Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Comui.ed from Various Sources.
pr,xcv ALEXANDER Of Hesse was, on
the 10th. reported to be dying
srxop cAssoLA Minister of War, has
resigned from the Spanish Cabinet.
TUE most elaborate preparations are
boing made for the celebration of the CEN
tennial of Georgetown ID. CD College.
ELISHA ATKINSON, one of the most wide
1r-Enown and successful business men Of
BostoD. died in that city, on the 9th, aged
seventy-tive.
rHE House committee on printing re-
norted resolution, on the 5th, which was
adopted, authorizing the printing of $4,000
comics of the Presidents message.
THE inhabitants of Dustabad, Persia,
have been forbidden to sell grain to the
Russians. and the Vienna press states
that Southern Persia is now under En-
glish control.
The Car and King George Of Greece
have agreed that the marriage Of Grand
Duke Paul of Russia and Princess Alex
andria of Greece shall not take place until
October next.
IT is said that the German Emperor's
illness was caused by cold contracted by
his rising on cold, stormy night and
opening a window of his overheated apart
ments at Gelzlingen.
THERE has been heavy falling off in
the number of hogs slaughtered in the
West this fall, the decrease for November
and the first five days Of December
amounting to $1,000.
THE Window Glass Manufacturers Ben
efcial Association of Pittsburgh, Pals to
be reorganized shortly, with view not
only to control prices, but to limit pro-
duction when necessary.
Two members of the Republican Society
have been arrested at Naples for an at
tempt to wreck the German Consulate
there with dynamite bomb. No damage
was done, as the bomb did not explode.
GOVERNOR JACKSON of Maryland, origi-
date of hanging the murderer Isaac Kee-
nan, but afterward, for obvious reasons,
changed it, substituting instead March 1.
THE German troubles in Zanzibar have
already entailed loss of f350,0O0
upon the German East African Company
as a corporation, and, for the present at
least, ruined many of its individual men,
bers.
THE working hours of the twenty five
thousand employees in the shops OF the
Philadelphia Ss Reading Railroad Com
pany were reduced from ten to eight, with
a corresponding reduction in wages, on
the 9TH.
FRANK w. ADAMS, a clerk in the Wash
ington City post-otfice, was arrested, on
the 9th, for opening letters. He confessed
the crime, but said he had not found any
money in the letters, and that this was his
first offense.
AN Injunction was issued in the Chan
Gerry Court at Nashville, on the 9th, for
bidding Governor Taylor of Tennessee to
issue certificate to H. Clay Evens, the
Republican Congressman elect from the
Third district.
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw says he will ac-
cept the Office of Minister to the Court of
st. James if rendered to him by Mr.. Har-
rison, as he regards it as the most exalted
Office, next to the presidency, in the gift
Of the American people.
REPRESENTATIVE VANDEvER, of Califor-
MIA, on the 9th, introduced bill in the
House to divide the State of California
into two States. He proposes to divide
the State practically on the line of the
present Sixth Congressional district.
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SENATOR SHERMAN said, ON the 10th, that
The report that he would pass the Christ
mas holidays with General Harrison III
indianapolis, was, as far as he knew then,
without foundation. He expects to pass
Christmas in the bosom Of his family.
A MEETING Of the National Board Of Pro-
notion of the Three Americas" Exposi-
ton was held in Washington on the 9th.
1t was well attended and composed of
notable characters, who all spoke enthu-
siastically Of the proposed celebration.
THE Great Falls (Mont) Board of Trade
has appointed special committee on
Statehood, with a view to determining the
pursue under the present circumstances.
The movement is entirely non-partisan.
THOMAS AXWORTHY, the defaulting city
treasurer Of Cleveland, O., who is now in
London, has made proposition to return
100000 to the city, and in two years to re-
pay his bOndsmen, if prosecution is
dropped and he is permitted to return to
America
Mr. A. H. Moss, president of the Moss
national Bank of Sandusky, O., generally
Alown and respected among bankers
throughout the United States, and for
ilaAy Years one Of the most prominent
la!nen of the Protestant Episcopal
'Aarh died on the 9th.
MRs. Lucy PARSONS arrived in New
iofk from England by the steamer Au-
lana, on the 10th, and was greeted by a
lumber of her admirers. She says that
HeF reception abroad was a gratifying
Ule' and that great interest in radical