd then rushed
eastward at a tremendous rate. The
men who brought along a muslin sign
bearing the words "Bank of Guthrie,"
were compelled to take up a lot one
mile back of the station.
The next train from Arkansas City
brought a thousand more home-seekers.
About five minutes later, the men in
this train hurried across the prairie like
an army charting the wing of the
enemy. They spread out North aud
South with axes and spades and stakes,
and began with wonderful energy the
location of lots and streets.
The third, fourth, fifth ami sixth
trains from Arkansas City swelled the
number to aa many thousand. When
the seventh and eighth trains came in
later in the afternoon, the crowd had
overflowed all bounds.
On the East,-streets and town lots had
been extended fully two miles: on the
North a mile aud a half, and on the
South nearly a mile. No attempt had
Deen made to lay out the town on tho
West side of the traok. This West land
had been all filed on for homesteads.
Almost with the first rush of home
seekers from the cars, home seekers who
had stretched across the Oklahoma
north line at noon in wagons and on
horse back began to pour into the new
city. Their horses were reeking wet
from the hot and furious drive.
They took possession of such town
lota in tki future Oklahoma metropolis
as they could lay claim to.
Meanwhile
THE LAND OFFICE WAS BESIEGED
by an eager and determined crowd of
men, waiting to file claims upon home
steads. As the afternoon wore on, this
crowd grew larger, until at closing time
it reached in regular line far down the
street toward the railroad station.
Business in the land office went rath
er slowly. The register and receiver
did the best they could, but the press
ure upon them was tremendous. The
men who were waiting to file claims
were forced into line two abreast.
Dealers in real estate began business
before two o'clock in the afternoon.
One enterprising dealer had aa a back
ground for the safe transaction of busi
ness, a stock of rifles, which had been
placed there by Government troops on
duty at the land office. Near by was
the tent of United States Marshal Need
les. The tent was surmounted by a
large American flag.
THE FIRST ENTRY FILED.
The first homestead entry filed at
Guthrie was that of Mark 8. Cohn, of
Fort Smith, Ark. The first soldier to
file a declaratory statement was Benton
Turner, who was a private in Company
I, Sixth Illinois Cavalry. Yesterday,
three town site entries, those of Guth
rie, Oklahoma City, and Edmunds, and
twenty-one soldiers declaratory state
ments were filed. At 12:13 o'clock,
William Johnson, heading- the little
procession at the land office, laid down
a rough chart of Guthrie and filed it as
a town site. This was the first paper
presented.
Four land office clerks from Washing
ton arrived yesterday, two to be sta
tioned at King Fisher, and two here.
Land Register Dill stated this morning
that the King Fisher land office would
not be open until Thursday.
BLOOD SPILLED AT GUTHRIE.
Arkansas JCmr, Kan., April 83. A
special from Guthrie at aa early hour
this morn in g says that three men who
took claims there yesterday Jwere mur
dered about 5 o'clock by claim jumpers.
The names of the assailants and their
victims could not be learned, A vigi
lance committee la now scouring the
county in search of the miscreants.
, ; . KILLED ABOUT A CLAIM.
About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon
S. T. Compis was shot and mortally
wounded by an unknown man who
claimed prior right to his claim. Com
pis lived about half an hour, and his
story of the murder is about as follows:
He and his partner had entered Guth
rie on ponies. , All the lots were gone,
and they had swam the Cottonwood and
had staked a claim.
As they were driving the last stake a
fellow was discovered la the bushes on
the bank of the creek. This man ' said
that be bad already staked the claim.
Compis and his partner offered to divide.
10 this tne fellow objected, ana warn
ed them that he would shoot
if they did not leave.
Compis paid no attention to this threat
and declared he should sleep on that
claim. Half an hour afterward Comma
was shot by the first claimant. The
murderer got away before Compis 'a
companion could realize what had been
done. Compiss partner, and sympa
thizing boomers, gave the dying man
all the attention possible, and buried bis
remains in the bushes, uwinjr to the
peculiar situation it is not likely the
murderer will be apprehended.
20,000 TO 80,000 ON THE TRAILS.
