Sharp County record., 1888-01-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

w HEN JU6 IlOuSc uuJOul heu Nv w ooh
ington, on the 10Th, there was rush for
the Speakers room on the part of men,
bers anxious to confer with Mr.. Carlisle
on the subject of committee assignments.
At one time there were as many as twen'
ty in the room, nearly all of them new
members. The Speaker has most diff
cult task to place these gentlemen, be-
cause he knows so little of their ability.
ELIHU GREGG, an eighty-year- -o!d des-
perado of Pennsylvania, is said to have
been found dead in the mountains with
"a hgRlt1 hgRltAt1 1beiHB HBiEHRlNHARDT, III son of the act
ress, was married in Paris, on the night
of the 2)th, to great granddaugh Of
Lucien Bonaparte.
In the Virginia Legislature, on the 2)th
Hon. John S. Barbour was elected to the
United States Senate to succeed Mr.. Rid.
dleberger.
HENRY S. IVES has brought suit against
President Dexter of the Cincinnati, Ham,
iton e. Dayton railroad for 100000 dam
ages for false arrest
DAN DoHERTY, the American who killed
Graham, another American, in London,
has been convicted of mansaughter and
sentenced to penal servituda for life.
P. r. HATCH, known to a large circle of
acquaintainces as Percy Hatch, until a
month ago cashier of the main office of
the Baltimore & Ohio Express Company
in New York, is missing, together with
about IS, 600 of the company's funds.
THE report that another attempt had
been made TO asSassinate the Car of Rus
sia is officially contradictcd.
JUDGE SAGE, of the Unitel States
Court in Cincinnati, has postponed the
trial of BENZ. L. Hopkins, of the Fidelity
National Bank, until January 10, caution
ing the jurors, mean while, to not converse
upon the subject and to not read news.
paper statements about it.
A MONUMENT was unvailed at Paris on
the 2)th to Edmond About.
In consequence of the frequency of dis
astrous fires among the cargoes of Ameri-
can cotton, committee of London and
Liverpool underwriters has been formed
to make an investigation.
THE Middle States conference of Pro
hbitionists met in New York City on the
goth.
1T is reported that Governor Lara bee
of Iowa will respite Smith, the Fayette
County murderer, sentenced to be hung in
January. The respite will be short, and
will be made on account of a change of
sheriffs in January.
PROMINENT wool growers met at Sacra-
mento, Cal, on the 10Th, and adopted
resolutions condemung any effort for the
reduction of tariff on wool, and urging
upon Congress the necessity of retaining
the present rates of duty.
SowDERs, the famous young dew drop
pitch er of st. Paul, Minn., who led the
Northw est ern League twirlers in last
seasons ork, was sold to Boston on the
Goth, for $1,000.
CONSTABLE PoTTS, OF Des Moines, Ia,
who achieved so much fame as a Prohibi-
zionist, and who has gained notoriety for
seizing liquor under the Clark law, was
arrested on the Goth by the marshal of
Stewart County, charged with defraud-
ing widow out of board bill. He was
taken TO that place to answer the charge.
A FREIGHT train ran into Conductor
BerdSley's train at Lakefield, Minn., early
on the morning of the 2)th, during a
binding SHOWS torn. Engineer Wells
Bucklin of the freight had both legs cut
of and died. Engineer SearlS of the
other train was severely but not fatally
injured.
TIE scheme of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for the establishment Of
an employees savings institution has been
perfected, and President Roberts has is
sued a circular to those in its service east
of Pittsburgh aud Erie, setting forth the
action of the board of directors, and out.
lining the regulations of the fund.
THE river was closed by ice at FIT. Madi-
son, Ia, on the 21st.
HENRY STANLEY, the African explorer,
has been heard from again indirectly.
IT is reported that the Pope intends to
make Archbishop Williams, of Boston,
aidinal.
ALL the absent cardinals are summoned
to Rome to take part in the Pope'S jubilee.
THE steamer San Vincente was burned
off Pigeon Point, in the Pacific ocean, on
xhe 2lst, and eleven lives are believed to
lost,
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