Fair play., 1895-11-16

! Up to 6 o'clock on the evening of
the 9TH thirty-thice of the thirty-nine
dead bodies had been removed from
the journal o..ice ruins in Detroit. AZ
that hour work was suspended until
the tottering walls of the remaining
building could be shored up To insure
the safety of the searchers.
IlAHiD HAFIL PAsHA, late Turkish
minister Of the interior. has been ap-
pointed grand vizier, in place of Kia-
mil Pasha. dismissed.
A HEAVY snowfall, on the 9TH, the
first of The season. quenched the for
est fires in the Black River Falls Sec
tion of Wisconsin.
The Greek vessel Mahdi was struck
by waterspout near Tunis, on the
7lh, and sunk. Seven persons were
I drowned.
kEAR-ADMIHAL SHUFELDT died at his
residence in Washington city on the
9TH.
ON the 9th the people of the Kanlia-
kce, region in Indiana assembled in
the village churches and prayed for
rain. That night the distressing six.
ty-days' drought was broken by CO.
pious downpoEr.
THE liquidaling trustees of the
Standard Oil trust, at their regular
quarterly meeting. held in New York
city, on the 9Th. declared Il special div
idcnd Of 5 per cent. in addition to their
regular quarterly dividend.
The governments of South Austria
liza. West Australia and Tasmania
have declined to cooperate with the
other Interested governments in push
ing the project for Il Pacific submarine
cable.
The London board of trade returns
for October show an increase for the
month in imports of 81, 100, 600 and an
increase in exports of fl,iS0, 900, as
compared with those for the CORE
spending month last year.
Rev WM l. ilIHsHaw. convicted of
having murdered his wife. was received
at the iniiana state prison south on
the 7th. Chaplain Wood made him
principal of the prison school.
AFTER repeated failure Il partia lly
successful attempt was made by inceE
diaries, on the ,th, to burn the Shced
Home for Fricn,!lcss Children at Cleve-
land, o. The entire second floor If
the building, a large frame structure,
was burned out. There We're twenty
seven children in the home az the
time and many of them had narrow es-
capes from incincration.
Tom MCCARTHY, who was concerned
in the attack upon the Dawson fam
lily, near Oma ha. Neb., and for which
investigation was requested hy the
British government, was sentenced.
on the 9TH. To fifteen years imprison-
mert.
THE president has taken the first
step toward putting fourth-class post
masters in the civil service by amend
ing civil service rules to that end.
THE discovery has been made that
the courthouse at Brazil, Ind, Il three
story brick structure, was rendered nm
safe by the recent earthquake.
The British admiralty have decided
to increase the strength Of tie Mcdi-
terrancan squadron by the addition to
the fleet of SIX ships.
The political police OF Berlin made
a seizure, on the >th, of the entire eii-
tion of the newspaper Der Socialist be-
fore the paper was issued to the pub
lie, upon the srppo>ition that the pub
licaiion contained Il seditiD,ls article.
TIE British government has deputed
Mr.. Gerald Bal f;,ur, chief secretary for
Ireland, to Use his influence with the
Belfast and Clyde ship builders to in
duce them to arrange terms with their
dissatisfied employees. the Belfast strili-
ers and the locked-out Clyde engineers
and other workmen