Smyrna times., 1888-05-16
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Eggs were thrown at Boulanger in
Lille, but his tour through Nord is
triumphal progress.
A big petition for the closing of sa-
looms in Chicago on Sunday was pre-
sented to the Council
Michael Davitt, in a speech at Liver
pool, declared that Irshmen will re-
sist the papal rescript.
In the Senate Mr.. Vest offered res
olution for the appointment of a COM
mittee to investigate the cattle trust.
The Brazilian Senate passed the bill
abOlishing slavery which was passed
by the Chamber of Deputies last week.
The Senate Committee on Commerce
is making a general Overhauling of the |
River and HarbOr bill as it passed the |
House.
The Senate judiciary Committee
had up the nomination of Mr.. Fuller
for chief justice and laid it over until
Monday next.
The report of the New Jersey State
Dairy Commissioner shows that adul-
teratiOn was alarmingly prevalent in
lard, honey and cider vinegar.
The dispute of the United States
with Morocco is settled on the basis of
an apology and release of the prison
ers held by the Moorish authorities.
At the Grand Encampment Of Odd
Fellows in Allentown it was shown
that the Grand Encampment has ex-
pended in twenty years Sl03,7l8,9G9
for relief
William Showers, the convicted mu!-
derer of his grandchildren who escaped
from Lebanon Jail last Monday week.
was captured by three boys Sunday
. near Annville.
= As a result Of the Coroners inquest
into the death Of Broker Hatch in Mrs.
SchOlield's premises, Mr.. Ferris was
sent to the House of Detention to be
held as a witness.
, There are further indications of the
Presidents purpose to use all the
, forces of patronage and power to com
h pei the Protection Democrats to vote
a for the Mills bill.
e A bill was reported to the House
a for the removal of the restrictions upon
the payment Of arrearages of pensions
the committee estimating its extreme
cost at $250,000 600.
John B. Murray, a wealthy and in
firm New Yorker, is said to have beer
abducted by his sister, who believed
that his wife and her family were en-
a deayoring to secure his fortune.
es The Russian Count Strogonof an,
il his sister, Princess Tacherbaotof, will
of an escort of $50 men, have been cap
tn tured in Asia Minor by a tribe Of Cur
on nomads, who demand an immens
of ransom.
~ Lightning struck schoolhouse a
- Parsons, stunning many of the schol
~ ans Six boys and a mule were knock
- ed down by lightning, which wer
~ down the shaft at Murray's mine, nes
90 Wilkes Barre.
at Governor Hill will not be a cand
WI date for delegate-at-large to st. Lou
tic at the New York Democratic Conver
of ton, and there is talk that the Natio
al Administration will oppose his r
rd, nomination for governor
III ~ The women who have been laugh,
20 20 at because of their fondness for tea mi
.ns point with pride to the fact that aft
n0 Gladstone has exhausted himself
cti making q speech he drinks oopiO
,ha iu draughts Of tea for recuperation.
hat Eight big ocean steamers sailed frC
ur New York Saturday and they carri
the a greater number of passengers
fol- Europe than have ever before i
there in one day. There were 4
eId- cabin passengers on the Etruria.
Mar. M In secret session of the Senate /
'.iN ~ resolutions for open consideration
uls iN the Fisheries Treaty and for a stel
~ graphic report of the debate were
iuIo ~! jected and further discussion of I
lJto 5o treaty was postponed to Monday.
un- New York reports another victim
the electric light wire. This time
ator was a lineman, who ought to hI
lam known what he was doing but
touched wire where the insulat
you was defective and dropped dead on
reat spot
enc The serious and unsettled state
i 'uIG the tariffs prospects has struck a
anu we're blow at the Bridesburg Manui
'" turing Company, engaged in the mi
80, ufacturing of textile machinery, and
ltlI9 has been compelled to ask for a
anu ceiver.
,Om
,uls- Much excitement prevails in E
the land over General WOlseley's stf
cord ments regarding the weakness of
to army and navy and Prime Minis
S. Salisbury's denials, which increase
now chances of the ministry being for
fred out Of Office.
rd IS William Gore, aged %, stepped OF
eX- rattlesnake at Fort Lee, n. j., MOnd
VOL He held the reptile down with his
er 1t and reached for a stick. His h;
I'M seized another snake, which bit
the between two fingers. His chances
)mes recovery are small.
ndis- At Atlanta, Ga, Sunday night, F,
for Jones called at the residence of \
nor Stanford to escort her daughter
! he church. Dan. Stanford, a brother
i go the girl, playfully pointed pistol
f the Jones, when it went off accident
we'll and killed him.
Masked robbers fired voll,y int
the train on the Sonora Road, at Aqua
Dem ca, Arizona, Sunday and then rot
SIT the safe. The fireman was killed,
sec express messenger fatally woun
lrrOr and the conductor and passel
emo seriously hurt.
they
n fire The Supreme Court Monday de-
mong the application for rehearring in
telephone case. This application
I as made by the Peoples and Over
we're Telephone companies, who claim
Q last Drawbaugh and not Bell was the
paign inventor of the telephone.
week Eight of Philadelphia's most I
rance riOus gamblers we're convicted in J
DO Thayer's court, and sentenced to nj
3 any days confinement in the county pr
tlcies. Those convicted were Mat Ewing,
thlng Meyers, "Dut ihy" Muhlrod. z"
o DO; Sides, George f. Kirk, Ed" v
pup Davy" Johnson and Harry Hill.
IN fa-
tne Electricity wrecked the shin
J, tne Office at Quarantine New York Su
rm IL morning. An electric light wire
llshed crossed with the telegraph wires G
powerful current of electricity
ration into the building, setting it on fire
sr, the smashing the switchboard. No
atJl- news was Obtainabe from Quaral