The Bessemer indicator., 1894-03-10
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Wellman's arctic expedition is to
carry aluminium boats.
Four nuns arc teaching in the pub
lie schools Of Pittsburg.
Nearly 100 deaths occur daily at Rio
Jan ,iro from yellow fever.
The municipal elections in New
Y York show Republican gains.
Corbett and Mitchell have been ac-
quilted Of prize fighting at Jackson
vile.
A national convention of the friends
Of silver will be held at Des Moines on
the 22nd Of March.
The Persian government has stopped
the free coinage Of silver, and will for
bid its importation.
The net gold in the treasury on the
9TH was s1O7, ,446, sol. The cash bal
ance was sl3s, 172, S94.
Martial law has been declared at
Eagle. West Virginia, where the sttik-
ing miners are riotous.
At the election at Troy, New York,
fight occurred in one of the polling
places and two men were killed
The starving people of Starr county,
Texas, have received but little aid in
response to their recent appeal.
The employees Of the Northern Pa
cific road have accepted the concession
of the receivers and probably will not
strike.
1t is stated that steps have been
taken to provide for new constitu-
ton and new form of government. for
Hawaii.
Zachary t. White, of Nebraska
City, Nebraska, was fined 5000 ~nd
costs for hanging J. Sterling Morton
in effigy.
The Santa Fe has made another cut
to the Pacific coast. It snnounccs a
rate Of $50 from the Missouri to Ssu
Francisco.
There was bad fre at Deadwood,
South Dakota, on the 9Th. The hest
portion of the town was destroyed.
Loss $780, 600.
Mr.. Gladstone caught a bad cold
Tuesday night while walking home
from bdb1uet He has to remain in
bed as result.
A rumor having got out that the
Senate would take action favorable to
sugar, the New York stock market be-
came very active.
Tho gamblers and prostituteJ Of
Omaha are being driven from that city
as result of persistent agitSticn BY
the Law and Order League.
The sultan of Morocco has agreed
to pay Spain 10000, 900 pesetas as
damages on account Of the recent out
break in his dominions.
7. De Witt Talmagc has feeon,id-
cred his determination to resign from
the pastorate of Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The financial difficulty has been re-
moved.
The Lehigh Coal and Iron Company
which went into receivership in April,
1893, has been declared restored to
solvency. Its debts amounting to $1,-
250, 900 have been paid.
The Brazilian rebel transport Venus
was blown to pieces on the 4th by the
explosion of her powder magazine or
The boiler She was being fired upon
by the forts at Porto Madama. 1t is
that all the men on board
we're killed or drowned.
1t is stated that within two weeks
nearly every coke oven in the Connels-
vile region of Pennsylvania will be
fred up. The move will cover at least
80 per cent. of all the ovens in the en-
tire region. At the very lowest esti.
mate G,000 men who are now idle will
be given employment.
The green flag of Ireland will float
over New York city hall on st. Pat
rick's day. A resolution to that effect
was passed by the Board Of Aldermen.
1t was approved by Acting Mayor Nc
Clellan. The mayor of Brooklyn has
refused to allow it in that city. He
says the stars and stripes are good
enough.
1t is stated that the Pittsburg Board
of Education will reject the applica-
tion of the nuns for teachers certifi-
Gates at the coming meeting. In this
case Rev Father Cosgrave will likely
take up the case to compel the board
through the courts to recognize the
nuns. If the applications are acted
upon favorably the Junior Order of
American Mechanics will at once take
the matter into court.
The British minister to Guatemala,
in answer to inquiries when it was an
nounced from Paris that Guatemala
had repudiated her exterior debt, ca
bes that the Central American re-
public mentioned does not intend to
repudiate her debt, but is compelled
to make temporary suspension of the
payment Of interest upon the exterior
debt. This temporary suspension is
due to the fall in silver and the alb
normal rate of exchange.
A dispatch from Colon says that the
British Marshin Clennatra nrr;,.l