The southern argus., 1891-06-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND PoLIrICAL.

HEhSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRINCE GUsTAvE, duke of Vermeland.
eldest son of King Oscar II. of Sweden
and Norway, and heir apparent to the
throne, is dangerously i'll with infiu-
enza
The jury in the baccarat scandal at
London returned a verdict adverse to
Sir William Gordon Cumming.
GEN. JOHN Mcneil died suddenly at
st. Louis recently. He will be remem-
bered as ordering the so-called massa-
ere of confederates at PALMYRA, Mo-.
during the war.
IT is reported that Minister Porter
has been Instructed to quietly leave
Italy.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER is at home at
Cleveland, o., suffering from nervous
prostration.
THE Portuguese senate ratified the
African convention with England and
the king at once signed it.
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUNNING, the
hero of the baccarat scandal, was mar
ried the day after the trial to Florence
Garner, daughter of Commodore Will
AAoIAA bdLlCIs VI NcN OEk lily.
IT is now admitted in all quarters
that Senator Abbott is to be the future
premier of Canada.
JAMES Ii. CANFIELD, late professor of
history in the University of Kansas, has
been elected chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska
w. ]. PENRosE, editor of the Mining
II II 1o, oc l.
has been assassinated at Butte, Mont
THE president has appointed the court
to adjudicate land claims Joseph r.
Reed, of Council Bluffs, Ia, is the chief
justice.
BANK EXAMINER DREW, of Philadcl-
phia, has been suspended by Secretary
Foster. His dismissal will doubtless
follow. This step is due to his careless
ness in allowing the Keystone bank to
conceal its real position
MUCH excitement has been aroused
in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, by
the news that the French have seized
part of the Liberian coast near Cape
Palmas. An appeal will be made to
the United States.
W. Ii. PREscoTT, of Toronto, Ont,
has been elected president of the Inter
national Typographical union.
ACCORDING to special from Wash
ington, it is reported that Presi-
dent Harrison has decided to send ex-
Governor and ex-senator G. A. Pierce,
of North Dakota, as representative to |
China.
EX-SENATOR BLAIR may get the Japan
mission. The salary is the same-SI2.-
300 year.
STANwOOD DODGE, brother of Gail
Hamilton" died at Beverly, Mass,
aged 65 years. He was engaged in the
smoked fish business all his life.
Cor. JOHN ALBERT MOORE, a veteran
Of the civil war, died at Providence, r.
/, of hemorrhage, caused by cancer in
he jaw. He commanded the artillery
camp of instruction at Washington.
JUST before final adjournment the
illinois house passed the senate bill
giving women the right to vote in
school elections
j. W. HARRIS, superintendent of the
soldiers orphans home at Knights
own, Ind, committed suicide in New
orleans.
JOSEPH c. SEXrRo, of Cincinnati, has
'een elected president and Henry
tikotf, of Cincinnati, secretary and
reasurer of the National Furniture
bakers association.
JACOB SCHAEFER, the champion bill !
lardist, and Miss Lillian Kammcrer.
vith whom the champion has been ac- 5
uainted for fifteen years, have been
larricd.
INDIGNATION in middle class English
lrcles is reported increasing in volume
yer the gambling scandals affecting
ne prince of Wales. Radicals demand
nat the prince and his cronies be offi-
tally reprOvcd
SAMOAN advices say that there is con-
derable agitation among the natives
18th view to unseating Malietoa and Z {
ntting Mataafa on the throne.