The news boy., 1894-04-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

a TYPOGRAPHICAL. error has made an
admirer of Kossuth say: His mastery
of the English language amazed me:
he was in touch with all the odiuns.
English idioms are doubtless odious to
foreigners. however, and the linotype
may not have been so far wrong as it
seems.
THE government of Portugal has re-
piled to the demand of President
PeiXoto of Brazil for the surrender of
the insrrgent refugees who sought an
asylum on Portuguese vessels after the
surrender in Rio harbor. refusing to
surrender them. 1t maintains that to
comply with the demand would be con-
trary to the principles of humanity
and opposed to all precedents OF inter-
national law.
On the morning of the Goth Alex.
Paris. aged Il, Office boy at the Chcsa.
peake & Ohio office in Cincinnati, was
sent to the Market national bank with
S25. lie forged check for sG25, sign
ing c. Il. Ryans name it, got the
money and decamped.
THE engagement of Howard Gould
and Miss Bessie Kirkland. better known
on the stage rs Odette Tyler, a promi-
nent member of Charles Frohman's S
company, about which there had been
rumors for some time past. was an
nounced on the 27th. as a positive fact
II. l.. Stout, the Dubuque ia mil.
lionaire. has made gift of his prop
ertv on the corner of Ninth and Iowa
streets to the Young Mems Christian
associati ton of Dubuque. 1t is valued
at 100000.
STEPHEN T. GAGE, Mrs. Leland Stan
ford's representative in the Central Pa
cific Railway Co., has resigned, the ul-
innate object being the withdrawal of
the Stanford estate from the Central
Pacific.
AT the suit of Russell B. Harrison,
eX-President Harrison's law partner,
Howard Cole, was, on the 27th, ap-
pointed receiver of the Queen City
Electric Railway Co.. of Marion, Ind
WEMYss Bros, of Boston, manufac-
turers of furniture, made an assign
ment on the 27th. \ recent balance
sheet showed assets of about 500. 900,
and surplus of nearly $50, 900.
Coll JOHN PEAvY, for many years a
resident of Battle Creek, Mich, died,
on the Goth, aged 60. He was at one
time a member of the Massachusetts
legislature.
REPRESENTATIVE BOEN, of Mime
sofa, has introduced a bill for the re-
duction of compensation of persons in
the government service. The bill re-
cites that the unit value of money is
decreasing and that private wages are
falling, while public salaries are kept
up to their old figures.
A PLOT was discovered on the 27th
by which three notorious murderers
expected to free themselves from the
county Jail in San Francisco. Already
the tunneling through the Jail wal
had begun. The three men who
had done this work were hurriedly
transferred to the county Jail at San
Jose. They are Thomas st. Clair, Her
man Spark and John Hanson.
| THE European Unicn of Astronomers
faint comet by w. Z. Denning, of Bris
tol, England. Its position is: March
26, 396 Greenwich mean time; right as
cension hours and So minutes; decli
nation north 81 degrees and l5 min
utes. The daily motion of the object
is south following degree.
The anniversary of the birthday OF
Gen. U. S. Grant, which occurs April
27, will be commemorated by the Ham
ilton Republican club of New Yorl,
city, which will give dinner on that
night. Among the invited guests are
Gen. Horace Porter, John 5. Wise. Cor
nelius N. Bliss, John A. Cockerill, D.
b. ST. John Rosa, Roswell G. Horr and
Congressman Lemuel E. Quigg.
ANsoN NoRTHUP, one of the best
known pioneers in the northwest, died
in St Paul, Mimi, ON the 27th, oi
consumption, aged 76 years He went
to the northwest with his bride ii
1889, driving the first herd of cattle
across Wisconsin to ST. Croix Falls
He was o member of the territorial
senate in 1857.
LUTHER HARsHBERGER, a young mar
of Newmarket, O.. accidentally shot
and killed his wife. ON the 2sth, Il
whom he had been married but a year
lie was trying TO kill cats, and fell
down, disehargipg his gun In the tall