The historic times., 1891-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IT is reported that marriage has
been arranged between the czarewitch
cf Russia and the duchess Elsa, OF
Wurtem burg
THE New South Wales parliament
has defeated the government on the
eight-hour clause of the mining laws
Con- NATHANIEL DUNCAN INGRAHAM,
formerly of the United States navy,
died at Charleston, S. G.
j. r STEVENSON, aged 50, professor
of astronomy in the high school at
Quincy, Ill, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head No cause
was assigned
JAMES PARTON, the author, died at
Newburyport, Mass, on the 18th. He
was the husband of Fanny Fern"
Mr.. Parton was born in England in
1922, but had lived in America since
childhood.
THE president has accepted the resig-
nation of Gov Steele, of Oklahoma
ARBIrRATIoN was the subject dis
cussed by the Ecumenical Methodist
council at Washington on the nth.
The proceedings were made interest
ing by the presence of Secretary Fos-
ter and President Harrison, both of
whom addressed the conference.
THE Lucy Webb Haves missionary
college at Washington has been dedi-
Gated.
THE elections in Chilli passed off
quietly on the 18th The clericals
claimed the house and the liberals the
senate.
THE board of control of the national
worlds fair commission has confirmed
the nomination by Director-General
Davis of W. E. Cottrell, of Detroit, for
chief of the department of live stock.
THE plebescite in Switzerland result
ed in the adoption of the new tariff and
the state bank monopoly.
THE garrison at Tlemecen, near the
frontier of Morocco, has suddenly re-
ceived orders to march upon and occu-
py Touat, the oasis in the Sahara desert,
in order to prevent its being occupied
by Morocco.
REV. SAM SMALL was arrested in
Boston on charge of obtaining $1,000
by false pretenses, made by Rev. H. q.
MonrO, clergyman of Newton. 1t is
said that the transaction which result
ed in the arrest was agreed upon in
August, 1888. when Mr.. Small was
president of Ogden university.
THE statue of Adm. Farragut, by
Ell. II. Kitson, for the city of Boston,
has been completed at cost of S22, 500,
and is said by critics to be a master
piece in composition and modelling.
WILLIAM REDMOND has been selected
as the Parnellite candidate for the par
liamentrry seat for Cork, made vacant
by the death of Mr.. Parnell.
A LETTER from Rio Grande City, on
the Texas frontier. says: Sunday morn
ing on the Mexican side three men,
charged with being revolutionists
were shot by the government forces
under command of Gen. Lorenzo
Garcia.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, addressed a
large audience in fremont temple, Bos-
ton. Gen. +. T. Butler introduced him.
A SPECIAL cable dispatch from Mana
qua, Nicaragua, says Don Fernando
Guzman, the ex-president Of the repub-
lie, is dead. His death is generally re-
GREETED.
THE archbishop of AK, France will
be prosecuted for disregarding the cir
cular enjoining him not to leave his
diocese without the consent of the gov
ernment. The archbishop is liable to a
heavy fine as well as a term of impris-
onment.
THE pope is reported to be undecided
about leaving Rome.
LATER returns showed that the lib
erals carried the elections in Chilli by
heavy majorities.
MAJ-GEy. SCHOFIELD's annual report
recommends augmentation of the army
THE monument erected to the mem
orv of Henry W. Grady on one of the
principal streets of Atlanta, Ga, was
unveiled on the 21st in the presence of
the governor of New York, the COVER
nor of Georgia and a large assemblage
of southern people.
THE silver question was ignored in
the resolutions adopted by the Trans
mississippi congress at Omaha, Neb.
EX-PREMIER CRIsPI, of Italy, bitterly
attacks the papacy in the North Amer
lean Review. Rome under the pope, he
says, was a gangrene spot which
poisoned the whole body of the nation.
GLDERoY WELLS GRIFFIN. United
/ States consul to Sidney. New South
/ Wales, died at Louisville, KY, Of
Brights disease. He had been sick
about three weeks. He was born in
Louisville in 1871, and was author and
| editor of several books.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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