The Springdale news., 1889-02-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


 IT is reported from Berlin that United States Minister George H. Pendleton Is fast recovering his health.
 TIE Chief Secretary for Ireland. Mir Baifour, has written to MT Armitage. at Manchester, England a long letter eX- Planatory of the treatment of Mir OiBrien by the authorities Of Clonmel jail. The Chief Secretary eharaeterizes all of the statements representing Mr. O'Brieu's treatment as brutal, or even unnecessarily harsh, as downright misrepresentation.
 OY the 9th Father McFadden's removal from Gweedore to Londonderry was ac- eompllsLed by the aid of large police escort. Two hundred yards iR advance of the party engineers and skirmishers watched the route to prevent the rolling of boulders from the hills on the escort. Father McFadden will be charged with enmPleity in the murder of Inspector Martin
 4 THIRD summons for offenses against the Crimes act has been served ou Mir. William 0'Brien, of Dublin, and he was removed to Fralee jail on the l1th.
 THOMAS NJ. NIcHoI, of New York City, Hho was conspicuous several years ago IS an advocate of a coin currency and as q debater ou political and financial sub iects, died in a hospital, on the t0tn of spinal disease. He was forty-four years old aud had been q helpless invalid for some years.
 ON the 10th, Ross, the wrestler, ac- eepted Daly's challenge for a return wrestling match, mixed styles, S2e0 side.
 FHE Senate passed the Fertilization Ap- propriation bill on the 9th.
 THE London Chronicles Berlin cerre- spoHdent says that Mir. Pendleten, the American Minister to Germany, will pre- side at the coming Samoan conference.
 THE College of Physicians and Sur eeons has decided to erase the name of Doctor Sir MorreIl Mackenzie from its rolls, and that its action will shortly he publicly announced.
 TnE United States Minister 10 St. Peters, burg, Judge Lambert Tree, took his de- partue from Berlin, on the 11th, for Brus- sels.
 TIE bill to enlarge tho powers and duties of the Bureau of Agriculture and to create an exclusive department to be known as the Department of Agriculture, was approved by the President on the llth.
 MEMBER of Mir. Harrison's family de- clares in the most positive manner that the idea of ucquiringa suburban residence has never occurred to him. and that it is not in the least likely that he will have any disposition to acquire property near Washington.
 0N the lth if was determined by the Senate, in secret session, to make public the vote by which the British Extradition treaty was rejected.
 FEINcE ALEXANDER of Battenburg has been officially notified by Emperor Will ian that tue latter does not desire his presence in Berlin, either for the purpose of settling the affairs of his father, the late Prince Alexander of Hesse, or upon any other pretext.
 ON the llth the Senate, in secret session, confirmed number of nominations in the military and revenue marine service in the nature of promotions, among the m Caloual John C. Breckenridge to be h. spector-General of the United States aray.
 COLONEL HENRY J. HUNT (retired), gov ernor of the Soldiers Home in the District of Columbia, died from complication of diseases on the llth. He was sixty eight year old, and was appointed to the Home about four years ago.
 TIE Paris Presse prints a denial from General BoulaHger that he had said he fa- vorea the establishment in Ff1a of constitution similar to that lited States.