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TELEGRAPHIC. [SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.] Another Chinese Decision. WASHINGTON, Sept. -Acting Secretary of the Treasury French has decided not act upon the question whether a certificate is required of Chinese traveling from one point to another on a through ticket, and who may stop over in Canada en route, but will leave all such questions to the discretion of the custom officers to act according to law. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-A special agent of the Treasury has made inquiry of the Department whether a Chinaman traveling from one point to another in this country, and passing through a foreign country on a through ticket, is entitled to enter the territory of the United States without producing the certificate required by law of Chinese seeking to land from a vessel the at of our ports. No actual case of Secone kind has been presented, and Acting retary French declines to decide the Section question until & case actually arises. of the Act relating to Chinese provides 17 that no Chinese person shall be permitted to enter the United States by land without producing to proper officer of customs & that a certificate. The Act further provides certificate of identification, such as United given to Chinese laborers residing in the the States at the time of the passage of Act, and who desire to return, or a certificate by the Chinese Government that he to is not a laborer, and therefore entitled enter the United States, must be produced. not easy to determine what, if any, duties are im bosed upon the Treasury Dewith regard to Chinamen coming into partment the United States by land. The state- Treasment that the Acting Secretary of the had decided to leave all such questions is ury discretion of the customs officers to the it being the duty of the Deerroneous, partment to decide such questions actually arising in the course of its business. Adjustment of Traffic Rates. OMAHA, Sept. 6. Responsible officials of the Union Pacific state that on the recent visit of General Manager Clark and Freight Agent Shelby to San Francisco ad traffic arrangements, more equal and ever to both companies than the vantageous were consummated with before made thus permanent Central Pacific, and that peace has been established. This, it is be the lieved, will set at rest the rumors of Union Pacific being left out in the cold by other alliances made by the Central Pacific. The Royal Excursionists. CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-A special train, bearing the Marquis of Lorne, Princess Louise and party arrived about noon at the Rock Island depot. They visited Pullman early in the morning and on reaching without the city were driven direct to the hotel hotel ceremony or reception. At the for them twenty-one rooms were reserved day They have arranged to spend the San in the city, and proceed to quietly Francisco, via the Rock Island road, to morrow morning A Busted Bank. SILVER CLIFF Col.), Sept. G.-The Custer County Bank closed its doors yesmorning. Liabilities $40,000; assets, terday very small This bank was owned by the Hartsell Bros., and yas run which in connection with the Bank of Solida, suspended on Monday. There is great excitement among the depositors Hartsell in both towns. The whereabouts of the brothers is unknown. The cause the smash-up is a mystery A Tannerizing Maiden, ST LOUIS, Sept. 6 -Miss Phillipena Frengel of North St. Louis, for the last three months, has not taken a bit of solid She food, nor been able to retain liquids. has been treated by several physicians. who introduced food into the stomach with a tube, but it was immediately eject ed. She is not contined to bed. but helps the relative with whom she lives in light household duties. The Election in Vermont. BOSTON, Sept. Late dispatches from White River Junction, Vermont, say that the election of Luke Poland, in the Second District, is somewhat doubtful. There are 81 towns to be heard from in the district, thirteen of which, in Oreans County, have gone for Grant, Democrat. Edison's Electric Light. NEW YORK, Sept. 5 The long expected opening of Edison's incandescent lighting system in lower New York, was made la night. The Herald and Times offices and several hundred other buildings and stores were beautifully lighted and the entire success of Edison's light established. Rich Gold Discovery. EL PASO (Tex.), Sept. 6.--Gold-bearing quartz has been found in Oregon Mountain Mining District, fifty miles north of El Paso, which assays $10,000 to the ton. Specimens have been sent to the Bank of California, and $500,000 have been offered exists for the mine. Great excitement over the find. A Fiendish Negro Hanged. NASHVILLE (Tenn.), Sept. 6.-Mrs. Sarah J. Young, a respectable woman. aged 46, was outraged on Saturday near Union City by a negro named Winston Wade. Last night a mob of 100 men hanged him to tree Keifer in Kansas. TOPEKA (Kan.), Sept. -Keifer, late Speaker of the House of Representatives, arrived here yesterday, and will address the old soldiers on their reunion on the camp grounds on Thursday. The Election in Arkansas. LITTLE Rock, Sept. 6. The returns indicate increased Democratic majorities for the State ticket, whose majority is larger than was anticipated. The Greenback vote was very small. A Lie Nailed. HIGGINSVILLE (Mo.) Sept. No Democratic or other mob demonstration against the Postmaster occurred here, as reported from Washington last night. Eig Mass Meeting. BOSTON, Sept. A fusion mass meeting at Lake Maranacook, Maine, was opened by 8 concert of twenty-five brass bands. About 10,000 persons were in attendance. even THE water