The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-25
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The United States Supreme Court has de-
! cided that the great lakes are covered by the
term high seas"
There continues to be numerous explosions
! of bombs in different cities of Spain, though
I without serious results.
| The war Of recrimination between Powder
| ly and Hayes Is said to have been very bitter
| during the convention OF the Knights OF
1 Labor.
The assistant attorney general OF the post
Office department has held that bond invest
mcnt schemes ought not to be permitted 70
use the mails.
| Half n dozen men attempted to kidnap a l2-
year-old girl at New Albany, Indiana, on the
goth, but the father shot one and the Others
were captured,
A large sum OF pension money has been
paid TO fraudulent claimants At Buffalo, The
pension bureau Is getting at the facts and e1-
poets To arrest the frauds
Three young French Canadians were ar
rested few nights since while attempting to
blow up the Nelson monument at Montreal,
There is good deal of feeling between
French and British citixcns.
The future location OF the bureau of awards
at the Worlds Fair has, it Is said, been finally
settled by determination TO remove 1t TO
Washington, and quarters have already been
engaged In the Pacific building. =
Secretary Carlisle has ordered the release of
the Russian convicts picked up at sea and
landed at San Francisco. II is understood
that the Russian minister will endeavor to
have them rearrested and extradited.
The appraiser OF Edwin Booths estate, DR..
Van shaak, has filed his report, which gives
the gross value of the estate left by the late
Edwin Booth at s602,615, After deductlng
for debts, legacies, funeral expenses etc, the
balance is SiU1,3
Another favorable note from the Sultan OF
Morocco has been received by the Spanish
government 1t Ia reported that the sultan
further
give further guarantees of the strict observ-
anee OF treaty tights.
The eldest son of Count d Eu, Prince Pedro,
who is said to have been proclaimed emperor
OF Brazil by Admiral de Mello, has started for
st. Naziere, seaport near Nantes, where, 1t
| Is stated he Will start for Brazil, accompanied
by suite of twenty persons.
Secretary Gresham has given to the press
the report OF Commissioner Blouut on Ha-
| wniian affairs. The report Is substantially
as stated by the papers which got hold OF it q
| few days before. 1t states that the revolution
WIS encouraged by Minister Stevens.
The fishing tug 0ggel, belonging to the
| Sandusky Fishing Company, was seized near
Pole island, Lake Erie, by Canadian authori-
ties The boat and crew OF six were taken To
| Amhcrstburg where they are held on the
charge of fishing in Canadian waters. More
seizures will follow,
The annual report of Governor Renfrew, OF
| Oklahonia, places the population of the terri
tory AT lJl ,5Ui, anu tnc CnerOkee strip ut
| 100000. The assessed valuation of property
| is Sl3,95l 900, and the capital stock of the
national banks is reported as sS55,000. De-
| posits 81 ,429, 900. and loans and discounts
| sl,042 GOO.
Further particulars OF the recent flood in
| Okayama, received from Japan by the steam
| er Belgic show 3,201 deaths from drowning,
| 4i4 In iurcd, Z, 201 houses washed away, g. OBJ
| houses nearly or quite destroyed, AZ, ,42g build
| ings partly wrecked and and 1,fly acres of
land more or less damaged The survivors
arc In great distress.
Yokohama advlces of November say the
| anti-mixed residence movement continues to
| spread. 1t is rumored 10000 people of ku-
| mamoto alone have signed petitions against
mixed residence 1t is alleged that hostile
| feeling in that locality is SO great that the
| government advised the missionaries to leave
their residences.
Professor Garner, the American who went
| into the forests of Africa about year ago TO
| live with monkeys and learn their language,
| has arrived at Liverpool on his return trip.
He claims that his visit to Africa was great
success. and that the monkey family has
language. The professor lived in cage in
the heart of forest for l0l days, and his sole
| companions were monkeys.
| The Etoie Beige has received dispatches
reporting recent fighting in the Congo state.
| They say that Captain Pointer, after captur-
| ing klrundu, pressed the hostile Arabs and
crushed them completely. He succeeded in
capturing said Abou Abadi, who WIS respon-
| sIble for the assassination and beheadng OF
| Emin Pasha. Abadi was condemned to death
and shot.
Three young ladies of XenIa Salle and So
phia Kelso. daughters Of +. VI. Kelso, teller
In the Senia National bank, and Lena Mc-
Dill, daughter OF Mr.. David McDill, profess
sor in the ". p. Seminary were killed We'd
nesday afternoon by west-bound Panhandle
train at the edge Of that city, while on their
way home from visit to sick girl
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazats says that
the Standard on Company is preparing to
engage in the manufacture of steel more
gigantic scale than the Carnegles or any other
concern ia the country. new process has
been discovered to make steel direct from the
ore, that viii reduce the costto the minimum.
Prominent capitalists are now In Clcy Gland
negotiating with the Standard officials.
The New York bank statement on the 18th
was as follows: Reserve, increase, S7,04i $50;
loans, decrease 81 ,253, 200; specie, increase,
sl.219, 400; legal tender, increase, ss,5s0 coo;
deposits, Increase, 200; circulation, de-
crcuse s-II,,OJ. The banks now hold SfJ,-
40, 40 in excess OF the required % per cent.
rule. This Is the largest reserve on record.
The general term Of the New York Supreme
Court set aside the verdict in the of
Charles w. Gardner, superintendent of DR..
Parkhurst's society, who was convicted n year
ugo in the court OF general sessions for ey-
torting money from Lillian Clifton, the pro-
pretress of a disorderly house. An order was
Issued directing that Gardner be discharged
from the toulbs
Convicts at s'ope No. 9, Pratt mines, Ala
bama, saturated the bath house with oil and
set fire to 1t with view of escaping. Three
convic,s were sleeping in the bath house One
was rescued but Joseph Mills and Isaac Had
leg were burned to death. The conspiracy to
escape was thwarted. The two convicts i'm
| plored help but II was too late to reach them
and theT fell back into the flames and
burned.
Orman Azerak, at the head OF 300 dervishcs,
| left Dongola recently and attacked Murat
Wells on November 10. The Arabs had
| friendly post at Murat Wells under Selnh Bey
| \ desperate fight between the Two forces OF
| Orman Azerak and these of Selah Bey fol-
lowed for twentyfour hours. The dervishes
were repulsed with loss OF twenty nine
killed and rctrcated toward Abuhamcd. Sc
| lah Beg was killed. He held the Eastern
desert loyal for many years
| An order that will have a tendency to re-
strict the redemption of national bank notes
was issued by Treasurer Morgan Friday. It
| provides that "Dn and after November 81.
1898, the charges for the transportation Of
national bank notes to the treasurer of the
1 United stntcs for redemption under the act
approved June 20. 1874, us statutes 123) must
be paid by the party making the remittance.
| If the charges arc not paid the amount there
of will be deducted from the proceeds there
Of"
Three men entered the store of August
Loeb, on Federal street, Allegheny, Friday
afternoon, and whilc two engaged the atten-
zion of the clerk, the third grabbed tray
from the wlndow, on which were twcnty-four
diamonds, valued at 5000 and ran from the
store. The alarm given at once, and the
thief was chased TO Montgomery avenue and
captured While running he tried to throw
the tray into the sewer but failed. All the
diamonds hut two were recovered. The thief
Ia Harry ShafIer, of Chicago His confeder
ates escaped
A desperate duel took place near Napoleon,
ONO n few DAYS npo. between Charles Dayis