GENERAL TELEGRAPH NEWS.; THE FATE OF A NAVY-YARD.
Date: 04 July 1883
NEW-LONDON, July 3.--Now that the NewLondon Navy-yard has been abandoned by the Government, the old naval junk that has been lying for years at its wharves is to be disposed of by proposals, to be opened on Sept. 24. The gunboat Florida, whose tattered, dull lead-colored ...
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NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS.; NEWS AND ORDERS FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Date: 04 July 1883
WASHINGTON, July 3.--Adjt-Gen. Drum will leave Washington Thursday on a visit of inspection to the military posts on the Northern and Union Pacific Railroads.
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CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS.; NEW-YORK. BROOKLYN. STATEN ISLAND.
Date: 05 July 1883
Annie Minshell, 33 years old, fell out of a first-story window at No. 201 Prince-street yesterday and broke her right ankle.
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NEWS OF THE OLD WORLD MANY LIVES LOST AT A CLYDE SHIP LAUNCH.; MANY LIVES LOST AT A CLYDE SHIP LAUNCH.
Date: 04 July 1883
LONDON, July 3.--An unusual and terrible calamity occurred during the launch of the steam-ship Daphne near Renfrew, a place five miles from Glasgow, to-day. After the vessel had been launched she fell over on her side, precipitating a number of people into the water.
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