Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-09-22

BRIEF SUMMARY OF 0HNBRAl
NEWS ITEMS.
The News frsm Various parts Of the Glsbs
In . CONDENSED Fern.

1t has been discovered that Director
Putin of the secret police of st. Peters.
burg, Russia, is in the pay of bandits and
Of thieves and has receive a h,avy trib-
ute from the proceeds Of their robberics.
Political correspondence at Vienna,
says the negotiations between Russia
and the Vatican for the establishment OF
diplomatic relations have collapsed, ow-
ing to the opposi tion Of Pobiedonesteff,
procudator Of the holy synod in Russia.
OF the Polish clerical authorities in Aus
tria and of the ultranontane cardinals j.
Rome.
Bitter feeling has been engendercd at
Pittsburg, Pa, over the establishment
of a p,rochal school by the Catholics in
the first ward public school building.
Seven Protestant ministers denounced
Catholicism from their pulpits on Sun
day. Arrangements were made for mass
meetings in that city and also in Ale
gheny to protest against the use of public
school buildings for religious purposes.
7. ]. Mcclure and Samuel Remcr, en-
ployed in South Omaha, Neb., packing
house, engaged in bcef-skinling con-
test. The match was for $50 a side and
the gate receipts. Two dead becvcs
were brought in, and when time was
called, both men set to work. Mcclure
removed the skin from his subject first,
doing the job in four minutes and fifty
two seconds. Remcr's time was five
minutes.
A strange malady has affected the vii
layers of franklin Park, N. j. About
four weeks ago a sailor named Garrett
son returned from trip along the
Southern coast, and soon after his return
was stricken down with disease which
the doctors called ship fever. He died.
Within a few days number of those
attending the funeral were stricken down
with the same disease, and in the past
three weeks six others have died, and
now there are a number sick with the
fever, many of whom, the doctors say,
will die.
Counterfeit five and one dollar bills are
being extensively circulated IN New
York. The sub-trcasury officials say
they are so skilfully executed that they
would deceive almost every one unless
carefully scrutinized. The paper in the
five-dollar bill is trifls thicker than it
should be, and the head of Gen. Grant,
which adorned the bill, is somewhat
rougher and less evenly executed than en-
the genuine bill. The one-dollar coun-
terfeits: the paper is more nearly like the
genuine paper, but the samc defect is in
the head of Martha Washington as in the
head of Gen. Grant.
A Rcman cablegram to the New York
Catholic Ne1s announces that the decree
OF the holy Office on the Knights of La
Dor question, favorable to that organiza-
ton, has been forwarded to Cardinal
Gibbons. 1t will be remembered that in
April, 1887, his holiness, concurring
with ideas set forth in letter of Cardinal
Gibbons in favor of the knights, decided
that there was no cause for action. The
Pope also decided that in Canada, where
a mandament had been issued against
members of the order could re-
ceive dissolution on promise of obedience
to future decisions Of the holy see. The
matter having been paced before the
holy Office, tn decree is the result. Il
settles for good the question a. far as
Rome is concerned, provided, Of course, |
that the constitution and aims Of the Or
der remain the same.