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turn the Sicihan outbreak to account
In provoking war between Italy and
France.
Money was never before more plenty
In Wall street, and loans are easy.
There is decidedly bullish tendency
In stocks.
Premier Rhodes threatens that II
Britain NEEDLES too much in South
Africa the African colonies "may deal
elsewhere"
The crank who fired a revolver at
Delmonico's uptown restaurant In New
York was convicted Of assault in the
second degree.
Chicago bandits bound the clerk OF
loan Office, covered him up with
clothes, stole between 5000 and $10,-
600 and escaped.
Germany's Chancellor writes that re-
cent events In the United States and
India have increased the importance
Of the silver question.
Col William L. Brown and Isidor
Straus are Tammany's candidates for
District-Attorney Fellows's and Comp
troller Fitch's seats in Congress.
Capt. Lendy, killed in Sierra Leone,
wrote to England last July that he
should not be surprised to see French
soldiers on British territory In West
Africa.
Irish Nationalists may overthrow the
Gladstone Government unless they get
guarantees that Home Rule shall be
kept at the head Of the ministerial pro-
gramme.
The rumor is revived at Washington
torney-General Olney and the appoint
Attorney General.
The alleged deficit In the Chicago
city treasury has resulted in the ap-
pointment Of w. T. Ackerman, late
Auditor of the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position, as Comptroller.
There has been a battle in Honduras
between the Government troops on
the one hand and the rebels and their
Nicaraguan allies on the other. There
are conflicting reports as to the result
Nearly all the persons arrested for
ing the late election have been dis
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three cases will be sent to the Grand
Jury
The Florida Methodist Conference
passed resolutions calling for the sup
preston of the Mitchell Corbett prize
fight Governor Mitchell telegraphed
the conference: II shall endeavor to
do my duty"
Bishop McNierny, Of the Albany dio-
cese of the Roman Catholic Church, is
dead. He was one Of the most dis
tinguished American prelates Of the
church, and q member of the Board
Of Regents Of New York
Governor Waite, of Colorado, has re-
quested the Legislature to impeach At
torney- General Engley on the ground
that he has refused to give legal ad-
vice to the Governor, State Treasurer
and Auditor when requested.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Ex-
General Master Workman Powderly
and ex-General Worthy Foreman Hugh
Cavanaugh are under indictment be-
fore the General Executive Board, and
in fair way to be expelled from the
order.
Newspapers at Berlin state that the
recent massacre of Catholic at Kros-
che, Russia, by Cossacks, was due to
the express order Of Gen. Kakhanoff,
Governor of Wilma The papers de-
clare that sixty pSrsons were killed
and 100 injured by the Cossacks.
Gen. Gourko, the Russian command
er at Warsaw, is again reported to be
near death. Numerous explanations Of
GourkO's illness have been given. One
is that he was poisoned, another that
he has gangrene of the foot, and a
third that he has a complication of
nervous diseases.
Miss Helen Cook, daughter of John
l.. Cook, millionaire lumberman of
Toronto, Canada, was married to Wal
ter Henry Cooper, private In the local
infantry school, whose pay is but
thirty cents per day. Miss Cook, who
Is very handsome, Is only sixteen.
Cooper is nine years her senior. Her
parents will take the couple to Europe,
and Cooper will study medicine.
While Rev. G. B. Chambers was
holding religious services at Lima. O..
Thursday night, James Chaveus and
Alex Rogers created a disturbance.
The pastor demonstrated, when Rogers
tried to get at him, but stopped at
stove, where Chambers met him with a
poker. A pitched battle ensued, the
pastor striking Rogers to the floor and
pounding him so badly that he will dio