On the Oklahoma Boundary, April
23. Lieut. Foster, who started the pil
grims Saturday, coming via the Arkan
sas city trail, estimates that at least
4,000 outfits, 10,000 people.ranged along
tne border or nis trail, started at the
sound of the bugle. Lieut. Waite, a
nephew of the late Chief Justice Waite.
started those entering at the Caldwell
trail, and Col. Ware started those on
Hunnewell trail, he being in charge of
this territory. Capt Hays started fthoee
entering by the Black Bear trail,
It seems like a fairy story, but there
is scarcely a doubt that from 0.000 to
80,000 entered by those six trails, while
the trains that came in from Arkansas
City to Guthrie brought at least 0,000
people. The wagon road runs within
100 yards ol the railroad all the wav.
The.Cimarroon ford, on the Cirnar
roon, or Little Arkansas river, is just
three fourths of a mile from where the
railroad crosses that stream, near the
old site of Camp Russell. All along
tne route were to be seen deer, antelope,
prairie chickens and quail. Two deer
were within ten rods of the train, and
at least fifty shots were fired at them
from the car windows,and those on the
roof, wtthout effect. Prairie chickens
and quail that were near enough to the
train to sight were also treated to a
similar salute.
When the train crossed the last
stream, Cottonwood creek, just before
entering Guthrie, the
PASSENGERS BEGAN JUMPING OFF
and rushing up the hill on the east
side ol the track towards the land office,
where the town sito is to be laid out.
One fellow became so excited that he
jumped through a car window.
When tho train stopped at Guthrie
station there was an indiscrinate rush,
men and boys running over each other
to get to the land office first, and squat
on a claim.
Scarcity of water will cause suffer
ing until wells are dug, unless the wat
er in Cottonwood creek can be filtered.
After four o'clock yesterday and
during the night there was much
suffering on account of the scarcity of
water. The water in the cottonwood is
red with mud, and a famine seems
imminent.
An enterprising real estate man had a
carryall at the depot when the train ar
rived and offered to carry people to his
lots over on tne east smue, and sen
lots at a dollar a piece".
The crowd around the land office in
too great to be numbered, and thoaeM
who did not get in to tile their claims
last night, Blept where they were in the
line to be on hand this morning.
1 wo miles each way from uuthrio
station, town sites were staked off, and
there was not a section between there
and Alfred that did not have one or
more quarter sections staked off.
People here are dumbfounded and
look at the vast multitude crowding
into the country in silent wonder.
Keturning on the train hundreds of
prairie schooners were passed, still
winding their way to the promised
land.
As Guthrie was found already
staked out when the first train got
there,
SOME UGLY RUMORS
were at once started reflecting on the
United States officers, and the officials
of the Santa Fe road. It is claimed that
the directors' car of that road has been
at Guthrie for several days, and they,
as well as government officials, connived
with men hiding in the brush on the
West bottom, shielding them from the
scrutiny of the soldiers; that those
officials on both sides had the town all
laid out quietly and had an understand
ing with those brush-hiders so that thev
all rushed in and staked off claims be
fore any train arrived. Although the
regular train from the South, which ar
rived about 12:45, p. m., was not allow
ed to carry auy boomers, when it
reached Edmunds at 11:80, it laid there
until 12:05, when a party of surveyors
got off, said to be railroad men. When
the people at Edmunds saw this, they
rushed out and began staking off claims
also. Persons who arrived on the regu
lar train from iihe South say that hun
dreds of claims were staked out at
Guthrie when they got there.
A sixty room hotel will be shipped
from Kansas City and ready for busi
ness at Guthrie by Saturday.
A MUNICIPAL ELECTIOS.
The New City Electa a Mayer aa
Coaieil.
GuTHRiB,Oklahoma, April 28.-The only
recourse left to those disappointed in
securing lots was to buy out such hold
ers of lots as were willing to sell, dr
run the risk of stoking outside the legal
limit. Both courses were adopted, and
a good number of Guthrie City lots
changed hands. The first sale was
made by a man named R. C. Rummells,
of Malvan, Kansas, who sold a fine 23
foot front lot near the land office for
$5 to an old doctor, a resident of one of
the Indian reservations adjoining Okla
homa. The purchaser refused $50 for
the lot five minutes later. Several
transfers were made and others who
were determined to locate here drove
stakes outside the town limits. This is
preparatory to the purchase of home
stead rights and the extension of the
city limits. ,
,'t:----. A CITY IN A DAY.
