The Republican journal., 1888-09-27
Generalities.


been expelled from Frame.
The loss by the Cuban food was 81. 900 900
About 500 deaths occurred
Thomas A. Edison is engaged in studying tn,
problem of aerial navigation.
Admiral Porter, who is at jamestown. r. l..
continues to improve in health.
The name of Paso del Norte. Mexico. h;l,
been changed to City of .juarez.
Nine lives and million of property We're dc.
Stroyed by the Hood at Augusta, Ga.
Dr.. Gabier. of Paris. is about starting for
Jacksonville, Fla, to study yellow fever.
Hon. Levi ?. Morton's imported Guernsey
cattle took eight prizes at the Buffalo fair
St. Louis whi>key men have raised 100000
to fight the whskey trust, and tipplers grin.
Cattle raiser> and feeders in the United States
VIII meet III convention at st. Louis November
20.
Pitcher, the Providence bank embezzler, has
been found guilty Of taking stolen money into
Canada.
y new Mexican railroad to connect the trunk
lines and tap the Sierra Majada mines is con-
templatcd.
over 200G0 domestic animals have been
drowned by the floods in Mexico. Many lives
have been lest.
Philadelphia capitalists are building big
abattoir and will contest Chicasoes dressed
beef supremacy.
The negotiations between Russia and the
Vatican for The establishment of diplomatic re-
lations have collapsed.
The name of Mills is 50 unpopular in the
far Il IiStr rir hot
whenever it Is mentioned.
\ stirring anti-frce trade meeting was held
III South Boston sept. 18th. Hon. n. W. Beard
was the principal speaker
Gat'in@, the famous gun inventor. for many
years Democrat, announces that he will sup
port Harrison and Morton.
The President has nominated Lambert Tree
of Illinois, to be minister to Russia in place Of
Mr.. Lothrop who resigned.
The onion crop OF Massachusetts is fully
equal to the great yield of 1SS6 and the grow
er> are correSpondnyly elated.
Chaunccy NJ. Deprw has returned home
from his European trip, and was warmly wei
coined by Il large number of friends.
Carl Schurz writes to German paper com
batting an article which recently unjustiy at
tackled the American political system.
The biz copper trust is controlled by promin-
ent Democrats. Senator iiati mas iuti vu,i,,v,,
resolution demanding an investigation.
Several persons have died of hy,lrophobil
while under NJ. Pa>teur'> treatment and two
after their discharge apparently cured.
Prince Wilkes trotted against Patron at
Cleveland Sept. 18th and won 4 $1,000 purse.
The time was ..l6. 2.l6 IA, 2.l9 l.. 2.l>.
Louis !. Fleming. Hon. Henry a. LEnglc
and Frank W. Ely. three PROMINENT citizens
of Jacksonville, have died Of yellow fever.
The Princess of Wales in more than ever dis
cartling lacc>. SatinS and furhelows in public
places. She dresses with studied simplicity.
Three alarms of fire were rung in Boston,
the 18th inst. Over $4,000 worth of property
was destroyed and several persons were in-
jured.
The news of the murder in Africa, July -,
of Major Bartelot the leader of the expedition
in search of Henry NJ. Stanley, has just been re-
ceiNed.
The late King Ludwig's executors have al
most cleared off the Kings debts. There is !,
gool prospect of rebuilding the Bavarian
royal fortune.
The producers and dealers of dried fruits Of
California have formed an association with Il
capital of 500 900 and headquarters 1T san
Francisco
Charles A. Pil,bury 4 Co.. the big flour
millers of Minneapolis. have divided $4o.oo0
among its employees, in accordance with a
promise made
Professor Brooks of Geneva. u. v. says that
the new comet discovered by himself and Pro-
fessor Barnard is apparently movin" almost
directly toward the earth
The most severe thunder shower OF the sea
son passed over the vicinity of Bridgeport, Ct,
about one o'clock Thursday morning. Sept. 18th.
causing considerable damage.
Gen. }. r. Ilawley was elected president of
the seventh Connecticut Regiment Association
at the reunion at Bridgeport recently. He
was formerly colonel of that regiment.
1t is reported that in the event of a reduction
of the tariff on grain in France a syndicate of
trenchmen and Russians have agreed TO supply
enormous quantities of corn at much rel rttl
price.
At the Nat lona Encampment in Columbus
Ohio, Sept IL, the election of Comnander-in
Chief was in order. After nominations We're
made Major William Warner. of Missouri, was
elected Senior Vice Commander.
Mayon, an old volcano in the PHILIPPINE Islands,
is ina violent state of eruption. In July over
one hundred person. We're DESTROYED bv the
lava and ashes. Further particulars Of the
floods in Gifu show that terrible distress was
caused and 100 lives lost
A telegram has been received at the Navy
Department from Rear Admiral Chandler, at
Yokohama. as follows Board of Survey
condemns Monocacy a> unfit for general service
as veSsc! of the navy. Can he made available
for duty on the Asiatic station. Estimated cost
of repairs 100000 in American gold.
Michael Davitt has made statement concern
ing his connection with agitation in Ireland,
showing that he has advocated constitutional
methods in opposition to the plans of the party
Of violence. He says that he was condemned
to death by the dynamite faction and that four
A Roman cablegram to the Catholic News
announces that decree of the Holy Office on
the knights of Labor question. favorable to
that organization. has been forwarded to Car
dinaI Gibbons. 1t settles for good the question
as far rs Rome is concerned, provided the con-
stitution and aims of the order remain the
same.
The Massachusetts Republican platform is
devoted mainly to national issues, particularly
The tariff and the fisheries, but it pledges sup
port of the public school system and resistance
to public aid of sectarian schools. and repeats
last years resolution in favor of submitting to
IL
amendment.
1t is related of Prince Bismarck that while
inspecting the harvest work on his fields not
long since. two of the reaping women. follow
ing an old custom. seized him and bound him
with bands made of straw, The Chancellor
submitted with good grace, and eNtricated
himself by paving liberal ransom. lie rode
away in his carriage with the straw bands still
fastened round his arms.
Fifteen men composed the 'National Con-
vention of the Greenback party" which met at
Cincinnati recently. 1t is not surprising that
they determined that it was rot advisable to
nominate a national ticket this year. They
adopted a long address, which said. among
other things, that ''the tariff is but an incident
of the money question: and provide people
with plenty Of money and all business will
prosper"
Gen. Harrison attended the fourteenth reull-
ion or his old regiment, the 10Th Indiana, at
We're present, including 30 members of the re
giment and 400 other veterans. Gen. Harrison
responded to an address of welcome with a
patriotic speech, and reviewed the history of
his old command, requesting the old soldiers
to forget for the day his relation to the public
or to politics, and to simply remember him aS
their comratfe and old colonel.
Mai. William Warner of Kansas City. men,
Der of Congress from the Fifth Missouri Dis
trict the new Commander-in-Chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, is one of the
most successful lawyers in the West. lie is
native of Wisconsin and was born in 1871. He
his native State, and Michigan University. lie
was pursuing his law studies when the civil
war broke out, and he enlisted as "A private in
the Eighty-thrd Wisconsin Regiment. He