The Republican journal., 1888-02-02
Generallties.

grief after swindIng people out OF Sl00o0o
Rev Jonathan goldman. prominent worker
in the Free VIII Baptist denomination, is dead.
There was thin ice yesterday morning in
Jacksonville, Fla. but the orange crop was
not hurt.
Cot j. {. Marcy, leading lawyer of Jack
son,iilc. Eta. has disappeared with $4,000
trust funds.
leary. the builder of the big raft, has attached
the steamer Miranda for $4,000 for alleged
breach OF contract.
About seventy cows. suffering from pleuro-
pneumonia. We're slaughtered Oh Il milk farm
1T New Rochelle, \. \.
Mrs Eliza b. Garfield was buried Monday
at Cleveland. the remains being placed beside
those of the dead President
The Philadelphia Wool Merchants Associa-
ton idor>e the agreement reached by the re-
cent conference at Washington.
The Empress OF Brazil is out>pokcn in her
denuciaton of the slaughter of birds for the
manufacture of feather trimmings.
The production of piy iron in the United
States in 1897 was 6.4l..14S tons, the largest
amount in the history of the country.
A despatch to the American Board of For
eiyn Missions from Mardn III Asia Minor says
that 900 people are starving there.
Louise Michel. the French Socialist, while ad-
dressing Il meeting of anarchists in llaNre re-
Gently, was shot and seriously wounded.
Fifty odd American en.bczZlcrS have fled to
Canada within the past eighteen months. Their
stealing> amount to four million dollars.
Cashier Charles O'Bricn of the First Nation
al Bank OF Auburn. y. ", is a defaalter to the
extent of 5000 900, and has fled to Canada.
After rejecting two amendments. propoSedhy
Mr.. Vance and Mr.. Chandler. the Senate
passed the bill to refund to the direct tax of
1851.
Nowin, the boy murderer. who killed his
employer and cut the body into fragments. was
hanged. Jan. 10Th in the Jail at Cambridge.
Mass.
Those in a position to know say nothing can be
done of Il radical character about the Central
Pacific Railroad until ten years. When its debt
becomes due.
Henry George is bitter in his cen>ure against
the President for the promotion of Villas and
Drken>on. Northwestern land speculators'
he terms them.
Chairman Belmont of the Committee on For
eign Affir> says that the Administration will
not introduce any tariff bill containing provis-
ions for free fish.
The President has transmitted the Pacific
Railroad Commissions reports to Congress.
and recommends that tiiial and effective adj
ju,tnent be made.
The first steamship of a new line the vessels
of which are to be lifted with tanks to convey
petroleum from the United States to Europe,
has been launched at Greenock.
The Interstate Commerce Commissioners
have decided TO give the express companies an
opportunity to show why they should not be
amenalle to the interstate law.
All the Continental and English steamship
lines ri New York excepting the French have
voted to increase steerage rates about 20 per
cent to and from Scandinavian ports.
\ Methodist ministers meeting in Balti
more adopted resolutions censuring President
Cleveland for sending a copy of the Con-
stituton of the United States to Pope Leo.
The major portion of the worlds tin product
i, obtained from the Malay peninsula and
Malacca. in Southern Asia. The Chinese
pra .tically control these mining interests.
The minority of the Elections Committee in
the House protest against Il refusal on the part
ferred by Thoebe i'll his contest for Carisle's
seat.
Miss Mary A. Brown. residing in Norris
town. Pa, and possessed! of considerable pro-
pertv. has been swinded out of 100000 by
Philadelphia woman, who conducted Il "Ladys
Bank
Mr.. George l.. Meigs. Il New York dentist.
after trying the ''mind cure" nnsuccessfuly,
IL, ttlls Itl
va, a cousin of Quartermaster Meigs of the
army.
The House committee on appropriations
has finished the pension appropriation blli
The total appropriation made by the bill IS
| $S0.215.lO0 which is an increase of S4,ooo,ooo
over theestimateS.
This is the first time since 11..1 that the year
required the same figure used three times.
That was III years ago. and the same thing will
not happen again for III years, or in 1899. The
year 1000 will draw on three cipher.
Two >talwart midlIe-aged men registered at
the International hotel in New York Jan.
| li,ry 18th as f. Parker and l.. Fulton OF
Nova Scotia. Thursday morning they were
found dead. E'rhey blew out the gas
The suit of $4,000 damages of }. J. McGarry,
Knight of Labor, against the Missouri Paclhc
| railroad, for malicious prosecution growing
+ out of his false arrest during the railroad strike
of 1886; resulted in verdict of 81 900 for the
plaintiff.
Judge Carter of Havcrhl finds in the case of
the Boston and Maine disaster that, while there
was 10 ground of proceedings against employees
| of the road for criminal carelessness, the rate
of speed too great at place with such
peculiar surroundings.
Fall Brook, Cal, is prohibition town and
! all deeds to town lots forever forbid the SAFE OF
| liquors. A company is now building hotel
there to cost ABOUT T2o,Wo 10 pe liaGu !ne
| Frances +. Willard. This will bea prohibition
| house and no wines will be allowed in it.
The accident to Mrs. John A. Logan, by
| which she was thrown from a carriage, has
| left lasting results. She has severe pain almost
| constantly in the injured shoulder. Mrs. Logan
| is said to have grown old rapidly since the Cen
| erals death, and to have lost much of her old
| time vivacity and energy.
| A man named Small has invented a machine
| to cut wrap. fill and finish cigars, and claims a
| child 10 years old can operate the machine, and
| one machine can turn out as much work as three
| men can working by hand. One hundred ma
! chimes are to be put in a large cigar factory IN
| New York city, where the employees are now
F.! on strike.
Henry Norman, while at Vancouver, B. c..
| held a conversation WIN EultOr Steau OI
| the Pail Mall Gazette, in London, over the
| Canadian Pacific postal lines and the Mackey-
Bennett cable, Vancouver and New York be-
! ing in direct communication with each other.
| though 3,4OO miles apart. Messages were ex-
| changed and answers received in four or five
minutes. Afterwards San Francisco was at
| tached to the circuit and exchanged greetings
with London, the total distance between the
two cities being $500 miles by land lines and
cable.
Until wood was so largely abandoned for iron
| and steel all the nations of Europe were glad to
come to the United States for lessons in the art
| of shipbuilding, and the sale of bran new ship
| on foreign account was a common occurrence.
Little has been done in constructing modern
iron steamers for service under foreign flags,
but Pttsburg rolling mill is now producing
| steel plates for French merchant vessel, and
Of business may NAV be opened. w It costs @ a little
| more to build modern steamer in this cOun-