Guthrie already has its Main street,
its Harrison street, its Guthrie avenuo,
and its Oklahoma avenue, and yester
day morning it was a wilderness where
the antelope sported and the jack rabbit
flapped its ears in the sun.
In the afternoon, at 4 o'clock, the first
municipal election occurred. The elec
tion notice appeared in the Oklahoma
Herald, a daily : paper published at
Guthrie on the first day of its existence.
A council was elected at the same time.
Nearly tea thousand votes were polled,
as there are about tbat many man ia.
Guthrie with the intention of becoming
citizens. The leading candidates for
mayor were Adjutant Keice, oi Illinois,
William .Constantino, of Springfield,
u., and 1. L. Sumner, of Arkansas City.
A strong dark horse is T. Volney Hag
gatt. of Huron. Dakota.
The Bank of Oklahoma opened for
business at Guthrie yesterday, with a
capital stock of 50,000. N. W. Levy,
the . Wichita banker, is president;
Ueorge A. Robinson, the banker of
Winfield, and Hon. Horace Speed, of
Indianapolis, directors.
The new city is flooded with business
cams oi an description, representing
every line of trade and business, every
profession and every occupation imae-
inable. A mass of mail is expected to
reacn tne uuthrle postomce every day.
It is now being run by a postal clerk de
tailed for that purpose, but Mr. Flinn,
of Kiowa, Kansas,- lately appointed
postmaster, will take charge in a day or
two.
Washington, April IS. Second As
sistant Postmaster General Whitfield
stated today that during the coming
week he would establish in Oklahoma
Territory several star route mail routes,
from the railroads into the interior. It
is probable that one or more may be es
tablished tomorrow or Thursday.
THE STEAHXO Of THE BALLOT BOX.
Importaat Testimoay Before a Grand
Jury ia Arkansas.
St. Louis, April 28. Warren Taylor,
of Morrillton, Ark., gave some very
important testimony before the grand
jury at Little Rock yesterday concern
ing the stealing of ballot-boxes in Con
way county at the election last fall.
He said that on the night of the ballot
box robbery, November 6, he and
Charles Reid, a young lawyer of Mor
rillton, George Bently, city marshal of
the same place, and seventeen others,
went from Merrellton to Plummerville.
The crew halted outside of the to wn and
five went in, as they said toreoonnoiter.
In a short time they returned saying
all was quiet, and the crowd returned.
When about half way home it became
generally known in the crowd that one
of the party had the ballot-box and
arrived at Morrillton, the box was taken
into the back rooms of Wells's store
and it and its contents burned.
Charles Reid also testified before the
grand jury confirming a part of Tay
lor's statement, but denying that fie
had any hand in the stealing of the bal
lot box, or that he knew, it was stolen
until-the next day.
The statement of Reid and Taylor is
getting nearer the Plummerville mur
der than anything yet so far as the in
vestigation has gone, and specific facts
are expected to be made known that
will perhaps develop into something
sensational.
RECEPTION TO CAPTAIN MIRRELL.
The Maritime Exchange Honors
the
Missouri's Gallant Captain.
Philadelphia, April 2a. Captain
Hamilton Murrell, Commander of the
Missouri, and the rescuer of the aban
doned steamship Danuiark, was given a
reception at the Maritime Exchange to
day. Three thousand eoplo crowded
into and around the Exchange, anxious
to grasp the hand of the gallant officer.
When Captain Murrell appeared in the
room, led by President Brockie, of the
Exchange, he was greeted with enthusi
astic cheers by the great crowd. District
Attorney Uraham delivered a short ad
dress of congratulation, and as a further
mark of respect and admiration for the
Commander, presented him with a
magnificent gold medal. Later in the
day Captain Murrell, accompanied by a
member of the Exchange, called upon
the mayor.
CLEVELAND AS A CLl'B MAN.
He Waits to be an Ordinary Pay in 5
Member er the Manhattan.
