, 1890-10-15
SPARKS FRon rHE WIRES.

SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Limerick lock laborers have won
their strike. \
Justin S, Morrill, viii be formally elected
United States senator from Vermont to-
day.
The Consolidated Ice Machine Company
failed at Chicago yesterday. Liabilities
reported heavy.
National Carriage Builders association
in Chicago. Trade reported increasing
but skilled wcrkmeI are scarce.
The United States supreme court ad-
iourned yesterday out of respect to the
memory of the late Justice Miller.
The reported advance of-British gun.
boats into the Zambesi river Is confirmed.
The Portuguese protested unavailingly.
Roman, the crown prosecutor. yesterday
dismissed the case against O'Mahoney at
Tipperary, the defendant being too i'll to
appear.
The prospect OF political complications
between England and Portugal caused a
decline in London yesterday in all sorts of
securities.
Large meetings of tho socialists we're
held yesterday in France. Switzerland and
Holland. They talked only of peaceful
methods.
A. M. McRae. secretary and treasurer
o f the Security Loan and Savings com
panY, has disappeared. So has $25, 900
Of the company's funds.
The chancellor, in a speech at Sydney,
N, s. W., said the present strike was as
disastrous TO Australia as a bombardment
of the country would have been.
The twenty-seventh annual session of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers opens at Pittsburg today. Pow
DERBY is expected to be heard from.
The Presbyterian committee OF revision
adjourned Yesterday. Many questions
we're referred to committees to report at
an adjourned meeting in Washington.
The Paris Temps says that the Euro
pean governments have been comforting
on the subject of the Mckinley bill, but
no precise proposals have yet been formu-
lated.
Population of Kansas, l,423.4S5, an in
crease of 427, 3S9. Police census OF New
York city shows ,Tl0,7l5 population, an
increase of 1877 PA over the government
census.
Gen. Miles has been added to the COM
mission to treat with the portion Of Chey-
enne Indians at Tongue River and Pine
Ridge for a modification of existing
treaties.
The chateau of Count de Lagrange
near Confront, France, was sacked and
burned. Many valuable works of art
were destroyed. The police are looking
for the culprits.
The Irish Times says William A. Ora
ham aud Timothy Harrington. who were
appointed members of the committee to
visit the United States to solicit aid for
the Irish cause, have refused to accept
the appointments.
The war department will be draped in
mourning thirty days because of the
death Of ex-Secretary Belknlp. Seven
teen gun will be fred at every military
post in the country on receipt of the OF
fetal announcement
The New York World will announce
today that y~ielding to the advice of his
physicians Mr.. Pulitzer will withdraw en-
tirely from the editorship. and the con-
troll of the World has been vested in an
executive board of its principal editors.
The funeral services over the remains
of Justice Miller will be held in the SUI
preme court chambers this afternoon. The
body will then be taken in a special car to
Keokuk, Ia for burial Saturday. Ex-
Secretary Belknap's funeral will take
place tomorrow.
Gen. Reuben Davis, aged So, of Aber-
deem, Miss, died to day. He was first
cousin of Jefferson Davis. He was a
prominent figure in the Mexican war and
ranked as the most celebrated criminal
lawyer in the south. He served in the
thirty filth and thirty-sixth congress.
At Tipierary Timothy Healy argued
that the evidence given against O'Ma-
honey equally affected all the defendants;
that the charge against him having been
dismissed the charge against all the de-
PENDANTS should also be dismissed. The
court took a note of Healy's objection, but
allowed the crown to proceed with the
prosecution.
President Cleveland t~elegraphed the
widow of Justice Miller as follows yester-
day: Accept my sincere sympathy and
coincidence in this sorrowful hour. May
you receive consolation and pity from the
gods 10 unfailing store, and may you find
a ray of comfort in the remembrance of
your husbands noble devotion to duty
and his priceless services to his country"