The Globe-republican., 1895-07-18

has been elected Speaker of tho I'LL.
nois House.
The New York State Bankers asso-
citation just closed session at Sara
toga, N. Y.
Chauncey Depcw of New York, has
gone to Europe to interview Emperor
William of Germany.
The eighteenth annual session of the
Alabama Bar association is in session
at Montgomery.
Nicholas Pierola, leader of the Rev.
dictionary party, has been elected
president of Peru.
Treasury officials are investigating
che accounts of the librarian of the
Congressional library.
The long expected official report on
Misso,lri's lead and zinc deposits has
ut last been made public.
The First Regiment. y. q. NJ, in
camp at Moberly, Mo-, were reviewed
Wednesday by Governor Stone.
Seventh Day Adventists are not ex.
emlted from the new barber shop
Sunday closing law in Illinois.
The Chinese Foreign Office an
nounces that half of its second loan
will be given to Great Britain.
The International Roilway congress
in session at London dissolved Tues
day. The next congress will meet in
Paris in 1900.
Advices from Corca state that the
Corean Minister of the Interior,
Prince PAX. has fed the country,
charged with treason.
Gen. G. NJ. Drake of Centerville, was
nominated for governor by the Iowa
Republicans, in State convention at
Des MONIES, Wednesday.
A monument for King Louis Il of
Bavaria has just been erected at Lin.
denhof. It was modelled by an Amer.
lean, Miss Deny, for whom the king
sat shortly before his suicide.
A reconciliation will probably take
place between Mrs. j. Coleman Dray-
ton and her husband. Mrs. Drayton
has sailed from New York for
England to meet her husband md
children.
Destructive forest fires are raging
in Michigan. The telegraph COM
panies report communication cut off
to Traverse City and Gainesville and
other points. The town of Cleary is
reported destroyed.
A brewery company has purchased
property adjoining the Assembly
Grounds ut Chautanqua, N. Y. It is
said that beer garden will be estab-
lished. Great Indignation is expressed
by Chautauquans.
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff Martin was
arrested in New York Saturday just
as she was about 20 sail for Europe,
and in lien OF bond gave the officer .
$1,000 bill. She is charged by her
neice with wrongfully converting to
her own use household goods amount
ing 10 $1,000
oThe National Christian Endeavor
convention ut Boston began Wednes-
day. Provision has been made for 65,-
600 delegates. Two large tents, 2s4
by $50 feet, with q seating capacity OF
6. 600 each, have been pitched on Bos-
ton Common, and will be, with the
Mechanics building, the principal
meeting places.
The Horn Harvey silver debate will
begin next Tuesday, july l6, at Chi
cago. The main provisions are that
the doctrines set forth in Coins FL
nanc,al School" shall form the basis
of the discussion, one chapter being
discussed each day. in three hours
session. Each disputant will be al
lowed 10 consulting authorities or as
sistants.
While engaged in hosting "a, OOO
pound stone in the Abcrcrombie stone
yards at st. Joseph. Mo-, Friday, the
derrick broke and the rock fell, crush
ing Fred Schuseko beneath it, crush
ing him to q pulp David Foster, =
brother of Weather Prophet Foster.
was fatally injured internally. A. NJ.
Abercrombie, owner of the yard, and
State Grand Master of the Odd Eel
lows, had q narrow escape.
The race at Henley. on-the- Thames,
England, between the Cornell uniyer-
sity boat crew of America and tho
Leander boat club crew, composed OF
Oxford and Cambridge oarsmcn, said
to be the strongest in England, which
caro- off Tuesday. was q disappoint.
ment 10 the throng of spectators. The
Leander was not ready when the UNI.
pire gave the word to start, although
he claims they answered ''yes," to his
inquiry. They did not make the start,
but the Cornell crew shot away, and the
umpire allowed them to pull over the
course and awarded them the race.
The board of stewards upheld the urn.
pres decision.
Chicago was visited Sunday evening
by one of the most furious wind and
rain storms ever known in the history
of that city. TIE storm came up sud-