Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Previous Page
–
Next Page
OCR
December 21, 1882.]
tims. Troops have been ean to the scene, but the In-
port that commissioners
commercial treaty with the United States is incorrect. Mr.
agencies throughout Mexico. . The object is the in rease of
Mexican commerce.
‘PERU.
Senor, Pierola, ex-Dictator of Peru, has announced his in-
ability to accept the unreasonable proposals of Chili
POLAR REGIONS.
Fourteen international stations are to be established in the
polar regions for the investigation of atmospheric, magnetic,
and electric phenomena. i ii upy Bi
rows Point in 155° west longitude, and 71° north latitude.
On the ist and 15th of each month magnetic observations
are to be made simultaneously every five minutes, and ot
other days every h
RUSSTA, .
The Governor of Transbaikal, Siberia, has been killed by a
young woman banished for complicity in'a Nibiliet conspiracy.
‘The Prefect of the police of St. Petersburg has ordered th
expulsion of all Jews residing within the municipal limits of that
city without offivial permission. The Senate has decided that
the Jews are incapable of holding landed property in Russia,
We should not criticize the ministers of the Czar too harshly,
however, until we hear what they think of our New Yor!
”
A despatch from Rome says M. de Giers, the Russian
Foreiga Minister, nas had another private audience with the
Pope. and that the interview resulted in the satisfactory set-
tlement of bases for the arrangement of the questions at issue
between Russia and the Vatican, especially that relating to
the nomination of Bishops to the Polish sees.
Russia is at her old traditional tricks again—intriguing in
The Be
power of Russia,
glacis as weil, by e: he
mouth of the Shipka ee on the neutralized soil of Eastern
Rout
The ‘Spanish Red Book has been published. It contains
a note in which Spain demands that the United States should
not enjoy the exclusive right of intervention in connection
with the on anama Canal. Spain can find something to do
me, in preventing England monopolizing the con-
trol of the Suez Ca al. If she struts over here we shall be
forced to seize
Spain’s republicans have resolved upon a coalition of the
members of all shades of their political belief.
eavy snow-storm has prevailed in §, in
ship, we certainly shall find no fault with such a step.”
TURKEY.
‘The Porte has decided to adopt Col. Lay’s torpedoes for the
defence of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorous, La
au American, who has been at Constantinople for a long time
experimenting on his torpedo inventions, aud has been sup-
plied with fands by the Turkish Government. He has been
abused and described asa ‘‘crank” by the English press—
on account of his success at Constantinople.”
DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNERS.
Sir. Hugh Allan died suddenly on Saturday.
of the Allan line of steamers, plying between
Canada, and built the first Ocean steamer fitted ‘with aed
He resided mostly in Montreal, and leaves property to the
amount of $15.
Marshall McedIahon is reported as seriously ill.
Anthony Trollope is dead.
Louis Blane, the e Brench Socialist, historianand journalist,
died a few days
FAMOUS A MERIC. ANS.
Rear-Admiral Nicholson will be relieved of the command
of the European station in March, and will probably be re-
tired. This is the flunkey who landed American marines at
the burning of Alexandria by the British, and thus virtually
became a party to England’s piratical expedition.
Madame Albani, the prima donua, has accepted an engage-
ment to sing in the United States and Canada before Christ-
mas. Madame Albani is a French Canadian, La Juvesse by
name, and took her title from Albany, in this State, where
she used to sing in the Catholic Church choir.
General Wallace, United States Minister, has returned to
Constantinople. During his absence he visited Jerusalem,
vernor and other officials received him in pro-
cession. t Cairo, , Mr. Wallace was also given a public recep-
tion, ‘while there he paid a visit to the Khedive, and had
ee
Bee yes head
‘
On Tuesday last, Mr. P. 'T. Barnum—of the origival and
only “‘ greatest show on earth” —celebrated the semi centen-
nial anniversary @ f his roles from the common jailin Dan-
ary, ‘e he en for sixty days imprisoned
for a0 neg ‘heel Pebliebed in his paper, The Herald of
“¥reedom.
REDPATH’S WEEKLY.
AT HOME.
AMERICAN OUTRAGES.
Since our last issue:
Charles L. Lamb, ‘ ier and highly respected citi-
zen” of Hannibal, Mo., got drank, w the house of a
man named Hull, ‘ynmrralied with vim, “yas vice’ ‘out, then
reeled around to the window and discharged his revolver,
shooting Mrs. Hull dead. As he is “‘ very highly connected,”
it is not likely he wi be inconvenienced on account of this
little escapade.
A man at Nashville, Tenn., poisoned her grand-
mother with | arsenic, for the purpose of inheriting ber prop-
sharkey, Miss. ss early on Saturday, two masked men
aroused the clerk in a drug store, and when the door was
opened, discharged "four shots into his body, killing him al-
most ii
Wil jam Pad , public school teacher of Cumberland,
Ohio, ventured to ‘remonstrate with two of his pupils for re-
fusing 01 recite their lessons, whereupon they knocked him
down and jumped upon him. The teacher then drew a knife
and fiabbed one of them in the back, killing him almost in-
2
E
ae a | wedding i in Saballo, New Mexico, Francis Notan got
drank, drew his revolver, and shot and killed two brothers,
named Rovall.. He then proceeded to his home, and cut off
his wife’s ears.
