Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

IL Wv ~ 1AN NANAiAA .
Compiled from Various Sources.
preso- GERMAN frontier "incident"
- occurred. One German soldier was
0y wounded and another made prisoner.
nan, Ministry in Man itoba reject
I'll overtures of compromise coming from
tbe Dominion Government at Ottawa.
qr,p balance of trade with the world
for the year 1887 was in favor of the
T7njted States to the amount of $6,5l3, GS7.
BISHOPS IRELAND, of Mime apolis, and
Kaane. of Richmond, delivered temper
onco addresses in Washington on the
nioht Of the 295h to an immense audience.
THU Porte has been notified by the
Krrpp gun firm that unless mons sy be
forthcoming the contracts for Maussr re
heaters for the Turkish army will be
broken.
GEORGE CLARK, President Of Typo
graphical Union No. s, of st. Louis, and
ey-president Of the International Typo
oraphicaI Union, died on the 9th from
typhoid pneumonia.
JoHN SULLIVAN, an employe of the
Rinrhamton On. W Gaslight Compa y,
was horr bly, burned on the 2Sth by the
IGNITION of naphtha used by the company
in manufacturing gas.
THE first storming of the third Ice Pal.
nee at St Paul, Mimi, on the night of the
10 HOY
was beautiful and mild, the thermometer
marking . deg. above.
The Baltimore Sun profe sses to have
information from an author tative source
III New York that Archbishop Corrigan
has resigned as trustee of the Catholic
University to be established in Washing.
ton.
REV. DAVID LATHRoP HUM, distin-
gui,hed as the oldest graduate of va e
College, tho Oldest clergyman of the
United States, aud the oldest resident OF
Buffalo, died on the Goth, after Ell illness
of weeks duration.
PRINCE OSCAR of Sweden was formally
betrothed to Miss Munick, in the royal
palace in s. S'ockholm, on the 2Sth. Tht
witnessed BY all the members of the roya
family and the cabinet ministers.
s
TIL. Senate committee Oh pensions ha
unanimously approved Senator Mander
sons "Grand Army" pension bill, whicl
has been framed to overcome the Presi
dents objection to the Dependent Pen
sion bill, which he vetoed last year.
The total values of the imports of mer
chandise for the twelve months ended De-
cemher 81. 1887. We're sos, 807, 81, against
S663 42o, ,1S9 for the same time in 1886 The
values Of exports for the same periods
We're S715, 800 ,953 and $113, 4O4, 021, respect.
lively.
Mr.. THOMAS O'CoNNOR's Star of the
3Gth, in a long leader, denounces the
House of Peers, and lords in general I
saws they are worthless lot, and do the
country no good, and that England will
know no progress until the very name OF
peer is done away with.
THE Grant monument committee in
New York, on the Goth, adopted the draft
of a circular to be sent to all architects
and Sculptors who may desire to compete
for the honor of designing the memorial
TO General Grant. The estimated cost is
$5o0000 instead of $50 200, the original
figure.
THE FrcemoR's Journal, of Dublin,
printed On the Doth three column list of
prosecutions and convictions had under
the Coercion law since it was passed in
lre ana. II Is rather startling array to
looG az when one remembers that the
Coercion law las been in progress only
about nine months.
NECRETARY ENDICoTr has issued orders
Proh'JItnS smoking in the War Depart
meht There is a rule of this kind in the
I"t-Oihce Depart ment, but it seems to
be dead letter. Verv few people pay
any attention to it, and old timers pull
away daily on we'll oned pipes, much
10 the d dscomfort of the girls in the de-
partment.
ISAAC N. STANLEY, who, as paying teller
OF the National Bank of Commerce of
Ceveland, o., embezZled 500, 900 of the
tanks funds in 1885, aud lost the money
IN wheat speculations, was sentenced on
the 10Th to five years in the Ohio p9niten-
tiary by Judge Welker of the Un tied
States District Court The prisoner con-
fessed his crime.
IHE Secretary of State has received an
application from the Government Of
MEXICO for the eXtradition Of Mayer, alias
Bourton, the alleged ticket swndler, who
made arrangements for the appear ance
q Iattl IN tie City of Mexico, and then
aoSconded with the money. Bourton is
now IN New York awaiting hearing be-
tofe United States commissioner.
IHE steamer City of New York, from
ehha and Japan, entered the harbor OF
san francisco on the 9Th, flying yell
low hag Three cases of smallpox were
louhd on board. The purseE contracted
Tue disease before the steamer started
ana was left at Hong Kong. A lady
eaoln passenger died on the passage. The
steamer has been placed in quarantine.
w motion of Senator Vest, of Missouri,
tue Senate, on the 26th passed that gen.
ueman's bill TO increase the pension of
.ue widow of General Frank p. Blair
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