The Republican journal., 1888-06-14

Geo. NJ. Phelps, the inventor of the stock in
dicator and electro motor and of many other
electrical devices, died in Brooklyn, Friday
night, at the age ofGO years.
Gilmore and Tompkins, managers of the
Academy of Music, have made contract with
Margaret Mather, who will hereafter make Il
tour under their management.
Helena, Mont, is not very large city. hut it
has twenty-seven millonaires. An enthusiast
tic Helena man says that mionairism is dis
ease that is very catching out there.
Professor Nirchow, after careful examine
ton of Emperor Fredericks throat. reports
that he finds no proof that cancer exists and
many reasons to doubt its existence.
Alfred Love. the equal rights nominee for
President, is president of the American Peace
association. Several votes were cast in the con-
vention for Mrs. Cleveland for President.
A special from st. John, n. b. states that
George Francis Train has abandoned eXpa-
triation and is going back to New York and to
the children and birds of Madison Square.
Mr.. Claus Spreckels was given an impressive
farewell reception by his 500 San Francisco EN-
ployes and their families on the occasion of his
leaving that city to make his home in PhilaClel-
phia.
Robert Smith. who was placed in the lookup
on Thursday night at Cairo. Ill.,. in an intoXi-
Gated condition, set fire to the place Friday and
was burned to death before aid could reach
HIM
Frederick Marsden, playwright, forty-five
years old. was found dead in his room in New
York, Friday morning, having, it is believed,
committed suicide during the night by leaving
the gas turned on.
a despatch from Woodward. Indian Terri
tory. says that party of vigilantes overlook
q ND III iy. horI ofe nlo
ponies in No Mans Land on Thursday night
and lynched them all.
TWO Harvard Freshmen, j. r. G. Coyle of
Boston and c. +. Belknap of Brighton. are I'M
der arrest in Cambridge, charged with stealing
valuables from the clothing of fellow-students
in the gymnasium lockers.
American waters will be graced bv nearly
100 Burgess boats this summer. He ought to
be called Admiral Burgess and put in charge
of the fleet. What beautiful sight it would
be to have them all together.
Despite the protests of Yale boys and men,
the historic fence which has been the roosting
place for thousands of students is doomed, the
corporation deciding that it must be removed
to make room for new recitation hall.
Andrew Carnegie has sailed for Europe, and
will meet Mr.. Blaine and family in London on
June &. The party will then start on a COACH
ing tour through England and Scotland, en-
bracng seven hundred miles, over an entirely
new route.
The will of the late Samuel Dennis Warren
contains no public requests. his entire estate
being left to his family and relatives. The will
bears date of May 10, 1882, and Samuel Dennis
Warren. Jr, and Mortimer Ii. Mason are nam
ed as executors.
Escaping gas in the basement of the First Ma
tional bank at st. Cloud, Minnesota, exploded
ri DIV 1,h ,,I l;,,,f * o<,l,
The front was blown across the street, shatter-
ing the buildings on the opposite side. Many
people were hurt, five seriously.
The international Exhibition in Copenhagen
was opened May 18th by the King of Denmark.
All the members of the royal family were pre-
sent. The buildings of the city were decorated
with flags. American and German men-of-war
were in the harbor and fired salutes.
The suit of inventor Edison against the Unit
ed States Electric Light Company for infringe
ment of patent, begun three years ago and on
which .6 similar suits depend, has been
decided in New York by Judge Wallace in
the United States Circuit Court in favor of the
defendant.
vacation until September. At that time Con-
greSs will have adjourned leaving him free to
run up into the Adirondacks and indulge in
few weeks of hunting. This is his programme
50 laT us outlined. attnOupn open 10 some mod
itications in the interim.
Joseph W. Fifer, the Republican candidate
for governor of Illinois, is six feet tall, spare in
flesh, of a swarthy complexion, with keen black
eyes and Il heavy head of coarse black hair that
is now tngcd with gray. His carriage is erect,
his movements elastic, and his weight is about
l50 pounds. He possesses great physical
strength.
The Rhode Island chief of state police made
raid upon Dodge Il Canield's large grocery
store in Buffers exchange, Providence, Thurs
day morning, and seized q barrels of fine
liquors, mostly imported, all on tap, and there
fore seizable. The value of the liquors seized
must be close upon $4,000, and it will all be
destroyed.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, the daughter and
only surviving child of Horace Greeley, is liv-
inga quiet and useful life at her country home
near Chappauqua, n. Y. She is we'll develop
ed, strongly -but young woman, with bright
and beautiful face. Her features are classic,
and her brown hair is drawn back in the sim
plest manner and tied in plain knot. She
usually wears wide-brimmed Gainsborough
hat with floating pumes that becomes her
wonderfully.
This is the novel way that San Francisco
nautical paper gives notice OF an old sea-cap-
tain'> DEATH captain B. b. Sharp, the yeter-
an navigator, has gone aloft, where he can now
live among the stars he loved to speak about.
No more lunar observations, nor plain sailing
will the old man lay out to aspiring young cap
tains or mates. He has let go his anchor, and
the cable is all out to the bare end, and that has
slipped through the hawse-pipe."