New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-20
Nep9lprk D,rilp Gribm,re.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY
SATURDAY. MAY 20. 1898.
TWELVE PAGES.
TIE NEUS THIS MORNING.

ForciQn-A heavy missile was thrown at the
compartment Of railway train in which Mr..
Gladstone was travelling: il struck the next COM
partment nearly hitting tine Dean Of Chester.
- The strike of dock laboers at Hull has
been settled. Brazilian Government troops
were drawn into an ambuscade in Rio Grande do
Sui and then routed by the insurgent force -
The Italian Cabinet has resigned. - new
ukase has been issued expeing the Hebrews from
the Asiatic provinces Of Russia.
Domestic-C 5. Rogers, leading business
man of st. Paul. committed suicide by leaping
from bridge into the Mississippi. - The
Local DIRECTORY Of the Worlds Fair decided not
to open the gates next Sunday, in order to give
the National Commission more time TO consider
the question - RumOrs of a receivership for
the Whiskey Trus; were afoat in Chicago -
President Galloway, of the Toledo, st. Louis and
Kansas City Railroad. was appointed receiver for
the road by Judge Kicks in Cleveland. - The
President and Mrs. Cleveland gave reception
at the White House to the members Of the
Presbyterian General Assembly,
City and Suburban.-A coroners jury in Brook
lyn brought in a verdict that old woman died
from Injuries received in the Flatbush Insane Asy
lum. = The Giants defeated the Senators at
the Polo Grounds by score OF 0 to Z. - Win
ners at Gravesend TOrmentor. Joe Ripley. Sport.
Faulty, ChOrister, Curacao. - The lnfanfa
Eulale was welcomed TO New-fork she was car
ried on special train to Washington. - Stocks
quiet, but exceedingly strong. and the closing was
generally at the highest figures shipments of gold
will be about 80, 500, 0O0 money on call was easy
at per cent.
The Weather Forecast for to-day Fair ; slight
ly warmer: west winds. Temperature yesterday
Highest, "a degrees; lowest so; average, % ia.
Further reports in regard to the floods in the
West are by no means reassuring. The amount
of damage which has been caused, directly and
indirectly, will aggregate an immense sum. A
dispatch from Spokane states that Northern
Idaho and Western Washington have been in
jured many hundred thousands of dollars
bridges and dwellings have been swept away
and crops utterly ruined. The Spokane River
was never so high before as it is to-day. while
in the mountains the rain continues to fall.
Turning to the East we read that the Kennebec
River has risen to a well-nigh unprecedented
height, and that it is estimated that five million
legs have been swept down the river.
Unofficial advices received i'm Washington
point to an armistice between the hostile fac
tons in Nicaragua. This issue is more probable
than a series of battles. Revolutions in Central
America are invariably political campaigns.
Troops are employed OH each side, and efforts
are made by the leaders to overawe and out
manoeuvre opponents without their having re-
course to fighting and bloodshed If the armies
are 50 evenly matched that battle is required
to settle the controversy. the politicians are in
the mood for compromise of some kind. When
the details of this revolution are received it
will probably be found to be feud between
two groups of intriguing politicians, neither OF
which was prepared for military campaign.
Contrary to general expectation, the Infanta
Eulalie did not land in New York, but in Jersey
City, whence she started yesterday afternoon
by special train for Washington, feeling, no
doubt, that courtesy demanded that she should
Arst greet the Chief Magistrate Of the United