William Fanel, while walking on Twentieth street, New
York, was stabbed in the back by an unknown man. Some
citizens whowit nessed the murderous attack, heard the ass-
assin exclaim: ‘I’ve killed the wrong man,” as he hurried
av.
Margaret Glaney, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was found dead at
her home, with a gash in her head. It is said she had con-
siderable money in the house.
n San Francisco some boys amused themselves by stoning
a Chinawan, when he turned and stabbed one of them, in-
flicting a fatal wound.
Horace Jackson, of the same city, who keeps a saloon, shot
two hoodlums who had entered his place with their pals and
were throwing tumblers at him for some pet griev:
Tom Robinson, who shot a youth pamed Curry, an and Wes-
ley Andrews, implicated in attempted aeenssination, were
taken from Bastrop jail, La., and hangedby a
Two factions of the old and new City Councils at Opelika,
Alabama, had a quarrel last week, resulting from a contest
over the Mayoralty and Aldermen. The Mayo
thorities ” took a hand in the battle. Guns, pistols and rifles
were ‘ery used, Ten men were shot down. Eight of them
will
Ate Saunders, of Charleston, Mo., was hanged last Fri-
day, for the murder of Moses Hirey, whom he killed in a fit
of jealousy, both being in love with the fame girl.
in the same day, William was hange -y, Ga., for
the murder of William Swift, whom he iilled ic rob him of a
month’s wages, and a suit of clothes
On the same day, Edward Conyers, a negro was hanged in
Swainsboro, Ga., for the murder of anotl
On the same day, also, Charles eee, m8 vhnoged att Don-
aldsonville, La., for the murder of
hacked to death with a knife, in the} presence, of | het little
daughter.
Hong Ah Dack, a Chinaman, ends the list of Friday’ 's hang-
ing. He wa
Chinese named Ah Mow. Mr. Duck behaved with the ut-
most noncha'ance on the scaffold, bidding those present good
by, and promising in a Jocular manner to return
All the elements that go to make up the wery | bad little boy
seem to have blended in Master Fred Grimes of New Jersey,
who was picked up by the Brooklyn police on Monday. Hé
is thirteen years old. He stole a dollar from his teacher, ran
away from home, bo f
whom he bought them, stole a from a Non York furni-
ture dealer's cash drawer, bought e ravch forged his father’s
name to a note, bought another watel a pair of opera
glasses, went twice to see ‘* The Black Crook, ” and rode
coupe. Then, when caught, he wove a romance for the nolice
worthy of Baron Munchausen, It seems like an incongruity
for the Society for the Proventon of Cruelty to Children to
take a hand in such a ‘ociation to protect adults
from juvenile sharpers conid more appropriately consider it.
At a farm, 10 miles south of Memphis, Tenn., between C,
M. Tardy and E. M. Wheeler. two guards, which resulted in
Tardy shooting Wheeler. Wheeler returned the shot and
killed Tardy.
William Patterson, a Cincinnati hack-driver, fired at a po-
liceman, but missed hint; the bullet instantly killing ‘nother
driver named Coke,
A number of young men became involved in 8 row at By
anston, Mo., anda young man named Harris drew a pistol
and fired at another man, but missed his mark and shot his
own father, Dr. Harris, through the heart.
ARKANSAS.
Sarah Stokes, on trial at Little Rock’for a homicide, is a pro-
fessional beauty. She tolda reporter who interviewed her in
her cell that she was not looking her best, as trouble had in-
jured her complexion and expression of ‘‘ girlish sweetness,”
but yet she impressed him as almost perfect, and he has no
doubt that she is, as she claims, the most beautiful woman in
Arkansas.
cron crss
ia’s Constitution provides for biennial sessions of the
State Tegislature, and some of the papers are condemning the
recent adjournment of that body to meet in July next.
ILLINOIS.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, having been asked to enforce
the Sunday laws of that city, replied that he would dono such
thing. “I believe in Sunday as a day of rest,” he said,
“but what is rest to one man. may be labor to another. Rest
is not simply doing nothing, but isa change. A man sitting
at a desk all the week, occupied with mental labor, finds no
refreshment in a stiff. back bench in church on Sunday. The
Sunday of the Puritan fathers was beneficial to them because
they spent the week in outdoor labor, but men of sedentary
habits need to reverse the usage. Any attempt to compel
the people of Chicago to be pious will fail, and it ought to.”
dreadful accident occurred at Shawneetown, at the saw-
mill of J. Vincent & Son, on Monday. Eleven men employed
about the mill were scattered around the engine room eating
their luncheon, when the boiler exploded with terrific vio-
Jence, completely wrecking the mill, throwing the iron plates
of the boiler to distances varying from a few feet to six hun-
dred yards, and instantly killing eight of the eleven men and
wounding the other three,
3
One of the “men was blown into the river and two were
hurled a distance of two hundred yards: Several of those
killed were literally blown to atom their friends went
about-with pails picking up the indistinguishable fragments
strewn about,
INDIAN RESERVATIONS.
