The Republican journal., 1888-09-13
Generalities.

| restricting immigration.
Tie King of Sweden has been appointed Adj
nliral of the German navy.
The last span in the bridge across the Hutl-
son at Poughkeep>ie was finished Aug. Both.
The Detroit Free Press tells of a woman who
caught 10000 flies on sticky fly paper in nine
days
Prominent knights of labor are said to favor
the further exclusion of foreigners from the
order.
\ waterspout struck Little Rock. Ark. on
! Thursday night, causing terrible loss of life
and property.
Cholera is reported to he raging in Presque
Isle ccunty. Michigan. People are dying in
large numbers.
News from Winnipeg i, TO the fleet that the
government has ratified an agreement with the
Northern Pacific
Emperor William declares he regards as
friends only those who favor Fatherland and
it, continual progress.
Yellow fever seems to have taken complete
possession of Jacksonville. and the outlook is
considered most gloomy.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes completed his
seventy-ninth year Aug. 49, He is at his sum-
lner home at Beverly Farms.
1t i, reported that ship load of Portuguese
women from Fayal have been smuggled into
Boston by rail from Halifax.
Caldwell. o., is suffering from an epidemic
of typhoid or malarial fever. There have
been. it is said. 100 cases and % deaths.
The annual money value of the pensions
granted to Massachusetts citizens during the
last quarter of the last fiscal year is S63l ,423.
81
Miss Lillian Dephley, of St. Paul. has
eloped with her fathers coachman, William
Stewart. negro. Lillian is not yet l5 years
old.
Pitt>burg Knights of Labor are considering
the advSahility of attempting to restrict MEM
zcns
!, hurricane in Algoa bay, South Africa,
Aug. 30th. wrecked Il number of vessels. Nine
went down of Port Elizabeth, and many lives
We're lost
The government spent s49o,067 for foreign
mails last year. as follows: nS-Atlantc,
1913 a6a: Pacific, S3..3o2: Central and South
America. S>>.:,5;;.
George johnson. an oltl-time Harlem River
oar>man, started Sunday on trip never before
attempted. that of rowing from New York to
Boston in she'll.
has been use in the schools of Chicago. is
likely 10 he dispensed with owing to its free
trade tendencies.
Two French cx-commun>tS - Eudes and
Cenac - died while making radical speeches.
Cenac had Just denied the existence of God
when he burst bloodyessel
\ despatch from Rome insists that ltaly's
naval and military manuuvres and the recent
Bi>marck-C ri>pi interview ought not to be re-
garlea a inimical to France.
\ despatch from Quebec says that fifteen of
the seventeen men Oh the steamer BratZberg.
| which grounded at Cape Chatte. Sept. lst,
were drowned while attempting to land.
Alexander Moore. Il New York thief. seized
Mrs. Bessie Brown. in Broadway Thursday
afternoon Aug. 30th. and tore several valuable
rings from her fingers. Moore was arrested.
a German named Richter was found guilty
Oh i'i0 counts Of an Indictment, and under the
law he was sentenced to prison for 100 years.
The year 20iS is a long time to look forward
to.
The leader of the Opposition in the Dominion
House vf Commons, in an election manifesto,
vigorously attacks the Government for having
brought on unpleasant relations with the United
States.
The Chancellor of the Iowa Supreme Court
sioners in the suit brought by the railway com
panies against the rate schedule. and an appeal
has been taken
Mrs. II. NJ. Dubois. Of Oak Grove, Mich. is
iii Jail charged with setting fire to her house,
which was insured. and III which her husband
and children We're asleep. Her husbands life
was also insured.
An earthquake la, done serious damage in
New Zealand. Five shocks occurred in half
an hour. The spirc of the cathedral in the
town Of Christ Church was destroyed and
many other buildings damaged
| 1t is proposed to establish line of steamers
| between llayre and the French possessions on
the Congo. the vessels to call at all French
ports on the coast of Vest Africa. The line
| will leyn operations in November.
Miss Emma Fech of DanverS, Mass, who
| has just died. thought She had a cancer, her
mother having suffered from one. The autop-
sy proves she wa. mistaken and the doctors say
! her disease was purely sympathetic.
over 1oO, 900 pounds more >ecouclass mat
ter were sent ont 10y the New York po>totiice
last month than during July, 1887. The heavy
| increase is attributed mostly to the mailing Of
| millions of documents hy the national campaign
| committees.
| Miss Florence Nightingale. who Is now near
| ~ 50 Years of age, Is a confirmed invalid and Il
patient al the st. Thomas Hospital in London
| Her services during the Crimean war injured
| her spine. and she haS never fully recovered
| from The effects of it.
| The New York Suns London correspondent
| cables as follows: The Grand Trunk people
here say they will spend money enough to buy
Congress. if necessary. to defeat any legislation
hostile to their interests in connection with the
transit trade of the United States"
| .Doc' Wilson. who attained widespread no.
torietv in his suit against Millionaire Moen of
Worcester, Mass. recently appeared IN Denver,
| Col, and proposed to erect an immense Woolen
mill. He organized company, collected
| SD 900 from the capitalists composing it.
| and fled.
Nearly 10000 people We're in Attendance at
| the veterans reunion at Weirs. n. H.. Thurs
day. In the forenoon the ladies' dory race
took place. and was won BY Miss Bessie Fow-
ler daughter of Capt. Frank Fowler, Of pilot
boat IIesper, of Boston; Miss Lillian Taylor,
| Of Boston, second.
Charles W. Wadron, who, with b. North
rup. owns a savings bank at Reading, Mich,
and, with Ezra l.. Koon, private bank in
| HillSiale has gone to Canada with Mrs. Bid
we'll of Quincy and some of the assets of both
banks. about S500o0 in all. and most Of his per-
sonal property.
Ii is stated in Lincoln. Illinois, that William
Scu!iy alias Lord Scully the alien Illinois land
lord will offer his farms for sale and dispose Of
| all his property in the State. BY the enforce
ment of the alien land law Sculy's system of
crack renting" has been broken up, his tenants
| refusing to pay rent.
| The St. Paul Pioneer Press reviews the first
wear Of high license in Minnesota and finds
the system has proved all that its friends claim
| ed Tor it, There are in the State only 597 sa-
| looms now, as against 2S06 when the law went
| into effect. A decrease in the consumption Of
liquors is shown in nearly every county.
The 18th annual meeting of tn National
Women's Christian Temperance Union will be
held in the Metropolitan opera house in New
York, from Oct. 10Th to the 23d. They will
number 400 delegates from every State and
Territory in the United States, representing
TO- 600 10 cal auXiliares and more than 10000 To-
cal members.
Sir Charles Tupper has been made Baronet,
| Minister West has been given the Grand Cross
| of the Order of st. Michael and st. George, and
Messrs. Thompson, Winter and Berne have
been made Knight Commanders of the same
Order. These honors have been conferred in
| recognition of the services rendered bv the
recipients as members of the Fisheries Com
| mission.
The baseball season of 1888 Is rapidly draw.
ing to a close. and while the race for the cham
pion>hp of the American Association is virtu.
ally won by st. Louis, that for the League
pennant may still be said to be in doubt New
York. however, has IA very commanding lead
and a better chance to win than any of hel
competitors.