, 1889-10-18
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Ing at Norristown, Pa.
James Hickey was lYnched in Chiffon
county, Ala, Thursday, for murder.
Admiral Porter left jamestown yes
teriay morning for Washington in i'm
proved health.
The North German Gazette says 1t is
not unlikely Germany will refuse to rec
ognize Mataafa as king of Samoa.
The president yesterday appointed
Richard +. Sloan of Arizona to be asso-
ciate Justice OF the supreme court of Ari-
IONA.
A cabel to the New York Maritime ex-
change that Hypolyte has
been unanimously elected president of
Hayti.
Prince Ferdinand oil Bulgaria, now in
Paris, fearing attempts will be made up
on his life. is guarded by French and
Bulgarian detectives.
At the annual meeting of the Pullman
Palace Car company in Chicago yester-
day the usual quarterly dividend of 80
per share was declared.
Robert Berrier. (white) who last week
murdered his mother in law at Lexington,
n. c., was taken from Jail by a mob
here lat night and lynched-
1t is reported in Washington that Har-
rison has decided to appoint extension
Agent Paole of Syracuse, pension COM
missioner to succeed Tanner.
The Pan American excursionists ar
rived in Detroit yesterday morning. Al
ter breakfast they boarded steam yachts
for a trip up the Detroit river.
A freight train was wrecked by a wash
out on the Texas Pacific, sixty miles east
of FL Paso. Engineer Bible. Fireman
Joucs and Brakeman Mansfield were
killed.
tradicts emphatically the dispatch from
offered the position of consul general at
Melbourne.
lie Temps. in a resume of the financial
results of the Paris exposition, says be
fore its close the number of people who
will have visited the great show will reach
PC, 000, 900 or more.
In a fight to a finish at the rooms of the
Golden Gate Athletic Club in San Fran
cisco Wednesday night VIM. Hennessy of
Kansas City was knocked out in the forty
fifth round hg Charles Turner of Stock
ton.
AT Des Moines yesterday J Judge Shiras
OF the United States court signed a decree
of foreclosure against the St. Louis. Des
Moines 4 Northern railway IN favor of
the Mercantile Trust company OF New
York on a total claim Of 1887 900
AT Chicago Yesterday representatives of
firms engaged in the barb wire industry
were in secret conference at the Leland
hotel with a view of forming a trust. 1t
is not yet known whether or not Wash
burr x Moen are parties TO the movement.
w. r. liildebrand was arrested at
Birmingham Wednesday night for rant
A lynching party was organized. but the
officers escaped with their prisoner to
Clay county. The lynchers followed, but
the officers again cluded them and are
now hiding with the prisoner.
The American board of foreign mis-.
sions, in meeting Yesterday, passed a res
Olution calling on the president OF the
United States to get congress to take such
action that the United States should CO.
operate with Germany and Great Britain
in trying to abolish slavery in Eastern
Africa.
At Columbus, Tenn, yesterday n
negro. name unknown, under arrest for
striking another man, was taken from an
officer by the man friends and strung up,
but was cut down before death and taken
away. Officers have been searching for
HIM and 1t is believed that he has been
lynched.
At the Protestant Episcopal convention
yesterday morning a resolution providing
for a joint committee to prepare the stand
ard prayer book of 1892 was adopted.
AFTER the adontion of various ren,rts
providing for minor changes in the phras-
cology of the canons the house went into
committee of the whole on the Iiturgical
revision.
1t is reported in Washington that the
minister to Hayti, Fred Douglas, is com
missioned by Blaine to try and convince
the powers in Hayti and San Domingo
that while maintaining their autonomy to
put themselves under the protectorate of
the United States. Furthermore, Minis
ter Palmer is to see what he can do at
Madrid in a quiet way to secure the sew
erance of Spanish relations with Cuba.