New York, April 23. Ex-President
Cleveland has written a letter to the
Manhattan Club, of this city, in reply
to its action in electing him a life mem
ber, and expressing his own desire to
become one of its regular members. He
says: "The kindly feeling manifested
is expressly gratifying, and yet I am
determined to ask 01 them who have
been so kind, to give further proof of
their consideration by permitting me
to become an every day, ordinary pay
ing member or the club, in other
words I should be glad to surrender my
ex-Presidential life membership. I un
derstand, of course, that I must run the
chance of an election, but if opportuni
ty is afforded, my intentions formed
when I took up my residence here, will
be carried out'
The governors of the club will com
ply with Mr. Cleveland's request.
Clearing Broadway of Poles.
NEW YORK. April 23. Broadwav
from Twenty-third to Thirty-third
street -is now entirely cleared of poles,
the last of the fire department poles
having been removed this morning by
Foreman Clancy, of the department.
His gang is now working on Broadway
between Thirty-third and Forty-second
streets, and expects to have that por
tion of roadway cleared by six p. m.
today. At various points along Broad
way, the United States Electric Light
Company and the Manhattan companies
nave gangs at work making connec
tions at subway man holes.
Gould President of Another Railroad.
New York, April 23. The oil market
in theC onsolidated Exchange has been
in a semi-panicky state all day owing to
conflicting rumors in regard to the
utilization 01 Lima on lor illuminating
purposes.
Panieky FeeUag ia the Oil Mill.
New York, April 23. Mr. Jay Gould
was today elected President of the
Texas .Pacific Railroad, vice John C.
urown, resigned.
A Case of Leprosy ia Wisconsin.
Galena. Ilia.. Anril 23. A ruiuw.f
leprosy hasheeu discovered at Spring
Lake, Wisconsin. The victim is a wo
man. The character of the disease is
well marked -
The Adams and the Torktown ia Com
mission.
Washington, April 23. The Adams
was put in commission at Mare Island
vesterdayand the Yorktown at League
ARCHIE BRADT, PflSTMASTML
He Was Appointed by President Harri
son Yesterday.
Washington, April 88. The Presi
dent today appointed the following
named postmasters:
North Carolina Archibald Brady,
Charlotte.
Alabama Thomas J. Baly, Bessimer;
Miss Mary Pittells, Unimbour;Chas. W.
Raisler, Athens.
Texas William KeUey, Temple.
Tennessee Erwin H. Matthews, Ath
ens. Mississippi Samuel W. Howry, Ox
ford; Mary Simpson, Pass Christian.
Maryland Hamilton Old field, Elliott
City.
Florida Carl C. Crippen, Eustis.
North Carol iaa Postmaster.
Washington, April 23. Fourth class
postmasters were today appointed as
follows in North Carolina: Moses Pe
terson at Day Book; Root. H. Taylor at
Custer; Thomas Lawson at Hot Springs;
William Perkins at Paradise; R. a
Crews at Salem Chapel; Isaac J. F.
Jones at Walkertown.
A Case ef Yellow Fever In Florida.
Washington, April 25. Surgeon
General Hamilton, of the Marine Hos
pital Bureau, today received a telegram
from Doctor Danieis, President of the
Florida State Board of Health, stating
that a case of yellow fever has broken
out in Sanford, Fla., and that he had
taken every precaution to prevent the
spread of the disease.
A Noted Desperado Killed.
WiNciiKSXKR, Ky., April 28. Buck
Combs, a noted desperado of Breathitt
county was shot and killed Saturday
afternoon by George Spencer, in Mont
gomery county. Combs fired revolver
shots into the store where Spencer was,
and the latter returned the lire with a
shot gun, killing Combs instantly. Last
November Combs killed LewinTauIbee,
u cousin of (Congressman Taulbee,and on
being refused bail broke jail and openly
defied the officers.
A Defaalting Treasnrer.
Denver, Col., April 23. A special to
the Republican from Durango states
that T. F. Burgess, the treasurer of
that place, is a defaulter to the extent
of $12,000. On a promise of being re
leased from custody, he paid over to the
city a certificate of deposit for 93,800.
