Hillsboro recorder., 1888-06-21
AROUND THE GLOBE.
ITEMS CLEANED FROM TELE-
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH,
EAST AND wEsT-THE EUROPEAN srTU-
kTIoN--DoNGs OF KINGS AND QUEENS.

ATlON--DOtNGS OF KINGS AND QOEESss'
The strawberry crop around New AL
bany, Indiana, is enormous.
Locusts have appeared at Dubuque,
Iowa, in vast numbers in the last two
days. tasssass.ss
The alarm, an anarchist paper OF the,
most pronounced type, has been started
in New York City.
Mrs. Sheridan, mother of Gen. Phil
Sheridan, died at Somerset, Ohio, on
Tuesday; aged eighty-seven years.
The French government has consented
to allow the Brouge factory to supply
Russia with cannon and projectiles.
The stables of the Montreal Street
Railway, at Hochelaga, Canada, were
burned on Saturday, and 134 horses were
burned TO death. h
Amoung the passengers on Wednesday
on the steamer Wisconsin, which arrived
in New York from Liverpool, were loo
Mormon immigrants.
The sevent, n year locusts appeared at
Wheaton, ILL.,, about two weeks ago, and
have SO rapidly increased in number that
now they literally cover all kinds Of
bushes and trees. ~.
The citizens of Aberdeen, Dak., forci.
| bly, resisted the efforts of an electric mo-
tor company to lay rails in the streets,
because the consent Of property owners
had not been obtained.
The Board Of Aldermen of Boston,
Mass, on Monday, by a vote of Z to A,
refused to confirm the Mayors nomina-
| tion Of Edwin g. Walker, well-knowD
colored lawyer, as principal assessor.
Twenty-one tories voted against the
British government in the division on
the resolution in regard to the admiralty
introduced in the House OF Commons by
Louis ]. Jennings.
| Locusts are advancing in compact
mass twelve miles long by six in breadth
in Algiers. A panic prevails in the prov
ince Of Constantine. The valley Of
Quelma has been devastated by locustsI
Swarms Of grasshoppers have appeared
in 0ttertail county, Minn., and several
large townships are alive with them.
They are Of the Rocky Mountain variety
which did great damage some years ago.
Several members Of the Irish National
League have been arrested in Ireland.
The arrests were the result Of secret in
quiries. Some Of the persons taken into
custody were charged with declining to
give evidence at the trial Of various Of
tenders. Xiv. ..
The strike Of the brewery employees in
Chicago. ILL.,, was on Saturday declared
off. ALI the strikers applied for work at
the breweries where they had been form
erly employed, and many were taken
back. The brewery owners promised
not 10 demand their withdrawal from the
union, aud allowed them their wages for
ten hours work per day. - I
During the hearing before him on
Monday at Albany. N. Y, on the bill
providing for repairs TO the Assembly
chamber ceiling, Gov. Hill took occasion
70 say that the whole capitol was blum
der and that he was willing to put it in
the hands Of either Capitol Commissioner
Perry or Superintendent Of Buildings
Andrews, and allow either TO completes
IL. ~
The procession Of knights Of Pythias,
on the opening Of the grand conclaye at
Cincinnati, Ohio, on "Wednesday, was q
very brilliant affair, though it did not
contain the promised thirty thousand
people. Six thousand would be very
large estimate Of the number Of persons
in procession. nine-tcnths Of them being
uniformed knights, organizations by di-
visions, brigades and battalions. Bands
were numerous, and the music was very
fine. Several companies were mounted.
Ait the annual convention Of the Kan
sas state temperance union, held at To-
pcka, arcsolution was adopted. denounc-
Ing the statement that piohibitory law
cannot be enforced, and asking, that the
National Republican Convention adopt
an anti.salo0n plank. Mrs. ]. Ellen
Foster, Of Iowa, addressed the conyen-
ton. She said she was en- route to Chi.
eago, and in the name Of the Republican
women Of the country, would demand
that the Republicans declare against sa-
looms.