The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph ana Mail.
PERSONAL AND political.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE senate on the 29th ratified the
Behring sea arbitration treaty and on
the same day the cabinet accepted Lord
Salisbury's proposition.
THE senate has made the following
confrmations: John H. Baker, United
States district judge for the district OF
Indiana; Daniel L. Hyndman, agent for
the Indians of Sisseton Agency, S. D.
The German government suffered an
other defeat in the reichstag.
COL INGERsoLI, according to the wish
of the poet, has been asked to deliver
the grafton at the grave of Walt Whit
man and it is expected that he will ac-
cept.
OVER 5000 persons listened to Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew's grafton on the occasion
of the memorial services in honor of
Gen. w. 7. Sherman, under the auspices
of the legislature of the state of New
York, which was held on the goth in
Bleecker hall, Albany.
A REPORT from London saws that the
result of negotiations in the Behring
sea controversy is regarded there as a
triumph for English diplomacy. It is
stated that the charges that the posi-
ton of the United States was entirely
due to political considerations are re-
newed with added arguments.
The report lately sent out from Okla
homa that United States Marshal
Grimes, of that territory, had been in
dicted for perjury is without foundation
in. fact A prominent citizen of that
territory, entirely worthy of credit, says
there is not word of truth in the state
ment.
SENATOR CULLoM has withdrawn from
the presidential race in favor of Presi-
dent Harrison
EX-SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hamp-
shire, has announced himself a candi-
date for the republican presidential
nomination.
The Kansas peoples party convention
will meet at Wichita June Is.
DICTATOR PALAcIo, of Venezuela, has
issued fiery proclamation.
Col. R. G. INeERsoLL delivered an ora
ton over the remains of Walt Whitman
on the S0th.
CYRUS w, FIELD is of the opinion that
his son is insane.
The German reichstag on the 3Oth
passed the bill allowing the govern
ment to declare a state of siege in
Alsace-Lorraine in the event of war
The house also passed a credit for the
construction of complete system of
strategic railways.
EX-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAMS, registrar
of the land Office at Watertown, S. d.,
died on the S0th ult. He represented
the Racine, Wis, district in congress for
ten years and was brilliant orator in
his day.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times asserts that Prince Bismarck
told friend recently that he had
warned Emperor William when he
quilted the Office of chancellor that the
artisans whom the emperor desired to
regenerate would prove more migrate
full than courteous; that he might see
even a repetition of the scenes of 1s4s,
when the Prussian sovereign was forced
to flee from the rioters
HON. CHARLES D. DRAKE, late chief
Justice of the United States court of
claims, was found dead in his bed at
Washington, D. c., on the morning of
the 1st, at the advanced age of eighty
one years. His death was wholly un-
expected and without warning.
The Delaware county, Pa, democratic
convention has indorsed Cleveland and
Gov. Pattison's administration.
THE democratic and peoples party
committeeman have decided upon coali-
tion in the Second Kansas congressional
district.
MRS MARY RIoRDAN, mother of Arch
bishop Riordan, of San Francisco, died
on the 1st of old age She was 80 and
was one of Chicagos oldest settlers.
THE bishop of Viviers having gone to
Rome without first obtaining permits
mission from the French government
has been deprived of his salary during
t,ss ,,I,s