The Globe-republican., 1890-10-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
pERsoNaL and POLITICAL.

DIR JOHN FARXHAM BOYNTON uIe0 q
Syracuse, n. Y, recently. aged fifty
two He invented the Babcock fire ez
tinguisber. He had been married tire
times, the second time in balloon i
New York He was divorced from tn
woman he married in mid air.
ADvICEs from South America stat
that the Chilians are ind gnant at tn
French Government for aiding the nc
torious Dreyfus claim and are p~epare'
| to oppose a firm resistance to F'rencl
aggression
| GENERAL HENRY HASTINGS SHELLEY
the first Governor of Minnesota and thu
only Democrat who ever held that OF
flee, suffered stroke of paralysis at st
Paul on the 21st and was in critica
condition.
THE French Chamber of Deputies viii
discuss proposal to place poll-tax OF
foreigners
The Parliamentary election in the
Eccles division of Lancashire resulted
in a victory for the Gladstonians Mr.
Roby, the Liberal candidate, received
4. 9O1 votes and Mr.. Edgerton, Conserva'
We. 1896 In the preceding election
the Liberal candidate received 8, 9S5 and
the Conservative 4,277
As resuH of the recently reported
attempts upon the life of the Gar all
of the palaces and many of the official
buildings, as well as the public squares
and parks of St Petersburg, have been
closed to the people
Mr. GLADSTONE, in recent speech,
approved combinations of workingmen.
which had had much to do with improving
their condition. He deprecated appeals
to Parliament to help workingmen out
of faculties.
SENATOR MCPHERSON has discovered
errors in the Tariff act which he thinks
fatal to its enforcement Government
officials, however. while admitting the
errors, think they can have no effect on
the act as whole.
SENATOR J. s. c. BLACKBURN was Sc
verely hurt recently by being thrown
out of his buggy in a runaway near
Versailles. KY.
A NOTABLE wedding took place at
Chicago on the 23d. the only son of
Marshall Field being married to Miss
Albertina Huck.
TIE University of Cambridge, En-
g and, has conferred degree on Henry
NJ. Stanley, the African explorer.
Two candidate for the vacancy on the
Supreme Bench have appeared in the
Northwest They are Senator w. F.
Sanders. of Montana, and ex-Represent-
alive W. II. Calkins. of Washington
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, in an interview at
Paris, said that the Irish party was as
sured that the American tour of h lmself
and Mr.. Dillon would yield sufficient
funds to last until the general election.
ENSIGN RUMsEY, of the United States
steamer Swatara was accidentally
drowned at Yokohama August 81.
THE Sultan of Vitu, East Africa, has
refused to give redress for recent mas
sacres and is preparing for war with
and Germany.
THE vacancy in the United States SUI
preme Court will. it is now said, not be
filled until after Congress convenes in
December.
BUSINESS in Portugal is at stand
still because of the serious decl ne of
Portuguese funds on the London mar
ket- 1t is believed that a revolution
W II soon occur.
ROBERT P. PORTER, Superintendent of
the census, has returned from Europe.
THE Roman Catholic priests and
monks in Milwaukee have all registered
and. for the first time, will vote at the
against the Bennett law.
COLONEL N. n. Cox has been NOM
mated to succeed Hon. w. C. Whit
borne, the present incumbent by the
Seventh Congressional Democratic con-
vention of Tennessee.