The Globe-republican., 1890-10-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mall
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

THE Mississippi Constitutional Con
venton decided to make the terms o
Judges of the Supreme Court nine years
JUDGE COOLEY has returned to Wash
ipgton to resume his duties as Chairman
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion.
THE President returned to Washing
| ton on tho 18th from his tour in thu
West
THE Canadian Government has re
moved the export duties on logs
The funeral of the wife of Genera
Booth. of the Salvation Army, tool
place in London on the 14th and was
made great occasion.
The charges against Mr.. O'Mahoney
at Tipperary have been dismissed be-
cause of that gentleman's illness
NEWARK. n. j., went Democratic at
the charter election.
THE Socialists of Amsterdam met re-
Gently and demanded that real ruler
and not an insane King be put in con-
troll of the Government
The Regenerators and Progressists of
Portugal have agreed to maintain an
expectant but benevolent attitude to-
wards the new Ministry. The Cabinet
has announced its determination to pro-
hibit the Republican press from using
scurrilous language regarding the King
or Great Britain.
THE British commander at the Zanzi-
bar station has been ordered to proceed
inn n1i fo11 70 vnvioh thu Su1fon nf
Vitu who, late advices show. was clearly
implicated in and probably directed
the recent massacre of Germans at Vitu.
CONSUL PHILIP CARROLL at Palermo,
Sicily, will probably be transferred to
some place beyond Italy. he having
ceased to be persona grata to the Ital-
ian Government and municipality of
Palermo on the strength of his COM
to the State Department
THE President has had his mind de-
finitely made up. it is stated, not to call
an extra session of Congress.
w. j. ROGERS. Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Second North Caro-
Ill health. No candidate to take his
place will be named as the district is
largely Republican.
In the recent election in Chattanooga,
Tenn, the Democrats secured only two
wards The new Board of Aldermen
will be eleven Republicans and five
Democrats.
LIEUTENANT ALpnEUs r. FRENCH, tho
sole survivor of the Black Hawk war,
lied at Baltimore, Nd, in the eighty
second year of his age. He was born at
N. Y, November rs. 1905
After the Black Hawk war he re-enlist-
ID and was ordered to Florida during
injured in different battles.
The funeral of General Belknap took
place at Washington on the 10th with
honors. The remains were in
erred in the Arlington cemetery.
PAYMAsTER GEORGE A. DEERING, of
he United States navy, was found dead
n his bed at his residence at Washing
on. He had died during the night of
leart disease
TIE Minister OF the United States at
st. Petersburg says in regard to the al
eyed persecution BY the Russian Gov
of the Hebrews that upon a
borough investigation it is source of
pecial qualification to be able to say
he reports are false.
SCoTCH Home Rulers are reported d s.
atisfied with Mr.. Gladstone and the
liberal party and threaten trouble.
THE Prohibtory laws of Kansas and
owa have both been declared null and
old so far as original packages are con-
erned. They must be re-enacted I'M
er the privileges accorded to States by
he Wilson bill
JAMES PEAsE, who acted as General
'remonts guide in 1916, was drowned
asst week near Redwood City, Cal. He
vas ninety-eight years of age and the
ldeSt resident of San Mateo County.
REAR ADMIRAL PORTER was reported
n critical condition at Washington
N the 17th. He was suffering from
'hysical exhaustion due to old age.