The free press., 1892-03-17
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS
INTERESTING HOME AND FoR-
EICN MATTERS.

the TIE Deum at the celebration of the
fourteenth anniversary of his corona
ton.
Patrick Burns and G.. M. Julian,
cooks, employed on the lakes, have
been arrested at New York for smug-
Cling. Jewels valued at $4,000 were
found ON them.
At Lincoln, the supreme court has
decided that pencil marks made on an
Australian ballot are illegal, and that
the notation shall be made with a pen
and ink.
The Berlin municipal authorities
have rejected the socialist motion for
urgency in the starting of public
works for the l.urpose of allevlating
the distress prevailing here.
The United States steamer York
town, now at Calloa, has been ordered
to proceed to San Francisco with as
little delay as possible, stopping ell
route at the principal ports of Central
America and Mexico.
The Austrian Emperor has for
hidden the play entitled "Die Sklavin"
at the Vienna court theatre on the
ground that it deals too frankly with
the sanctity of the marriage relation.
The 5000 shoemakers in Leicester
shire, England, who have been OH a
strike during the past week, have re-
turned &c work, having made satis-
factory arrangements with their en-
ployers.
The Sienans & Halske electric light
company, OF Berlin, the largest elec-
trio light company in the world, is
about to locate in Chicago, making
this the center of extensive operations
throughout the United States.
At Portsmouth, o., Alonzo Lawson,
proprietor of the st. Charles hotel, has
disappeared. Investigation shows
financial complications of magnitude,
coupled with green cloth sport. He
leaves debts behind said to be high in
the thousands.
Near Akron, o., an attempt was
made to wreck the west-bound N. Y,
p. " o. passenger train by placing
logs on the track. The engineer saw
the obstruction in time to save the
train, although it was ditched. No
one was injured.
The Mercantile bank of Melbourne
has suspended payment owing to run
prompted by rumors as to its sound
ness. The assets of the bank are said
to be equal to the liabilities, and with
time for realization, all will be paid in
full.
Frank Melbourne, the ''rainmaker,"
has telegraphed to Cheyenne, Wyo.,
telling of his success in producing rain
at Hermosilla, in the state of Sonora,
Mexico. This is the dry season, but
two inches of rainfall is a result of
Melbourne s efforts.
Much concern is felt in maritime
circles for the safety of the British
steamer, TrewaveO, which left Cardiff
on January 18th for Jamaica, Santa
Lucia or st. Thomas, i'll the West
Indies. Nothing has been heard OF the
vessel or her crew of tifty-one men.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
at Elmwood colliery, at Mahanoy City,
Pa, and five men were badly burned.
The men were taken. to their homes
1t is thought by doctors that none of
them will recover.
The radical and conservative news
| Iacla thnf fha Niofnru of tho
new French cabinet in the chamber of
deputies was due to fear of Il re-
newal of the crisis. They do not con-
slider that majority in the chamber of
deputies is solid or capable of resist
ance.
AT Chicago, Kate Brown, wife Of
only five days committed suicide by
shooting herself with revolver. She
was married to one Mike Brown, and
it is thought that dependency over
the fact that she did not marry for
mer lover named Weis led to the sui
eide.
The Vossiche Zeitung severely con-
demns the government for the prose-
cution of ,..c.'"spapers on the charge or
treason. 1t says that the effect of this
will inevitably be to lower Germany
in the eyes of foreigners. Nothing,
it declares, is more harmful to II
crown than the forced silence of a
nation.
The Brussels papers deny the report
that the government has received
communication relative to the appoint
ment of a Belgian arbitrator in the
Behring sea dispute between Great
Britain and the United States. They
assert that the arbitrators Will be
drawn from Italy, France and Sweden.
The German steamer California,
from Hamburg, which has arrived at
New York, will be detained at quaran-
tine. She has case OF smallpox