The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-03-31

Holding was instructed to vote for CIeveIand's
nomination The Democrats of the Fourth
Legislative District of Pennsylvania, at a con-
vention held IN HaZleton for the purpose of
electing three delegates to the State Conven-
ton. Endorsed Gov Pattison for President
Gov. Albeit, of New Jersey, last week signed
the bill which makes the terms of the Mayors
of Jersey City and Newark FIVE years the law
applying to the Mayors hereafter elected. -By
a unanimous vote of the Directors the Chicago,
st. Paul & Kansas City Railroad was leased last
week for 90 years to the Chicago & Great West
ern Company. Arrangements have been made
to raise 50 co., 900 cash by an issue Of stock, the
money to be used in increasing facilities in
order to accommodate increasing business.
General.
The steamer Majestic arrived in New York
harbor and was mmediately boarded by news.
paper men who were anxious to learn tho latest
developments in the Dray ton Borrowe case.
Both J. Coleman Drayton and Hallett Alsop
Borrowe were On board but neither would give
any information about the case. The two men
did not speak during the entire voyage, and
kept as far apart from each other as possible
The committee appointed by Post g. GAR, Of
Gettysburg, Pa, to secure an orator for Me-
mortal Day at that place, have received an
acceptance from Gen. Robert NJ. Henderson, of
Carlisle, a veteran of the Pennsylvania Re-
serves. The highwater mark will be dedi
Gated on Thursday of the same week in which
Memorial Day occurs.
Foreign.
The Court of Appeals in London has con-
frmed the decision of the court below in the
suit for divorce of Capt Armstrong from his
wife, Nine. Melba, the opeEa-singer, the Duke
of Orleans being the espondent-White-
law Reid, the American Minister in Paris, last
week was interviewed by the Eclair. In the
IS h. ed Do
nying that lie is a candidate for the Vice
Presidency, but he certainly would not shrink
from the task if he were selected as candidate
for the postion.-Lady Gordon Cumming,
wife of Sir William Gordon. Cumming, has been
delivered of a daughter. Sir William, it will
be remembered, was accused of cheating in a
game of baccarat, and brought suit for SANDER.
The finding was against him, but in the face
of his military disgrace and ostracism from
society" Miss Florence Garner, daughter of
the late Commodore Garner, married him the
next day after the verdict.-A special agent
of English capitalists is in New York to effect
a gigantic consolidation of all the big packing
establishments in Chicago, Kansas City, and
Omaha. The idea is 70 form a company which
is to be loated simultaneously in New York and
London. There is the utmost secrecy in Lon
don as to plans of the capitalists interested.
and the mission of the special agent has
been kept as quiet as possible. -
1t seems that in England neither the press
nor the Government has kept the people in
formed of the situation of the Boring Sea dis
pute. The correspondence between the two
Governments has not seen the light there.
Englishmen are in the dark as to the true
nature of the counter proposals made by Sails
bury, and as to his reasons for refusing to re-
new the m0dus Uireadi.-The strike of con-
ductors and engineers on the Canadian Pacific
has been settled sooner than the most saDguine
had anticipated. The points in dispute are to
be arbtrated, the men meanwhile returning
to their work.--The Empire, the chief Cana
dian Government organ, says that to accept
reciprocity with the United States, Canada
must sell herself into commercial bondage. 1T
is high time that Canadians took firm stand |
and sent no more delegates to Washington for
reciprocity treaty. We have gone there |
often enough and have returned empty-handed
on every occasion, and the selt-respeet and
honor of our people render it imperative
that if in any future time trade agree |
ment looms up on the horizon the United
States must come asking US to grant It,"
Princess Alix, of Hesse, granddaughter of
Queen Victoria and youngest daughter of the
late Grand Duke of Hesse and late Princess |
Alice. will soon arrive in Engla on long |
visit to the Queen. The visit will give an OPP |
portunity for the Princess to become more !
closely acquainted with Prince George of Wales. |
The Queen is DESTROYS of bringing about mar |
riace-King Sachity, of Croboe, West Africa, |
an important ally of the British, is dead
1t is announced that Premier Abbott, of Canada, |
will be knighted shortly by Queen Victoria. |
The Paris police have discovered band CT |
Anarchists who have little faith in dynamite, |
and who when found out were on the point OF /,
putting into effect another plan to insure the |
destruction of their enemies. They were re- |
solved to use poison instead of dynamite, and |
were making experiments to discover sub
stance that could be used to cause death |
without risk of detection. Several of these |
Anarchists have been arrested, and a guam
tity of the poison also secured.