The Progress., 1889-03-09

GEORGE =. BLANcHARn, q well-known hook
dealer, died on the 22d at Cincinnati frM,,
the effect Of the amp pntation Of one Of m
arms
s. PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland were
entertained at dinner on the 10Th by Secra-
tary and Mrs Villas It was the last Of the
Cabinet dinners of the present Administra-
tion.
PRoF. JOSEPH MEsMER, a. talented musi-
clan, died at Austin, Tex, on the 10Th, III the
ninety fifth year Of his age.
JOHN B. BASS died on the Goth at Quincy
Mass, aged sixty one years. from the effect
in the battle Of Pea Ridge, Ark, during the
civil war .s
DR. D. w. BLISS, who attended President
Garfield during his illness, died on the 2lat
at his residence in Washington, aged sixty
two years.
Mr. AND Mrs JoHN RHEL1Na, Of Fort
Wayne, Ind, celebrated their golden we'd
ding on the 2lst.
SENATOR KENNA was reelected to the
United States Senate on the 21st by the West
Virginia Legislature
The Michigan Republicans, In State con-
vention on the 2lst at Detroit, nominated
Judge G.. B. Grant for Supreme Judge. and
renominated Regents Cocker and Draper.
CAPTAIN BEN RICHARDSON, the eccentric
millionaire OF New York, who owned Wash
ington's chariot and used to ride through
the streets in it on holidays, died on the
21st.
JAMES g. FLOOD, the California bo1salza
king, died at the Grand Hotel at Heidelk berg
at ten O. clock on the morning Of the 21st
He had been In Germany for some time, but
had been steadily wasting aWay, and his
end was not unexpected He was sixty
three years old
HENRY AUSTIN WHITNEY, president of the
Boston & Providence Railway Company,
died on the 2lst at his home in Boston
The Rhode Island Prohibitionists met in
State convention at Providence on the 22d
and nominated a ticket, with III. III. Rich
ardson, of Darlington, for Governor
FOREIGN.
AN elegantly dressed swindler, who ar
rived at Iberyille, Can. from California a
few days ago, skipped out on the 10Th after
sWindling a wealthy farmer named Dumas
out OF SAC, GOO by claiming to be Dumas son,
who mysteriously disappeared forty years
ago. }t5sa.$ "a 8Ys
Two EXPRESS trains on the Grand Trunk
road We're in collision on the 10Th near Ste
Hyacinthe. Que, resulting in heavy damage
to rolling stock
The British ship ST Joseph, bound from
Fleetwood, Eng, to New York, was, with
her crew Of twenty five men, given up as
lost on the Goth
BERLIN advices Of the Goth say that Ger
many will demand Of the United States Gov
ernlnent that it arrest and punish Klein, the
American whom Germany charges with hav-
ing led the Mataafaites in Samoa at the time
of the repulse Of the Germans in December
last.
IT was announced on the 21st that the
British ship Anglo-Indian had been burned
at Tamsui, China, by natives, and that Cap
tain Cattanach and twenty three men per-
ished
The British Parliament was formally
opened on the 21st The Queens speech
contained little of interest save sugges-
tion in favor of increased appropriations
for the National defense.
IHE Sultan of Zanzibar on the 21st issued
an edict forbidding import and export trade
in arms and ammunition. British residents
had been notified by their Consul to strictly
obey the order.
@ PLANTER MODESTO RU1sE, who was can't
ured recently by bandits in the Remedies
district of Cuba, was released on the 21st on
the payment of ransom of $50, eco.
ADvIcEs of the 22d say that two Chinese
vessels collided off Klang straits, and forty
persons were drowned
y ANTONIO SELLEN, the Cuban poet, died on
the 22d at Havana. 81 q
DISPATCHES, of the 22d from Switzerland
say that heavy snoW.storlns had prevailed
in the Bernese Oberland, and many houses
had been wrecked and their inmates killed
by avalanches i'll the canton of Solothurn
The milling interests of Canada on the
22d asked the Government to increase the
duty on American flour from fifty cents to
one dollar per barrel.