The state capital., 1891-03-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

tionary party has arrived in Paris. He
states that two-thirds of the people
were in favor of the insurgents party
and that the latter had already per-
manent hold on the northern provinces
and their valuable resources of nitrate
and guano
LIEUT.. G. w. GoTHELs. q. S. A., will
succeed Col Barstow in charge of Ten
nessee river improvements below Chat
tanooga, with headquarters at Florence.
LAWRENCE BARRETT, the tragedlan,
died at the Windsor hotel, New York,
on the Goth. He was born at Paterson,
n. j., April 4, 1888
THE Iowa Farmers Alliance has or
ganized with a constitution similar to
that of the Kansas alliance and with
the following officers: President, J. NJ.
Joseph; vice-president, Daniel Camp
bell; secretary, George B. Long, and
state treasurer, T. III. Griffith.
THE Vienna correspondent Of the
London Times, in spite of official de-
malls, reiterates that Princess Eliza
beth, of Hesse, the wife of Grand Duke
Sergius, of Russia, was brutally CO
creed to join the Russian church.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has sustained
the objections of Capt. Henry Vessels
in the court martial case against him.
Objection had been made that the or
der had not received the presidents
signature and was therefore invalid. In
sustaining Capt. Vessels objection the
president severely reprimands him.
THE lower house of the Arkansas
legislature has passed resolution fa-
voring the election of president, vice
president and senators by popular vote.
THE New Jersey Legislature ad-
iourned on the Goth.
REV FREDERICK UPTON, probably the
oldest Methodist clergyman in America,
died at his home at Fair Haven, Mass.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN RICHARD III. STAN
TON died at Maysville, KY, aged rs
years.
THE friends Of Gen. Stone, of Iowa,
assistant commissioner of the land Of
fee, are urging the president to promote
him to the commissionership. He is
thoroughly equipped as to the duties OF
the office and has made several efforts
to succeed to it.
A DISPATCH from Rome says that
Signor Crispi, the late premier, is SO
badly off in the matter of the goods OF
this world, that he has been compelled
to go back to his old profession as a
lawyer, and his shingle has been hung
out in the Latin quarter.
IT was rumored in Lisbon that another
conflict had taken place between the
English and Portuguese on the Limpopo
river.
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, the noted
southern leader, died at Washington on
the 21st from heart failure, superin
duced by cold.
| JAMES B. MACKIE, the comedian
| died at the Burton house, Cincinnati
recently, of pneumonia.
| EX-SENATOR BLAIR has accepted the
Chinese mission and has arranged K
sail from San Francisco for the GLOW
cry Kingdom" on May l. He has al
ready received instructions from th'
secretary of state.
SECRETARY BLAINE is in good healtl
with the exception of a slight touch o
the gout. This necessarily contine
him to his house, but does not interfer'
in the least with the dispatch of publi
busines requiring his attention.
CANADIAN farmers are uniting unde
the name of the Ontario Farmers
Union" The movement is similar t
that of the Farmers Alliance in tn
United States
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar says tha
the conclusion of a treaty with tn
prominent chiefs by which the latte
agree to abolish slavery at With is Of
ficially announced.
DR.. HOWARD CROSBY was reporte
dangerously i'll at his home in NeN
York. He fell victim to the grip an
pneumonia was feared.
THE Pan-American monetary confer
ence met at Washington on the 23d wit
closed doors. There was full atten(
ance. and after the submission of an
discussion of several propositions tn
conference adjourned for week.
CHARLES E. CHICKERING, the wei
known piano manufacturer, died {
New York on the 23d.
| a
United States army, was reported dyin
at Louisville, Ky, of diseases incide1
to old age. He was in charge OF tt
government depot at Jetfersonvn
; many years previous to his retiremen
ONE of the last acts of Queen Victor
before leaving for the continent was
respond to an appeal for help from Il
Leper hospital on Robin island off tt
: Cape of Good Hope, by ordering th'
: two photographs of herself, with h'
| signature attached, should be forwar
ed to the institution.
A FIGHT has been reported betwee
; British colonists of Guiana and Vene
} uelans on the frontier.
5 THE remains of Gen. Johnston we
t laid to rest by the side of his wife
! Green Mount cemetery, Baltimore, Nj
r The returns from the elections f
1 poor law guardians in Ireland sho
: that the Parnellites are almost ever
< where in small minority.
THE relations between Portugal al
England are again strained over Il
state of siege declared by Portugal
Manicaland, Africa.
! THE finance committee of the Arka
sas senate has reported adversely to Il
: appropriation of $50. 900 for the world
: fair.
MISCELLANEOUS.
wpErK occurred on the Vail