West-Jersey pioneer., 1884-01-03
CONDENSED NEWS.
Tuesday. Decern ber %.

CONDENSED NEWS.
Tuesday. December rs.
Queen Victoria expects to visit Northern
italy some time in February.
| A Commercial Gable company is being
| formed in Canada to make connections with
Europe and the United States.
| The Governor of Cochin has telegraphed
| that King Toep Hoa. of AMMAN, is not dead.
! He voluntarily abdicated the throne and is
| living quietly at home.
| Two Catholic councils will be held in Bal
timore in 1884. The first will be held in the
spring and the second, a great plenary coun-
Gil, in October and November.
| A compromise has been effected by the
Western Union Telegraph company with the
state Of Pennsylvania in the suit for $147, 900
| for tax on stock dividends for the years 1879
and 1861. The company will pay $4,000.
| Sylvester 7. Everett, president Of the Ma
| tional Bank of Commerce Of Cleveland, and
a noted politician, has had to resign the
presidency of the bank because he engaged
in stock speculations, contrary to the rules
| of the institution.
Wednesday, December go.
The international exhibition in Nice was
opened ON Monday.
Bradford Miller, prohibition candidate,
has been elected Mayor of Topeka Kan.
The two largest buildings of the Utica,
N. Y, Match company have been destroy ed
| by fire. Loss, $4,000.
1t is stated that the pope intends to confer
upon the crown prince of Germany the or
der Of Christ, first class.
Three white men and one negro were
killed at Yazoo, Miss, all the result Of over
doing the Christmas holidays.
The Citizens Reform association Of Buffa-
10, N. Y, is making determined effort to
suppress the Sunday liquor traffic.
Threre was an unusual amount Of intoxi-
cation and noise in New Orleans on Christ
mas, and three bloody murders resulted.
The Montreal Society for Protecting Wo-
men and Children report deplorable condi-
ton of overcrowding and destitution in that
city.
| Thursday, December 27.
| Considerable damage has been done by the
recent flood in the Ohio valley.
Emigration to Texas is said to be twenty
five per cent greater this year than last.
A new anarchist journal named, L'Explo-
sion, has appeared in Geneva, Switzerland.
| London Bible societies have given away
4,9s9,660 copies of the Scriptures this year.
1t is reported that the sultan is growing
suspicious of England and is seeking alh-
ances elsewhere.
A negro convict in Adams Miss, SEN
fenced for life, drew $500 pension money
the other day for wound i'll the war.
Secretary Folger has entirely recovered
from his recent indispostion. He resumed
his duties at the treasury department.
The burning of Samuel c. Cupples & Co. e
broom factory, together with several other
large factories sin' st. Louis, has caused a
loss of $250,000.
Reuben r. Springer, of Cincinnati, has
bequeathed to the art museum his valuable
art collection; also the pictures willed him
by his niece, Mrs. Mills
Friday, December 2s.
There have been 100 murders in Leadville,
| COL, since its incorporation.
A smallpox epdemicis is reported as prevail
ing in some sections of Louisiana.
The Socialistic Labor congress is still In
session at Baltimore, with closed doors The
national congress was the topic discussed.
Gov.7Butler, of Massachusetts,, refuses to
| extradite E. f. Pickert who is wanted in st.
Louis on the charge of running lottery.
|
again waging war against the American hog,
| wholly upon sanitary grounds, it is claimed.
The extensive firm of Amos D. Smith &
Co., cotton goods manufacturers, of Provi-
dence, have failed, with liabilities estimated
at 81, 100000
A meeting of the Iowa railroad pool is
called to decide questions growing out of the
tripartite agreement. The meeting will bt
held in Chicago.
Mr.. Bland, of trade dollar fame favors
the establishment of United States mint in
St.. Louis and the recoining Of trade into
standard dollars.
Saturday, December 30.
Damage to a considerable extent is re-
ported to shipping from the recent high
winds.
The Scott law has been decided by the
LIQUOR dealers convention in Columbus to be
failure.
By the explosion of gas in Buffalo $4,000
worth of damage was done but fortunately
no one was injured.
Mr.. Carlisle has been invited by the presi-
dent to assist at the White House on New
YEARS. day reception.
Several cases of graveyard insurance have
| been discovered III ran TiFei, MaSS' iho
implicated parties have fled.
The old time oyster war i'll the Chesa-
peake has been revived, and naval engage.
ment between the oyster boats has resulted.
! / Roger Sherman at the Standard oil in
vestigation in Philadelphia peremptorlly re-
fused to disclose confidential communca-
tions
David A. Dishler, once prominent poiiti-
| o;a,, IF TItioa has baar convicted of DprillrV
and sentenced to five years and four months
in Auburn prison.
Monday. December 81.
/ Barnum, after buying a white elephant,
has made his will and arranged to cross the
| divide.
The flooded waters of the western rivers
that have caused some apprehension are re-
| ceding rapidly.
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