The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-01-21

cape was mpossible.-JOhn Andersen was
held in Cleveland last week under charges Of
robbery and bigamy. Andersen has n total Of
10 wives thus, far, and other Counties TO hear
from. The four women heard from at Glove
land all complain of having been robbed Of
large sums Of money by Andersen, who in each
case left them to shift for themselves soon as
he could obtain possession Of their pocketbooks.
DR.. Graves, convicted of numbering Mrs.
Barnaby, at Providence, K. l., has. in Denver,
Colo, applied for a reprieye Of so days His
petition is accompanied by his affidavit, in
which he denies that he Is guilty, and AYERS
that il will require at least 60 days for the
stenographer TO prepare q transcript Of the
case for his appeal to the Supreme Court. IL
also states that repeated errors were made by
Judge Rising during the trial. He Will have
his wish II the Supreme Court cannot reach
the case in go days.
Foreign.
Sir Richard Cartright addressed large meet
ing in PictOn, Ont, on 1.-The Political Situa-
tion." lie stated that Canadians were being
ruined by taxation. and that Canada In the last
decade had lost IS heavily in population as did
Ireland during the famine. The trade returns
showed that the duty collected on English
goods amounted TO 224 per cent, while on goods
from the United States the duty collected
amounted to only l4i per cent, owing to the
larger amount Of free goods mpOrted from the
States than from Great Britain.-In Sofia,
Bulgaria, 80 officers Of the army were arrested
last week on the charge Of being implicated in
plot against the lives Of Prince Ferdinand,
the ruler Of Bulgaria, and NJ. StambulOH. the
Bulgarian Prime Minister. Prince Ferdinand
had q narrow escape from being poisoned by
strychnine, at the hands Of the palace cook.
Fortunately the man was observed acting in q
suspicious manner. He was detected in the
very act Of placing the strychnine in some dish
he had prepared for the Prinee.-Dooganav
| ioff, the notorious Anarchist, who had long
been wanted by the police Of several Of the
| Capitals Of Europe, was arrested last week in
Soho, London, upon suspicion Of having been
concerned in the manufacture of bombs and in
the spread of the literature seized by the police
when tho Socialist Club at Walsall was raided
| recently. At Walsall the police also arrested
| William Ditchfeld. Ditehfeld was brought
| before magistrate and charged, in company
with John Westley. who was arrested at the
same place the day befOre.-A Commercial
Convention has been signed between Portugal
and Brazil, by which special advantages are
granted to Portuguese wines and Brazilian
sugar.-The prevailing opinion among the
| public men in Santiago and Valparaiso is that
| the elections soon to DO held in Argentina will
| end in revolution. This idea seems TO be con-
! frmed by the news received from BuenOs Ayres.
| Admiral Solier has taken command Of the Ar
| gentine squadron, and has ordered several ships
/ To be put in readiness for immediate use. This,
coupled with his recent disagreement with
President Pellegrini, arouses the suspicion that
the situation is not so serene as it might be-
| The returns from the Guatemalan elections are
| in. DIR. Lainfessa has been chosen President,
and Manuel A. Saborio, at present in Mexico as
an exile, Secretary of the Treasury.
| TOPPER Furness, member Of Parliament for
| Hartleport has invited subscriptions from
British shipOwners 10 defrsy the cost Of con-
| veying to the Russian famine sufferers 100000
pounds Of -four contributed in the United
/ States.