Fair play., 1893-05-27
CURRENT TOPICS
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GEN5Rh..

ceiveG :.t the treasury department re-,
specting the decision of the supreme
court in the Chinese exclusion act.
most OF them asking that the law he
suspended for at least six months.
BEFoEE leaving Havana for New
York the Infanta Eulalie. her has
band and the duke of Tamafnra gave
$500 to he distributed Ia charity and
as gifts.
GEORGE IL. ABBoTT, alias Frank t.
Almy. the murderer Of Christie War.
den. July Il, ls"!, was hanged in the
jail yard at Concord, n. H., on tbo ,H.h
7FEHERMEN found badly ttecemposed
body in the Hudson river in the vicini
.ty of Sing Sing, n. Y, on the 10th
which proved, on. examination. to be
that of I'allister, one of the two con
,demned mnrderers who escaped from
the prison at Sing sing, few week,
ago. Both are now accounted for
Roch'e's body having been found sev,
eral days before. %@
FORMAL changes have been fled
against cX-Cum'f.sSSinncr of Patents
Simonds end Foster * Freeman. the
Washington attorneys for the Eeli
Telephone. Co., alleging improper III
spcction of the secret flies in the cele-
hratcd Drawhargh telephone eases,
and the unlawful taking of copies
thcrcoffor the private use of Simonds
and of the Bell Trlephone'Co.
LIE Rio Grande river WAS reported.
on-the Eth. to hc out OF its banks and
doing much damage both in Mexico
and Texas. Thousands of acres Of bot
tom land were inundated. and the losses
of cattle and horses We're very heavy
The Matamoras branch of the Mexican
National railroad was washed away in
many places, several lives had been
lost.
t"r TRENsk, who murdered IInnry
Facdler, on the 9th. was haaSed at
Hrownstown, Ind ~ > o'clock on the
morning If The 18th. by mob from
seymour, The Iynching party being
composed OF the same men who hanged
ut bedford, Oh the 18th.
LATER particulars frcn; She great fire
in Kan Ii, China. stale that over 1000
lives We're iusi. While the fire was rag
ing Il band of well-dressed Chinese. un-
known to the natives rushed in and
seized the best-looking Young women
and girls to the number of thirty or
forty, and carried them away.
THE government of Queensland has
proclaimed n holiday for enc month in
the gold fields. in order to enable mine
owners and Others embarrassed as to
their business 10y the recent failures to
snaiie new arrangements as to their
financial affairs
SECRETARY IiERDGEr has issued an
order directing Lieut.. Com. Feeder. at
present in command of the Santec at
the naval academy. To report for duty
nS executive officer on the Charleston.
which Will soon. sail for the Pacific
coast. .F...
THE ting Continental and scow were
washed ont into the lax" from Con-
ncaut. o., on the nth. and foundercd
Seven men and two women. who were
on board. were drowned.
NoHwEGI ANS attended the Worlds
fair by the thousands on the 9Th. They
went To celebrat te the dedication of the
Norwegian building at the fair and to
commemorate the separation of the
Norwegian kingdom from that OF Den
mark.
THE duke of Ncragua visited the
Worlds fair, on the Eth. in honor of
the seventh birthday of his sovereign.
KirS Alfonso NH.
\ TUEEE-MAsTEn SCHOONER was seen
to go down in Lake Erie about two
miles west Of Conncaut,s o.. onahe
night OF the 10th.
AUSTRALIANS. who have exhibits at
the Worlds fair are beginning to feel
the serious effects of the recent bank
failures in that country. Chicago
banks. they claim, will not honor their
letters of credit on account Of the un-
sound condition Of the Australian insti-
tutionS.
PATRICK None An, of bethlehem. Pa.
was arrested in Philadelphia, on the
Eth. for stealing bull dog and the
game cocks belonging To DIR. Elwood
Worcester, chaplain of the Lchigh uni
versity. DIR. Worcester has the finest
fighting pups and game chickens in
Bethlehem.
THE schooner Pelican foundered off
the piers ut tshtabuia, o.. on the night
Of the 10th. Three Of her crew of seven
men were drowned. 5rd one of the res
cued was badly injured.
\ DECISION has been rendered by the
United States general appraisers in the
ease of the buffalo Natural Gas Fuel
Co. against the collector of customs at
Buffalo. y. Y. br (which imported! nat
ural gas is pronounced to he crude min
eral. exempt from duty under the pro
visions of the statutes.
Il. IL. DrrroN, sergeant of Co. +. Sev-
infantry. killed himself At
Fort Russell. near Cheyenne. Wyo., on
the nth. He waited till all others had
left the quarters for duty and used ::
heavy revolver The bullet entered
hack nf the left ear and tore off the top
Of The skull.
ALEERr W. MCPHERSON. cx-prcsident
Of the Mexican Central railroad, an ex-
director OF the Atchisoa, Topeka x
Santa Fe and New York & New En-
gland railroads, died Mt pcdham.
Mass. on the Eth. nf peritouitis. His
estate is estimated varioustv from s.
poo. 600 to $50. e00, ,o0a
CAPT. CRAWFORD and Nate Fitz-cr-
all. of the British bark Watchman.
have been committed for trial 1T the
Liverpool a>>ize> on the charge of man
in haring caused the death
nf George Orr. sailor, hy brutal treat
nent.
GEO. HoLrz. Il merchant tail or OF In
committed suicide. on the
Eth. hy drowning himself in the canal.
No cause is known for the deed.
HARRIS BLANK and Isaac RoSenweig
were hanged in the Jail yard Al Tunli-
hammock. Pa, on the 18th. for the mur-
Ter of a fcilow-pc6dler named Jacob
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