The state herald., 1891-12-11
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

Affairs in Brazil are quieting down.
Rio Grande do Sui has become tract.
able.
NJ. Patonetre has been appointed by
France us their minister to the
United States.
The Mexican government will make
a detail Of cadets to act as instructors
to the Salvadoran army.
The German court will promote ba.
zaars and concerts TO raise funds fol
the famine-stricken Russians,
Four men were sufYocated by choke
damp In the Agecroft collicry. neal
Manchester, England, on the Sd.
All on board the wrecked steamship
Nicaragua, wrecked on the Pacific last
Friday, are said to have been saved.
Influenza is raging In Cornwall,
England, and hundreds Of the inhabi.
tants are prostrated with the disease.
The Brazilian government has de-
cided to retain its present minister.
Censor Alvin, and the legation In
Mexico.
Eight kilns In "briquette" factory
at kupperhammer, Germany. explod-
ed on the Sd. Five Of the workmen
were killed.
In the general land office 4,252 land
patents have been issued in four and
half days, the largest record ever
made by the Office.
Three United States war vessels
have been ordered to Brazil, with the
object, 1t is believed, OF having them
in easy reach Of Chilli.
St. Louis police have failed to dis
cover any clue to the identity Of the
Glendale train robbers. The robbers
have all escaped detection.
There was an explosian Of gas In
the underground railway beneath An
derston crossing In Glasgow Thurs
day. Six persons were injured.
A young physician OF johnson, Ne
braska, who is accused of immortality,
was tarred and feathered few nights
since and ordered to leave town.
At Tarrytown, New York, a passen-
ger express ran into local passenger
train and both were badly wrecked,
but no one hurt strange Us 1t may
seem.
A strike OF 250 men in the Catasqua
iron works, near Allentown, Pennsyl-
vauia, has stopped the works. The
men demand 10 per cent. increase In
wages.
The number killed in the Japan
earthquake OF October % Is now
placed at 1850. and injured at 10. 1870.
Over 100000 people were rendered
homeless.
Southern cotton planters arc about
to organize a movement throughout
the Southern States looking for n re-
funding OF 500, 900. 900 taxes collected
on cotton by the government.
In the Red River valley, in North
Dakota, agents OF the Great Northern
railway have ordered the settlers TO
vacate all odd-numbered sections In
the twenty-mile indemnity limit Great
excitement exists.
Near Charlottesville, Indiana, two
long freight trains on the Monon line
came together at the bottom OF two
steep grades. Two engines and 1872
cars, loaded with merchandise, were
totally wrecked. The crews jumped
The French government has issued
n decree authorizing the import OF
American pork into France. The ports
OF entry, however, are limited, and
importations can be made only at
Dunkirk, Havre, Bordeaux and Mar
settles.
Thiriy-four persons have been killed
and many injured In II railway collision
between Oolan and Lahore. in India.
The trains In collision were mail
trains. All the Europeans who were
passengers on either train escaped
death.
AT birmingham, Alabama, the Ala
bama Worlds Fair directors, having
abandoned the idea OF raising u fund
by private subscription, have request
cd the governor to call n special ses-
sion OF the legislature TO make an ap-
preparation.
The admiralty officials after inves-
tigating tho fatal gun practice OF the
British war ship Plucky, In which two
fishing boats were sunk. have awarded
the owner OF the boats E400 and
granted compensation to the widow Of
the fisherman drowned.
A dispatch from North Dakota says:
The greatest blizzard which has been
known In North Dakota since 1888 is
raging throughout that section.
Drifts are actually piled from twelve
to eighteen feet high. A terrific cold
wave is approaching from the north
west
Judge Collins OF Chicago beat the
record In divorce cases on the 9th.
He heard and took under adviscment
twonty-s!x cases In two hours and
twenty minutes, or nm average OF
about one every fivc minutes. Several
were heard inside OF four minutes
each.
Isaac Saw,ollc, under death SEN
tencc for killing his brother Hiram,
| was before the supreme Court of Nav