Fair play., 1892-04-09

me president, on the 3nth, nominated
rank l.. Combs. of California; as min.
lister to Japan.
fS tn" iSt the house committee on
appropriations reported the urgency
deficiency bill. The amount carried by
the bill is $9a2,G3O.
THE Cl2n-na-tiacl proposes To arm its
camps with rifles, for practice in clubs
ia that Stiliful marlsmen Will he ready
"hcn occasion offers To help free Ire.
land.
me On" legislature has passed the
b'ii fr"lStricting the state for congress
SI"ilai purposes. The new act gives the
r'Wihilcans fifteen and the democrats
SIX hiH':f"ts, just the reverse of the pres
cut aaportioninent.
ONE of the most widespread, and dis
aStrouS cyclones that has visited this
country for many years spread dcstruc-
tl"n of life and property throughout
Nebraska, Iowa, Western Missouri and
EanaaS on the list
IHE Italian government. it is re-
ported officially, may conclude to take
az; official part in the Chicago World 5
fair, provided congress will vote to in
drmnify the families of the Italians
1yncted at New Orleans
OK the 2Sth the president and his
cabinet considered the latest note from
lord Salisbury on the Behring sea seal
ing question, and later caused it TO be
understood that its tenor was very sat
lSfactory to this government.
ApvICES from Santos. Brazil, under
dat" of March Il, say that the yellow
fever epidemic in that city is claiming
IRON one to two hundred victims daily,
and the fntcndente has had to order the
enlargement of the cemetery
BR. NoN lioIMFELDT. n aGcrman baron
with the b!ucst of noble blood in his
veins WAS arrested in London, on the
2Sth, i'll the act of burglarizinga tavern.
He admitted the theft, and said that
poverty and hunger drove him to the
crime.
PREMIER RUD!NI has written letter
Italian artists in the Chicago Worlds
fair and promising the moral support of
the government. which. he says, would
facilitate in every possible manner the
transportation and safe keeping of the
Italian exhibits
FoRTy foreigners suspected of being
engaged in anarchial plots were. on the
@0th. ordered to quit France The num-
her included Germans, Russians, Swiss
Italians and other natiOnaliticS. They
were given twentyfour hours to get out
of the country. any of them found in
France after that time to be imprisoned.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, the British
minister, had personal conference
with President Harrison on the 3ist.
This was a most unusual proceeding
and ncca2inrcd much comment. After
wards Secretary Blaine called at the
White House. The visit is believed IT, he
connected with the Bchring sea matter.
EX-Gov. .JoTN W. EOYT. chairman of
the Russian famine relief committee of
the United States. is sending ont an ap-
ell or other chief authorities of the in
corporatcd cities and villages OF the
whole country. 1t is a striking picture
of the suifcrings in the famine districts.
PREMIER LoUBET held Il conference.
on The 2ath. with the chief of the Paris.
ian detective force, and it was rcsolvcC
that the police should not be limited in
the stringcncy of their treatment of
suspected dynamitcrs. but that all per
sons arrested on reasonable suspicion
should be treated with the utmost rigor
allowed by the law.
A SPECIAL meeting of the stockhold.
crS of the Standard Oil Co. was held at
the company's office in New York. on
the 3lat, for the purpose of increasing
the capital Stock from $1,000, 900 to 81
600 600. The increase WAS ordered made.
The additional capital is to he used for
buying independent plants and to pay
for some recent purchases of small con
Germs.
THE PruSSian landtag has passed the
Guelph fund bill by which the duke Of
Cumberland. heir To the throne of Ham
over, receives large share of the So
called Guelph fund, being the proceeds
nf the scqucstratcd property of the late
king Of Hanover; the duke in return. il
j. understood. virtually surrcudering to
Prussia his claim to the llanovcrian
crown.
CHARLES ID. DRAKE, cx-chicf- justice
of the court of claims. WAS found dead
in his bed at his residence in Washing
ton cn the lst. His death WAS entirely
unexpected. rs the night previous he
attended praycr-mcctinra at the Western
PRESBYTERIAN church. and took part as
usual. Returning home. he spent an
hnur or two with his family. and retired
in apparently good health. Judge
Drake was 81 years old
THE greatest railway ~orlls in the
world, those of the London * North
western railroad at Crewc. narrowly
ESCAPED destruction by fire on the 29th.
before the conflagration WAS subdued.
many buildings. with their machinery,
were consumed. The damage is c>ti-
mated at e50.00o. the principal loss he
inu the machinery. \ large number of
pcople are out of work through the
calamity.
THE lawyer who has undertaken the
dcfcus. of Dceming. the pcrpctrator of
the Rain Hill LiverpooN murders, SAYS