When released, he at once set out for
New Mexico. Officers are on his
trail.
Disorderly Hangariang Arrested.
Mt. Carmel, Pa., April 28. Last
night officers who arrested several
Hungarians for disorderly conduct
were attacked by other Hungarians,
who attempted a rescue. During the
fight which ensued John Thorns, a
Hungarian, was killed, and others were
seriously injured. A dozen Hungari
ans were finally lodged in the police
station.
Forest Fires in the North.
Bellows Falls, Vt.. April 81. A
fierce fire has boon raging in the wood
adjacent to this place for the past 86
hours. About ten square miles of
woodland has so far been burned over.
Several hundred cords of wood and
many thousand feet of legs have been
destroyed. The damage will amount to
many thousaud dollars.
Baseball Yesterday.
Louisville Louisville 17; St. Louis 0.
Cincinnati Cincinnati 8; Kansas Citv
5.
Baltimore Baltimore 5; Brooklyn 4.
Philadelphia Athletic 8; Columbus 4.
Jersey City Jersey City 1; Boston 14.
Newark Newark 4; Toronto 5.
Washington Washington 9; Yale 2.
Special Services an April 30.
Trenton. N. J.. April 23. Riirbt
Rev. Michael J. O'Farreil, bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton,
has issued a circular to the clergy of his
diocese, directing them to hold special
services in their churches on April 80,
in connection with the Washington
centennial celebration.
A Negro Safe-Robber Confesses.
Lii.niiAn 1 , iuui, ajiiii v. xuo mi,
in the law office of Hubbell and Con ley
is robbed last Bunday night, and
notes and money amounting to 5,000
taken. Yesterday afternoon, George
Jones, a young colored man, was ar
rested for the crime and confessed it.
Forty Two Horses Earned Up.
Rock Isalnd. Ills.. Anril 28. The
stables of the Moline and Rock Island
Horse Railroad Company, owned by
the Holmes syndicate, of Chicago, were
destroyed by fire last night, entailing a
loss ot Kf 13,000. f orty -two nones per
ished. A Romantic Marriage.
RnliKli News and Observer.
There was a nutter in the city yester
day morning as the news of a romantic
marriage which occurred in Goldsboro
the night before was spread abroad.
The contracting parties were Mr. H. L.
Finlayson, who is well known here as
the manager of the Raleigh office of the
Baltimore United Oil Company, and
Miss Hattie Lee, of Goldsboro, daugh
ter of one of the most prominent citi
zens ot that place. " The nappy pair ar
rived here yesterday morning from
Goldsboro and took rooms at the Yar-
boro. The marriage which occurred at
Goldsboro the evening before was at
tended with circumstances of the most
romantic character. There was oppo
sition to the marriage on the part of the
parents of Miss Lee. The lovers, how
ever, had fully determined upon the
nappy consummation alter mature de
liberation and on the eveninz in Ques
tion Mr. Finlayson called at the gate of
Mr. Lee when the bride that was to be
came out to meet him and they proceed
ed At onno to the residence of Rev. J.
C; McMullen where the ceremony was
perioral oa.
Mr. and Mrs. Finlayson took the 7
o'clock train via Weldon for this citv.
Hosts of their friends who had heard of
the happy affair assembled at the depot
at Goldsboro and showered upon them
their heartiest congratnlatkms. They
will make their home in Raleigh and
the News and Observer extends thorn
heartiest welcome.
THE CATHOUC UMVERS1TT.
THE IWFS BRIEF ADDRESS TO THE
AMERICAN BISHOPS.
HIS APPROVAL OF THE STATUTES,
And His Jay at the Establishment or
the lastitation.
