Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1895-02-09


Springer (dem., Ill.l introduced q
financial bill designed to carry out the
recommendations of the president in
his special message to congress.
IN his will Marshal Canrobert re
quests that his body be not inferred in
the Hotel Des Invalids, but that it be
laid by the side of his wife in the Gem
etery of Jouy-En-Je, near Versailles.
FAILURES during the week ended the
cd, o. reported by R. G. Dun & CO..
were for the United States, 354, against
$40 fer the corresponding week of 1894;
and for Canada. 54, against So last year,
TIE moderate newspapers OF Paris
approve President Faure's message,
but the conservative and socialist jonr-
mails describe it as colorless docu.
ment. All Of the papers approve the
vote on the amnesty resolution.
THE Califordia senate, on the 31st,
adopted joint resolution urging the
delegation in congress from that state
to oppose every measure to debase sill
yer as money, and TO advocate and vote
for free and unlimited silver coinage in
the ratio of 16 to /.
On the alst the force of the census
Office was reduced by the dismissal of
fifty clerks, leaving about zoo still en-
ployed. who will be dropped from time
to time as the work is completed. The
divisions now running are the popula-
tion and vital statistics.
IN an article censuring the crew OF
the steamer Elbe for occupying the
steamers boats to the exclusion Of the
passengers and especially of the women
and children, the Pail Mall Gazette,
on the 1st. said: 1T is part Of sea-
mans duty to be drowned in case of
need in trying to save the lives of pas
sengers.
TIE North German Lloyd steamship
Elbe. bound from Bremen for New
York, was sunk Ia collision with q
small steamer, supposed to be the Gran
THE, in the North sea, fifty miles off
Lowestoft, England, early on the
morning of the soth. She carried $50
souls, only twenty-one of whom are
known to have escaped.
JUDGES BRADLEY.i Of the District of
Columbia supreme court, rendered
decisionson the a9tli, that the pension
Office had no right to reduce the pen.
sion Of Judge Long, of the Michigan
supreme court. and issued q mandamus
on the commissioner of pensions. di-
recting him to restore Judge Longs
pension to tue original figure.
CRAWFORD CROSBY, well known as
s'Cherokee Bill Bill Cooks lieuten-
ant. was captured, on the 30th, by ex-
Marshal Rogers. now q deputy mar
shal, at the latter's residence near
Nowata, |. T., whittier he had beer
decoyed by the presence OF his sweet
heart. In the struggle which took
place Rogers was assisted by his wife
and colored man.
BY the burning Of the Deaconness
hospital ut Cleveland, o., on the lst,
four persons lost their lives. All of the
nurses made good their escape save
one. When Minnie Baumer was told
that the building was on fire and
urged to flee for her life she cried:
mo; / will not leave my patient. I
viii die first. g and patient and nurse
perished together. i
The oyster shippers of the Great
South Bay. n. Y, have been notified
by cablegrams from England to stop
all shipments to Europe until further
notice. This action on the part of the
English dealers is said to be the result
of The report that American oysters
from certain points contained typhoid
germs, owing to the alleged sewage de.
posit upon oyster beds.
IT was Church day at the steel plant
ut Elyria, O., on the 30th, and Con-
gresham Tom L. johnson met the
representatives Of leading churches,
and gave the Methodist, Baptist, Dis
ciple and Lutheran denominations one
lot each on the corners of Seneca and !.
Thirteenth streets, and the Congrega- &
tionalists one at the corner of Pearl
and Thirteenth streets. The recipients
VIII erect cnurcneS at once.
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II was stated in Washington, on the
slst, that Mexico and Guatemala were
progressing satisfactorily toward an
amicable settlement OF their differ
ences, as result of conference be-
tween Ministers Romero and Arrairo,
brought about by Secretary Gresham
and his suggestion Of mutual conces-
sions. It was understood that Guate-
mala had practically conceded the
main portion of the boundary line as
laid down by Mexico.
AFTER cruising for hours in search
OF survivors from the foundered steam I.
er Elbe, the tug Dispatch returned to
I.owestoft. on the 5Ist. and reported
that nothing whatever had been seen
OF either boat or wreckage. The
storm vas raging more wildly than
ever, and it was impossible that auv
small boat could have outlived the
gale or that its occupants could have
survived the exposure.
8 nIspATcH from Che Foo. on the !
ist, said that the Chinese lost 1000