The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-09-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.

ABROAD.
Orders have been issued by the English Ad-
miralty Office 90 the commanders Of al English
war vessels now along the Atlantic and Gulf
Coasts 70 report at once AT Halifax 70 assist the
Canadian cruisers in protecting the fisheries,
and also TO look after and protect the New
foundlsnd isheries.-Queen Victoria cabled
the following dispatch 10 the President: i
desire to express my profound sympathy with
the sufferers OF the late earthquakes, and await
with anxiety fuller intelligence, which hope
may show the effects TO have been less disas-
trous than reported. IN the deciding heat OF
the international sculling sweepstakes between
VIM. Beach. OF Australia, and John Teemer, Of
the United States, Beach won. The race was
rowed over the regular championship course,
from Putncy TO Mortlalze, on the Thames
Mrs T. d. Sullivan. wife of the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, and a deputation Of Irish ladies viii
20 20 Hawgrden Sept n 10 present 10 Mr.. Glad
stone mammoth declaration in favor of Home
Rule In Ireland. The documents bear the sig
natures Of 100000 Irish womon.--R iotng at
Belfast has been made almost impossible by the
perfected measures taken by the police 70 mas
Cor any outbreak In its very incipiency.-
The British man war AgamennOn, convey
ing surgeons food and tents, has gone TO the
relief of the sufferers by the recent earthquakes
in the Morea Bismarck who is suffering
from an attack Of sciatica, is much chagrined
because Lauenburg hitherto the constituency
of his son, Count Herbert Bismarck, has re-
turned a Liberal TO the ReichstaG.-The son
of Crown Prince Frederick William will start
on a mission 10 ST. Petersburg on the 9Th inst.
BE has had a lengthy conference with Prince
Bismarck on the Eastern question.-lt is re-
ported at Paris that within the past few days
D. Russian officers IN Mutt have arrived sepa-
rately at Sofa and placed themselves in COM
munication with the Zankotf faction of the
reyolntiOnists--A Sofia dispatch says that
thousands Of copies of the Cars reply 10 Prince
Alexander have been printed by order of the
Russian Consul and distributed among the
people 1t is believed that Russia will give the
throne TO the Duke OF 0ldenberg, who is COM
mander of a cavalry division at St. Petersburg
and favorte of the Cars. Bulgarian army
officers are greatly excited, although il is said
that Russia will not occupy Bulgaria unless
civil war should break out. AT the same time
Alexander fOresaw that the popular enthusi-
assn would speedily cool when the Russian
rouble was again set at work. Further, many
Bulgarian officers and politicians are still
strongly pro Russian, and the disloyalty in the
army is more widespread than was at frst sup
posed.
ABOUT PEOPLE
in a letter TO a personal friend in this city ex-
President Arthur states in his own handwriting
that his health has very much improved during
his soOurn in New London, Conn.-United
States Minister S. S. Cox, at ConstantinOple,
will sail from Havre for New York Oct 2 de
is coming home for a short vacation. Like a
good many others who have taken foreign posts
under the present Administration, he is thor
oughy satisfied with the experimentation.
Lew Wallace is said TO have made the illustra-
ti0ns for Ginevra. a forthcoming story by his
wife-HArrsOn Willard, lately removed from
the Boston Custom House, is the well-known
musical compOseF--A friend of Senator Stan
n a. gn-Hg q a.
rich man stays in the Senate merely because
Il furnishes him an excuse for getting away
from the perplexites Of business that he can
not avoid when at hOme.-Chief Justice
Waite arrived in San Francisco on Aug %
from his visit 10 Alaska, a trip which has COM
pletely restored bis health. After resting a
week he left for Acknowledgements
Saml j. Randall is lying quite seriously III at
his country residence near PaOh. He is suffer
ing from attack Of dysentery, together with
his old ailment, govt None but members Of
his family are permitted TO see him, and his
physicians say that while his condition is not
absolutely critical il is nevertheless serious
Miss Ada Sweet is IN Europe now, and the
Paris Petit Journal explains that she was re-
moved from her Office as Pension Agent for
writin poetry.-James Mcmillan and John
s. Newberry, citizens of Detroit, have given
$4,000 each 70 found free hospital in that
city and have vaguely promised more
Owing 10 the injury sustained by his daughter
while driving with Senator Evarts recently,
Justice Stanley Matthews will hasten his re-
turn from EuTope.--Goy. Rusk, of Wisconsin,
who so pluckily put down the riots in Miwau-
kee, is having deserved walk-over for re-
nOmination.-Senat0r Edmunds is not q
ProhibitiOnist in either theory or practice, but
he makes II a rule never to take a drink in the
presence OF young men.-Frederick Douglass,
who is in comfortable financial circumstances,
is going abroad 30 remain year or more
An American actress writes that the Prince and
Princess Of Wales didn't scare her bit. He
is Cat little man with shiny head, and his
wife is thin woman who has a scar on her
neck, limps badly aud is quite deaf."-Ida
Lewis is the only female lighthouse keeper in
the service of the United States Government.
Her station is near Newport, II. l., and she is
ar ready now as she was years ago 10 rescue
people from drowning OF the origi-
nal Is Of the Emerton family Of Bucksport,
Ne, are living, and their combined ages are
SO7 years.
INDUSTRIAL.
The Pennsylvania Railroad people could EN-.
ploy 5,000mOre cars if they had them ready,
but they report the outside car works from
which they have ordered new equipment pe.
hindhand IN their delivery. and are short OF
equipment with which TO furnish transporta.
tion.--Between 400 and 500 employees OF
Piley q Osborn, metal novelty works Newark
N. j., struck Saturday for a continuance of the
Saturday half-hOliday, and il was granted
them --General Secretary Turner. Of the
knights Of Labor, has issued general circular
10 the 5000 local assemblies Ct the Order call.
ing for general expression Of opinion regard.
ing the establishment Of q public newspaper
10 be- conducted i'm the interest Of the Knights
OF Labor. The scheme was suggested at The
late Convention IN Cleveland.-The improve
ment Ia the iron trade al Pittsburg continues
One firm has received two orders from tn,
South, each for !, 600 tons Of agricultural steel
the largest order Of the kind for IL years TIL,
iron aud steel outport for August is at least 2,
per cent. greater than IN July. One mill boa
the record Of any previous month by l,O56 tons
There are more pudding furnaces lighted al
and less idle men 10 be seen than ever before
About 800 union men walked out Of the 81
Louis breweries last week because the brewer
refused 70 withdraw the order requiring en-
pl0yes 10 leave the union unless the boycott
was raised.-The StOnecutters' Union O
Chicago withdrew from the Trades Union
The stonecutters number about LOO and thei
Withdrawal causes the first serious break in Ia
amRlgamated organization. The reason give
for the withdra is that brick and stone mason
belonging 10 the Trades Union are allowed 1
do stOnecutter's work for 30 cents less per da
than the established rate. Bradley q Co.
plate mill men al Harrisburg, Pa, struck Sal
urday on account Of the discharge of three meI
The strike of the coal miners at Beviel