Baltimore, Md., April 23. The Cath
olic Mirror tomorrow will publish the
following brief, addressed to the Amer
ican Bishops by Pope Leo XTH set forth
the grants and wishes of- the Holy See
in relation to the Catholic College at
Washington:
The earnestness with which you ap
ply yourselves to the preservation of
Catholic piety, to promote the Interests
of your dioceses and especially to sup
ply safe guards by which provision is
made for the proper training of clergy
men and young laymen and sound doc
trine in every branch of science, sacred
and profane, gives us cause of great joy;
wherefore very welcome was your let
ter sent to us toward the close of last
year in which you state the commenced
work of the great lyoeum and university
at Washington which you were promo
ting, had so far progressed that all
thinga were now ready for the teaching
of theology this year; and we joyously
accept your University laws and
statutes which you submitted to our
authority and judgment. In which
matter we judge, your purpose most
praiseworthy, that you have resolved to
set up in the centennial year of the es
tablishment of the ecclesiastical hier
archy there, a monument and perpetual
memorial of that most auspicious event,
by founding the University.
Therefore, anxious to satisfy forth
with your junt desires we entrusted
your university laws, brought for ex
amination and recognition, to the most
eminent cardinals of the propaganda,
that they might give us their judgment
concerning them. Now their opinions
having been laid before us, gladly
granting your requests, we sanction by
these letters the statutes aud laws of
your university, and we give to the
same the proper rights of a full and
regular university. Therefore, wo
grant power to your university to pro
mote students whose knowledge shall
have been tested, to academic degrees
and to the degree of doctorship iu
theology, philosophy and canon law,
and in the other sciences in which it is
customary to confer degrees and doctor
ships, when in coming years the teach
ing of them shall have been establisdcd
in your university.
But we wish you, dearly beloved
brethren, to preside with jealous care
over the direction of studies and the
discipline of the students in your uni
versity, either through yourselves, or
through prelates chosen from you
whom you shall have judged proficient
for this office.
As the See of Baltimore is the chief
among the Epiwco(U Sees of the United
States of North America, to the Arch
bishop of Baltimore ami to his success
ors we grant the privilege of discharg
ing the office of Supreme Moderator or
Chancellor of the university. More
over, we desire, and first of all in the
Held of philosophy and theology, the
plan of studies, or programmes of sub
subjects, to be followed in the
apestolio university to be sub
mitted for recognition to this
apostolic see in order that they may
be approved, and that the teaching in
every branch of knowledge may be so
arranged that your clerics and laymen
equally may nave an opportunity to
satisfy the noble desire of knowledge
by adequate instruction. But amongst
these courses we wish that there be es
tablishedSa school of pontifical and ec
clesiastical law, which knowledge es
pecially in these times we know to be
of great importance. We exhort you
all, furthermore to officiate to your
university seminaries, colleges, and
other Catholic seats of learning, as is
suggested in the statutes, safeguard y
however, the independence of each one.
In order to derive from the various
departments of the great university,
the greatest benefit for the greatest
number, it is well to admit particularly
to those schools of theology and philos
ophy, not only those studies as pointed
out by the third plenary council of Bal
timore; but also even those who are sot
on beginning or prosecuting its courses
of studies, since the great university
not only redounds to the honor of your
country, that assures the rich and salut
ing fruits belonging to the propagation
of sound doctrine and the protection of
Catholic piety, rightly do we trust the
noble minded American faithful will
not permit anything to be wanting to
you, in order to bring the work to a
splendid completion.
The Washington University being es
tablished by these our letters, we forbid
tho founding of any other such institu
tion without consulting the Apostolic
See. What we have declared and ap
pointed by these letters, we judge will
be a clear proof 0 our desire and anxi
ety to promote in that region more
glory and prosperity of the Catholic re
ligion. Given in Rome, at St Peter's, on the
feast of St. Thomas Aquinan, 189, in
12th year of our Pontificate.
(Signed.) LKO XIII.
Easter Bares ia Manchester.
London, April 23. At the Manches
ter Easter steeple chases and hurdle
races today the race for the Jubilee
handicap hurdle race of 1,000 sover
eigns was won by the Tyke.
Ireland's New Vieeroy.
Dublin, April 23. The Irish Times
states that Lord Crownlnw has accept
ed the Viceroyship of Ireland.
Tho New York World predicts a fei oui
success for the performance which
Manager Palmer will give at his thea
ter on May 18, for the benefit of the
Confederate Soldiers' Home at Austin.
Although national thanksgiving has
been proclaimed for April 80, by the
President, notes are payable on that
day, except Id States where bv general
law such HpUdayt aro held as Sunday. "
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