, 1889-11-24
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

raru1trs III tne Vicinity OF EllaWatua,
Kan, are burning corn for fuel finding 1t
cheaper than coal.
Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice was mar
ried in London Yesterday tn Miss Caro-
line Fitzgerald Of New York.
Sir John Macdonald has resigned the
presidency of the council and taken the
portfolio of railways and canals.
At Springfield, Mass, yesterday Dart
mouth defeated Williams in a botly con-
tested game OF foot ball, 20 to 9.
The Cronin case adjourned Yesterday
morning till Monday without further evil
dence being taken. The defense will
close Monday.
Friday evening the storehouse of
Philadelphia burned with its contents.
Total loss 1880
The Pan American congress visited
Roach's ship yard yesterday to witness the
launching of the steamship Orizaba for
the New York ano Cuba mail line.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows a reserve increase of 1895, 900;
specie increase $3.50, 900. The banks now
hold 81, 480, 600 in excess Of the legal
rule.
President Harrison has granted a par
don in the case OF Joseph Clark, con-
victed In Utah of adultery and sentenced
Marsh %, 1889, to three years imprison
ment.
j. M. Munoz, consul for Costa Rica at
New York, yesterday received a cablegram
from the secretary OF the treasury of that
country denying the rumor of a revolu-
ton in Costa RIGA.
1t is now believed that nine lives were
lost through the collision and sinking Of
the Old Dominion steamer Manhattan
which ran into the schooner Agnes Man
Ming Thursday night.
Bland the negro who assaulted a daugh-
ter of DIR. Gee. United States inspector
of timber in Alaska, at Disputanta, near
Pittsburg. Va. was taken from Jail yes
terday morning and lynched.
Three thousand barrels of whisky have
been smuggle9 into Canada this year and
the Canadian government Inspector esti-
mates that that government has lost $780,
900 in revenue from that source.
Sanger & Wells, coffee dealers of New
York, have asked for on extension. Liza
bilities $500. 900 with only nominal as
sets. The firm proposes to settle in full
with six, twelve and eighteen months
time.
A Duluth dispatch says: The work of
the Chippewa Indian commission is
practically finished and has been entirely
successful. This secures the opening of
1000. 600 acres of land in Northern Min
nesota to settlement.
A decision was rendered in London
yesterday under which the earl of Euston
is allowed to bring criminal suit against
the North London Press for alleging his
lordship implicated in the commission of
unnatural crimes in the West End.
The anti slavery conference now in SEES
sion in Brussels. sent a cable dispatch to
Stanley and Emin Pasha asking them to
telegraph an account of their experience
with slaves and slave dealers in the inter.
ior of Africa. If necessary the confer
ence will prolong its session to receive the
narrative.
1t is reported hat Secretary Proctor is
endeavoring to make arran ements to
Gen. Crook and Capt. Pratt .or the pur-
pose of making a personal visit of inspec.
ton of Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama,
where Geronimo and his band of Indians
are imprisoned.
The British government has forbidden
the holdings of the proposed meetings at
Killarney and Waterford to-day in MEM
ory of the Manchester martyrs. The
projectors of the demonstrations have an
nounced that they will not abandon their
plans. The police have been ordered in
readiness to disperse gatherings.