Sharp County record., 1888-01-12

rights for ten years thereafter.
TIVE railroad commissioners of Nebraska
have made q formal demand on the roads
of that State that they revise and reduce
through and local rates to correspond with
reductions already made in Iowa, Illinois
and Missouri.
THE New York American Merino Sheep
Breeders Association, at their annual
meeting in Rochester, on the 10Th, passed
resolutions condemning the message OF
the President, so far as it favored putting
wool on the free list
JOHN HOOPER, member of Parliament,
was sentenced at Dublin, on the l9sh, to
two months Imprisonment for publishing
reports in his paper, the Cork Herald, of
meetings of the suppressed branches OF
the National League.
THE British Government has decided
TO Danish King Jaia of Oporbo, West
Africa, to st. Helena. The King recently
caused 150 of his subjects to be beheaded,
as a warning to others not to permit
traders to go into the interior
FoREFATHERs' DAY was celebrated at
Boston, on the 2Oth, with banquet in
Music Hall in the evening. Addresses
were made by Governor Ames, Lieuten'
aut-Governor Brackett, "Mark Twain, "
Chauncey NJ. Depew aud others.
THE police of Queenstown, Ireland,
have warned the newsmen that they will
be arrested if they sell copies of the
Dublin Freeman'S Journal which contain
reports of meetings of the suppressed
branches of the National League.
THE New York Central Labor Union, on
the 18th, refused to adopt resolution de-
manding that Congress should remove the
duty from Canadian and other British
coal, to protect the American people
from the grasping greed of the coal
barons.
FROM semi-ofIicial sources in Bucharest,
it is learned that in view of the uncertain
political situation, preparation is quietly
being made by Roumania to meet any
sudden emergency, and thai Sat6st Sat6hstf geEeGGH' ge
-Gsf'many.
AT the quarterly meeting of the Hi
bernian Society in Philadelphia President
Cleveland, William e. Gladstone, Gov
ernors .Brigg of Delaware, Beaver of
Pennsylvania, FitzhIgh Lee of Virginia,
and Gordon of Georgia were elected hon.
orary members.
JUSTICE GRAY, of the United States
Supreme Court on the 10th, appointed
General N. P. Banks, whose term of office
as United States marshal for the district
of Massachusetts expired on that day, to
act as marshal pending the appointment
of his successor by the President.
THE Queen of the Gypsies was crowned
on the night of the 18th at Fort George,
on the Sioux reservation in Dakota. The
Queen is Mrs. Douglas Carlin, the intelli-
gent Indian Princess recently married to
white man. The coronation was wit
messed by a number of whites and hun
dreds of Indians.
Mr.. BELL, the superintendent of foreign
mails, states that the Post Office Depart
ment has made a merchandise parcels
post convention with the Bahama islands,
which is to take effect January !. 1t con-
tains practically the same provisions as
the postal treaty made with Jamaica and
the Barbados.
RIGHT REV. JAMES JOSEPH CARBERY,
Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Haml-
Ton, Ont, whose death is reported by
cable, was consecrated Bishop of Hamil-
ton three years ago. He went to Rome
last September to attend the Pope's jubi-
lee. He was suddenly taken i'll at Cork,
and died there on the 10Th.
A PERUsAL of the congress sional direc-
tory recen ty issued shows that only six
of the thirty.eight States have sent to the
Fiftieth Congress Senators and Represent
atives who are all natives of the States
they represent. These States are Maine,
Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina,
South Carolina and West Virginia
Mr.. HOPKINS, of Illinois, will introduce
a general bankruptcy bill in the House of
Representatives just after the holidays.
1t is the bill approved by the American
Bar Association. 1t provides that any
man in debt $500 or more may take ad-
vantage of the law. 1t gives such cases
precedence in the courts over all except
criminal cases, and provides against un-
necessary delays.
BERNARD c. CAULFIELD, ex-member
of Congress from the Chicago district,
died at Deadwood, Oak. on the morning
of the 10Th, from general debility, aged
fifty-eight. He has been prominently
identified at Washington recently with
the effort to have the Sioux reservation
opened, and two years ago was promi.
nently mentioned as q candidate for
Governor of Dakota.
MAJOR w. w. VAN ANTWERP, post
master at Jackson, Mich, has been at the
point of death for several days and his
recovery is regarded impossible by the
doctors. A citizen of that place is said TO
have sent in an application for the posi-
tion on the 10th, but the Michigan Con-
gressmen are so incensed at this want of
feeling and greed for office that they are
determined that this impatient fellow
shall not receive the appointment when
there is va3. ncy.
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