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MARY GLANFERT, formerly one OF Bar
NUNS midget curiosities, being very small,
was found dead in bed at Newton, l.. l.,
on the 9th.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER ATKINS tele-
graphed the Secretary Of the Interior
from Muskogee, 1. T., on the 9th, that he
had found large number of squatters in
his progress through the Territory whom
he believed to be "boomers." He ex-
pressed the opinion that military force
riust be employed to expel them.
On the Sth John Mccullough, the TRACE
dian, died at his home in Philadelphia,
Pa.
PRESSURE is being brought to bear on
the President in favor of Recommended
ton in his message to convert the Agricul-
tural Bureau into an executive DEPART
ment.
THE glass-chimney workers OF Pitts
burgh, Pa, have formed union.
REV. SAM JONES is to bring his power to
bear on Washington City.
Rev. DIR. O'CoNNELL is expected this
week in Baltimore, Nd, bearing the ap-
prevail of the Pope of the work of the re-
cent Plenary Council.
1T is announced that the Hon. James
Russell Lowell will return to England next
spring and remain there during the sum-
mer and autumn.
A SENSATION comes from Washington to
the effect that Senator Riddleberger may
be induced to resign.
SIR HECTOR LANGEvIN, Canadian Minis
ter of Public Works, and Hon. M. Chap
leau, Secretary of State, threaten to re-
sign in the event Of Riel being hanged.
JAMES A. BAYARD, son of Secretary
Bayard, has been appointed Secretary of
the Territory of Arizona.
LIEUTENANT GREELY is to lecture before
the Scotch Geographical Society on the
10th, and will return to the United States
about Christmas.
LUDWIG HANSEN, the head of an old
Danish banking firm at Copenhagen, has
confessed to having unlawfully disposed
of moneys intrusted to his keeping to the
amount of 100000 kroners.
On the 18th the monument of Washington
erected in Milwaukee by Miss Lizzie Plank
ington at cost of $4,000, and presented to
the city, was unveiled.
ON the 9th Mr.. Gladstone received an
ovation while en- route from Hawarden to
Edinburgh.
HARRY G.. BELL, charged with robbing
the mails, was acquitted on the 9th at
Louisville, KY, on the ground that he was
natural heptomaniac.
THE Egyptians are greatly delighted at
the appointment of Mouktar Pasha as Turk
ish Commissioner to Egypt.
AT the cathedral in Cleveland, o., ON the
evening of the Sth, Bishop Gilmour invest
ed Mgr. Felix M. Rolf, Vicar General of
the Cleveland diocese, with the title and
insignia of domestic prelate to the Pope.
The ceremony was one of much interest.
ON the 9th Albert Edward, Prince of
Wales, England's future King, celebrated
his forty fourth birthday.
1T is stated that the Gear of Russia
struck Prince Alexander's name from the
army list in fit of anger, and without
consulting his Ministers.
Mr.. WILLIAM e. SMITH, the recently ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary of the Treas.
ury, has qualified and assumed the duties
of that office.
SECRETARY ENDICoTT has sent instruc-
tions to military commanders who are sta
toned in the neighborhood in which up
risings against the Chinese are apt to &C.
cur, to have their troops in readiness to
enforce the provisions of the Presidents
recent proclamation.
KING THEEBAw's reply to the British
ultimatum not being considered adequate,
the British expeditionary force will now
cross the frontier with the least possible
delay.
ON the 9th Dean O'Laughlin fell dead
while at mass in University College, Dub
lin
UNOFFICIAL returns of the recent election
in Dakota show plurality of 1000 in favor
of making Huron the new State capital.
Prohibition is carried. Minority repre-
sentation is believed to be lost.
On the 9th Major Edmund Mallett, of
Washington, d. c., the well-known worker
in the French cause in the United States
and an intimate personal friend of Louis
Riel, the Canadian revolutionist, had an
interview with the President, and made a
strong appeal for the interference of this
Government to prevent the hanging of
Riel by the Canadian authorities. The
President, however, declined to do so.
LOUIS RIEL, who was to have been
hanged at Regina, N. w. T., on the 10th,
was again respited until the 10th inst.
Preparations are being made for his exc
cution on the date mentioned, although
the warrant had not arrived.
CLEVELAND, o., has a new music hall,
and one of the largest in the West. 1t was
of magnificent audience, including Gov
ernor Hoadly and family of Ohio 4 ID Gov
ernor Alger and staff of Michigan. Gov,
ornor Hoadly presided. Emma Nevada
aSd her concert company were among the
attractions of the evening.
On the 9th United States Marshall J. w.
George arrested Mayor Weisbach, Dolph
Hanna, Probate Judge Wickersham and
twenty-five others at Tacoma, w. T.
charged with being implicated in the re-
cent expulsion of the Chinese from that
city. The prisoners were taken to Van
couver.
THE Taber divorce case at Boston was
closed on the 9th by the court granting a
decree to Mr.. Taber and dismissing the
cross-bill of Mrs. Taber.
NJ. LOUIS BLANC presided at the opening
of the French Chamber of Deputies on tn,
10th.
ALL four of the defendants in the Stead
Armstrong trial at London were found
guilty, and Stead, editor of the Pail Nal
Gdzette, was sentenced to three months
imprisonment.
MISS KATE FIELD has consented to lee
ture at New York on 1.-THE Social anC
Political Crimes Of Utah."
H. II. WARNER, of New York, has or
dared three Daintings of the artist, Henry