The Globe-republican., 1891-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PRINCE GUsrAvE. duke of Vermeland,
eldest son of King Oscar II. of Sweden
and Norway. and heir apparent to the
throne, is dangerously i'll with influ.
enZa.
The jury in the baccarat scandal al
London returned a verdict adverse to
Sir William Gordon Cumming.
GEN. JOHN MCNEIL died suddenly al
st. Louis recently. He will be remem-
bered as ordering the so-called massa-
ere of confederates at Palmyra, Mo-,
during the war.
IT is reported that Minister Porter
has been instructed to quietly leave
Italy.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER is at home at
Cleveland, O., suffering from nervous
prostration.
The Portuguese senate ratified the
African convention with England and
the king at once signed it.
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUNNING, the
hero of the baccarat scandal, was mar
ried the day after the trial to Florence
Garner, daughter of Commodore Will
liam Garner, of New York City.
IT is now admitted in all quarters
premier of Canada.
JAMES H. CANFIELD, late professor of
history in the University of Kansas, has
been elected chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska
w. j. PENRosE, editor of the Mining
Journal and membe of the legislature,
has been assassinated at Butte, Mont
THE president has appointed the court
to adjudicate land claims. Joseph r.
Reed, of Council Bluffs, Ia, is the chief
justice.
BANK EXAMINER DREW, of Philadcl-
phia, has been suspended by Secretary
Foster. His dismissal will doubtless
follow. This step is due to his careless
ness in allowing the Keystone bank to
conceal its real position.
Much excitement has been aroused
in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, by
the news that the French have seized a
part of the Liberian coast near Cape
Palmas. An appeal will be made to
the United States.
has been elected president of the Inter-
national Typographical union.
ACCORDING to a special from Wash
ington. it is reported that Presi-
dent Harrison has decided to send eX-
Governor and ex-senator G. A. Pierce,
of North Dakota, as representative to
China.
EX-SENATOR BLAIR may get the Japan
mission. The salary is the same-S12,
600 year.
STANwOoD DODGE, brother of Gail
Hamilton" died at Beverly, Mass,
aged IS years. He was engaged in the
smoked fish business all his life.
Col. JOHN ALBERT MOORE, a veteran
of the civil war, died at Providence, r.
l.. of hemorrhage, caused by cancer in
the jaw. He commanded the artillery
camp of instruction at Washington.
JUST before final adjournment the
Illinois house passed the senate bill
giving women the right to vote in
school elections
j. w. HARRIS, superintendent of the
soldiers orphans home at Knights
town, Ind, committed suicide in New
Orleans.
JOSEPH C. SExrRo, of Cincinnati, has
been elected president and Henry
Rikoff, of Cincinnati, secretary and
treasurer of the National Furniture
Makers association.
JACOB ScHAEFER, the champion bill
HARDEST, and Miss Lillian Kammerer,
with whom the champion has been ac-
quainted for fifteen years, have been
married.
INDIGNATION in middle class English
circles is reported increasing in volume
over the gambling scandals affecting
the prince of Wales Radicals demand
that the prince and his cronies be Off
cially reproved.
SAMOAN advices say that there is con-
siderable agitation among the natives
with view to unseating Malietoa and
putting Mataafa on the throne.