Fair play., 1895-11-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HE University alumni of Kansas
Sitv, Mo, met on the 4th, to take
'aetlon on the death of Eugene Field.
motion was made and carried that,
IN view of Mr.. Fields fondness for
children, the entire contribution for
'he intended banquet to have been
given to Mr.. Field on that night he
turneG over to the Children's home
Hs secretary of the interior has de-
rltcG case between the settlers in
VS9shoma territory and the territory,
which derrives the former of lands
ftey settled upon when that country
"ras opened by presidential proclama-
dlon. The land involved aggregates
1880 acres on the Kickapoo reserva-
tion.
JOHN CoII.ERY and John McIvan
Were Instantly killed and Frank and
Harry Jones frightfully injured at
Manor, W. Va, on the 5th, by their
tram jumping the track and plunging
ln.to the Potomac river.
EMPEROR FRANCIS Josr"n has grant
ed amnesty to all political prisoners in
Bohemia.
ALI. the Welshmen in the mills of
the National Tiu-Plate Co at Ander-
son, Ind, went out on strike on the
9th. The cause is said to he the en-
ployment of Americans where Welsh
men had been at work.
The United States Leather Co.,
known as the Leather trust, has shut
down Tor two months the 100 tanueries
under its controi, and thrown its more
than $1,000 employees out of work.
PITrsBUEGn, on the 9Th. not only re-
ceived gift pi $1,000 600 library,
music hail 3ud art gallery from An
';rew Carp egie, bat the pleasing an
:houncem' mt was made that Mr.. Car
negie would cndow the art gallery
with Si,000.0Oo. and also proposed
erect ing for the greater Pittsburgh
free libraries at Dnquesne, Carnegie
an / Homestead.
Mrs. FLORENCE MAVERICK. the Amer
ican woman who is undergoing sem
tence Of Imprisonment for life in En-
gland after having been convicted in
1889 Of poisoning her husband, James
tiay brick, and on behalf of whom re-
I'tatNN 'iI'l - nave bttil maui ~ St-
cure a rcopening of the ease. was
transferred, on the 5th, from Woking
prison TO the Jail at AyIesbury, will:
other female convicts-
AT Prenselow, Prussia. on the 5th,
Herman Springsten and his married
sister, Augusta Bock, charged with
poisoning Springstein's wife last
.March, and ~ith having committed :;
series of murders between lS>S and
ls9c, We're both condemned to death.
ANDREW Il. MELIICK, author of the
story of the Old Farm, and a writer
OF newspaper articles, died at his home
il Plainville. y. J., on the 9Th, ageI
81 years.
HERR LEDERER, once a famous sing
@r in Wagnerian opera, and also no.a
he a the first to seize the would be
murderer Kullmann when he fred at
and slightly wounded Prince Bismarck
"a Kissengen. July -, 1874. committed
suicide, on the 9Th, at Frank fort-on-
Main, by shooting himself with Il re-
volvar. lie was driven to the deed by
extreme poverty, having lost the saw
ings- OF his life through the dcfaica-
ti0ns OF the d absconding banker Sc!loen-
field
THE New York. Lake Erie &c West
eru railroad was sold, on the 9th, at
Ramapo, \. Y. under foreclosure de-
cree to {. Ii. Cos:er. Louis Fitzgerald
ana Anthony j. Thomas, the reorgani-
4at;on committee, fer $50. o.090,00o
FOREST fires raging near Lig0nier,
IND, have desolatei q number of farms
and made many families homeless.
THE pope has fixed the 25th as the
date of the next secret consistorv and
the 2Sth as the time for holding the
next'public consistorv.
Mrs. ID. 7. BOWERS. the wcil-}inown
actress, died in Washington city, on
the 9th, of heart failure superinduccd
by pneumonia.
The canal boat ". II. Swift. loaded
with hay, was burned at Whitehall,
y. Y, on the 9th. and the captain.
Larry Sutton, OF Rondout, and the
stecrsman, James Burke. of Water
ford, were both burned TO death.
JOHN Il. McGoLDR!cK, clerk of the
New York city court, secretary OF the
TaInmany society and n candidate for
the democratic nomination for con-
.rress in the Tenth district until he
withdrew in favor of Amos j. Cum
rIlings, was dangerously stabbed, on
tleGth, by VIM. bowling. bartender.
TIE nuptial ceremony hat Joined
the house. of Vanderbilt and Churchill
and made Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt
duchess of Marlborough and mistress
of the famous Blenheim estate in En-
ylaud, was performed in st. Thomas
church, New York city, on the 9th.
The couple are spending the honey
moon at idle Hour" William X. Van
derbilt's country seat on Long Island.
THE final obseqnies over the remains
of Eugene Field were performed on
the 9TH. The sad, yet beautiful, serv-
ices were held in the Fourth Prcsby-
teriau church, at Rush and Superior
streets, Chicago, and were attended by
hundreds Of the poets friends and adj
mirers, and those who most dearly
loved him.
THE Irish National league of Great
Britain held Il meeting, on the 9TH. and
removed the name of Timothy Healy
rr.,u their executive committee, sub,
.ti.utiuC that of Michael Davitt tlcren
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