The Republican journal., 1889-11-07
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and thousands of cattle are starving.
A company has been formed in London to
build tower like the Ei1el one in Paris.
During September 3G, ,l45 immigrants came to
this country, against 500 in September, lSSS.
Z. l.. Knox, a Ware. Mass, Sunday school
superintendent, is charged with stealing horses
Mr.. Charles Bradlaugh, the English Radical
| Is improving in health. lie is now out of dam
ger.
The naval estimates call for So $50 900
about three million more than those of last
year
The Governor of Idaho in his annual report
presents the Claims of the people for State
| hood.
Those Mexican bonds which were reported
stolen have turned up all right. They were
mislaid.
The citizens of Johnstown, Pa, have raised
$4,000 to carry on the work of searching for
the dead.
Chief Justice Fuller says he doesn't countc-
nance the use of his name as candidate for
President.
The President has appointed Oscar +. Will
| liams of Rochester, n. V, United States consul
at Havre, France.
Canada has withdrawn the coaSting privileges
which have been enjoyed by American vessels
on the Western coast.
Students of the Northwestern University at
Evanston in recent gale saved the lives of -
| sailors and one woman.
The Governor of Arizona in his annual re-
port characteriZes the Mormons there As Il dan
| gerous political clement
The Sandwich islands are to be reinforced
with 2000 immigrants from Japan. No doubt
| they will become good citizens.
The population of Berlin has now reached
100, 900. So far this year ABOUT 5000 Ger
mans have emigrated to America
Gen. b. +. Butler has been elected to and
| has accepted the Presidency of the san Miguel
| Gold Placer Company of Colorado.
The late b. I. Babbitt. the soap manufact-
urer, was worth $4,000 900. He began his bu>i-
ness career with scarcely any capital.
1t is announced at the State Department that
the Venezuelan claims commission is now ready
to consider at once all claims presented.
John Rogers, the sculptor, has completed a
full length figure of the Apostle Eliot, which is
described as very beautiful conception.
Seven hundred and fifty journeymcn tailors
have struck in Chicago. because they could not
force the discharge of an obnoxious cutter,
| The engagement of marriage is announced
of Lady Mildred Lyon. daughter of the Earl of
| Strathmore, to Mr.. Jessup, New \ FORK banker.
Two employees of the pension office. whose
pensions We're rerated. have been asked to rc-
| fund the amount given them. to the govern
ment.
Reports from Northwestern Minnesota and
Western Dakota state that nearly one thousand
families are destitute from failure Of crops by
drought.
The newly discovered oil wells near Man
nlngton, West Virginia, have caused great eX-
citcment, and people are tlocking there in large
numbers.
The cholera is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigrs and EuphrateS. During the past
/ three months there have been 1000 deaths from
| the disease
The will of the late b. 7. Babbitt leaves the
entire fortune of testator to his widow and two
| daughters, and directs that the soap business
| be continued.
says that he expects by February to turn out
two million pounds per day from his biz relin-
cry in Philadelphia.
The Cherokee Commission is cndeayorins t.
| induce the Indi ans TO sell their lands. The
| Cherokees are not yet convinced that it will be
good policy to do So
George W. Vanderbilt is having an cNtcH-
>ive park laid out near AshyIle, \. G. 1t will
| include 5000 acres, An elegant residence will
be built on the property.
Nine. Missions voice is said to be is clear.
strong and brilliant AS ever; but She is rich, and
her husband who is also rich, object, to her
appearance on the stage.
Among the prominent arrivals in Chicago
| one Week recently We're $1,000 cattle. The best
| previous record was for the week ending Aug
| =. hen the number WAS
a German protectorate has been proclaimed
over the east coast of Africa. from Vita to
| ksmaya, with the consent oi the native chiefs
The rights of foreigners are preserved.
over $4,000 was discovered in the false
bottom of an old trunk belonging to Lena Vein
berger, who committed suicide by setting fire
to her clothes in Winona, Mich, recently.
Miss Susan b. Anthony and her sister, Mary
Anthony, are suing the American Glucose
company of Buffalo, n. ". 10 recover Sl25 900,
which they claim as dividends due and not
paid.
Merchandise exports from the nited States
during September aggregated S6l,3lf,31l ,
against S5l 945s4 in September, 1SsS, The nl-
September lsSS.
Judge Leeper once owned 100 acres of land
near Pierre, the new capital Of Dakota. The
land would now be worth $50, 900; but the
Judge sold it for $4,000, and is now ShoVeIing
coal for living.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards. LII. d., will make
her initial lecture before our educational iusti-
tutions at Nassar November $, following it
with lectures at Yale, Trinity and other New
England colleges III the same month.
Hon. Isaac G. Lewis, the well-kno~n Uni
versast philanthropst of Meridian, Conn. has
decided his new block i'll that city. just COM
pleted at an expense of $4,000, to the ity
Mission, charitable organization.
Stephen A. Douglas, Jr.. SAYS: II am !. Re
publican because the Republican party is al
ways for something, while the Democracy is
Tor nothing until it sees what the Republicans
are for, and then the Democrats are against it"
Some 2000 veteran soldiers in New IIamp-
shire, representing every county and nearly
every Grand Army post, have signeda petition
asking for the appointment OF Gen. A. 5.
Twtchcll of Gorham as Naval officer ut Boston.
The report that the prince Of Wales has
Brght's disease is confirmed by a dis patch from
London, which says that his physicians have in
formed him that there is no hope for him. His
royal mother is much alarmed by the intelli-
gence.
Miss Lizzie Banks of st. Paul, Minn, who
will 90 abroad as private secretary to Mr..
Hicks, Minister to Peru, is a courageous little
woman who made a hit As a newspaper writer
in the Northwest. Miss Banks is believed to
be the first lady secretary ever taken abroad by
Il United States Minister.
The late King of Portugal was very friendly
to all literary men, and took much pride i'll his
own literary work, especially in his tran>ationS
from Shakespeare. He received the delegates
of the international Literary Congress, when
they went tG Lisbon some years since, and en-
tertained them very handsomely
There are nearly 10, 900 Lorses in use by the
United States Army. OF this number about
ter per cent. are sold annually because of their
rnftness for further cavalry or artillery duty
and about five per cent. are lost by death. So
in order to maintain the standard. it is ncceS-
sary to purchase about 800 animals every
year
Mrs. Todd, the wife of the Amherst astrono-
mer, who has gone to Africa to observe the
eclipse, helped her husband wonderfully in his
preparations. She read every book concerning
the coast to which the expedition is going and
read to him select passages daily. She al>C
worked up formulas and details of geography
, for him.
1t is understood that the squadron under
command of Acting Rear Admiral Walker
consisting of the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and
Yorktown, will sail for Europe early in No.
vember, and after visiting all European capi
tails that can be reached by water will return
\ hOme and next spring will make trip tC
South and Central America.