The diamond drill., 1888-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Inc HOUSE OF COMMONS ms pasreu the
first Of the new procedure rules. This does
away with the all-night sittIngs, making the
session from In the afternoon until mid
night.
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlln has written a
letter 10 political friend In New York fa-
yoring the Hon. Robert T.. Lincoln as a can
didate for the Presidency.
Judge Elliott, OF the Common Pleas
Court, Dayton, Ohio, has appointed II. ID.
Marshall receiver Of the Dayton, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad
Cincinnati business men are amazed at the
reckless fnancierfng connected with the
Metropolitan Bank.
The Tehuantcpce Ship Railway Company
IL considering he advisability OF securing a
loan OF s25.0O0,Oo0 In Europe.
New York Il investigating the various
trusts, the Standard OH Company, Standard
Envelope Company, and Empire Storage
Company being looked into by the Legisla-
tive committee.
Now the wardens Of pcnitentiaries have
formed trust for the manufacture OF hollow
ware.
The trustees OF the Grant monument com
mitee held their annual meeting Thursday at
New York, and elected William X. Grace
President, and J. Picrpont Morgan Treasurer.
About $4,000 was added 10 the fund last
year, and the committee has now on deposit
sl26,162.
The captain and crew Of the wrecked
schooner Mary :. Tibbits, who were supposed
10 have been lost at sea, arrived at New York
Thursday. They were rescued from their
sinking craft by an Italian vessel aud taken
TO Oporto, whence they were sent TO London
by the American consul.
Initial meetings were held at Boston Thurs
day In movement looking 10 the erection OF
a memorial 10 Wendell Philips. General
Butler made the principal speech, and alleg-
ed that the "war OF the rebellion was prin-
cipaly inspired by the voice and pen OF
Philips" The size and enthusiasm Of the
meetings aagurs the success OF the move
ment-
Thomas Dickson. Treasurer Of Morrow
County. Ohio. and his deputy, Robert Beatty,
were arrested at Cleveland Thursday, charg-
ed with embezzling sG,50a. Dickson was re-
leased on $4,000 bail.
A young man and a woman, who had just
arrived from Philadelphia, were found dead
near the city hail. in Camden, n. j., Wed
nesday night. The man first shot his COM
panion and then killed himself. Not
he slightest chew 10 their identity could be
found.
The output of coal during 1887 I'm the sec
ond anthracite district Of Pennsylvania
reached 5,0i3.5i5 tons, an increase over 1886
Of $4,000 tons. In minc accidents fifty-two
men were killed aud 1i6 wounded
George ii. Corliss, the famous mechanical
engineer and manufactures. died suddenly
Tuesday at Providence, r. l., aged y.
AT East Greenwich, X. l.. Saturday night,
the well owned by Mr.. Allen was poisoned,
and an attempt was made 70 blow up the
house OF the Rev. o. w. Still, Baptist min
lister. Both men have been waging war upon
the saloons.
Before n legislative committee at Boston,
Tuesday, Mrs. Charlotte Smith and others
made charges that many intelligence offices
were sending girls 20 houses OF ill-repute,
and that Inspector Burleigh was In league
with the procuren. The statements OF fifty
alleged victims were submitted, and in some
instances their stories wcro ccrroborated.
A nincty-two round fight was contested at
Wilmington, Del, Tuesday morning, Dun
can knocking out an ''unknown," OF Phia-
delphia. The yictonhad also to be carried
from the ring.
In the Opera Honse at GAINESVILLE. Ohio,
Tuesday night, where Annie Pixley "a now
playing, Joseph Hamcr, young clerk, burst
a blood vessel and died almost Instantly
There wasno interruption Of the performance
Dennis McGraw and his wife were sufio-
Gated In their home at Lima, Ohio, Monday
might by natural gas. which leaked from the
pipes.
Flora McAulifc, aged ID, Is dying at New
York from pelvic peritonitis. She has con-
fcsscd that she has been the victim OF China
men, who lured her 10 their den, taught her
10 smoke opium, and then ruined her.