Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-03-28
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
MINISTER LOWELL presided on the
18th at the unvciling Of a statue in London.
Eng.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL GODFREY
wETTzEL, United States sngineer corps, is
dead.
An insane relative of A. T. Stewart
has brought suit against Judge Hilton for
$4,000.
The Rhode Island Republican State
Convention on the 10Th renominated the
present State officers.
EXPERTS declare that the cattle dis
ease near WapeIlo, Ia, is foot rot, and not
foot and mouth disease.
PARSELL has selected sixty candi
dates for the elections in anticipation of
dissolution of Parliament.
THE Pittsburgh (Pa.) Chamber of
Commerce asks Congress TO go slow in the
matter of altering the patent laws.
By the new fast mail service Port
land, Ore, will secure Eastern mails twen-
two hours earlier than formerly.
FERRY, the French Prime Minister,
says it is waste of tine TO talk about
general European disarmament.
ADMIRAL SEssoFFsKY, Commander
of the Russian squadron in American wa
ters during the civil war. is dead.
The bill to return 10 China the bal
ance of the indemnity fund will be recon-
mended to the House for passage.
The Ohio Legislature has refused TO
take up the graded liquor tax bill, and the
Scott law will probably not be changed.
The number of Post-offices in the
United States ON March 10th was 1898, an
increase of 1,iS5 in less than nine months.
Ii HUNG CHANG, the Chinese Vice
roy wants the British and American min
listers TO intervene to secure peace with
France.
IT is reported that an important clew
has been discovered to the perpetrator of
the murder of Phoebe Paullin in New Jer-
sey last winter.
The business failures in the United
States and Canada for the week ended ON
4 AfD Ia
the preceding week.
GENERAL MILLoT has been instructed
= to advance and occupy whatever territory
may be necessary to secure the French
holdings in Tonquin.
THE bill making it mandatory upon
cities having 10000 population and upward
to adopt civil service rules passed the New
York Assembly on the 18th.
LIEUTENANT-CoLo T. DEwINSToN
of the English army has been appointed by
the King of Belgium Governor of the inter-
national mission on the Congo.
GENERAL GRAHAM captured Osman
Digna's camp on the 18th aIter short bat
tie. The British loss was 40 in killed and
wounded. The rebels lost 2,iOO.
The Breeders Gazette expert says the
cattle plague at Neosho Falls, Kas., is not
foot and mouth disease, but is the same as
that prevailing in Illinois and Iowa.
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GENERAL JOHN b. GORDON has in
vited ex-Confederates in New York to
conference with a view to establishing
home for disabled Confederate soldiers.
In addition to dining with Bismarck
on the I'D Minister Sargent attended a
soiree given in the Imperial alace in honor
of the Emperor's eighty-seventh birthday.
EMMA NEVADA, the young American
prima donna. made IL successful debut ut
the Theater des Italiens, Paris, on the even
ing of the Goth, in Lucia De Lammermoor
THE Swiss Federal Council have de-
cided to grant the extradition of anarchists
whenever asked for. Otherwise the an
archists would be expelled from the coun-
try.
The Portland (NIe. Board of Trade
on the 18th resolved that the public good
requires that the coinage of silver dollars
be Immediately suspended by act of Con-
gress.
SECRETARIES LINCOLN and Chandler
have written n letter to the President dis
couraging the idea of offering reward to
enlist private enterprise in the search for
the Greedy party.
THE British steamship General Rob-
erts reached New y ork on the 18th with
her bows broken and the forward compart-
ment full of water in consequence of u col
lision with ice fields.
MERCEDES, the celebrated IIolsten
cow, having the best milk and butter record
in the world, died with her calf on the 18th
in the neighborhood of Iowa City, La. The
pair were valued at $4,000.
THE bill passed by the New York
Legislature giving the Mayor of New York
City the power 10 make appointments with
out the approval of the Council has been
signed by Governor Cleveland.
A sHIr-LoAD of refugees. bound from
Cuba TO Maine, has been intercepted by a
revenue cutter on account of representa-
lions by the Spanish authorities that the
escaping persons, mostly women and chill
dren, are bandits.
The further advance of the British
into the Soudan is imminent. General
Graham is in favor of continuing the cam
raicn He thinks the rebellion not vet
crushed. The situation of General Gordon
is considered critical.
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