The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-05-03
NATIONAL WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY

commissioners, with a view of setting apart the
small park at the intersection of Third and
Fourth avenues as site for the statue of the
dead philanthropist to be called Cooper Park.
The committee is also authorized to initiate
measures, either by private subscription or
public appropriation, to pay for the proposed
monument
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist was attacked
by a violent hemorrhage of the lungs, IN Bos-
ton, last week, and was for time so weak that
his life was considered in danger. A priest was
summoned and the last rites of the church adj
ministered. After time he became better, and
expressed himself as confident that he would
be well enough to meet Mitchell In the soft
glove contest on the 18th. His illness is attri-
buted to dissipation,
Sir Anthony and Lady Musgrave arrived at
New York on Saturday from Kingston, Jamaica,
and are staying with Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus w.
Field at their house on Gramercy Park. They
sail for England about the middle of May, en-
route for Queensland, Australia, of which
province Sir Anthony has been appointed gov
ernor. Lady Musgrave is a daughter OF Mr..
David Dudley Field and niece Of Mr. Cyrus w.
Field.
The requests made by the late Abraham
Huntingdon, of Brantford Canada, for the BEN
eft of the common schools of Vermont, has just
come into the possession of the State author
titles after legal contest in the Canadian courts
by the relatives of the deceased. The amount
in question is something over 100000. Mr..
Huntingdon was native of Vermont and died
in 1877.
Mrs Ada Russell, mother of Mrs Winfield s.
Hancock, died Tuesday afternoon, oath ult., on
Governors Island, from pneumonia, comph-
Gated by acute bronchitis. Mrs. Russell was
born in 1911, at Newburg- on the-Hudson, and
belonged to the old Du Bots family of New
York. She has always resided in st. Louis until
General Hancock was stationed at Governors
Island.
Prince Batthyany the well-known patron of
the turf and owner of a number of raee-horses,
died suddenly on the 25th ult., in the Enclosures
for members at the Newmarket track, England.
His death occurred just after the numbers of
the starters and jockeys in the race for the two
thousand guineas stakes had been hoisted.
Mr. R. C. Coleman, a well-known long-range
marksman, met with an accident at Creedmoor
on Saturday, which may cost him the sight of
his right eye. A projecting cartridge cap was
accidentally exploded as he was closing the
breeeh-lock of his gun, and piece of the cap
struck him in the eye.
Jay Gould left New York on Saturday in
special car, on the Delaware, Lackawauna and
Western Railroad, for trip West and South.
He was accompanied by Russell Sage, Samuel
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gentlemen.
Congressman John D. White of Kentucky,
was married at Bridgewater, Massachusetts,, on
the 9th ult, to Alice III. Harris, daughter of
ex-Congressman Harris.
Rev. DR.. C. B. Boynton, chaplain of the U.
S. House of Representatives, from 1865 to 1863,
died in Cincinnati last Friday.
Charles W. Foster, father of Gov. Foster,
died at Fostoria, Ohio, on the evening of the
266h ult., aged So.
POLITICAL.
In the Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives, last Friday the returns of Fayette
county election for q successor TO n. l.. Dukes
were opened. Hugh j. Gilmore Democrat, has
1880 votes; John S. Moser, Republican, ,405,
and there are several hundred scattering votes
The Iowa Democratic State convention will
be held at Des Moines on June for the nomi-
nation Of the following candidates: Governor,
Acknowledgements. superintendent of public
instruction and justice of the supreme court.
In the Michigan Senate on the 25th ult. the
prohibition amendment to the constitution was
lost by a vote of 20 to IL. The proposition pro-
viding for local option was laid on the table
for future consideration.
Governor Cleveland. of New York, has vetoed
the bill to provide a pension, at the rate of $l2
per month, to the New York survivors of the
Mexican war.
The Connecticut Senate has rejected the law
forbidding the employment of women and chill
dren in factories for more than ten hours any
one day.
The bill repeating the act creating the Phila-
deelphia building commission was killed in the
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