Huntsville gazette., 1889-01-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
compiIed from Various Sources.


1.is ranorted that Prince Bismarck will
.o,'oh mon fhe Morier and Gefficken incl
lT so,+s dr,.ino the East African debate in
the Reichstag
some Guelph (Ont.) people are among
the victims Of the Electric Sugar Refining
Company's collapse. Some stock sold
there at $500 share.
THE German East African bill, which is
70 he pushed through the Bundesrath and
Reichstag without delay, provides tor the
appropriation Of about S500,00O.
THE Ponce de Leon and other principal
hotels at st. Augustine, Fla, opened for
tbe season on the 10th. The engagements
are generally in excess of last year.
Ex-Governor PRoCToR's resignation of
the presidency of the Vermont Republican
League was accepted on the 10th, and
Colonel J. J. Estey was elected to the
position.
De LEssEPs and the administrative
council of the Panama Canal Company
have made an agreement with the Bank of
NOsNNN1VSN
shares in two lots.
IT is believed in Berlin that during the
debate on the Colonial bill in the Reichs-
tag, Prince Bismarck will dwell at length
upon the existing relations between Ger
many and England.
COMMODORE WALKER, chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, says there is no
truth in the published report that yellow
fever has broken out on the Galena, at
Kingston, Jamaica. --- --
A NEWSPAPER reporter named Reeves
was committed to prison at Dublin, on the
I4th, for contempt Of court in refusing to
testify from notes he had taken of speeches
delivered by Parnellites.
TWENTY armed moonlighters visited the
tenants of the estate of the Earl of Ven-
mare, on the night of the Sth, and warned
them against departing from strict adher-
ence to the plan of campaign.
SEVEN men left Needles, Cal, recently,
for the new gold fields. While going
through the rapids in the river few miles
below that city, the boat capsized, and
four of the party were drowned.
If the permission of the Porte can be
obtained a junction of the Turkish and
Greek railroads will be made so that the
Indian mails will be embarked at Pir@us
instead of Brindisi, as at present.
THE Legislature of Ohio attacked the
telephone monopoly ,on the 10th, the House
passing the Clark bill, fixing the rental at
So per month and $3.50 per month where
more than one instrument is used.
IT is ann ounced in London that Captain
Petourel, late private secretary to the
Marquis of Normandy, will shortly be
married to Miss Blanche Eckley, daughter
OF the late Arthur Eckley, of Boston.
THE natives at Linde, Zanzibar, fired on
boat on the 10th, supposing that it was
from a German war ship. On learning
that it belonged to an English man-of-
war, an apology was promptly made.
DUEL was fought, on the 14th, between
Henri Rochefort and NJ. Lisargy, editor
of the Paris La Bataille. The weapons
used were swords. Both combatants were
wounded, NJ. Lisargy's wounds being dan
gerous.
Nation met, on the 9th, at Tuskahoma, to
determine what disposition they will make
of the large sum of money the Choctaws
secured from the United States as an in
demnity fund.
Mr. DAILY, proprietor of the Connaught
Telegraph, published at Castlebar, County
Mayo, Ireland, was served with three
summonses under the Crimes act, on the
18th, for publishing articles melting in
fractions of the law.
The Paris Figaro asserts that Count De
Lesseps and the administrative council of
the Panama Canal Company have signed
an agreement with the Banque Parisienne
for the issue by the latter of sixty million
shares Of new stock.
In the House, ON the 14th Mr.. Voorhees,
presented petitions of 1,200 citizens of
Washington Territory, asking that legis-
latlon be enacted so women can vote for
members of constitutional conventions in
the several Territories.
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THE Secretary of State and Miss Bayard.
On the 18th, entertained the President and
Mrs. Cleveland and the other Ministers of
Wy CUDiutb duu tutlT WIVES, Will thO
Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle and Senator
and Mrs. Gray, at dinner.
IT was reportedfrom Berlin, on the 18th,
mat Prof. Geffikcen was suffering from
choAerine, which, it was feared, might de
.ei0p into cholera. He persistently re-
fuses to be interviewed, but still receives
NUerS kilograms, flowers, etc.
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Mr. ROBERT GENT-DAvIS, Member OF
IT British Parliament, who was commit
@ .ea 10 prison for contempt Of court in
.allins to pay over the sum Of casts, due
:! MN as administrator of his uncle's
estate, was released on the 11th.
DOTH the Pope and Premier Crispi have
uechned to grant to Cardinal La Vigerie
ule privilege of an interview on the ques-
~, soA OF crusade against the slave trade.
-ne rope, in refusing to receive the Cardi-
.: 4a+ expressed his opinion that the ques-
uoh was inopportune.
1HE opening of the Landtag, at Berlin,
VI the 18th, was observed with great cere-
riony, many notables being present. The
Imperor was enthusiastically cheered
"Ien he entered and when he left the
lali' Cheering was frequent throughout
LIS speech, and loud applause followed its