The Republican journal., 1888-12-27
Generalities.

1t is thought that The fire in the Calumet and
Hecl;. mine i out.
The snow storm IN New Brunswick, Dec. Is
was the worst for Years.
Charles +. Maver has been elected President
OF the Baltimore and: Ohio railroad.
Reports come from Canada of loss of life
and great suffering in the recent blizzard.
--latest dispatches from Cairo leave little
doubt that Stanley and Emin Pa>ha are prison
er>.
Lord Tenn, son is makin" good progress to-
ward complete recovery. lie is in excellent
spirits.
Dom Pedro. Emperor Of Brazil. has been en-
.ioying very good health since he returned from
Europe.
Cutworth, of the Lowell base bali team for
several wears. has signed with the st. Louis
Browns.
Booth. Barrett and jefferson have joined the
movement against the importation OF foreign
actors under contract
A man supposed to be crank. who claims to
he the Whitechapei murderer, has surrendered
to the Montreal police.
A Philadelphia paper says that President
Cleveland will do business in New York city
y.
The Reading Railroad Company has given
two months extra pay to the women whose
husbands We're lost in the steam collier Allen
town.
Judge Waidell, Rep. will contest Wise'S,
Dem. seat in Congress from Virginia, on the
ground Of false registration and obstruction at
the polls.
In the municipal elections in Kansas this
wear the women'S vote was 81 per cent. of the
number cast by men. Last year the ratio was
81 per cent.
A sod cabin. made in Nebraska for Gen. llar-
ri>on. has arrived at indianapolis. 1t will prob
ably appear in the inaugural procession at
Washington.
Miss Davenport. an Irish lady, is the govern
e>> of the King Of spain. She geiS S3'oo year
salary and will have a life pension. when her
| task is done. of $1,000.
| Cassius NJ CLAW, now in his 18th year. lives a
retired life on his estate near Klchnonu, NY.
| The 80 acres Of big trees surrounding his house
| were all planted by his own hand.
The story that so 600 raised by Republicans
| in Pittsb,lrg, for use in Indiana had been EN-
| beZzled or stolen by two young Republicans of
| indianapolis. is pronounced untrue.
Judge Ross, in the United States Court at
| los Angeles Cal. has decided that Indians
| living on their own.re>erNatlons have the right
| to enforce their tribal laws and to pass sentence
| of death.
| Erastus Wiman ana other Canadians think
| that Congressman Buttcrworth's Canadian an
| neXation resolution is a mistake; that Canada
would consent to commercial unloG. but not
| political consolidation.
| DIR. Yhurston. the Superintendent of the
| Madras Museum, has been commissioned to
visit various electric establishments in Europe
| in order to select an electric globe light capa-
! BILE of illuminating 20 iathoms of water.
A cableeram from London announce that a
| compromise has been effected with Thomas
| AXworthy, the apScondmg City Treasurer OF
| Cleveland. O. Tie compromise does not in
| clude his immunity from arrest if he returns
| to America.
A Michigan court has been called upon to de.
| eide whether a woman a years Old can drive Il
| horse 81 wears Old through mud ten inches decl
| faster than the four miles an hour permitted by
| law. 1t is question to agitate the whole State
| bar.
The woman who killed Henry King. of Chica
| 90. il Omaha. told reporter the other day thai
She was really enjoying her prison life. She i,
| lodged in pleasant quarters and every day hel
| admirers and svmpathizers send her flowers
| books and dainties.
| Inc W. I. |. l mon OF broOkHelu. Mass.
| has adopted emphatic resolutions disappearing
the attempt to ingraft politics into the work o
the organization, and declaring fixed purpose
to confne its efforts to those lines of worl
which the name, Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, indicates.
Thomas II. Blythe, of San Francisco, who left
four millions of property and no will, was no
a gypsy, as claimed, but an eX-convict who wa.
| transported from London to Australia. The
only relatives are a family of London chimney
sweeps named Savage; but the daughter of a va
rieIy actress claims that Blythe was her father
The Viticultural Commission of California
| lately received Il communication from Miss Kate
Field stating that she would soon deliver hel
first public lecture in New York, and that the
expenses of the same would be about $500
Miss Field was authorized to eXpend an amount
not to exceed $500 in the necessary expenses OF
a lecture in advocacy of the use of California
wine.