The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-12-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN,


Of home rule for Ireland was dead. general
reunion Of the Liberal party, he said, was
hardly possible, hut he hoped 10 see, from re-
cent events, a great National party arise
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid. American Minister 70
France, and Mrs. Reid have arrived at Con-
stantinople, where they were well received.
Mrs. Reid was given the decoration Of the Or
der Shefeat by the Sultan.--Gen. Guirola
San SavadOr's Minister 10 the United States,
will submit 10 Secretary Blaine a proposal that
his country and the United States advance
like sums 10 establish a steamship line between
the two Republics At Homu. in Uliuut,
while a cage loaded with 10 workmen was de-
sceuding into a mine, tho rope snapped, drop
ped the cage to the bottom Of the cOlliury. All
were killed.-The Premier OF the Cape Col
ony has started for London, where he will
confer with Lord Salisbury ia regard 20 the
Portuguese com 9lication.-A house ln the
native quarter Of Bombay, containing 100 in
mates, collapsed. Thirty persons were killed
aud many iujure 1t is semi officially de-
MED that Lord Salisbury has taken any steps
for or against the British South AiTirau Co i'm
regard 10 their occupation Of Maucaland. -
dispatch from Buenus Ayres said that great
excitement prevailed in that city owing TO a
proposal 10 place a tax Of two per cent. on de-
posits in private bauks.-BarOn Wissman has
teiegraphed TO Berlin that he has recalled
Enlln lasha from the interior OF Africa on ac-
cout Of his disregard Of orders An address
Of % women of Kilkenny declares that Mr..
Panell, after years Of systematic deceit, has ~
last been unmasked, and that his very pres
cuce polutCs the sol.-One man was de-
capitatcd, four strangled, and four exiled, in
little village near Shanghai. China, for having
inhumamly burned up number of wounded
Government salt inspectors, with their boat.
POLITICAL
Myron Van Aukcn. defeated candidate for
District Attorney in Oneida Comfy. y. Y,
has brought suit for $4,000 for libel against
the Utica OJSTDer--A protest against the
Congcr lard bill was adopted by the New
York Produce Exchange and sent 20 the
President Of the Senate at Washington. The
exchange also recommends the passage oil the
Paddock pure food hill.-The Georgia Farm
crs' Alliance men are very much cut up over
the mysterious absence Of General aud senator
elect Gordon at three meetings, for which ax-
tcnsiye preparations had been made 10 initiate
him. Ii is said the General will not join the
Alliance.-The Democrats and Alliance men
Of South Dakota, il is said. have agreed on a
scheme 20 defeat Senator Moody Rep aud
elect either Judge Trip DEM or Harden tAl-
lance Although GOy.-elect Pattis0n has
not yet officially announced the names Of the
gentlemen who wall compose his Cabinet Il IS
stated positively that he has decided upon the
following: Secretary Of State, William 4. Har-
rity; Attorneys General, William II. Herisel;
Adjutant. General. William I, McClclland.--
Tate Shatier and Bowling, delegates accused
Of accepting brides at the Republican COnyen-
tiun which nominated Mcdowell, of Mercer
County, for Congress, were committed TO jail
FOR refusal 10 testify at the trial OF Attorney
William ID. Wallace, who is under indictment
for bribery.
GENERAL.
The President has issued an invitation for
the first meeting Of the American Monetary
/ Union at Washington. on the first Wednesday
I in January. Red Cloud has written
/ letter 10 DR.. Bland Of Washington, d,ciaiming
amy desire on the part Of his people 10 20
the war path.-E. J. Pennington. of Nj. Car
mel, H.. says that hs new air ship, which will
/ reach a speed of 200 miles an hour aud ~ nayi-
gable, Will make trial trip some tine during
4 January.--A compromise has been elected
whereby the rate on packing house products,
u from Missouri River points 10 Chicago Is adj
vauced from IL 10 - cents and lIyc-hOg rates
are reduced from % 10 - cent7.--Dr +. J..
