The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-11-22
Generalities.


The steel cruiser Boston has been ordered to
llayt TO look after American interests.
| The japanese propose to erect a monument
to the memory of Gen. Grant at Toxic.
A frightful mine explosion occurred in Pitts
| burg, Kansas, recently and 40 men were
/ killed.
4 negro in Raleigh, n. G., was blown out of
| bed by ga>pipc bomb exploded alongside his
| cottage.
The Vermont Legislature has passed an act
| to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of
| Nicaragua
Sir Terence O'iren. Governor of IIeligoIand,
will succeed Mr.. Blake rs Governor of New
| foundand.
People in Oregon have passed very pleasant
| Summer. They raised four crops of strawber
| rie- this year.
| Or. II. j. Gatling. the gun man, lives in Hart
| ford. but spends much of his time in New York
and Washington.
Seven Anarchists have been arrested in Paris
| in connection with the explosion of dynamite
| bombs in the registry offices.
| The Royal Electric Co., of Boston, will APP
| ply for invali,iation OF the Edison patent for
| Ihrahdiscent lighting in Canada.
Mormon delegate, are making attempts 10
| secure Il town size III Lee creek. N0rtnWeS
| territory. for the founding of a colony.
John Kelly, a farm hand at Geneva. n. Y.
has been arrested charged with beating Ellen
| o'Shea. a domestic. to death with club.
| John Banyard. who entertained and instruct
| ed the last generation with his panoramas, is
| living in humbc crcums tancos in Watertown
| ID. T.
| The ;is-foot cutter Maid Marion. designed by
| liI ~ i,,t Il md Ii,,T
defeated nine starters. October l3, her maiden
| race.
Steamer Thingvaa. which colli,led with and
sunk the Geyser is again ready for sea. She
| has been made a> good new at 4 cost of
| $4,000.
\ crazcd wife of a victim of the Kansas
| coal mine disaster poured oil on herself and
| four children and set fire to the clothing. All
| peri>hed
Mrs. Alice j. Shaw, the whi>tling prima
| donna. has been granted an absolute divorce
| from W. II. Shaw. her husband, who left her
| three years ago.
| A Georgia burglar was arrested the other
| day and bound over for trial, where the only
| identification We're the marks of bis teeth made
| in il haf-eaten apple.
| Lord Sackviile has succeeded to peerage
without much fortune, his brother having
alternate from the family property.
| Ii i HOW learned that the collision between
the Nantes and the Theodore Ruger resulted in
the drowning of - of the Steamer'> crew and
T. uf the crew of the German vessel
The United States supreme Court decides
that 4 mans life Insurance policy, if made pay
able to his heirs, cannot be used as part of
his estate to pay the claims of creditors.
The Ando,er ease is before the full bench of
the Massachusetts supreme Court, >ittin" at
salem. The ease was presented by brief. no
arguments being made. Decision reserved.
It i reported that Joseph Chamberlain has
been secretly instructed 10y the British Govern
,nent - sound leading Republicans in regard
to the negotiations of another fisheries treaty.
Three Mormon elders who had been in
Marion county, in the western part of Ma
hama about ten days We're tarred and feathcred
and warned to leave within twenty y-tour hours.
\ large hotel at Long Beach. on the Califor-
MIA coast. twenty miles from Los Angeles, was
hurncd November lth with nearly al! the
| costly furniture. Loss, S90,00) insurance,
$1,000
Wilm Ii. has no fixed salary AS Emperor
of Germany, but there j. about Il million dol
lars that he can use il necessary. As King of
Prussia. however, he has civil list amounting
10 S;',o50, 900.
The i.undon police are confident they are on
the track OF the Whtechapel murderer. Two
person, have been found who saw the man
who accompanied the last victim to her room
| and their descriptions tally.
Mr. Daniel Lamont, private secretary to
President Cleveland. has accepted Il position
in one Of the large life insurance companies in
New \ ork. il is SAID, and will devote himself
henrciorth to that business.
Advce> from Panama state that IA serious i,,-
ternational trouble is on between Peru and tie
government of the nited States. Officials in
Peru treated an American consul harshly and
the government refuses to apologize.
At the breaking up sale of the Erdenheimer
stud OF thorougl-hreds at Chestnut hill Pa,
recently. by the executors Of the will of the
late y. ". kitSon. six stations and forty-four
brood mares We're disposed of for S49,i,5.
Dr. Hamilton, Supervising Surgeon-General
Of the Marine Hospital Service has been aEp-
pointed editor of the journal of the American
Medical Association. and will resign his posi-
lion after the Inauguration Of Gen. Harrison.
The United States supreme court has affirm
I'd the decision OF the circuit court for the
southern district of New York in the case of
eN-Aderman Jaehne. now undergoing SEN
| tence in sing sing. This keeps him In prison.
The Italians We're not pleased with the mar-
ncrs of Emperor William of Germany. They
| complain that he has bruSque way If cutting
| his sentences short and that he mounts his
| horse elumsiy. Then again, he is not fond of
| macaroni
| On the complaint of George W. Morse of
| Newton the nited States Circuit Court of
| New lorll has issued an order restraining
George William BaiIou 1f Boston from dis
| posing of the property o. the san Pedro Min
| ing Company.
| Crooked business has been discovered in
connection With the transfer of silver dollars
| from the mint i'll New Orleans to Washington
| for storage in the large new Nanlt in the court
yard of tie treasury building, which resulted
| in the loss of $1,000.
| Astronomers at Yale Observatory. Dudley
! Observatory. Warner Observatory. Columbia
| College and Washington expect interesting re-
| suits from the observations of the total eclipse
| of the sun January |, 1889. if the sky is clear
in California when the totality occurs.
Michael DinwooLc, who disappeared from
| Toronto 30 years ago under circumstances
| which led to the belief that he had been MUIR
| dered, has turned up ana is looking for his
! relatives. lie has been among the mines of
| Central America and has made Il large fortune.
The court of claims has reported its findings
| of facts and conclusions of Jaw in the French
| SpOation claims, arising out of the cases of
the brig Maria, schooner Isabella. brig An
thony schooner Frederick. brig CIari>sa and
| to Congress for action.
Twenty thousand persons We're present in
| and around the church on the occasion of the
| marriage of the daughter of Gen. Bouanger.
| BY orders of the commanding General no Of
| iicer of the army was permitted to accept an
| invitation TO the ceremony. 1t takes Il big
| French official to be little man.
1t is said that George Bancroft. the historian.
| who is now in his seth year and has white hair
| and beard, bears a remarkable resemblance to
| the late Prof Ranke, the eminent German his
| torian. At any rate. photographs of the two
| writer's are SO alike that those not intimately
| acquainted with one of them frequently mis-
take one for the other.
The report of Adjutant General Drum shows
the entire force Of the army to be 27,00O men.
The well equipped organized militia of the
country has increased from $4,000 to 10000
men since lSS5. He recommends the supply
ing of uniform arms to the militia by Congress
and the reduction of the term of enlistment
from tive to three years, and that no discharges
| he granted except for good cause, the govern
ment to be reimbursed 800 for each man.
Captain Thompson, whose vessel, the steam
| er Benvenue, was caught in the recent great
| tvphoon In the China sea, says of the centre of
the typhoon: 1T was filled with lightning,
| and heavy roar made it impossible to dis
tinguish the noise Of the wind from that of the
thunder. The smell, too, of electricity, like
the smell of burning sulphur was so intense