The National tribune., 1889-12-26
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
GENERAL.

NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
GENERAL.
Both branches of the North Dakota Legisla-
ture passed Prohibition bill.---Timothy F.
Lee, Special Immigration Inspector of the
Treasury Department., detailed to investigate
outrages upon French and German laborers
at the Horseshoe Phosphate Mines in Colleton
County, s. c., reported to Secretary Window
that the men arc virtually held slaves. beaten,
guarded with rifles, and that il is rumored
that two laborcrs were Substituted States
Senators Higgins and Gray, of Delaware, APP
peared before the Superior Court Mt Whining
ton Dol, as opposing counsel in the suit brought
by John Wesley Hawkins tRep} against Demo
cratic Tax Collector John j. Dougherty to com.
pei the latter to receive poll taxes from all per-
sons showing power of attorney. The case
was postponed until after the holidays.-The
Pau American delegates were shown the work
ngs of the 6re-alnrm system at Fire Head
quarters in New York on Friday. They Wis
tied Cornelius Vanderbilts house. and were
entertained at Demouicos in the evening"
The House of Representatives of South Caro-
lima voted down the Governors bill requiring
separate railroad cars for whites and blacks.
Tho Croniu Jurors are preparing n state
mcnt for the public of all that happened i'll the
jnry-room. Juror Bontecou said he is thor
oughly disguised with the Illinois jury system.
john Mccarthy the undertaken OF SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, who went to the Samoan Islands
to recover the body of Chief Engineer Hall,
of the United States Steamship Nipsic, is pre-
pairing an affidavit containing charges against
the officers of the Pacific Squadron, which
will be sent to the Secretary of the Navy
In the Maxwell land grant litigation Judge
Brewer, in Kansas City, Mo, sustained de-
murrer, and thus decided the main issue IN the
suits involving 10000 900 acres of land in Colo
rado.-By new settlement OF the boundary
limo between New Jersey and New York, in
New York Bay the former State gets Bedloe's
Island and Bartholdi's statue of Liberty En-
tightening the World" and other valuable land
and shore liues.-Democratic members Of the
Lower House of the Montana Legislature are
getting tired of the struggle, and several have
announced their intention TO soon join the
Republican Legislature. The situation is very
bright FOR ultimate Republican success, aud the
Democrats are much discouraged. ---M arkus
Jordan. tho oldest man in Germany, completed
his 10th year on Oct. q. Tho Emperor pre-
scented him with gold medal bearing por-
trait of the late Emperor William, who was
baby when Jordan WAS IL years OF agc.---Sol-
diers and personal friends Of Andrew Jackson
have issued an address from Nashville, Temp,
asking the soldiers aud citizens of the Republic
to celebrate generally the ami vorsary OF tue
battle of New Orleans The Andover heresy
f4ASt WIS again bCiOIt tA WV hpbih'bh VII
Thursday last as referee. in Boston. Decision
was reserved. ---At a meetingof the National
Reform Association IN pittsbnrg resolutions
were passed protesting against Roman Catholic
interference with the public schools Sixty
leading Democrats Of Columbus. o., expressed
themselves rs being bitterly opposed 10 the can
didacy OF Calvin :. Brico for United States
Senator.--Gov. Wilson issued call for a
special session Of the West Virginia Legislature
TO convene on jan. Is TO settle tho contest for
the Goveruorsbip. The Contest Committee re-
ported in favor of Judge Fleming, the Demo-
cratic candidate, OH technical grounds.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Francis Xavier Picavcz who is known TO
have committed at least three murders aud Of
burglaries In France, was taken 10 Ludlow
Street Jail New York, TO await extradition.
He was captured working in mine near Phil
iipaburg, pa---Brunu Ebelug was arrested in
Chicago on suspicion of being the assassin who
almost hacked Big Max Mantwll 10 pieces
on Thursday night.---New York was dark
eued by a phenomcnaily heavy fog on Friday.
which made progress about the city uncertain,
and many ferryboa stopped running.
Goronsr's Jury Mt 81 Paul has found that the
body found In casS near Lake Johanna. Ia
bellcd ~ Traitor" was that of n railroad EN-.
ploye who was accidentally killed. Several
prominent people are Implicated in ian Oiiense
against the buTiai law as NeiE AS against human
dcccncy. Jake kilrlin, who WIS sentenced
20 two months imprisonment, and fine OF 500
for prizcBghtng, called on the Governor of
Mississippi, at Jackson. 10 pray for pardon.
---- Forty Americans who think they are heirs
TO an English estate Of As 100000, as descend
ants of Sir George Bond, organized in sehe.
ncctady, y. T., TO push their claims, ---Demp.
soy Earco, desperate, rode amack through
Coilinsyiilc, H.. killing ono man aud wound
(, -, 81 Z gssE kf fha
fath-curo leaders OF Brooklyn, who was con
vic,od Of refusing 10 administer medicine pre-.
scribed TO his sick children, was committed TO
tho pcnitcniiary. --M Miss BERTHE Boyce daugh-
ter oil William A. Boycc. was found dead in her
parents home ia White Plains, ~ Y. Her face
was bruised and cut. Foul play is suspected.
The work of cutting down dangerous cleo.
trc.ight wires in New York still continues.
and at present there u no immediate prospect
OF tho city emerging from the gloom that pre-.
walls at night Ia consequence Of the raid on the
wires. john Cameron, of PlainGold, y. j., n
railroad contractor, was arrested at Hudson. N.
Y, charged by the kindcThook and Hudson
Railroad CO. with grand larceny. Through
proceedings in Chancery In Delaware, the es-
tato Of Joseph u. Conrow, former PhiIadel-
phia merchant was placed in the hands of
receiver. charges of Encouragement being
madc.---George II. Gnenihor, who was killed
in ST. Louis by his young son. had Il chamber
of horrors in his house, where he chained his
children b. posts aud tortured them. States
Attorney Longenecker told Juror Culver, who
saved Coughlin. OSulliyan aud Burke from be-
ing hanged in Chicago that he was either dis
honest or n foo. john &. Emo, the fugitive
bank President through an assignee, is suing
Seymour, Baker & Co, OF New York. for about
$3.50 900, out Of which he alleges he was de-
frauded by fraudulent stock transactions
Maud Curran. of Kansas City, Mo-. known AS
an interchangeable worker for charities was ar.
rested for shoplifting. and 81 900 worth of
stolen goods were found in her bouse.---The
murdered body of handsome aud fashionably-
dressed young woman was found near Lamar,
Mo, but could not be identified number
of cases Of Russian influenza are reported in
Boston aud New York.--James Stone, the
colored jockey who killed "A bartender at Coney
Island ia June, 1888, was sentenced to be hang
cd in Brooklyn on Feb. 7, his crime having
been committed before the passage of the death
by electricity law in New York State
Reube Smith, "A cousin of Rube Burrows, was
held in Waynesbol o. Miss, for robbing the Mo.
bile and Ohio Express.