Shufley, OF Detroit, who claims 10 be the dis
coverer Of new cure for consumption, eX-
plains that the basis Of his treatment consists
/ in permitting the patient to breathe only
greatly rareGcd air.--Rev. J. +. Carson. the
/ pastor Of a Reformed Presbyterian Church in
4 Brooklyn, who resigned because the Plttsburg
! Presbytcry declared il hcresy 10 vote, lis With
/ drawn his resignation. vote Of his congre-
/ cation showed iarge majority iu favor 0i bs
/
are undergoing the Koch treatment i'm various
/ New York hospitals. One of the most favor
/ able symptoms noted ia case Of those suffering
/ from pLth.is is that the cough becomes much
/ less troublesome after inpculation.--M Miss
/ Kate DTcxcl, now known a. Sister Catherine,
4 will turn over her entire fortune. estimated 40
] between sT.OOO0O0 aud s. 100000 in February
/ 10 the new Order which She intends founding,
aud which VIII be known as " The Sisters Of
! the Holy Sacrament" aud have headquarters
1 near Washington, ID. g. for two years, and
thereafter at Audalusia, near Philadelphia.
cEmEs AND CASUALTIES.
Ex.MayOr William S. Peudleton, OF Fort
! Worth, Tex who paid round sum 70 two New
/ York lawyers for divorce, which was after
ward found 10 be forged and fraudulent. has
been collecting evidence against the propre-
tors Of the divorce mill" and has succeeded
in getting their promise to return his money.
1 While Inspector Fem and Others were
capturing l3 Cinnamon near Dungenes, Wash,
who were attempting 90 smuggle themselves
into this country, one Of the Cinnamon was
/ killed. Reports Of skiTmishes between the
troops aud the Indians in the Bad Lands con-
tinue. IL q Dated that numerous dcpreGaiiOns
have been committed, aud that Sitting Bulls
men have driven number Of settlers from
/ their clams--A cOl0rcd domestic put Rough
on Rats in the coffee of the Bond family, living
near Carksburg. W. Va, and seven persons arc
1 dangerously pOiSOned.-Mr. and Mrs. Henry
McGowan. of Barre VI, were buried together,
the husband having died Of heart disease while
standing by his Wifc's coiiin.-The steam
ships ThaucmOre and Oraumorc. OF the John
stOn Line are both overdue, aud ia the case OF
the former nearly all hope has been abandoned.
The Thanemore sailed from Baltimore Nov.
&c for London, and is supposed 10 have been
lost in a hurricane Dec. An escaped nun
from the House Of the Good Shepherd, OF
Detroit, Mich, charges the mother superior
with cruelty Oae girl, she claims died
while being whipped with machine strap
Henry Christensen. OF Chicago, 81 years old,
killed his wife by choking her TO death. lie
then cut his own throat from which he cannot
rec0yer---Big snow-drits caused a wreck ON
the Valley Branch Of the Baltimore Il Ohio
Railway near Harrisonburg, Va, by which six
employees were badly scalded.-PicrTe Paul
I.alaze, Anlcy, aud Pasc2lc, four bad" In
dams, who had committed many murders wan,
: tonly, were hanged az Miss0ula Mont.--ln q
drunken aflray al BIamwel, w. Va, man
, named Budick fatally shot five Of his compan
A ions lie was himself killed, and mob took
4 his body and Tddlcd ii with builets.--TwC
| men were killed and two badly wounded by
. the cook OF the steamer Big Sandy, from Mem
phs for Cincinnati with whom they were in
> tcrlerug.--f Frederick BOehn, 4 Socialist
committed suicide in New York, aud left let
tcraddrcsscd 90 tue public, in which he claimed
that the sufCrings caused by the present in
dustrial system were too much for him.
Franklin Chapman, a young man living in New
York, claims be was bound, gagged aud rObbe'
by man who occupied the same statcrOOm will
/ him On "A HudEDn River steamer