Fair play., 1890-04-12

! Owing 70 the attitude Of the Bavarian
Government on the Old Catholic ques-
| ZION the Vatican has become bitterly
| hostile toward that kingdom.
\ GANG of for-ers who had been cir
| culating spurious Spanish and Italian
| bonds were run down and arrested at
| Trieste, Austria, on the 5th. The face
value OF the bogus paper they had put
| into circulation is upwards OF 5000, $50
| francs.
DIPLOMATIC relations between Scryia
and Bulgaria have been entirely broken
of
THE Cameron mine. at Shamokin, Ia,
with its twenty-five miles of galleries,
was flooded, on the 18th, the fire having
got beyond control. Damage TO the
amount of 500, 900 and the loss of a
years time will result.
THE President signed the Urgency
Deficiency bill on the ith.
The Savannah Construction Company
to build the railroad from savannah to
Columbia, 5. C.. was organized in the
latter city on the 4th.
WoEK at the Henry Clay colliorv, at
Shamokin, Pa, which had been idl"
three months was resumed on the eth,
giving employment 70 fifteen hundred
men.
The fifth annual business meeting of
the American Association for the Nj
yanccmcnt OF Physical Education was
held at Cambridge, Mass, on the ith.
DR.. ID. \. Sargent, of Cambridge, was
elected president. and Il number OF in
teresting addresses were delivered.
7. V PnwpEEI.Y addressed a large au-
dience at Dover. y. H.. on the Labor
question on the itlr. He was enthusias-
ticalIv received.
The annual meeting of the American
Society of Microscopi>tS. to he held in
August. will take place in Buffalo, y.
V, instead of Louisville.
SECRETARY BLAINE. since the death
of Walker Blaine. who was tn" medium
of communication between the public
and the Secretary, has lost. in the cSti
nation of many of his warmcSt friends,
much reputation bT his sccretivencSs
about affairs of which the public have a
right to be informed.
THr dam of the upper reservoir of the
Ithica n. " Water Works Company,
holding 2n.00O. 900 gallons of water,
burst, during the night of the 5th, and
when the water plunged through the
cliff-bound chaSm below the dam il was
a terrific torrent eighty-tive feet deep.
No loss of life resulted.
Ln
business is now arranged in the Pension
Office. he will be able, by the last of
MAY, 10 cause the examination of every
claim pending in the Office on the first
day of January last: have every claim
allowed that is completed and calls for
evidence made in those not completed.
The Hotel West at Greenville June
ton. Me, was burned early on the morn
ing of the 9TH Mrs Chandler Woods was
slightly injured by jumping. and one
mans leg was badly hurt. y number
of woodsmcn stopping at the hotel lost
their winters wages. y number of
horses, cows and hogs which were in
the stable were killed.
THE tug-of-war tournament of the
HiIti -it!it''tI' ii4'i !it
championship Of the United States held
in New York City, on the :,th, resulted
in victory for the Acorn Athletic Club.
The lalcs had to withdraw, as the
Prinretons. not considering them ANA
teurs, refused to rlay with them.
TIE investigation into the alleged
frauds in connection with the recent
,In in, al hn
5th, in the issuance OF warrants for the
arrest of the members of the election
board for the First Assembly district of
that city. The investigation has de-
velopcd a remarkable variety Of frauds.