Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-08
NEWS BY WIRE.

At W SohAuS tOn eu0 OcuStc Wu du thorising the Secretary of War to have . suitable selection made for a mili tary pest and harbor defenses at San Diego and report the cost thereof to Congress, passed.
 Ten thousand shoemakers are on a strike in London for an increase in wages.
 A New York special from Bristol says: Adeline Patti is lying very ill at hotel here. She caught . severe cold while crossing the channel be. tween Dover and Calais. Dr Freder- ick Love, who is in attendance, re- psrts uniavorably as to her condition.
 NEW HAvEN-Geo. M. Bradley, who was the first patient in this section to receive the lymph innoculation, died to-day. and the son of Prof. Blake, another lymph patient who has been under treatment for nearly two months, is st the point of death.
 WAsHIMaroN-Mr. Bland has ex- pressed his belief that the silver bill had enough of supporters to pass it on . direct vote. He hoped to get the bill out of the hands of the committee by next Wednesday.
 A party of fifteen Indians from the Pine Ridge agency, passed Chicago yesterday sn route to Washington, to talk to the Prssidsnt and Secretary of the Intsrior. Gen. Miles said that this manner of dealing with the Pine Ridge Indians takes the matter entirely out of his hands and he knew nothing of this band. He did not believe the President disapproved of the suspen- sion of Col. Forsythe and declares Forsy,he has not been vindicated, as the report of the inspector when made public will show.
 Last night all over the northwest and in St. Paul the mercury fell from IS to 20 degress below zero, and this morning it was about seven below.
 The Manuel Dublan, plying be- tween San Diego and Ensenada Lower California, has arrived at San Diego, bringing word that Captain w. H. Nelson was arrested by Mexican officials Saturday, on the charge of smuggling $35OO in gold bullion, which was found on his person. The steam CT, which carries the United States mail and is entered as being in Amer icsn trade, was detained by the author itis, five and half hours before the American and English residents sue ceeded in securing Captain Nelson's release. Mexican officials clam Nell son has been engaged in smuggling for two years. This he denies. The gold belonged to parties at Alamo and to an Ensenads banker, but the claim is that gold carried on the person is uot subject to duty.
 WASHINGTON, February 4, g p. m.- Chief Justice Fuller to-day announced that the Supreme Court has decided to grant the petition of counsel repre- sentiug the British government for lesve to file an application. for | writ of prohibition to prevent the District Court of Alaska from proceeding to carry out its 6ecres of forfeiture made in the case ot the schooner Sayward, libslled for unlawfully taking seals within the wsters of Behring Sea. Tho Court asked counsrl ct what date the rule requiring the Alaska court to como hero and show cause why the writ of prohibition should not be made vas returnable. The Solicitor General of the United States was an- xious to have t made rs'urnable at the earliest possible date, as was MT. CaldrOn Carlisle, junior counsel for the parties who bring 7ihe case here. By mutual sgreement the rule was made returnable to the second Monday in April. This settles merely the pre- liminsry question of the right to bring this case into court, and the matter now to be settled is whether or no the Court will decide that the writ of pro- hibition should issue. There must now be an argument on the merits of the Behriny Sea controversy. In an nOuncing the determination of the Court the Chief Justice said the argu- ment had taken . much wider range than was necessary; that the Court was of the opinion that it had juris- dietion by way of prohibition under section 6S8 Revised Statutes, to re. view the proceedings of the Alaska