The National tribune., 1889-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
POLITICAL.

lished over MISUNDERSTANDING Window has
made public the long expected lead-ore de-
cison. in which he sustains the present
classification that admits argentiferous lead
ores imported from Mexico free of duty
The Solicitor General of the Treasury decides
that an immigrant woman detained In New
York cannot BIO sent back to Scotland as a
pauper, because one of her children is an Ameri-
can citizen, having been born in New Jersey.
solicitor General Chapman has given de-
csion that railway postal clerks appointed be-
fore that service was put under civil-service
regulations can take the oath after that time
without examination.-The President APP
pointed Oliver G. Bosbyshell to be Superin-
tendcnt of the Mint Mt Philadelphia.
John Is. Henderson, one of the an-American
delegates, severely condemned tho emi-polit-
cal speech made by Gov. Hill, of New York, at
Albany.-The death of Gen. Hartranft leaves
a vacancy in the Cherokee Comm ission.--
George Hazeton has been appointed Attorney
for the District Of Columbia vice A. g. Riddle
resigned.--The Government expedition
which will view the eclipse of the sun in Africa
on the 22d of December sailed from New
York on the old sloop of war Pensacola
The interview of Senators Quay and Cameron
with the President Is not believed to have eff
focted any change in the matter of the Naval
Officer and Surveyor for Philadelphia. Walters
is still believed TO be the coming Naval officer,
in which case Powers will be- Surveyor and Le-
land Will be left 0ut-The South Dakota
Legislature canVasSed the vote for United
Senators and declared Moody and Pettigrew
elccted.-Tho Executive Committee of the
American Bankers Association has formulated
an address opposing the increase of silver coin
age aud the corresponding decrease in green
backs.--The first squadron of the new Navy,
under Rear Admiral Walker, will sail about
Nov. for Europe. and then go around the
world.---Geu. Miles, commanding the Depart
mont of the Pacific, has asked the Pacific Coast
Congressional delegation for m appropriation
OF $i0,o00000 for Pacific Coast defcnse.--
Gen. Grubb in his speech at Elizabeth. N j.,
referred TO the plan of the Republicans tn Sc
cure a Judiciary reform by amending the pres
ent laws that have been found TO be so cumbcr-
some in their workings He was enthusiastic
caily received at Belvidero and in several other
towns OF Warren County, through which he Is
making tour. tx Gov Albeit and Gov.
Green spoke at Phillipsburg. N. j., and took
the defensive, owing TO the strong attack made
by the Republicans in Warren County. a
statement prepared at the Postotlice Depart
ment shows that during the quarter ended
Sept. 30 last the gross receipts of tie Phlade-
pha Postoilice increased l0.i per cent. COM
pared with the corresponding period of last
year. The increase in New York was s5 per
cent.--Tho Union Veteran Legion of New
York has issued a circular condemning the
present pension system as unjust aud illiberal
and demanding q more liberal Interpretation.
---Gov. Hill. Of New York. addressed 10000
Democrats ut the Atlanta Exposition Grounds.
--Chairtnan Bowden, of the Republican Cam
paign Committee Of Virginia speaks very en-
couiaginRiy of the prospects for Gen. Mahonos
election TO the Goyernorship of that State.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES
Two bands of brigauds arc numbering and
pilaRing ia Texas and across the Mexican
boundary W. Hardy of Spring Hollow.
Mo. found :. II. Lamson out riding with Miss
Hardy aud ordered her TO disniount, where
upon desperate encounter with knives enslIed
between the men. Both wero dangerously
wounded. .--- Anarchist Sheyitch called
Mayor Cregier. OF Chicago aud talk ed about
the alleged kissing of the American flag at sun
days meeting. --Mss Ida May Wilcox who
reported 30 have clipped from Genoa, Italy,
with Henry l. Myths. WIS married TO him in
Minneapolis. MINI. John +. Lyons, of
kbbeviIle County T. c. died In Jail. where no
was awaiting trial for the murder of ID. L.
Mahrey, young lawyer. the husband of Lyons's
stepdaugh ter.---Smali- pox is raging among
the 1000 population of the Peiee Island, fish
iug resort in Lake Erie. and all avenues Of es-
cape from tile place nave heeu closed by Amcri-
can aud Canadian authorities. Mrs Oiio
Williams cut her throat in Evansville Ind,
having been deserted by IMAM named Philips.
stole her sou from bis fathers custody in Coun-
Ell Grove. ----The Secretary of the Navy order
cd that when tho United States man war
GRlcna and the briggs Romance aud Alice ar
rived with tho colorod rioters from NayasAa
they DO taken at once % Baltimore for trial
Gov Foraker. of Ohio. is reported 10 have been
very low with bowel complaint, which was
aggravated by nervous pfostration resulting
from oyerwork.---I.ee Webb, in order to es-
cape from Kansas City, where he WAS charged
with fraudulent transactions, disguised him
self tramp. His bride of two months ac-
eompanied him dressed as a ragged beg
gar. --- Scion Davies accidentally stepped
back ward against an enormous fly wheel
mt Scranton. Pa. aud was whirled To death. -
Jerome Race, John Lewis and Thomas Cooney
were struck by freight aud instantly killed
while walking on a railway track at Hudson.
". Y.---lt is charged that Mrs Chisholm who
lately married Hr. Foster. the Canadian Min
ister Of Finance, obtained the divorce from her
first husband in Chicago, by fraudulent means
resembling the methods of Sheriff Flack, in
New York.--it il now known that the rea-
son Maj. q. 4. McGregor assassinated james NJ.
Cody. in the public square ut WarFenton. Ga
WAS because Cody, two years previously had
shot McGregur at night from behind tree.
Walter Abercr0mhe Is under arrest ut
birmingham, Ala. on the charge of robbing
the express agent at Milsport of $1,000
Blanche Nelson, Il handsome girl, WIS fined -
ia Chicago for "dis0rderly conduct" in kissing
an elderly gentleman on 70 street corner. Sew.
cral young men submitted willingly Ia the
salntation. but the elderly individual had the
girl locked George Walton, lad was ar.
rested ia Kansas City. charged with abducting
girl with whom hc is IN love---The British
steamer kepler, which left New York on Sun
day morning for Baltimore, has not vet arriv-
cd. Her agents fear she bias gone down with
23 souls Oh board. DIR. Richard II MELON.
aid brought suit In San Francisco against Sena.
tor Leland Stanford for 81, 100000, which he
claims Stanford owes him for % certificates Of
the original issue of the Central Pacific stock
States Attorney Longenecker said that the
object OF having the seven men implicated in
the Cronn jury bribery in Chicago reindlcted
was TO have thor bail fixed at higher figure.
"A dog locked in the Mayors room at Bur-
lington, NJ for safe keeping chewed up IL copy of
the city charter, ordinances aud several police
mems hemets.--Willam Steele and his wife,
who live in Dallas Township. Luzerne CO., Pa,
the parents of Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton. do.
MED that she is an adopted child, as she de-
clarcd she was in an ntervew.--Many pas
sengers were injured, one fatally, by the col
lision of two passenger trains on the Burlington
~ Missouri Railroad near Omaha Neb-
Henry N. Stotenberg, Alexander Sullvan's
confidential secretary, who was arrested in
Chicago in connection with the CrOnin jury
bribery, was released Internationally.
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