The Bessemer indicator., 1894-03-24
5 given by states is as follows:
News From Everywhere.


All the United States vessels have
left Rio.
Queen Victoria has gone to Flor
ence.
The Senate passed the seigniorage
bill on the 18th by vote of "A to 81.
The great Oxford Cambridge boat
race was won on the 18th by the for
mer.
The German Reichstag has finally
treaty.
The wife of ex-Secretary of the In
terror John w. Noble died at St. Louis
on the Goth.
The Southern Pacific and Atchlson,
Topeka & Santa roads have settled
their differences and the railroad war
will soon be over
1t is reported that band of coun-
terfeiters in the vicinity of Omaha
have been turning out large amount
of silver dollars, as pure as the genu-
inc.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
sustained Governor Rich in removing
the secretary of state, treasurer and
land commissioner because of irregu-
larities in connection with canvass OF
votes.
Commodore W. d. Whiting, U.S.N.,
retired, who was knocked down and
run over by a cab on Broadway, New
York, nine weeks ago, died on the
10th. For more than year previous
the commodore had been a sufferer
from kidney trouble which was agra
waited by the accident until it pro-
duced death
Major John f. Burke, who has
helped to make Buffalo Bill famous
and rich, is to marry. The lady is said
to be Mile. Corrinne lie Caeur, who
was in charge of the French exhibit in
the manufacturers building at the
Worlds Fair last summer The cere-
mony will take place some time in the
early summer
There is considerable excitement at
Rio in regard to the action of the
Portuguese naval officers, who have so
far protected Admiral da Cana and
the insurgents who are with him. 1t
is feared the action of the Portuguese
in giving shelter to the rebels will lead
to dangerous condition of affairs.
1t is stated that the Portuguese war
ships were allowed to leave the Rio
harbor under the stipulation imposed
by the Brazilian government that Ad-
miral da Cana and the insurgent of
fcers and men who are with him
should remain on board the Portu-
guese ships until the question of their
ultimate destination has been settled
between the two governments.
Efforts are being made to have the
reservation of the Mescalero Apaches
in New Mexico opened for settlement
There are 575, 900 acres in the rcserva-
tion. 1t is south and east of White
Oaks and Fort Stanton, and about &c
miles above FL Paso. A considerable
portion of it, probably as much as two.
fifths of it, is covered with timber,
and on some portions the growth is
very heavy and dense. There are
some 500 Indians on the land and if
the heads of families, 125 in number.
are allowed 100 acres each, the amount
would be 90, 900, thus leaving 800, 900
acres to be thrown open.
Three thousand representative ne
groes from every part of Alabama were
in attendance at Birmingham last week
upon the state convention of negroes
called to consider the ques-
tion of emigration to Africa. 1t was
the sense of the meeting that, Africa
being the natural home of the negro,
those in this country should return to
that continent as soon as possible and
establish there great nation, such as
the whites had established in Amer
lea. 1t was agreed, however, that as
the white man had brought the ne
groes to America he ought to pay
their fare back to their native land.
to that effect were passed.
Representative Sweet of Idaho has
prepared a privileged resolution for
of alleged reports that
members of the House committee on
coinage had given assurance to Presi-
dent Cleveland that if the Bland
bill was signed no free
coinage bill will be reported. The
resolution calls for the names Of per-
sons who have given such assurance,
together with their authority for thus
House committee to
such course Of action or non n-action.
The Pollard Breckenridge case has
developed the fact that Colonel
Breckenridge was married secretly to
his present wife on April Goth of last
year, three months before his public
The evident intention Of
his attorneys is to prove that he was
at the time he promised to
marry Miss Pollard, and thus escape
the penalty for breach of promise. 1t
is doubtful II he eau escape on this
trouua. Yhe case Iooks bad for the
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