Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND PoLrrycAL.

EEAScNAk AND PCLETzGALs
On the 9th the committee on rules Of
the Montana Constitutional convention at
Helena, reported substantially the same
regulations which governed the conven-
ton of 1891.
CALL has been issued by George o.
Jones to "All who desire to assist in re-
organizing the National Greenback party
on the principles once advocated by
Peter Cooper, and by many of the wisAst
men and ables, newspapers ia both oe the
old parties" TO meet in Cincinnati, on
Thursday, September 12, 1889.
On the 7th Joseph Richardson Cox,
Home-Ruie Member of Parliament for
East Clair, and Thomas Patrick Gill,
Home Rule member Of South Louth,
were arrested in London, and taken to
Dragheda, Ireland, where they are to be
tried for recent utterances at a pro-
claimed meeting.
THAT no salute was fred at the Brook
lyn Navy Yard when the President passed
down East river on the Dispatch, on the
9th, caused surprise and comment The
omission was all the more remarkable
from the fact that the Dispatch signaled
the yard for q tug, so that the lookouts had
their attention called to the vessel from
which the presidential flag foated.
THE Shah's visit to England, if pro-
ductive of no other permanent results,
has at least served to start an immense
Persian boom among fnanciers in Lon
don. Baron Reuter- is engineering a big
Persian bank scheme which promises to
enlist millions Of English capital.
On the 9th, at the meeting of the Sioux
Falls Constitutional convention, the prop
osition to send q commission to Bismarck
| TO define the exact location Of the seventh
| standard parallel, which is TO be the
boundary liue between North and South
| Dakota, was referred to the proper COM
mittee.
| PRESIDENT AUSTIN CORBIN Of the Read
| inc Railroad Company gave notice to the
| twenty eight hundred employees Of the
! Reading Iron Works, on tho 9th, that
they could expect to resume work at an
early date, on condition Of renouncing
labor organizations and strong drink.
JAMES A. CHAMBERS, the Pittsburgh
| (Pa.) glass manufacturer, has sent in his
resignation from the wage committee Of
the Western Window Glass Workers
Benefit Association. Tie resignation
created a sensation in the glass trade.
in a speech at Lille France, N. Goblet,
formerly Minister Of Foreign Affairs, eX-
pressed his opinion that too much con-
sideration was given by the authorities
and the public at large to Boulangism
which he declared in no way menaced or
endangered the stability of the republic.
1t was only necessary, he added, to pur-
sue a progressive policy in order to de-
strOy the movement.
VICE president HAYDEN of the New
York Central road Will be chairman of
the trunk line executive committee dur
ing Commissioner Fink's absence.
On the Sth Colonel Wodehouse, COM
mander Of the Egyptian forces, informed
the government that he had sighted the
main body of the dervishes moving in
a northerly direction. They were 5000
strong, and had 800 camels. Colonel
WodehOuse did not think the force under
his command strong enough to justify an
other attack upon the dervshes.
The Queen contributed fifty pounds to
the fund for the relief Of the sufferers by
the recent railroad accident near Armagh,
ireland.
On the Sth the remains Of the late ex
Premier Norquay Of Manitoba were in
TERED at Winnipeg, with state honors.
1t was the largest funeral ever held in
that city, hundreds of people from AL
parts Of the country being present, in
addition to civic, military and charitable
organizations, members of the civil serV-
ice. Senators and legislators.