, 1888-11-24
FLASHES.
John Bright passed a comfortable night
but does not improve in health.
Gladstone will start for Florence on

John Bright passed a comfortable night
but does not improve in health.
Gladstone will start for Florence on
Dec. 10. While in Italy ne will visit
Rome and Naples.
Walker, Barth g. Josephs' tobacco
factory at New Orlearns burned last
night. Loss, 800. 900.
Seventy radicals were arrested at Bel
grade for connection with the election
riots on Wednesday last.
John holiness, colored, was hanged at
Marion, Ala, yesterday for the murder
OF his paramour, Ola Johnston, last
April.
DR.. H. D. Schmidt, the distinguished
pathologist and for many years connected
with the charity hospital of New Orleans,
died last night.
Hon. Solomon Scheu. ex-mayor of
Buffalo, who was stricken with paralysis
last Saturday morning, died at 5:45 yes
terday afternoon.
z1Chairman Quay has called a meeting of
the executive committee OF the Republi-
can national committee for Wednesday,
Dec. 5, in New York City.
The Western Association of Architects
closed its fifth annual convention yester-
day morning at Chicago. w. w. Carlin
OF Buffalo was elected president.
AT the closing session of the American
Public Health Association yesterday 1t
Milwaukee, Prof. Hosmer A. johnson of
Chicago was chosen president.
A Sorel, Que, dispatch says that Chief
Justice Armstrong, aged 6S, chairman of
the labor commission, fell dead on the
street there yesterday from apoplexy.
Jem Carney has deposited a 81, 900 for
felt with the London Sporting Life for a
fight with Jack McAulife for the cham
pionship of the world in the light weight
classes.
1t is stated in London that an Ameri-
can has submitted to the French govern
ment a contrivance by which a dynamite
shell can be fired from ordinary guns and
exploded at a target.
The Journal de 81. Petersburg denies
that a secret treaty has been entered into
by Corea and Russia. 1t admits that
Corea has granted Russia facilities for
trade across the frontier.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, the Jenney cleo.
trio light plant was Yesterday entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900; insur-
ance, $780, 00. Three hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
News was received yesterday at St.
st. Petersburg of the laundering of seven
ice bound sailing vessels in the sea of
Azor. The crews managed to reach
Taganrog after severe suffering.
Gen. Walter G.. Newberry has decided
to accept the office of postmaster of Chi
cago rendered him by President Cleve-
land a couple of months ago, and says he
will take possession on Dec. l.
AT yesterdays session of the general
committee of the board of church extern
sion of the Methodist church, at Phila-
delphia. a loan of 81, 900 was made to the
Pacific Grove church at Monterey, Cal.
At Montgomery, Ala, at a joint caucus
Of senators and representatives yesterday,
United States Senator John 7. Morgan
was nominated by reclamation to be his
own successor on the 4th of March next.
The nephew of the late Mrs. Catharine
McCookry, Thomas Reed, and other rela-
eives of the deceased in New York are
endeavoring to have parts of the will
declared null and void. The estate is
valued at $500, 600.
Brig. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, assumed
command of the division Of the Pacific
yesterday. His aids are Lieutenants Cat
wood and Depray. Gen. Howard and
Lieut.. Greble started for New York yes
terday from San Francisco.
Geo. w. Milliken was hanged yester.
day at Shauneetown, Ill for the murder
of his wife on the 9Th of March last. A
woman named Devices, who was associ
ated with him in the killing, is serving a
five year term in the penitentiary.
The governor of South Australia, on
behalf of the ministry OF that colony, has
sent a telegram to Lord Knutsford sup
porting the action of the Queensland gov
eminent and promising to use discretion
in applying the new powers asked.
Adit. Gen. Hastings yesterday arranged
with The Pennsylvania Railroad company
for the transportation of the entire organ
ization of the national guard Of Pennsyl-
vania, $4,000 men, to Washington on the
occasion of President Harrison's inaugu-
ration.
The supreme court general term of New
York has handed down an important de-
cision by which it finds that the Bell Tele-
phone company of Boston is liable there
for state taxes. The decision is likely to
set the law in cases of foreign corporations
| dong business in New York State through
corporations there.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Chronicle telegraphs that DeLesseps, in
the event of the Credit Foncier refusing
to assist him obtaining the Panama loan,
threatens to publish an account Of every
step he has peer forced to take 10 the
course of the Panama crusade. The rev.
Citations will affect several members of the
chamber of deputies.