The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-15
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Hnsty Reading

Among the outof.town callers ON PresluenV
elect Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis yes
terday, was Hon. II. B.. Scott, OF Wheeling,
member Of the National Committee from West
Virginia, and many other friends. Gen. Har-
risOn put In tho day hard at work, trying 10
make hole in the big accumulated CORE
spondcnce and Keeping two swift stehog-
raphers going the entire time. There Is but
slight falling of In tho volume OF letters.
Numbers Of ballots and other mementoes oil
the campaign are being sent In.
II now looks as II the commission APP
pointed last spring will be successful In re-
moving the Southern Utes from Colorado. A
council was held at the agency Tuesday ana
all the Indians prcsent-one-fourth OF the
tribe-signed the treaty providing for their re-
moval to new reservation In Utah. The open
ing up OF their present reservation Will throw
open for settlement several hundred thou
sand acres of the best farming land in Col
orado.
As result of an improvement in the iron
trade the Reading Railroad Company yostor-
day issued orders for the resumption OF work
ut its large furnace at Bechtelsville Pa,
which hos been idle for some months. Other
company furnaces will resume as fast rs they
can be repaired. The Glendale rolling mill, II
few miles away, also resumed yesterday.
At Reading, Pa, yesterday, United States
Commissioner Young held William ID. Horn
ing, a prominent member of the Berks County
bar, in $1,000 bail for hearing in Philadel-
phia next Monday on q charge OF having
taken illegal fees for securing pension for q
widow. The pension amounted to $4,000.
Sarah Bernhardt appeared in the Czech
Theatre in Paris last night. She received
frantic ovation and there were many cries OF
"Nive la Frnnce.n After the performancethc
whole troupe was entertained by Czech resi-
dents in the largest hall in the city. German
residents held aloof.
I'll rfa1 tor
day morning in the ruins of last Fridays great
fire at Rochester, n Y. These are In addition
to the eleven taken out Tuesday This makes
thirty-three dead accounted for. There are
probably ten or twelve bodies yet in the ruins.
Part of Il. N. Cook g. Co.'s distillery ostab-
lishment at Buffalo, N. Y, consisting OF a
barn and warehouse, was destroyed by hre
Yesterday morning. Four hundred barrels OF
whisky and valuable machinery were burned.
Loss will be $4,000, fully insured
The Queen Regent has sent q note TO Senior
Canovas del Castillo regretting the recent
demonstrations against him. Yellow fever
has broken out at Santa Cruz dc la Palma.
The contagion was carried to the port by a
| steamer from Cuba.
The propeller Enola, OF Clyde's Line, ply
ing between New York and Philadelphia, was
sunk Monday night in the Raritan River, and
her cargo OF merchandise, mostly wool, is a
49,
saved
In Paris, yesterday, Prado the man who
murdered Marie Aquetant for her jewels was
sentenced to death, no extenuating circum-
stances being found in his favor. The muir
derer received his sentence in iauntY man
ner.
Col. G. @. Briggs, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
president of the monument commission of
| that State, yesterday located the position of
the Michigan cavalry brigade monument near
the cavalry shaft east of Gettysburg, Pa.
A meeting of the shareholders. in the Ger
man East African Company has been called
for the ed Instant to decide the ACCESSIBILITY
| of charterlng a steamer and of organizing O
force to recover the Usambara district.
The railing department of the steel mill OF
the Bethlehem pa Iron Company started W
to-day after several weeks idieness. The
converting department resumed work yester
day.
The Pope has appointed Mgr. Persco Vicar
of the Basilica of st. Peters, In return for his
services In Ireland The appointment vii
probably lead to higher preferment
The Emperor William has received Coun
Herbert Bismarck and. Capt. Wallingof OF thu
cruiser Schwalbe In connection with the pro
jected East African Expedition,
Gov. Beaver yesterday issued warrant fol
the execution of james IL. Jacobs, the Ian
caster County (Pa.) murderer, who will b'
hanged on the 9th of January.
Owing to political discussions King Chris
tian of Denmark will not be presented will
an address ON the occasion of his twenty-tiftl
anniversary to the throne.
The Mont onformist Unionists Association
gave banquet last evening in London II
honor of Lord Salisbury and Lord Harrington
at the Hotel Metropole.
At an Anarchist meeting in Paris yesterday
Louis Michel gave long account of the lif
and death Of the Anarchists who were executed
In Chicago
The municipal council Of Paris has decided
to take part in the demonstration at the toni
of the reyolutionist Baudin on December 2.
The condition OF Duke Macmillan Of Bav
aria has not improved. The members OF the
family will arrive as soon as possible.
The Berlin Ndchrichten denies that bill
being prepared to increase the duty on to
bacco.
A ukase has been issued adding two division
to the Eighth Army Corps in Western Russia
The report that an attempt had been mad
upon the life of Prince Ferdinand is baseless
The idea of an international conference OF
the question of the slave trade has been started
The German Government has ordered an
other cruiser to proceed to Zanzibar.
Thirty miners were killed by an explosio
in pit at Dour, Belgium.
The British steamer Blackwatch was found
cred on November 12.
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