, 1888-11-17
FLASHES.1

state commerce commission will probably
take a hand in the west bound freight
rate war and prosecute roads which have
been secretly cutting rates in violation of
the law. The Pennsylvania company is
believed to be the chief offender.
The heavy wholesale clothing firm of
Lendur Bros. & Co. of Chicago, filed
confessions of Judgment in the supreme
court yesterday aggregating $lSl, 652.
The firm was regarded as one of the
largest wholesale clothiers in the country.
Rhode Island has abolished the prop
erty qualification for voting by an amend
ment to the constitution.
Mrs. Jay Gould spent a very quiet
night. Her condition yesterday morning
was much improved.
Rear Admiral Baldwin, under the cir
cumstances, spent a very comfortable
night. 1t is believed, however, that the
end is not far off.
The statement that ex-Minister Foster
had presented a claim of So, 900, 900
against Mexico, has been declared untrue
in Washington. Foster went to Mexico
on private business and presented no
claims.
Portugal on the invitation of Great
Britain and Germany, will send vessels to
take part in the blocdake of East African
ports.
The Republican national committee
closed its headquarters at New York yes
terday.
At Louisville, KY, VIM. Muldoon de-
feated Tom Cannon last night in a wrest-
lp1 ), atah e. tho v-.rIIf, ol...-zzl:-
and the gate receipts. in one round. Can
non was thrown in nine minutes.
Lord Sackville and the Misses West
have abandoned their proposed trip to
Ottawa. The encouragement has re-
ceived a dispatch that they will sail from
New York for France at an early date.
The coasting steamer Vaitarina which
left Clutch, India, from Bombay, with 900
natives on board, II Il week overdue. 1t is
supposed that She ~1oundered in a recent
cyclone and all hands were lost.
The suit of J. II. Chandler vs.. the
Calumet and Hecla Mining company came
up in the United States court of Michigan
yesterday. The suit was brought to re-
cover possession of a large part of land on
which the Reat mine is located. Judge
Severens took the case from the Jury and
decided against the plaintiff on the ground
that the Calumet and Hecla title was
good. The case will go to the supreme
court.
AT Detroit in yesterday session of the
woman congress Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
was reelected president. Twenty-Five
vice presidents were selected from the
various states represented.
The physicians who examined James
NJ. Dougherty, the prosecutor OF Mary
Anderson, yesterday proved and pro-
nounced him insane. He will be taken to
an asylum.
Col. Francis Duncan, G. B., Conserva-
tive member OF parliament for the division
OF Finsbury, is dead, aged 50 years.
W. P. Copp of Sangus, Mass, town
collector, is missing. A hasty examina-
ton of the books shows a shortage of
1923, 900.
Edward Harrington, member of p~arlia.
ment for West Kerry, has been sum
moned for melting to boycottlng.
Van Matthews and j. G. Woodruff had
a fight yesterday morning at New Roads,
La, over a land purchase. Matthews was
killed, and Woodruff is dying. Both were
we'll known citizens.
Eliza Webster Jones, widow of the late
Rev. Henry Jones and daughter of Noah
Webster, died Yesterday morning, aged S5
years, at Bridgeport, Conn.
P~resident-elect Harrison had the usual
number of out of town callers yesterday,
among them Gen. Ruben Davis OF Aber-
deem, Mass, second cousin of JEFF Davis.
A delegation of about sixty ladies' mem
bers of the Woman's Relief Corps of the
G. A. R., arrived from Cincinnati and
vicinity at noon accompanied by splendid
drum corps of eighteen juveniles.
Two young sons of John Marvin, a
wealthy farmer living near St. Cloud,
Mimi, we're drowned yesterday while
skating on the ice.
Parliament will be questioned Monday
with reference to the appointment of a
successor to Lord Sackville as British
minister at Washington. On Thursday
the fishery dispute will be brought up.