The state herald., 1890-04-04
BY TELEGRAPH.
Queen Victoria is making a visit to

Queen Victoria is making a visit to
the continent.
The National Teachers Association
will meet in st. Paul next July.
A bill prohibiting pool-room gam
bling has passed tho Maryland legislature.
A monument to the memory OF La
fayette is to be erected in Washington this
spring.
Tho Reading road has discharged a
number Of engineers and firemen who werc
not teetotalers.
1t is proposed to have great naval
display by all nations at the time Of the
Worlds Fair in 1892.
A New York clergyman has OBJ
tanned verdict of $4,000 against ono Of
his leading members for libel.
The Mississippi flood continues to
grow higher, and signal service ofticials
declare that 1t will be much worse.
Governor Hill has appointed Major
General Daniel T.. Scslcs sheriff Of New
York county, vice Flack resigned.
The bodies OF three unknown per-
sons have been found In Fremont County.
Wyoming. They had been murdered.
Tho railroad presidents are making
desperate effort to organize in such u way
as to be able to prevent cutting Of rates.
An English stenographer has brok-
en- tho record of speed by transcribing
6,600 words in two and three fourths hours.
Walter Damrosh, the New York
musician who formerly lived In Denver, Is
to marry Secretary Blainc's oldest dangh-
ter.
Michael Davitt'' has compiled the
terms for settlement of the Liverpool dock
strike. Both sides agree to resume work
Immediately.
The citizens OF Cheyenne last Thurs
day night held an impromptu celebration
of the passage Of the Wyoming admission
bill by the House.
An organization of men has been
discovered in Indiana which regularly sells
tho votes of its members to the highest
bidder at election time.
Four men were killed and eight
wounded by the explosion of a cartridge at
the Coalbury mines in Alabama on the
thirty first. They were all convicts.
There are 1900 men and 600 women
employed as street swccpcrs in Paris, be-
sides $500 workmen engaged in draining,
| paving planting and similar service.
An cnterprising New York reporter
secreted himself In q Jury room to take
notes, and was sentenced to thirty days In
| Jail and TO pay $3.50 fine for his enterprise.
In Washington, the first OF u series
| of American concerts has Just been given,
in which none but American composition
were rendered and by American mus
icians.
A terrific cyclone swept down the
Mississippi Valley last Thursday, and
caused much loss OF life and damage to
| h5ss suh'ANN w.
severely
The members OF the Episcopal
church at Pittsburg have paid their rector
5000 TO resign, ,as according TO the rules OF
the church they could not get rid OF him in
any other way.
In Des Moines the Republican join,
caucus has decided against the repeal Of the
prohibitory liquor law, and in favor Of re
submitting the amendment which was de
clared unconstitutional before.
The American delegates TO the Pan
American conference gave an elaborat,
banguc, to the foreign delegates the Other
night at the Arlington Hotel. Cabinet
judiciary and congressman were also pres.
ent
| A cablegram has been received by I
Spanish importing house from San DO
mingo, stating that revolution has broker
out and battle fought at ST. Thomas
The trouble has spread over the entir,
island.
Advices by steamer City OF Pekir
are to the effect that on Feb. a,th abou
100 bodies were destroyed by fire IL
Toxic, Japan, and number OF people In,
iured. Another fire March 9Th dcstroye,
800 buildings
The contract has been made between
Guatemala and French syndicate for tn,
construction Of railraad from the capita
TO the Atlantic, TO connect with the Cen
trai railway, running between the capita
and the Pacific, thus completing the inter
oceanic route across the republic.
The Standard Oil Company has pur
chased the property of the Lima Oil Com
pany, Its strong competitor in the Obi
field. The consideration Is said to hay
been 100000. The Lima company owne,
big blocks OF territory In the Ohio ficl
aud rciinerics at Lima and In New York
NJ. Simon, tho French delegate Il
the labor conference, says he considers tn
Emperor William sincerely solicitous 70
! tho welfare OF the working classes. Il
onuu wvuiu Dr great stride for Gcrmnn,
but would not advance French lcyIslntIo
much.
A Petersburg dispatch says II mn,
committed suicide, leaving u no,o sayin
that he destroyed himself rather than kIl
tho ear, hc having bccn selected by bnl
10, for that duty. The letter rnye m,
names OF his aecompliccs, several OF WHOM
were arrested.
| At New York Sheriff flack wns son
fenced to two months In the county jaI
and fined $500. Joseph Mccks was sen
fenced to u fine oil. $500 and one month i'm.
prisonmcnt In tho county jail, and William
l.. Flack, 400 and imprisonment I'm IN,
pcni,cntIary flour months. Judge Van
brunt granted u stay OF proceedings In m,
case OF tho Flacks md Mccks pending an
appeal.
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