The Columbus journal., 1881-11-30


that the Irish members of Parlia-
ment now confined in Jail will be
liberated in time for the opening OF
Parliament.
A MUNICIPAL election was held
the other day in Cork, one of the
most flourishing and largest cities OF
Ireland, at which the Land League
candidates were defeated i'm four out
of six wards, and the Liberals gained
one seat.
SYLVESTER f. WILSON, ticket
scalper, was recently arrested al
Philadelphia, charged with violat-
ing the law by dealing i'm tickets OF
the Pennsylvania r. II. Go. He went
to prison pending a hearing. He is
an ex-Nebrasksn of no good fame.
II. M. MYERS, living near Tawnee
City, a prominent citizen, was shot
the other night by a man named
Stanton, who thought Myers friend
ship for Stanton's wife was too
strong and intimate. Stanton has
disappeared. Myers cannot recover.
VIM. HILsE, of Evanston, ILL.,, was
found dead in bed the other morn
ing with his head crushed and
bloody. Ii was supposed to be the
work of tramp, as one had been
seen in the vicinity the evening be-
fore, and the house had been plum
dered.
Two horrible murders were COM
mitted last week, one at North
Evanston, and the other at DOwner's
Grove, both suburban towns of Chi
cago. In both cases the victims were
old men, being alone, and supposed
to be wealthy. The murderers
escaped.
FROM good authority we learn
that the &. B. Il q. railroad have
commenced work on the b. Il NJ.
extension moving east and west at
the rate of over a mile day, and
that il will be completed and trains
running to Denver by the lst of
next July.
GEORGE Q. CANNON, contesting
the Utah election in Washington,
has filed an answer stating that he
is a member of the Mormon church,
living with plural wives, who have
borne him children, and that as a
religious teacher he has defended the
polygamOus text of his church as a
revelation from God.
THE enormous increase in German
taxation, on account of the military
estimates, has astOnishsd the people,
and excited great amount of COM
ment, not only because of the neces-
sity of increased taxation, but, apro-
pos of Bismarck's probable plan, the
estimates calling for an increase of
800 lieutenants and 200 nOn-cOm-
missioned officers.
AN unsuccessful attempt on the
life of the czar and his family was
made recently, and they will remove
at once from Gatschina. The plot
involved the use of balloon to car
ry dynamite and fire-balla over the
palace, where they would make ter
rible havoc. The police arrested
the chief of police of an important
provincial city, two daughters of
high state official, and two Jewish
merchants.
ONE hundred and thirty magis-
trates met the other day in Dublin.
They adopted resolutions approving
the action of the government in en-
forcing the land bill and in measures
which have been taken to preserve
the peace of the country. Every
day gives evidence that the bill will
prove great success, and that op-
position to it is now confined to tur-
bulent persons who wish to infame
the animosity toward England, right
or wrong, and to agitators who
make trade of stirring up strife.
IT has recently transpired through
the disclosures of Theodore Hane, a
former tax clerk Of the city of Phil
adelphia, that millions of dollars
have been stolen from the taxpayers
of the city; that this stealing pro-
cess has been going on for years, and
it was considered poor day when
a clerk didn't steal $50 to $50. One
clerk then connected with the Office,
who lives in Germantown, took be-
tween 100000 and $4,000 by this
style of swindling. The facts con-
corning these huge frauds in the tax
which were suppressed |
the other day at a meeting of the cit
izens reform committee Of one hun
dred, will now be Immediately laid |
before the law officers Of the city and |
atafe for fhpir action