The National tribune., 1895-10-31
BRIEF NEWS.

At a meeting of sugar planters in New Or
leans last week it was decided to take the de-
cision of Comptroller Bowler on the sugar
bounty to court The test will be made in the
Court of Claims
Presidential Day at the Atlanta Exposition
was a great success. President Cleveland was
enthusiastically received and made speech,
after which he shook hands with the people,
1t has been decided by the South Carolina Con.
| stitutional Convention that old Counties shall
not be reduced below 500 square miles area,
and that new Counties shall not embrace more
than 400 square miles.
The National woman's Christian Temperance
Union Convention in Baltimore has adjourned.
The Budget Committee of the French Cham
Der of Deputies has rejected all the credits
asked by the Minister of Marine to carry out a
naval program entaiing an outlay of 5000. 00O,-
! 600 for the next IL years.
hdvices received at Constantinople from
Ismid and Hendek say that the Mussulmans
attacks upon Christians there continue.
| Troops have been hastily dispatched to the
scenes of the disturbances.
The price of anthracite coal is advancing.
Swiss paper reports that the health of the
months.
The evidence in the case of Theodore Dur
rant, charged with numbering Blanche Lamont
| in Emanuel Baptist Church, San Francisco is
all in, and the argument has begun.
Indianians have subscribed nearly $19,00O to
| be used in purchasing a silver service aud
| library for the baItleship Indiana. Gov. Mat
| thews has appointed a committee which shall
| have charge Of the expenditure of the money
and the presentation of the gifts. 1t is ex-
| pected that Gen. Harrison will be selected to
make the presentation at the proper time. as
the construction of the ship was ordered while
he was President.
The International Association estimates the
production OF sugar for 1896 in Germany,
Austria. France Belgium, Holland. and Russia
at 3,6s0023 tons, falling off OF $4,000 tons
from The total of the previous year.
The Government quarantine against Mexi-
can cattle has been raised, and thousands are
coming into this country daily.
party of Cuban flibusters were captured
by British vessel one of the Bahama
islands and taken to New Providence Most Of
( he men belonged to the party recently tried
and acquitted at Wilmington, Del.
The sixth annual Convention of the National
Association OF Life Underwriters was held in
Philadelphia last week. Mayor Charles F.
Warwick delivered the address of welcome.
All parties interested in the Northern Pa.
ci6c Railway have at last agreed to act together
in the selection Of a receiver for that line.
FIRE at Augusta. Ga, destroyed 40 DWELL
ings, valued at 100000.
The Free Thinkers are holding National
Congress at New York City.
A raise of 10 per cent in wages has been
ma dc in III han or min
mines have also granted increases.
An investigation into the affairs of the Pitts.
burg PA Postoffice is being made by the Post
Office Department.
Ben s. Calef was unanimously elected Presi-
dent of the Life Underwriters at the National
Convention at Philadelphia last week.
London representatives of the Carnegie Steel
aud Bethlehem Iron Companies have received
invitations from the Russian and Brazilian
Governments 10 send bids for several thousand
tons Of Harveyizcd armor plate
FIRE at Lasocin, Prussian Poland, DESTROYED
most of the town and leaves 800 homeless.
The trial of II. II. Holmes, charged with the
murder OF b. I. Piiezcl, began at Philadelphia
Monday.
Patrick Callahan, who claimed to have
jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge last Sum-
ner. and from the Black Friar's Bridge,
London, seven years age, jumped from the top
of Poughkeepsie Bridge, Poughkeepsie. n. Y.
Sunday morning. He died of his injuries in
the evening.
The New York World says that Carlos
Manuel de Cespedes. son of the first President
of the Cuban Provincial Republic Of 20 years
ago, is upon the high seas at the head of an ex-
petition which expects to land in Cuba in a
few days. He is accompanied by nearly 100
enthusiastic young men, all armed, who have
determined to fight the Spaniards for Cuba's
liberation. The expedition was quietly fitted
out in New York City during the past three
months.
Mrs James b. Eustis. wife of United States
Ambassador James b. Eustis, died at Rotoath,
ireland, Oct %.
The Queen of Madagascar has accepted the
protectOrste of France. and the latter will
hereafter represent Madagascar in all foreign
relations.
The Turkish authorities move slowly, but
when they do act their methods are thorough.
At Constantinoplc so young Turks were ar
rested Oct. 10 for excuses in the recent Ar
meuian riots They were given quick trial,
and Wednesday night, Oct. %, they were car
ried out a warship aud dropped overheard
i'm the swift Bosporus, where all were drowned.
The fact that the British railroads cannot
excel the American lines in special fast runs
was again demonstrated last week. A train on
the Lake Shore Road covered 5l0l miles be-
tween Chicago and Buffalo in 4Sl minutes. the
fastest time ever made OH q run of this dis
lance.
the distileries and offices of the whisky
Trust have been formally transferred to the
American Spirits Manufacturing Co. by Re-
ceiver McNulta.
Great excitement prevails at Tifin, O., over
the killing Of City Marshal Shultz by Lee Mar
tin, for whose arrest the officers had warrant
charging threats against Ezra Smith, farmer
| After Martin had been locked up mob gath
cred and the Jail was attacked. Several police
officers stationed at the doors were roughly
handled by the Infatuated farmers, who COM
posed the lynching party. Inside the Jail the
would-be lynchers were confronted by the
guards. Firing began on both sides, and two
of the attacking party were killed. The mob
then retreated. In the meanwhile the prisoner
had been taken away by the Sheriff Militia
has arrived at the scene.
Information which seems to confirm the re.
port that China has granted important conces-
sions to Russia has been received in London,
hut the Russian officials deny that such treaty
has been concluded.
A correspondent OF the London Times who has
visited Nicaragua thinks that an inter-oceanic
canal across that country would cost $50 O0O.-
600, aud that il should be built by the United