The Dickinson press., 1890-10-18
RESUME OF THE WEEK.
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

"A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.
Cream Of Homo and Foreign News
SKINNED From the Great MIass of Cur
rent Events aud Dlshed Up Without
Trimmings.
The French statesman and writer.
M. Marc Antoine. is dead.
]. E. Thorold Rogers, professor Of
political economy at the university of
Oxford, died Monday.
The London Posts Berlin dispatch
says that the European cabinets are ex-
changing notes in regard to the McKin-
ley tariff.
The Worlds fair commission adopted
q system, which will require the erec-
ton of twelve separate buildings, plans
for which will be commenced at once.
The Spanish government is preparino
for submission to the cortez. a measnre
to restrict the hours of labor and i'm
prove the condition of the workingmen.
Ex-senator Henry g. Davis, who has
been named by. the president as one of
the continental railway commission,
the Office.
The assistant secretary of the interior
has decided that the fact that a soldier
enlisted in the rebel army to escape
from a southern prison is no bar to q
pension.
The Pennsylvania ship canal commits
sfcn estimate that the cost of a water
way between Pittsburg and Lake Erie
at $25,OOO: 600, and will ask the state to
construct it.
The Berlin correspondent of The Lon
o Chronicle says that Baron Wissman
positively refuses to return to his former
station in East Africa to play second
fiddle to Baron Won Soden.
The pope will donate 1000, 900 lire
toward the church which it is proposed
to erect in honor of the jubilee Of his
priesthood. Another 1000, 900 lire are
to be subscribed by the public.
Advices from Zanzibar state that the
German authorities have begun the en-
torcement of regulations against the
slave trade. An Arab has been hanged
at Bagamoyo for slave dealing.
MI. Stanley has returned to London.
he says he is rapidly recovering his
health and strength. He visits Cam
bridge university on the 18th inst, and
Will there receive the degree of Ii. d.
A serious fight occurred at a beer gar
den in Pima, Saxony. the combatants
being soldiers and workmen. Before
the fight could be suppressed five of the
latter had been killed and many on both
sides wounded.
Senator Hiscock denies the story sent
from Washington to the effect that he
and MI. Plat were concerned in q
scheme to secure the election of Secre-
tary' Tracy as United States senator to
succeed MIR. Evarts.
The proposition Of the Argentine ma
tional government to assume all proyin-
cial Indebtedness is very favorahly nc.
ceived in London, where the creditors
holding Argentine obligations are much
disturbed as to their investments.
The Italian committee appointed to a.
range for a proper celebration of italian
art and industry at the Chicago Worlds
fair has dissolved, as few Italians are
willing to send exhibits to Chicago w
ing to the new tariff law.
The sultan of Morocco has politely
but positively declined a French pro-
te%ctorate. He says that his people, by
a popular vote taken under his direction
have declared their opposition to any
closer relations with foreign powers.
The striking union workmen at Syd.
ney, N. S. W., attacked the firemen
heaving coal at Bull, and, after dispers-
ing them, occupied the mines. The DO.
lice were unable to preserve order, and
re-enforcements have been sent to the
scene.
Chancellor Caprivi, succeeded during
his visit with the emperor to Austria in
settling satisfactorily with the Austrian
army authorities several vexcd questions
regarding military occupation of the
frontiers by the respective armies of the
two nations.
The secretary of state has received q
cablegram from the United States min
lister to Paraguay, announcing that John
Stewart, consul general of that .epublic
to the United States, has been appointed
to represent Paraguay on the board of
commissioners of the Inter-cortiuental
railway.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
Father Matthew, the great temperance
advocate occurred Friday. English
papers contained long articles eulogizing
Matthew's character and summing up
the important results which have flowed
from his labors. Celebrations of the
day by the various Father Matthew So
cieties were held.
The French cabinet is considering a
plan by which it is hoped to come to
terms with America on the tariff ques-
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one of mutual concession or reciprocity.
Unless some terms are arrived al an at
tempt will be made to virtually exclude
American products from the French
markets.