The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-23
NEWS OE TIE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Hasty Reading


Seventeen States and four provincial
associations are represented in the sixth
annual convention of the international
Association of Fairs and Expositions in
session. Colonel A. s. Stevenson Of Mon
treal, president of the association in Chi
cago proposed in his annual address that
worlds fair be held in Montreal in 1892
by the International Association. No ac-
ton was taken on the proposition yester-
day. Several interesting papers were
read.
A conference of influential Australians
and Canadians was held yesterday in
London. Sir Donald Smith of Montreal
presided. The question of laying
cable from Vancouver to Australia, to
touch at Hawaii, flaming Island, Samoa,
Fiji and New Zealand was discussed
and approved, and II was voted to urge
the Imperial Government to support the
project. 1t was said that the tariff be-
tween England and Australia by this
route would be four shillings per word.
The examination of witnesses from
County Kerry was continued at the sit
ting of the Parnel Commission yester-
day. Mr. Leonard, agent of the estates
was as active as ever. Mr.. Edward Har-
rington declines to pay the fine or GoOO
which the court imposed upon him for
contempt, and states that he intends to
question the right of the commission to
enforce it.
The city was brilliantly illuminated
last evening in Copenhagen in honor OF
the Princess of Wales, who, with her
daughters, departed for England tonight.
A torchlight procession of worNingmen
was held and marked enthusiasm was
everywhere displayed. All the members
of the royal family and many other dis
tinguished persons bade farewell to the
Princess at the railway station.
In the New South Wales Assembly the
premier moved an adpress to the Queen,
which was adopted, advising that the of
flee Of governor of the colony henceforth
be confined to q class of public men who
can be called to assist in the government
of the empire and that the colonial gov
ernmcnts be informed of the proposed
nominations.
A man on the top floor of crowded
store in Chicago was caught in the act of
stealing purse shortly after one o'clock
yesterday afternoon, ana a foolish sales
man yelled fire. A panic was at once
precipitated. A number of people were
injured, but none fatally.
The session of the American Episcopal
Church Congress at Buffalo, y. Y, yes
terday, was taken up with discussion on
Sunday schools. Papers were read by
Rey. Chauncey B. Breweter, OF Grace
Church, Brooklyn, and formerly of Bal
timore, and others.
Fire broke out last night in a large
five.story brick building in Montreal
completely cutting it. The losses are on
building $4,000; Montreal Watch Case
Company $50, 600: Shepherd & Company
machine shop $1,000; Lewis Davis &
Company silk manufacturers $1,000; A.
Bolt & Company manufacturing jewellers
$4,000.
NJ. De Lanessan, in the French Cham
Der of Deputies, moved q reduction of the
Tonquin army estimates by 1000, 900
francs. NJ. Floquet intimated that the
Government would consider an adverse
vote as declaration of a want of con-
fdence. NJ. De Lanessan withdrew the
motion.
The jury in the case of Judson Il.
Tiffany, whose trial for the murder of
Samuel Hocum occurred in Montrose
Pa, this week, rendered verdict of not
! guilty. 1t was Tiffany's second trial;
the first resulted in verdict of man
| slaughter
Governor lie Chaurne, in his speech
| opening the session of the General Coun-
ell at st. Pierre yesterday, said that the
enforcement of the bait act of Newfound-
land has done the home fisheries more
harm than the French.
Advices from Samoa say that Mataafa S
followers attacked a stronghold held by
the adherents of Tamasese at Atna on the
| 7th instant and succeeded in capturing
the outposts, after two days fighting.
Many Of the combatants were killed.
At the Manchester meeting the race foi
the De Trafford welter handicap was
won by Yarn, the Rothschild plate by
Monmouth, and the Lancaster Nursery
handicap by Royal Gem.
The report yesterday that two hundred
Alsatian recruits had attacked their mill
tary escort is officially denied at Berlin
Mr., John Bright's bronchitis is sub
siding.
General Vialle, Minister of War; stated
in the Italian Chamber of Deputies that
arrangements had been completed fol
mobili2ing the army in the event that Il
became necessary.
A call has just been issued for Il con
stitutional convention to be held al
jamestown, Dakota, December 5, TO fur
ther the early admission of the Dakotas
into the Union.
A joint resolution passed the Vermont
Legislature requesting the Vermont dele
CATION in Congress to work for the pus
page of bill pensioning all prisoners o.
war,
John Barker, noted desperate il
Indian Territory. was killed by III,
officers while being pursued Wednesday
for killing I'm Indian.
The Hungarian Reformed Churcl
Convention in Vienna, after violent dc
bate, has voted in favor of the celibacN
of clergymen.
Mr., James Russell Lowell is a passen
ger On the steamship Payonia whicl
sailed from Liverpool yesterday for Bos
ton.
Yicomte de Vogue has been elected
member Of the French Academy o
Sciences.
JOhnpy's Foot Badly in IL.
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