The Mineral argus., 1884-05-29
Epitome OF Late Telegrams.

Macpherson is said to have resigned from the
dominion cabinet.
Germany will subsidize steamship lines ia
the east and Australia.
Controller Cannon orders general examin.
alton of national banks.
The emperor of Germany has accepted the
resignation of Bismarck from the presidency OF
the cabinet. His successor is Boetelicher,
Prusian minister of state.
The Conservative peers of England have re-
solved unanimously to reject the franchise bill.
Lord Randolph Churchill was unanimously re.
elected chairman of the National Conservative
union.
Queen Victoria is negotiating for the purchase
of the Villa Nevada at Cannes, in which Prince
Leopold died. The intention is to convert il
into a convent and chapel in memory of the
Prince.
The Tageblatt of Berlin positively asserts thai
Richard Muckle of the Philadelphia Ledger
will succeed Sargent as United States minister
to Berlin. Muckle, the paper says, is an Alsatian
by birth, but personally grateful to Bismarck
The steamship I%llyrian, from Liverpool for
Boston, was wrecked Thursday night, tho
12th, near Cape Clear Light island. All the
people were saved. The Ilyrian went ashore
during a thick fog. She struck a rock with
great force, knocking a large hole in her bow
under the water mark. The fOrecompart-
ment began to fill. During the night the sea
increased and the vessel rolled on her side and
SUM.
The failure of Charles Searing's Exchange
bank at Laporte, Iowa, was caused by the sus-
pension of Donnel, Lawson & Simpson in New
York, who had between $1,000 and $4,000 OF
Searing's money, they having been his CORES
pondent. His capital was $12, 100 and it is re-
ported he has been doing a good business. He
has had a large amount of money on deposit,
some depositors having as much as 81 200 with
him.
The senate is discussing a plan to appropri-
ately celebrate the 3OOth anniversary of the
landing of Sir Walter Raleigh's exploring ex-
petition on Roanoke island on the 9th of July
next. Senator Vance of North Carolina is urg-
ing the matter, and wants congress to appro-
PIRATE $50, 600 to commemorate the landing OF
this, the first Anglo-American colony upon the
American shores, and to erect a monument on
the spot where Sir Walters feet first touched
on virgin soil
An outrageous scene occurred at the Catho-
lie cemetery in Rockford, III. The burial Of
Mix Connors was in progress, when his bro
Their Thomas, rather the worst for whisky,
pulled out a knife and commenced prying of
the silver plate, saying he had furnished it and
proposed to keep it. Mrs. Connors shouted at
him to let up. Her brother, Morris Sisten,
threatened to pummel the desecrator of the
dead, and a genuine row seemed inevitable,
when outsiders interfered and the burial pro-
ceeded.
The gates of the Iowa penitentiary at Fort
Madison opened on Wednesday, the 14th, for
the exit, after eight years Of penitentiary life,
of Edward Bruce, who was sentenced for life
for the murder of his friend and neighbor,
p. Mcnamara, in the summer of 1876, at keo-
kuk, in this county. 1t is supposed that Bruce
and his wife have gone to Dakota, where the
father of Bruce resides. The whole affair has
been kept very secret, and no one outside of
the prison officials there is yet aware of the
pardon of Bruce. The citizens of Keokuk, es-
pecially, will be surprised.
Sir William Harcourt, English home secre-
tary, has again been nervous over information
which the police claim to have discovered of
Fepian plots to assassinate himself. Mr.. Glad
stone, Mr.. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, and other members of the government
II is said that these threats are the cause of the
proposed cabinet meeting on Irish affairs, on
which Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant for Ireland,
has been summoned from Dublin. Lord Spen-
Ger will be guarded by two special officers
throughout his Journey, and extraordinary
precautions are being taken to secure the safe
fv of members of the government Recently
no less then twelve Scotland yard detectives,
in plain clothes, were counted IN the lobby OF
the house of commons, waiting to escort the
different ministers to their homes.