The Indian authorities are trying to remove 2,000 intruders
from the Creek and Seminole countries, who have moved in,
settled, and lived there a long time, and occasionally inter-
The “Sioux Commission has received the consent of 20,000
Indians to the cession of a portion of their’ reservation.
About 5,000 more are to be interviewed, and this will close
the work of the Commission.
KANSAS.
In Kansas 93,000 acres have been planted under the new
agriculture act. Preference is given to the cotton tree becanye
rapid growth.
x ENTUCKY. \
oung women of Kentucky are indulging in quilting
bees and cat shaking. That is a more harmless pastime than
shooting other on sight like the young men.
LOI. ae ANA.
Gr reparations are being made for the Mardi Gras
Festiviticn during the first week in February. A competitive
drill will be a prominent feature, some $5,000 being offered in
prizes ‘for infantry and artillery
MASSACHUSETTS.
or Long has appointed Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.,
0 be Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in the
bines of Judge Lord, resigne
A Catholic Chase at Amesbury, was destroyed by fire.
NEW JERSEY.
Newark people are carprised to learn that the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company wished to pay
to the city its arrears of ti taxes, $16,000.
NEW YORK STATE.
The street railroads of Brooklyn carried nearly 80,000,000
passengers in the year just end
The trustees of the @ Beookiyn bridge at a meeting awarded
contracts for the construction of twelve long cars at a cost of
$3,465 each, and twelve short cars at $2,865 each.
NE v a ORK CITY.
Archbishop Corrigan laid the corner-stone of the French
canna Catholic Church on Seventy sixth street between
It is expected that the church
will be completed by the first of February. Large donations
have been contributed by the Canadian Prime Minister and
members ef Parliament. The pastor of the church is Father
©. de La Croix.
‘A number of Hebrew merchants procured an injunction
preventing the Paice from closing, their places on Sunday, in
enforcement of the “‘ Bine Laws.”
The “objectionable Sunday clauses of the new Penal Code
were less vigorously enforced on last Sunday, and as a result
their was less inconvenience to the public. _ There were but
few arreste, and the magistrates administered the Jaw in a
ber ral sp
nl | members ot the Chamber of Commerce have signed
a eettion asking the President to a special meeting to
consider the question of the revival of the merchant marine.
OHIO.
Governor Foster has issued a proclamation for an election
to fill the vacancy for terms caused by the death of the
the late Congressman Updegraff. The election will be held
on January 2d.
OREGON.
explosion in the tunnel of the Oregon and California
Rellroad killed four Chinamen and wounded several others.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Through an explosion j ina distillery at Belle Vernon, upward
of 3.000 barrels 0 f whiskey were destroyed, involving a loss
of $500.
WASHING @ TON.
The Honse of Representatives passed a bill last week award.
ing $35,000 to the State of Georgia, for money allege:
have been spent in defence of the Union in 1777. This a
about the oldest claim on record. It ix a job. eorgia used
0 be called ‘‘ the Yankee State of the South. Tt looks like
* ihe Potomac River is frozen solid from the foot of Ana-
lestan Ialand to the Little Falls, a spectacle unprecedented
within the memory of the oldest river men.
Senator Jones, of Florida, on Saturday, introdnced in the
Senate a bill to grant tothe Postal Telegraph Company of
New York the right to land cables in avy United States har-
bor, and to grant all privileges necessary
The bill is entitled “A bill
duced in the House oy Mr. Norcross.
Several mem! the present “Congress are candidates
for Clerk of the next House. It often happens that ex-Con-
gressmen are found in the most subordinate positions—even
as wrapper-writers in the stationery room. “‘ Vice is a mon-
ster, etc.
The House Appropriations Commmitten have agreed toa pro-
vision reducing letter postage to
The law exacting a tax from dinmmer i in Washington no
longer exists.
The Civil Service Reform Committee of the Senate have
the chairman to report favorably the bill appropriating $10,-
000,000 annually for the next five years, to advance the pub-
lic education.
nator Logan says he will oppose the Fitz John Porter
bill as long as he lives,
@ Senate in executive session on Monday confirmed the
nomination of Brigadier-General John Pope as Major-Gen-
eral.
FAMQUS TANS
Buffalo Bill is w $25
The President Tutertained G Ge, B. F. Butler at dinner at
the Soldiers’ Home, a few day:
The President has nomingted Sprig. Gen, John Pope to be
Major-General
Mr, Edison’s patents owe number 39§6—more than werg
ever before granted to o: