The Globe-republican., 1895-06-28

NATION OF tho Great Passing Show
~ Cleaned from the Wire Reports.
The National Republican League
convention convened at Cleveland, O.,
Wednesday.
Lord Rosebe,ry has resigned the
premiership of England. Lord Sails
bury, leader of the Conservative par
ty, has been made Premier, and will
soon proceed to form . new Cabinet.
Dan Creedon and Billy Hennessey
fought six rounds ut Boston Monday
night foI the middleweignt champion
ship of America Crcedon was the
| winner.
Lee Chambers shot Dave Burnett,
near Union City, Tenn. He is ser
iously injured, and will proba bly, die.
The young men were rival school
teachers.
A terrific wind storm ragged at Deni-
SOC. H., Monday morning. The
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rose, near the
town, wa destroyed, and Mrs Rose
was killed.
Tie Catholic Knights of st. John
met in rational convention at Evans
Vile, Ind. Monday. Governor Mat
thews reviewed the parade Of 5000
men in the afternoon.
A dispatch frou Havana, June 90,
says: There is no truth in tho report
that Capt Gen. Martinez de Campos
has been shot by Cuban spy or by
any body else. He is in good health.
About July l an expedition will
start for Greenland in search of DIR.
Pesry. II will be in charge of Mrs.
Pearys brother. Emile Diebtsch, of
Washington. D. C. A number of SCI
sntiac men will accompany the ex-
petition for the purpose of studying
the geological specimens snd glaciers
OF that country.
A special newspaper train gong to-
wards San Jose at the rate of so miles
an hour ran oyer and instantly killed
Robert Marshall and wife at q cross
ing Jus: outside San Francisco. The
traiu ran for q mile before it could be
stopped. carrying on the cow catcher
fragments of the man, woman, horse
and vehicle.
A charter has been granted by
Judge Norton of Virginia to q stock
company called the Supreme Temple
OF the Silver Knights of America, the
general object of which is to seek in a
legal way the free coinage of silver in
tine United States Capital stock,
100000. The president il w. NJ
Stewart. Carson City, New.
The ravages of grasshoppers have
become alarming in eastern Colorado
aud southern Nebraska. Trains have
been delayed on account of the grass
hoppers gathering in vast numbers on
the rails. It is hoped that thew will
take flight as soon as they have grown
wings, which will be about the r,iG-
die Of July.
The entomologist at the state agri-
cultural college of Colorado, Prof. C.
P. Gillette, has been examining the
millions of grasshoppers that have
died near Brighton, and finds that
they are dying of contagious diseases
caused by minute germs like the
germs that cause such diseases as
cholera, enthrax, tuberculosis, etc, in
higher animals.
A syndicate of Boston capitalists
has purchased the town of Morse. Wis.
The purchase includes the entire out
at OF the Penokee Lumber company.
every residence in the city, every
building of every kind except the
school house, and all of the mer-
camille interests. The price paid
Is in the neigh borhood of g, 900, 600.
The syndicate will esta blish the larg.
est tannery in the state of Wisconsin,
giving employment to 1000 men.
A green goods circular sent out bv a
man signed 'Drantford," from De-
troit. Mich. fell into the hands of
Miss Rebeccs r. Draper, a bright, in
teligent woman. who is in the real
estate business at Montclair, n. j. She |
sent IS cents and received in return q |
crisp new 81 bill, which, together with |
the circulars, she put into the hands !
OF the postal authorities, and through
taeni he was arrested at Detroit. His |
real name is said to be John P. Tread.
we'll
President Cleveland has declined
the degree Of IL D.. offered by VIII
oerforce university. of Wi:bersorce. O.
In an autograph letter to the iustitu.
ton, he gives as his reason that he
had declined . similar honor from one
OF Americas greatest universities, and
therefore could not consistently nc.
cept this one.
Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton)
hSd finished the Life of James G.
Blaine" on which she had been en-
gaged ever since his death. before the
FERROUS illness came upon her which
10 nearly nroved fatal Az. n>l