The Daily bulletin., 1893-05-03
AMERICAN NOTES.
Interesting Jott,ngs from All Parts
of the Union.


Memphis has the sensation of hav.
ing its chief criminal Judge impeach-
ed.
Not single law has been enacted
by the Connecticut Legislature for
two years.
The Grand Jury of Bowie county,
Texas, have indicted number of the
county officials.
The locks of the new North Amerl-
can Canal, in Canada, are to be ope-
rated by compressed air.
All the pool-rooms of Buffalo have
taken the advice of the Chief of Police
and closed their doors.
A number of prominent citizens
have been indicted at Hillsboro, ILL.,,
on a charge of gambling.
In Philadelphia, the other day,
bicycle rider ran into a horse and
fatally injured the animal.
A despatch from Denver states that
the gold camps never were in more
prosperous condition than at present
The Maine House of Representa-
tives has passed bill that prohibits
the leading OF bears upon the high
ways.
Fifty-three officers and sailors of
the United States ship Philadelphia
are suffering from influenza at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Mrs. Sewell, an aged resident of
Oxford, Ohio, died the other day from
a shock caused by terrific clap of
thunder and vivid flash of lightning.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
advocate, has closed 5.weeks cam
paign at Hartford, Conn.,, with 14,O0O
signers to the pledge of total abstin-
ence.
May and September are to be the
fashionable months at the Chicago
Exposition, and most of the swell
New Workers will make up parties to
go in private cars.
A woman is under Indictment at
New York for swindle. She told
her victims she could get offices un-
der Cleveland for them, and did "a fat
business at $500 an office.
Tintoretto's portonit of "a Vene-
tian Nobleman," in the Palace of the
Doges at Venice, has been hacked to
pieces. 1t was valued at 800 900 francs.
There is no clue to the culprit.
Joseph E. Bower, recently appoint.
ed Postmaster at New Washington
Ind, has served term in the State
Prison for sheep-stealing, and even
some Democrats in that town are cry.
ing wolf.
United States Contract Inspector
Karowski, on duty at the immigration
Station at New York, has received a
letter from the Malta threatening him
with death for sending contract Ital.
ian laborers back to Europe.
A beech tree, on which Daniel
Boone carved his name in rude letters
1873 years ago, will be unique part
of Tennessee's contribution to Worlds
Fair curios. The tree WAS long II land
mark near Jonesborough, Tenn.
Several of the cannons captured
during the Revolutionary and Mexi
can war2, which have lain for many
years on the bluff at West Point
known as Trophy Point, overlooking
the Hudson, have been shipped to the
Columbian Exposition.
Among the historic trinkets to be
melted down for the Columbian Lib
erty Bell is IA link from the gold chain
worn by Lincoln at the tine of hit
assassination. This interesting con
| rih ~, 10 Co.,
ished by Minister Robert II. Lincoln
Senator Hoar had narrow escape
from suffocation while asleep in .
New York hotel few nights ago by
the leakage of gas through defec
in the stop-cock of the pipe, which
was fortunately detected by one of the
employees in the hall in season tc
arouse him in time to prevent any
serious consequences.
Up to 1857 there was a county in
Michigan called Michilimackinac. il
has sincs been known as Mackinac
and the Secretary of State is endeavo
ring to ascertain by what authority
the change was made. AS the two
words, which appear so different tC
the eye, are pronounced exactly alike
there are good economic reasons fol
using the shorter one.
Chief Justice Cederkrantz of Samoa
says the white population of Samoa is
composed mostly of deserters from
ships and other adventurers, who fine
it to their advantage to foment dis
orders. The Consuls, he says, do not
observe the Berlin Treaty and the
Tripolte Government has become q
farce.
The United States Supreme Cour
has decided that foreign patent hav
ing lapsed by reason of non-payment
Of taxes, an American patent granted
thereafter for the same invention il
void. This action, 1t is said, destroys
Edison's quadruplex telegraph patent
and also his three mlcrophone pat
ents, leaving the Bell Company, afte
next January, to stand wholly on th'
Berliner patent.
When William Fl. Vanderbilt diet
he left each of his eight children
Sll 100000, and divided the residu,
between Cornelius and Willie X.
high financial officer, whose name
am not at liberty to give, but who's,
authority l tell you is unimpeachable
told me last summer that that residu,
was not far from $200,0O0,000, SO it il