Huntsville gazette., 1891-11-21
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND poL1T1CAr.

5,
OF Bavaria, Baroness Won Waldersee,
died on the 14th. The baroness was
formerly Fraulein Mendel, and, until
her marriage, was one of the best
known artists on the Munich comic
stage. To marry her the duke re-
nounced his right Of the succession to
the duchy in favor of his brother
Charles
THE United States has officially rec
oenized the new congressional govern
ment OF Chilli.
SENIOR Don PEDRO MONrT, the new
minister of Chilli to the United States,
was formally presented to President
Harrison. on the 14th. by Secretary
Blaine. and in offering his credentials
expressed the hope that peace and
friendship might be preserved between
the two countries, to which sentiment
the president gave cordial consent.
MATTHEW E. RYAN, well known
among the theatrical profession as
manager of Havlin's formerly Peoples
theater in st. Louis, died in that city,
ON the 18th, after few days Illness
His malady was erysipelas. from which
he had suffered occasionally before
Gov. ALVIN P. HovEY of Indiana ar
rived in Dallas, Tex, on the 18th, hav-
ing been compelled to cut his Mexican
trip short by reason of serious illness.
He was confined to his bed in his car,
which he had been unable to leave for
several days.
Rev. ZACHARY EDDY, regarded as the
greatest pulpit speaker of the Congrega-
tional church west Of the Hudson, died
in Detroit. Mich. on the 18th, of heart
disease. aged "A. He had been a preach
er since the age of Is.
WILLIAM j. FLORENCE, the we'll
known comedian, was reported, ON the
night OF the 18th, as dying at the Con-
tinental hotel in Philadelphia of pneu-
monia, which followed a severe cold
contracted few days previously.
A DISPATCH to the London Times from
Santiago de Chilli says that advices re-
ceived there from Valparaiso confirm
the statement as to the prudent and
pacific attitude assumed by the states
and by the various officials of that
country.
THE pope, it is reported, has not yet
come to decision on the question Of
leaving Rome, but there is no reason to
believe that the idea has been aban-
doned.
Lacretelle, member Of the French
chamber of deputies, monarchist and
Crimean veteran, died in Paris.
THE French chamber Of deputies has
placed duty of twenty-five francs per
200 pounds on American pork. as sug-
gested by the senate committees re-
port.
On the 10th the president, accompa-
MED by ex-senator Sewell, of New Jer-
sey, left Washington fer Bengies, Nd.
On hunting trip, to be absent two or
three days.
On the 10th number of prominent
editors, hotel men, railway officials,
politicians, ETC., met in New York city
to devise means for securing the repub-
lican convention in 1892 for that city.
Chauncey NJ. Depew was among those
who favored the project, and su bscribed,
on behalf of the New York Central
Railroad Co., SO, 500 toward guarantee
fund. 1t was proposed to pay the gen
eral expenses of the convention, but not
the expenses of delegates.
The sudden arrival at New York, on
the 10th, Of Hon. Albert @. Porter,
United States minister to Italy, gave
rise to the belief that Italy had taken
advantage of the trouble between the
United States and Chilli to make de-
mand for an apology and money in
demnity for the killing of two OF her
subjects in New Orleans.