, 1889-12-22
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

The senate and house adjourned until
Jan. 6.
The American evolution squadron has
arrived at Lisbon.
Malietoa has been formally recognized
as king of Samoa.
The factory of Mitchell & Shepherd at
Bradford. Eng, burned. Loss $780,
600.
The circular giving the rights to Union
Pacific and Oregon Short Line stockhold-
ers will probably not be issued for some
days.
A family named Wilhelm, consisting of
a man, wife and child, were a~sphyxiated
by gas from a coal stove at Akron, o.,
yesterday.
b. Fl. Day, who founded the New
York Sun and printed its first copy in
1888, died in New York yesterday, aged
80 years.
Christ BATE, a worthless character, in a
fit of drunken rag yesterday killed his
wife and then committed suicide at Owat-
onna, MINI.
In the house yesterday Cummings pre-
sented a petition from the governor and
citizens of New Jersey for the relief of
Mrs. Della Parnell.
Wabash Paper Manufacturing company
of Chicago, largely interested in the fall
ure of New York firm. Capitol $l40,-
900. Probably fail.
The Independent Christian church
Six 6remen were seriously injured By the
collapse of the roof.
The three men, Nicolet, Darbelay and
Henri. who were arrested in Berne'
on a charge of issuing an anarchist mani
festo have been acquitted.
The proprietors of boot and shoe fac
tories in Bristol have locked out their op-
e~ratives. By this step 5000 persons are
thrown out of employment.
The bodies of Eve of the missing thir-
teen persons belonging to the steamer
Cleddy, sunk off the Isle of Wight Fri
day, washed ashore Yesterday.
Henry Grady's condition was much
worse yesterday. Pneumonia is believed
to have set in aud nervous exhaustion
makes his condition more serious.
The bankruptcy bill introduced by Sena-
tor Hoar yesterday is what is known as
the Torrey bankruptcy bill, approved by
the commercial convention at Minneapolis
last fall.
A syndicate with a capital of $40, OOO,-
900 has been formed in London to buy
off the busi6ess OF British carpet manu-
features andtw0tk their establishments on
American patents.
The house has adopted a resolution re-
questing the United States treasurer to
receive the cash and assets in the ser.
geant alarms office as a special deposit
until further orders.
The speaker of the house of rcpresen-
tatlves yesterday appointed Mason, Cogs-
well, Struble. Turner of Georgia and Will
son Of West Virginia as a committee to
investigate the Cincinnati ballot box for
gerry.
The Jury in the Navassa case as to the
murder of Thomas n. Foster, rendered
a verdict OF guilty of murder in the first
degree against Henry Jones and Calsar
Fisher and the seven others guilty of
manslaughter.
Shortly after daylight yesterday NOM
ing the gasometer of the city gas works
at Ashville, n. c., exploded, causing its
total destruction. OF four men inside it
making repairs two were instantly killed
and two wounded.
Xavier Francois Picanez, the French
burglar and murderer, who fed to this
country four years ago. was arrested in
the Pardee coal mines of Pennsylvania
nearly a mile underground by a detective.
He is now held for extradition.
The commissioner of pensions yesterday
sent a letter to the secretary of the in.
terror asking that congress be requested
TO authorize the appointment of thirty ad-
ditional physicians and surgeons TO the
division of the pension bureau.
President Carnot is suffering from in
iuenza. Owing to the fact that Tirard,
prime minister, Freycinet, minister OF
war, Spuller, minister of foreign affairs,
and Faye, minister of agriculture, are
suffering from the same complaint, the
cabinet council yesterday was abandoned.
Senator Plumb yesterday offered a
resolution (which was agreed to) calling
on the secretary Of the interior for a
statement OF the cause of withholding
patents for lands within the limits of the
Union Pacific land grant which are free
from all claims and were not secured at
the definite location of the road.
The motion for a new trial of the action
for damages brought by William O'Brien
against Lord Salisbury for SANDER has
been dismissed. O'Brien charged that
Salisbury in a speech accused him of in
citing to murder and robbery. The ground
on which the new trial was asked was
that the Jury who returned the verdict for
Salisbury was misdirected.
Herkimer Co., N. Y. cheese. Il. j.
Johnston & Co.