Middletown transcript., 1891-07-02
Items of General Interest.

Items Of General Interest.
It is probable that the great Colorado
desert will be turned into vast lake.
as water Is flowing into it from some
unknown source.
Professor M. w. Harrington, of the
University of Michigan, has been ap-
pointed chief Of the weather bureau to
succeed General Greedy.
Robert Ellison, a young iron worker
in the Holland Building, New York,
fell 120 feet down an air shaft. broke
through skylight, was picked up
alive and may live.
The British Official Gazette announc-
es that by order of her Majesty the
name of Sir William Gordon Cumming
has been strnck off the list of Deputy
Lieutenants of Elginshire, Scotland.
Patrick Mulroney, a juggler and
sword-swallower. at Columbus, Ohio,
on Tuesday, used, in his sword-swal-
lowing trick, a violin bow instead of a
sword. He was seized with a fit of
vomiting, accompanied with hemor-
rhage, and died.
An officer of the Health Department
at Chicago claims to have discovered
that the flesh of broken down, emaciat-
ed and diseased horses is being made
| into sausage meat and sold to the poor
or classes of the city. An investiga.
tion will be made.
The Democrats Of Worcester county
met at Snow Hill Tuesday and indors-
ed A. P. German for the Presidency,
Colonel John Walter Smith for the
United States Senate and e. W.. Nc
Masters for State Comptroller.
The body of the late James McHenry,
the well known American financier
who died in London, has been exhumed
In the interest of the insurance COM
panies, to see whether his death was
due to suicide by poison. McHeDry
had policies of S., 900, 900 on his life.
With knife sticking through his
breast-bone Pugh Prewitt, a negro
boy, was found murdered in front of a
church at Germantown, Tenn, Mon
day evening. Nobody knows who
murdered him, though 200 negroes
were in the church at the time.
Prince George, second son of the
King of Greece, arrived at the Grand
Central Depot, New York, Tuesday
evening at $50 O'Clock. He was ac-
companied by Admiral Lohmen of the
Imperial Russian Navy, and two
vale Is.
At their State Convention yesterday
the Iowa Republicans nominated
Hiram G.. Wheeler for Governor, en-
dorsed the national administration,
the Mckinley tariff, and denounced
Democrats generally. Governor Boies,
the present Democratic Governor has
been renominated. The fight wi II be
hard one.
Judge Brewer, of the United States
Supreme Court, has instructed the
graduates of Yale Law School that
I" the true end Of government is pro-
lection of the individual the majority
can take care of ITSELF" This is the
second reversal for Reeds rules, the
first having been handed down at the
polls, nearly eight months ago.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
Mr.. Parnell's marriage to Mrs.
O'Shea may be accepted by that un-
known quantity known in society as
an act of repentance and expiration,
but it is difficult to see how this can
restore his lost political prestige. 1t
was not because of, but in spite of his
relations with Mrs. O'Shea, that his
followers have so largely abandoned
him.
By the will of ecentric Mrs. Mary
E. Dayton, made public at st.
Paul, Minn., 100000 of her estate
goes to James c. Reed of New York
city, private secretary to the late Presi-
dent Arthur, and S. week to her dog,
Tasso, SO long as 1.-THE dear little
fellow shall live." Mrs. Dayton died
at San Francisco last week. Her hus-
band, Lyman G. Dayton, fares i'll
under the will, and SO pronounces it
forgery.