The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-05-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Political and Industrial.

| silver conference, are Gen. Francis A. Walker,
| of Boston Henry W. Cannon, of New York;
Senators Carlisle and Teller, and Director of
| the Mint Leech. 1t is expected that the con-
ference will be held in Paris-Among the
| congresses which arc to meet in Chicago dur
| ing the Worlds Fair is q congress on Africa.
| An advisory council has been appointed. COM
| posed of gentlemen in America and foreign
lands who have expert knowledge of or are
especially interested in African questions 1t
is the purpose to bring together not only ez-
| plorers and missionaries in Africa and experts
in the sciences bearing upon the African ques-
| ton, but also natives.-The bill soon to be
reported by joint committee for the better
| administration of tho immigration laws Will
| include provisions which, it Is believed, will
make it impossible for immigrants of the pro-
! hibited classes to sail from foreign ports. and
will prevent their andingin this country should
they succeed in evadiDg the regulations abroad
| a census bulletin just issued places the ce-
real acreage for 1890 at 5s0,297 against 725, 12e
| at the 10th census. Corn, wheat, rye, and buck
| wheat decreased and oats and barley increased.
There is q proposition before the Special
| Committee Of the House on the Worlds Column
ban Exposition to change the opening day from
Oct. IL to Oct. 81, because Columbus reckoned
by the Julian calendar, and Oct. H. 1892, was
| Oct. 81 according to the astronomical calendar,
| which had been generally adopted. By chang
| ing the date the celebration would take place
exactly 400 years from the date of the discovery
of America, besides falling on Friday, the day
| of the week of the discovery.
Crimes and Casualties.
| Joseph L. Tice, the wife, murderer. suffered
| death by electricity in the chair at the Auburn
| Prison, in New York State, being the States
ninth victim So far as could be ascertained,
| his death was instantaneous and without pain.
He killed his wife in Rochester July last
Oliver Curtis Perry, the Lyons, n. T., train
robber, pleaded guilty to five counts on four
indictments at Rochester May 10. de was SON
fenced to 40 years and three months. he IS
now 26 years old. He will be upward OF 10
years when he regains his liberty M ISIS
Sadie Delozier, of Altoona, read her own death
notice in the papers. While she was visiting
her brother some one sent notice of her sudden
death to the various papers. When her mother
read one of them she was Frustrated by heart
| failure and is not yet out OF danger.
Miss Delozer was also greatly Affected
| The quarters of three cavalry panies and
the post can teen were burned at Fort McKin-
ney, near Cheyenne, Wyo., May 15. Ali were
new buildings, and, with their contents, were
worth $500, coo. This puts half of the garrison
in tents, but the weather is mild. The explo.
sion of a stove in the house of one of the COM
panies started the fre.-The factory Of the
Etna Pyrotechnic Company. Hartford, Conn,
was blown up, May 81. Six persons were
| killed, and number badly hurt. The COM
pany made red and blue fre.-Revenue OIL
GERS captured John Curry, the Oldest and most
desperate moonshiner in Georgia, near Dublin,
/ after a desperate struggle. Prof Thos. Davis,
a music teacher, who was also running an Illicit
distilery, was also caught. His still consist
ed of two 50.pound ard-cans.-Two trains,
q freight and passenger on the Cotton Belt
Railroad, were wrecked at Crooked Bayou,
May 81. Four men and three women were
| cd Mt
Foreign.
A Frenchm man named Roulez fought four
| duels with swords in Paris May 49, the chal-
lenges being the outcome of quarrel at the
/ Opera House.. All four of his antagonists were
wounded, one of them probably fatally. Their
names arc Leclerc, Dumoulin, Avarignet, and
| Blondsl-Lord Salisbury delivered speech
at Hastings in which he stated that the free
| traders have gone too far. Great Britain, he
said, was excluded from foreign markets and
| powerless to make reprisals. He thought
luxuries should be taxed, but that articles
| necessary TO the good of the people and raw
materials should be admitted free, as now. He
stated that the prophecies of the free traders
| have not been realized and that the situation
in England is bad and continually growing
| worse. This has created a storm of protest
from the Unionist and Liberal papers alike,
business centers being specially opposed to his
| proiect.-Further details of the hurricane
which recently swept over the Island of Maurl-
thus show that about 1900 persons were killed,
and that hundreds, probably thousands, re-
ceived more or less serious injuries. One
third of Port Louis, the Capital City, was COM
pletely demolished, 600 persons perishing in
that City alone. Pecuniary aid is urgently
needed. The damage to shipping can hardly
be estimated. Edward Parker Deacon, the
1 American who shot his wife's lover in the hotel
| at Cannes, France, was convicted at Nice of
unawfully wounding NJ Abeille and sentenced
| to one years Imprisonment. Great interest
was shown in the trial, and the sentence,
which in its severity was entirely unexpected.
met with storm of groans and Misses. A
deposition by Mrs. Deacon was read in which
she denied having been intimate with the dead
man, and said her husband was mailman and
drunkard. Mr.. Deacon stated that no had
already brought suit for divorce.--The New
foundland Government, acting under pressure
from the Imperial authorities, has decided to
recede from its position of antagonism to
Canada and accept the mOdus vivendi with
her. Under this the present prohibitory tariff
on Canadian products will be removed and per-
mission given to her fishermen to secure bait.
This will mean serious loss to the American
trade, as importation will be resumed with
Canada, while the competition will largely
increase the price of bait-An earth
quake occurred in Transcaucasis last week.
Three villages near Erivan were destroyed,
and 81 persons killed and large num-
Der injured. The Russian province in
which this disturbance took place is on the
border of Asiatic Turkey, just southeast of the
Black Sea. The district is of a mountainous
character, Mount Ararst lying about 90 miles
south of the city Of Erivan.-A great sensa-
ton was caused last week In Rome by the
escape of nun named Ermelind, from the
Convent of Santa Maria at Orta. Owing to a
suspected love affair she had been ill-treated
in the convent until she became incensed. She
escaped with the assistance of the convent
pupils, and took refuge at the home of one of
the pupils The eccesiastics applied to the
police, but they rightly refused any assistance
in recapturing the woman.-The Brazilian
ironclad Solimoes, one Of the six warships
sent against the rebels at Matte Groso, was
wrecked In the harbor Of Montevideo and loo
men of her crew were drowned. Only five
escaped. The lost ironclad was built at La
Ssyns at cost of $2,7OO,00 The Solimoes
was an old.style vessel of the monitor type.
At sea all deck matches were necessarily fast
ened down, as tho waves broke over her whole
length. When she struck the rocks the bulk
Of the crew were below decks. and there was
hardly possible chance for them to got OUT
At San Paulo Brazil, the Solicitor of the Re-
public has begun proceedings for the prosscu-
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