The Republican journal., 1888-05-03
Generalities.

The international copyright bill has been
favorably reported.
| Ephraim George Squier. the distinguished
antiquarian and author, is dead.
Another man tried to thaw out dynamite over
stove and now his mutilated remains tell the
story of his folly.
/ The conference to settle the dispute between
the United States and Morocco will meet in
Madrid on May 1.
! The chief clerk of the treasury of Greece has
| been arrested for embezzling 100000 francs
I of the public funds
The Mavor of Boston vetoed the ordinance
giving a monopoly of the underground wire
conduit job to a syndicate.
\ suit for 81 .25o,oo is entered in Connec-
tcut against certain heirs to he estate Of IIo:ch
kiss. the machine Gun inventor.
The Assistant Postmaster al Carolina. Rhode
Island. is under arrest on the charge of open
ing letters addressed to other people
The steamer Neptune has landed 42.242 seals
4 at Il. Johns. \. F.. the largest catch ever
\ brought TO that port bv one steamer.
A dispatch from Washington says George NJ.
] Robe>on, eN-Secretary of the Navy. is said to
he financially embarrassed by unfortunate spec
ulatlons.
"A
public are said to show that the death rate of
the city regiments was less than that of the
country troops.
\ Paris paper charges that Americans are
backing Roulanrer to make war between
France and Germany. hoping to secure "A tie,
mand for provisions.
\ Florida orange grower inserted a bud from
a bearing sweet orange tree into lemon root
and a few days since the fruit was sampled and
pronounced delicious.
It is believed that the free traders have called
halt on the tariff question. and will not press
the Mills bill TO vote until after the Democra-
tie National Convention.
The fisheries treaty will be considered by the
Senate in executive session. hut the official
>tenographer of the Senate will be present and
report the proceedings.
The Emperor of China has called the Kin" OF
Corea to account for the manner in which the
latter'> Envoy to the United States ignored the
Chinese Envoy in Washington.
The Minnesota Railroad Commission has Won
it, case against the Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railroad Company. and the road must
now reduce lis rates demanded by law.
The residence at the southeast corner of Il
| and TWenty-tirst streets. Washington. u. G..
which has been bought by the friends Of Gen.
Hancock. has been formally transferred to hi
widow.
\ test case under the new Michigan law.
making liquor sellers liable for damages for
selling liquor to miners. resulted at Detroit in
| the jury awarding 800 to Il complaining
mother.
Sedgwick VI. Allen, a New Haven harness
maker, has clipped, il is claimed with Il much
divorced women named Lizzie BIarkman. Hi
Wife. three children and some creditors are
! anXiou>ly inquiring for Allen.
Street bands of music have been entirely
driven out of Baltimore by the rigid carrying
out of Il recent city ordinance. Many of them
were arrested and then furnished trans por;a-
ton to more music loving communities.
The New York Assembly has passed a bill to
| incorporate the Webb Academy and Home for
| INDECENT Shipbuder>. to he located in New
York city. 1t is said that Mr.. Webb proposes
to endow the institution with sum not less
than Sl.3o0.oOo.
\ dispatch from Winona, Mimi. says the
loss to the manufacturing interests of that city
by the floods is estimated at S10O.0D0. The Min
ncsota Boom Company loses 6.o00.0U0 feet of
| logs valued at $50. 900. making the loss to the
numbering interests alone $3.50 900. The river
Is four miles wide al that place
ANOTHER RISE IN PHOSPHATE ROCK. Their
has been further advance of fifty cents per
ton in the price of this fertilizing material.
This makes Il rise of $500 per ton since Jan. |.
The ruling prices in Charleston. 5. e.. are NOW
for crude rock $500: Hot Air Dried $500: and
| Crushed Rock 500 per ton: from which il is
| evident that the present low prices Of CONNER
| cla Fertilizers cannot long continue. since The
Manufacturers who do not own Phosp hatic de-
posts will have to pay these increased prices.
| The statue of Mile, Standi>h for the monll-
ment at DuXbury. Mass. i to be of granite.
| II feet high, the shaft bein" 100 feet. Captains
Hill. on the point of land running out into Ply
| mouth Bay. upon which the obeli>k is built i
| $50 feet above the water. an, the statue can lie
seen 20 miles AT sea. The captain is to stand
looking to the east. with his right hand contain
| ing the charter OF the colony. pointing toward
| Plymouth. and bis left resting upon his I'M
| drawn sword. The motto. .'Civil Law i great
er than the sword is a Very appropriate one
to the first commissioned military officer OF the
| colony, who always obeyed the law.