San Francisco, October 21st, 1887.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 229, 19 November 1887, Page 8

San Francisco, October 21st, 1887.

Extraordinary precautions have been taken in Chicago to guard the County Gaol, where the condemned Anarchists are , confined. The police cordon has been trebled, and 18 additional deputy sheriffs appointed. The occasion was a meeting of the friends of the piisoners at the Armory. Tavo . ,Burli'ng.fcon and Missouri freight trains collided near the village of Wooding Nebraska, on October 19tb, the engine and % dozen cars being wrecked ahd\ burned* \A^ brakeman named Davenport, confined by the debris, and seeing the Sanies approaching, chopped hia foot off in order to escape. He died, subsequently, from the shock. Powderly, the Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labour, resigned that position at the great Convention held in Minneapolis, October 17th. He was clo-

feated on the question of reotf^Ba&wng th& E^eGiattye Committee. ' ' 1 ;The:Ne«r : 'York " Tribune" 'of October l£J6fe crifeiclses Secretary Bayardfo Samoan poKey uutia^rcifully, and especiel%Ms treatment of ex - (Jdnsul Greenebatoai, " The papesr says the action of the repudiated official! when he was consul^ »fc Apia was hv effect a protest and ?> recourse against- » lagrant breach of tr3B% by the Germans,, and because this waaHbe case tlie disallowance of Greenebacr«n r s proceedings by Bayard was tantamount to aoquiesesnee in German intrigue a 31011;