Hillsboro recorder., 1888-05-31
AROUND THE GLOBE.
ITEMS CLEANED FROM TELE-
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH,
EAST AND wEsT-THE EUROPEAN STU
ATIoN-DoINGs OF KINGS AND QUEENS.

ATIoN-DoNas OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
The worlds visible supply of cotton is
1000, 112 bales.
. The Pope congratulates Brazil on the
abolition of slavery.
Five hundred persons have been
drowned by floods in Mesopotamia.
The street car strike at Rochester,N. Y,
continues. No cars were run on Wednes-
day.
The New York banks now hold $27,-
7s5. $50 in reserve in excess OF legal re-
quirement.
In the district of sancti-Spiritus,
Cuba, the severe drouth has caused the
death of 10000 head of cattle.
The emperor of Brazil has suffered an
other relapse at Milan on Monday, and
his condition is considered quite serious.
Two Harvard students were fined 800
and costs each in Cambridge, Mass, for
maintaining liquor nuisance alta college
club.
The Bank of France announces that
forty-five counterfeit 500 franc notes are
known to be in circulation. The forgers
are Americans.
John r. Miles, manager OF the Sh"
and Leather Reporter, Of Philadelphia,
has eloped with a -year-old girl
after forging check for $4, 600.
n. B. Bradley, teller of the Union Ma
tional bank of Chicago, ILL.,, has disap-
peared, aud it is announced that his ac-
counts have been falsitied.
William Blair. jeweler, John Wilman,
a carpenter, and Amos Walker, all OF
Geneva, Ind, were arrested on Wednes-
day while in the act of count0rfeiting
paper money.
The wife of Professor Gregory, of Gil
rard college, dropped dead from apoplexy
on Monday while attending meeting OF
the Womans' Presbyterian mission in the
chapel of Calvary Presbyterian church,
in Philadelphia, Pa. :
In addition to frosts and backward
weather, the farmers around Chicago,
| ILL.,, are afflicted with strange birds and
bugs, unknown before in that locality.
The insects look like locusts and the
birds are smaller than English sparrows.
Residents of Belocil, about twenty
miles from Montreal, Canada, have been
thrown into excitement over the fact that
tract of land, covering fifteen acres,
has sunk a distance of forty feet. The
land had beeen plowed ready for SOW
ing.
Ida McGrath, pretty girl of Chicago,
ILL.,, disappeared" under very mystic
rious circumstances in the latter part OF
April. The police recently discovered
her living with very black negro, to
whom she had been married long before
she disappeared"
The cigar makers of Toronto, Ont, are
out on strike. They demand an increase
of 81 per 1000 for mould work and ~
per !, 900 for hand work, and the limita-
ton Of the number Of apprentices. AT
present the lowest rate is SO per 1000
aud the highest S1i.
The parliamentary election at South
ampton, Eugland, resulted in q victory
for the liberals, Evens, liberal candidate,
received 5,15l votes, and Guest, conser'
yatiye nominee, 4, 206. Thevacancy was
caused by the promotion Of Admiral Com
merell, conservative, to command at Ports
mouth,
Monster meetings Of worsingmen are
being held throughout Germany, and
strikes are spreading. At Mayence and
Hamburg, collisions have occurred be
tween the strikers aud police. At Neu'
menster, a thousand strikers paraded the
streets singing the 'Marsellaise," anc
many arrests were made.
Suits have been begun in the United
States court at Denver, Colorado, against
o. farmers in the best part Of San Louil
.. valley, their lands being claimed by |
Dutch company, called the United States
Freehold and Emigration Co. Th'
suits involve half q dozen villages, IN
cluding San Luis, county seat Of Costill'
county.
An explosion occurred on Tuesday, II
TIaekettis chair and table mandatory, II
! Philadelphia, Pa, anda few minutes late
the interior Of the basement and first foo
was mss Of flames. Tho fire was ex
G tinguished with some difficulty, when
!, was found that colOred man and whit
8 boy had gone to the cellar to draw var
: nsh from barrels stored there. The bo..
L carried lighted candle, which probably
. limited the vapor from the yarnish. Bot
were killed by the explosion, and anothe
man on the first floor was 50 badly burne'
that he will die.
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