Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND poLrr1car.

PosTMAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKrp
is collecting the data for his annual re-
port to congress, the special features Of
which, it is said, will be similar to
those of last year.
ON the 18th Prof. John Larkin Lin
coin, OF Brown university, Providence.
L. l., died.
+ zen. BUTTERFIELD has declined a re-
nomination for congress rendered him
by the republicans of the Tenth Ohio
district.
On the 18th the sixtieth birthday of
the late Emperor Frederick was cele-
brated throughout Germany with flags
and by special sermons and church
services and by appropriate exhibitions
at the public theaters.
The official announcement is made
that Chief Secretary Belfour will take
the place of the late Rt. Hon. William
Henry Smith as first lord of the treas
ury, carrying with it the conservative
leadership in the British house of COM
mons.
On the nth James Parton, the we'll
known author, died at Newbury port,
Mass, after an illness of several weeks.
ACTING SECRETARY SPAULDING has
instructed the collector at San Francis
co to refuse admission to any Chinese
person unless he produces a certificate
stating that he does not come within the
prohibited classes.
On the 10Th w. j. Arkell bid in the
Mount McGregor railroad, at the mort
gage sale at Saratoga, N. Y, for S2S, :
500
IT is stated that his late visit to Chi
cago has quite changed the opinion of
Sir Henry Wood. English commissioner
to the Worlds Columbian exposition,
that New York was the best city for
the fair, and he now thinks that the Sc
lection of Chicago was the proper one.
A VALPARAISO dispatch to the Lon
don Times says impartial evidence con-
firms the statement that the United
States squadron in Chilian waters, both
in words and deeds, displayed enmity
toward the congressional party during
the recent war.
In his report to Secretary Foster Sec
ond Comptroller Gillerson says that
during the past year his Office has set
tied 50, 73a cases, involving STA, Ss4, 962.
PREMIER PARKER of New South
Wales has resigned in consequence of
the recent government defeat on the
eight-hour question.
In sending his blessing to the
organizer of the recent French pill
grimage, the Pope bitterly complains
of the attacks upon the pilgrims by ''an
ungovernable populace."
DIR. WILLIAM p. MEANY, for the past
eight years resident of London, is in
Chicago, it is said, to arrange for the
opening of an Anglo-American bank,
with offices in London and Chicago. The
capital stock will be S., 900, 600.
JUDGE CANE, with whom the poet
Whittier lives, at Amesbury, Mass,
says there is no truth in the published
report of Mr.. Whittier's illness.
AT Vienna, on the 10th, Emperor
Francis Joseph opened the museum of
fine arts in the presence of the arch
dukes and the diplomatic corps. The
collection of pictures, engravings and
StdludTY Is OuC VI tilC lillCSO LII tIc
world.
On the 10Th Gustave Stein, musical
critic for the New York Staats-Zeitung,
died of pneumonia. He was recently
bitten by spider, and an operation
made necessary on that account weak
ened him, and was in some sense the
cause of his death
II is officially stated that the Gillian
government has given an intimation
that it will soon issue a safe conduct to
those persons who have taken refuge
in the American and Spanish legations
The government has recognized the
right of asylum in letter to Mr.. Egan.
the Uuited States minister. The Span
ish minister is acting in conjunction
with Mr.. Egan.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.