Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ON the 11th a conference concerning
the administration of the customs serv-
ice at New York was held at the Treasury
Department between Secre tary Window,
Assistant Secretaries Batcheller and
Tichenor, Collector Erhardt, Appraiser
Cooper, Surveyor Lyon and Chief Tingle
OF the special agents division.
The Republican State convention of
Nebraska passed unanimously a resolu-
ton indorsing Chicago as the place for
holding the Worlds Fair in 1892
On the 1lth President Corbin of tn g
Reading railway sailed for New York
from Liverpool, by the stea mer Umbria.
1T was an nounced on the 11th that
Judge Am brose Monett Of New York
City, who was indicted in connection
with the Flack divorce case, had had a
dangerouslrelapse, and was very seriously
i'll at his home. Four physicians were in
consultation over the sufferer.
MAYOR BEAUGRAND of Montreal, Can,
proprietor of La Patrie, has brought suit
against La Minerve, the organ Of the Do
minion Government, for 100000 dam
ages, for libel, for asserting that Beau
grand has no right to the decoration of
the Legion Of Honor which he received
from General Boulanger when he was
Minister of War, and that it was OBJ
tanned through fraud and presumably
was sold, as were others, by Wilson and
his friends.
IT has been decided by Secretary Noble
that the rerating of Senator Mande rs on's
pension by Commission Tanner was
illegal, and Senator Henderson has re-
turned the rerated certificate for cancel
alton.
CAPTAIN CHARLES A. DEMPSEY, Of the
Second Infantry, at Fort Omaha, Neb.,
charged with assaulting Lieutenant
Colonel Fletcher, the commanding officer
at the post, has been relieved from arrest
and restored to duty. The courtmartial,
after gentle reprimand, said the court
was thus lenient because of the indeco-
rous, unofficer- like manner in which
Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher had con-
Quoted himself in the affair.
| GOVERNOR HILL of New York, accom-
| panied by party of friends, left Albany
on the 18th for Atlanta, Ga, to attend the
Piedmont exposition.
PRESIDENT ST. JOHN Of the Mercant lie
National Bank of New York City has ad.
dressed a letter to Secretary Window in
cooperating the views expressed in the
writer's address before the recent Bank
ers' Convention at Kansas City, Mo-, in
favor of doubling the coinage of silver,
and retiring an amount of United States
legel tender notes equal to the extra
coinage OF silver.
On the 14th the three mile sculling race
between Matterson and Bubear over the
Thames tEngland) course was won by
Matterson, who led from the start and fin
ished eight lengths ahead
CAPTAIN RISHwoRTH JORDAN, a partici-
pant in the war of 1912, died at Biddeford,
Me-. on the 18th, aged ninety five years.
THE chairman of the Montana Repub-
lican central committee, announced on
the 14th that the Republicans had cer-
tainly carried the Legislature of that
State either by one or three majority.
On the 18th VIM. T. Miner, ex-Govern-
or of Connecticut, died at Stamford,
aged seventy four. He was Consul Gen
eral at Havana, in 1864, under Presi lent
Lincoln.
The canvassers in Silver Bow County
Mont, threw out the vote in what is
known as the railroad precinct, which
gave the Democrats a majority of ia. If
this action is upheld by the courts it will
seat the entire Republican delegation
from the county eleven members), over :
come the Democratic majority in the
Legislature and give the Republicans
control of that body.