Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1895-03-23
BRIEF NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

The next international medical con-
gress occurs in Moscow in 1897.
Fifty rabid dogs are said to be at
large near McClenny. Fla.
Baron Fava, the Italian Ambassador,
has returned to Washington.
The Harvard-Princeton debate will
be held March % instead OF March %.
A fish and game protective as ooiation
has been formed at Saratoga, n. Y.
Another antitrust distillery will be
built at Terre Haute, Ind, or Pekin,
Ills.
The smallpox scare has produced an
order for compulsory vaccination at
Helena, ark.
Western railroads are hauling seed
grain free to destitute farming com
munities.
Major Martin is eating bird day
for forty days at Raleigh, i. c., so far
successfully.
A Terre ,Haute, Ind, girl, thirteen
years old, has been arrested for syste-
matte barn burning.
Pittsburg has raised the $50. 900 neces-
sary to carry through the next Knights
Templar conclave.
7. v. Powderly has formed a law
partnership with nistrict Attorney
Jones at Scranton. Pa.
The Vermont state board of health
has ordered a quarantine on all cattle
brought into the state
Marquis Imperiali, the secretary of
the Italian legation, will leave shortly
for Europe, to remain several months.
Edgar T. Paul, the millionaire real es-
tate dealer, was arrested at Chicago fer
obtaining money nnder false pretenses.
1t is announced that successor to
Ward McAllister has been found in the
person of J. V. L. Pruyn, of New York
City and Albany.
It is denied that either ex-Congress-
man Williams or Josiah Quincy is to be
the democratic candidate for governor
of Massachusetts,.
Nelson Harris was fined s170 at West
Appomattox, Va, last week for living
with colored woman, by whom he
had several children.
The Boston city treasurer refuses to
allow Curtis & Motley to withdraw
their bid for the city loan at price
which the latter claim was clerical
error.
Superintendent White. of the railway
mail service at Portland, Me-, has or
dered that postal clerks shall have free
transportation only over their regular
routes.
William Thompson has been sent to
Jail at Cleveland, o., for burning boys
with acid and sending them out to beg,
under something like the Italian
padrone system.
Baron Hirsch has sent some three or
four thousand Russians to the Argen-
tine Republic, and he hopes to have a
Jewish community there of 100, 900
within ten years.
The French industry of icing milk is
an original departure in timed CON-
modities. The milk is frozen and
placed in block form in tins and
Theoretically sealed.
The Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph had a
woman's edition the other day, sold
by pretty newsgirls, who got, all sorts
of fancy prices for their papers. A
silk copy sold for 500.
A. v. H. Carpenter, for thirty years
general passenger agent OF the Mil
waukee and st. Paul road, is dead
His name, it is said, had appeared on
more railway tickets than that of any
other man.
Rumor says w. z. Vanderbilt may
marry the Duchess of Manchester,
formerly Miss Consuelo Yznaga, sis
ter OF Fernando Yznaga, who at one
time was the husband of Mrs William
K. vanderbilt's sister, now Mrs.
Tiffany.
Silas NJ. Waite. who caused $500 ,oot
defalcation at Brattleboro, VT, in 1880,
died at Omaha last week. He served
six years in prison and was prosper
ousiy connected with the Omaha and
Grant Smelling company at the time oi
his death.
Mrs. L. G. Hughes, woman of Kan
sas City, Kan, tied up the Kansas leg
islature the other day so that it was
unable to turn o wheel" Mrs. Hughes
Is chief enrolling clerk of the house
She says that the state owes her $50,
for extra services and when her bill
came up her tactics stopped all bust