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THE LATEST NEWS. Events of Importance at Home and Abroad. The representatives of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific railroads have met in New York to confer on an agreement to divide territory so that neither company shall build branch lines into each other's territory. Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager has prepared a statement showing that the estimated number of acres restored to the public domain under the August orders of the Secretary of the Interior, revoking indemnity withdrawals, is 21,233,600, exclusive of 1,513,000 acres within the limits of Indian reservations. This embraces the roads in regard to whech restoration orders have thus far been issued. A telegram from Washington says the statistician of the Department of Agriculture, in the September report, gives a statement of the cotton product tested by distribution, which shows that his final estimates, made seven months before the close of the commercial year, have indicated the crop within a fraction of one per cent. four years out of five since 1881. The year S movement just closed, amounting to 6,505,080 bales, according to the National Cotton Exchange record, verifies the department estimate of last February, which was 5,460,000 bales, while all other authorities made lower figures. The casting of thestem of the United States steamer Charleston, now being built at San Francisco, has been successfully accomplished. The stem weighs full 16,000 pounds and is said to be the largest casting ever made on this continent. A committee appointed by the creditors of Whiteley, Fasseler & Kelley, of Springfield, O., have recommended that they accept fifty cents on the dollar from Whiteley, Fasseler & Kelley, and that the holders of the paper of the Champion Machine Company, which had been negotiated by Whiteley, Fasseler & Kelley, accept fifty cents on the dollar. All local creditors have accepted the proposition. The total amount of indebtedness, including the Champion Machine Company's accommodation paper. is, in round numbers, three and a quarter millions. Several weeks ago Rev. Thomas Edwards, aged eighty-four years, and for half century a resident of Pittsburg, disappeared mysteriously from his home. A letter has been received from him dated Carmartheshire, Wales, in which he stated that he proposed to remain there for the rest of his days, but assigned no reason for his sudden departure. Reports have been received at the Department of State from Chili to the effect that cholera is spreading rapidly in that country. Treasury Agent Tingle, who has charge of the seal islands of Alaska, reports that during the past year 104,829 seals were killed and 100,000 skins accepted as good. He estimates the number of breeding seals at about 4,000,000. He reports the capture of ten schooners forillegal sealing, five of them British, with total of 5,300 skins seized. He estimates that 30,000 seals have been taken by marauders during the past year, and this although only one seal out of ten killed is secured. The Brooklyn Standard-Union has published a long story going to show that Dr. McGlvnn was really excommunicated without a hearing. It asserts that Cardinal Gibbons, for reasons connected with the Knights of Labor position, and the location and management of the proposed Catholic university, suppressed the defense of McGlynn, which, according to the story, had been placed in his hands by Dr. Burtsell to present to the Propaganda at Rome. The story goes on to say that Bishop Moore, of Florida, who has from the first strongly espoused the cause of McGlynn, has had many interviews with Cardinal Gibbons concerning the controversy, and there is more than a probability now that the case will be reopened. The Alfred Adams, a British Columbia sealing schooner, was seized some time ago in Behring sea by the United States revenue cutter Rush, and her sealskins and fishing tackle were taken away. A prize crew was put on board and the captain was ordered to navigate the schooner to Sitka. After parting company with the cutter, however, the captain headed the Adams for Victoria, British Columbia, where she arrived a few daysago. The prize crew could do nothing, as it consisted of only two men against the crew of the Adams. Spade Sunshine, a Cherokee Indian, has been executed at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, for the murder of Long John, another Indian, on Christmas night last. John Thomas Ross, colored, has been hanged in Baltimore for the murder of Emily Brown, white, an old woman whose body he sold to the Maryland University of Medicine for dissecting purposes. An examination by the surgeons in charge at the university showed that the skull had been fractured, and the wounds from a knife led to the discovery that the woman had been murdered, and the arrest and conviction of Ross followed. Lapp, Goldsmith & Co., liquor and tobacco dealers of Louisville, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are estimated at $100,000; assets nominally, $30,000. Charles S. Bingham has been appointed receiver of the First National Bank of Dansville, N. Y., which is insolvent. Chaplain C. C. McCabe, secretary of the board of missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has received from Elijah Hayes and wife a bequest of their property in Warsaw, Ind., valued at $130,000. The property comprises their entire possessions. Mr. Hayes asked only an annuity of $500, which, however, was made $1,000. Colonel Thomas o. Sully, aged seventy years, chief inspector of the Cotton Exchange at New Orleans, has committed suicide.
