Sharp County record., 1888-01-26

SENATORIAL elections were helu on the
9th in France. The Republicans appear
to have lost ground
SCARCITY of cars for the shipment %
surplus produce places many oil the iarhi'
ers of Northwestern Iowa in bad shape,
their mortgages and notes being due.
THE Italian Government has resolved to
censure Princes Massino, Di.denago anu
Malatesta, who, although belonging 10
the army, attended the Pope'S reception
THE United States Law and Order
League has issued call for its sixth an
nual meeting, to be held in Philadelphia
on February 81 and % next
AMMG BALDWIN, late cashier of the FL
delitv Bank of Cincinnati, is dead.
TROUBLE has been caused at kildysEt,
County Clare Ireland, over the refusal OF
the tr' ,alers to furnish the police with
supp IS che police, on being refused,
forciby seized what they needed.
A DISPATCH from Rome says advices
have been received from MaSsowah to the
effect that Ras Alula has offered to join
the Italians with 1900 followers on con-
dtion that he be created King of Abys'
sinia in the event of the defeat of King
j John.
SAM FIKE, the city dog catcher at Al
buuuerque, n. NJ, died on the night of tue
4th in frightful agony from hydrophoba
He was bitten few weeks ago, and be-
came so bad on New Years day that II
! was found necessary to incarcerate MN
in cell in the county Jail to prevent him
from doing bodily injury to these around
him.
A SPAN in the new central viaduct, now
being constructed at Cleveland, o.. and
which connects the South side with the
city proper, fell on the 9th. ltwas ninety
feet long and eighty.fve feet above the
| ground. A large car, on which there was
supplies, was pushed off the end OF the
span by accident aud in falling it knocked
braces and beams out of place and the
span went also. There were eight work.
men on the span when it fell, two of whom
were killed and the rest injured.
A FIRE broke out on the morning OF the
9Th at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in the
navigation building. 1t was three'story
and attic brick structure, and was occu-
pied by the navigation construction and
equipment bureaus, and also for storage
purposes. The building was completely
Quilted, the walls alone being left stand
ing. The total loss will be about S2oO, O00.
A RUSSIAN spy, with maps and COM
promising documents in his possession,
has been arrested at Czernowitz, an Aus
trian town.
THE mayor of Newark, N j., thinks a
| few funerals are needed in the directory
of the Delaware, Lackawanna q western
railroad, and so states it in his annual
message.
THE first of the annual series of the
| Presidents state dinners was given at
the White House, on the night of the 9th,
to the members of the Cabinet. The pub
lie parlors were handsomely decorated.
SHERBURNE G. HOPKINS, the newspaper
reporter who some weeks ago sent sham
Internal machine to Chief Justice Waite
at Washington for the purpose of creating
a sensation and sell ing the news, pleaded
guilty in the police court, on the 9th, to
the charge of attempting to obtain money
bv false pretenses, and was fined 500.
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued
an order for the United States ship lro-
ouois, at San Francisco, to proceed to
Humboldt Bay, California, for the purpose
of blowing ND the wreck of the schooner
John Hancock, reported as being a dan
gerous obstruction to navigation. 4
The preparatory steps tow-hat- pfof'5
ises to be long and interesting contest
over the will of Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart,
widow of A. T. Stewart, of New York,
were taken on the 9th before the Surro-
gate in the presence of notable array OF
lawyers, who have been engaged to take
part in the controversy.
Ex. EMPRESS EUGENE has decided that
the ceremony of the removal of the re.
mains of Napoleon Ill and the Prince
Imperial from Chiselhurst to Farm
borough shall take place on the 9th. By
private request of the ex-Empress none of
the members of the royal family will be
present, but the Queen will send wreaths
to be placed on the cOffins.