The state herald., 1890-04-11
BY TELEGRAPH.
General Crook is dead.

Washington on the 2Sd.
Johnstown, Pa, has been threat
ened with another inundation.
Mrs. Harrison and a party have
been taking tour in the South.
The United States cavalry are GUST
ing the settlers on the Cherokee Strip.
Kilrain is serving sentence In Mis-
sissippl for participating in prize fight
There Is a factory In New York
which turns out sausagos made of horse
meat.
Eight thousand employees OF the
Armstrong Gun Works in England have
struck for eight hours.
J. +. Plummer & Co., wholesale dry
goods merchants Of New York, have rs
signed. Their liabilities are q, 900, 600.
The president Of Buffalo life in
surance company has eloped and absoanded
with the company's typewriter and funds.
The torpedo boat Gushing made II
successful trial at Newport, making the
required twenty-five knots per hour for u
three-hour run.
The English coal miners have won
in the recent strike. They get an advance
OF five per cont. now and another Of ivc per
cent. on July 1st.
A special train bearing an opera
troupe recently made run Of thirty-thrce
miles In twonty-six minutes on tho Union
Pacific In Wyoming.
The British steamer Vincent was
abandoned at sea. The captain and eight
OF the crew landed at Fcrrol. The mate
and fourteen men were lost.
Henry Ives testified before n New
York investigating committee that while
in jail he paid the iailers sl47, 900 for liberty
to go and come as he pleased.
The New York court OF appeals has
affirmed the judgments of the courts be-
low in tho Kemier murder case, declaring
that electrical execution is constitutional.
A Milanese named Fossat is exhib-
iting simpliiicd edition Of the phonograph
costing 100 francs. The instrument pro-
duced the human voice and music in mar
vclous manner.
Two men have been arrested in
Chicago for advertising to help young
bachelors of the west to wives, and re-
cciving advance fees without furnishing
the wives promptly.
An Irish government contractor is
privately building near London an airsbip
which is expected To carry crew Of sew
eral men at speed of one hundred and
fifty miles an hour.
Bartholdi is very indignant over
the proposition to use Liberty Island for a
landing place for immigrants. He thinks
that II should be beautified and adorned
with other statues and memorials.
Some doctors mt Northfeld, Ohio,
took body from temporary vault in
which It lay ind having dissccted II at n
medical college returned II again, that the
relatives might not discover the outrage.
The agitation among Russian stu
dents has extended to the universities at
Moscow, Kief and Charkoty. Altogether
seven hundred students have been arrest
ed. II Is probable that the St Petersburg
University viii be closed.
The Manitoba legislature has passed
tho schools act, abolishing the right Of
Catholics 10 have separate schools aud
obliging all classes OF the community to
patronize national secular schools. 1t has
been bitterly opposed by the Catholics.
During u severe electrical storm
that swept over the mining pueblo OF
Huanuco, in Puru. recently, lightning
struck magazine, exploding 200 cases Of
dynamite and giant powder. The entire
works were wrecked, five persons killed
outright md forty more or less seriously
injured.
The general opinion In London is
that the striking miners will succeed in
forcing the masters TO concede their de-
mands for an immediate advance Of five
per cent, In wages, and 4 further advance
of five per cent. on July LIST. Many more
mine owners In Nottinghamshirc and Ian.
cashirc have acccded to the terms Of the
men.
A bill has been reported In Congress
10 tax aiulteratlons OF lard. The bill ia
similar TO the olemargarinc law, which the
committee says has given general satlsfac.
h, ..anaiui... n.
mcnt that the compound lard trade, as car
ried on, Is u stupcndous commercial fraud
which /, is the duty Of Congress to sup
press.
A leading Austrian paper says that
"Bismurck falls owing to his interior mol
Icy, which was ms much dlsllkcd aud hated
by his ow-country men as his foreign
policy was approved and appiaudcd. and
the determination OF the people not TO be
conquered nt home by the man who so off,
en- led them to victory abroad was forclbly
announced at the lust elections, and these
elections brough, about his retirement"
Dispatches from Berlin state tim,
General Caprivi has been appointed Chan
cclior, but he will not assume the foreign
portfolio Won Butiichcr becomes presI
dent OF the Prussian ministry. Count
Gutenberg, Governor Of Hcssc- Nassau.
succeeds Won Brt,cher us minister OF tho
interior, Count Herbert Bismarck will ro
eolvc an ambassadorship, and Ministers
ncrriurthan and Maybaek have resigned.
In the House OF Commons. Labou.
chcrc moved tho abolition OF hereditary
representatives In Parliament. The peo.
pie would not long tolerate the Idea that
several hundred mon could bc born with a
privilege to Interfere with the government,
md TO lcgislato as class Tho House had
tho spectacle before II Of men excluded
from the Jockey club and warned on race
courses, and yot able To Interfere with tho
legislation OF the nation, Tho motion WINS
rejected, a0i 10 3il.
A Danville, VlrginIn, special says,
T,xo hundred tnnonshiusr. hay, ,.,.h