The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-03-21
BRIEF NEWS.
Josepb O. sbelby's ATTEMPT to break his

Gen. Joseph o. Shelbys attempt to break hi
mothers will at Lexington, KY. has failed.
The Steam Valley Railroad and the Fedora
District Street Railroad systems of the City o
| Mexico have been purchased by New York
syndicate, the consideration being $4,000, 900.
| The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided
| that the eight-hour law, or as it is more gen
orally known, the sweat-shop law is unconsti
tutionsl. The law prohibited the employment
| OF women in shops more than 4S hours a week
The decision also pronounces illegal the appr0
| pristion of 500 900 for the employment oil
factory inspectors. Probably 10000 women are
| Affected. OF these 81. 600 work in factories in
| Chicago.
Smallpox. which has been raging in Little
| Rock. Ark. is reported on the decline, by DR..
Rule, Hospital Surgeon of the Gould railway
| system.
The condition of Sir Henry Ponsonby. Queen
Victoria's Private Secretary, is again very
serious
The Debs case will come up in the Supreme
Court the first Monday in April.
Minister Taylor reports the settlement of
several claims against Spain for excess of duties
collected in Cuba.
Secretary Morton will this year investigate
and experiment with grass and forage plants.
A new counterfeit So Treasury note has been
discovered at Boston.
Prince Louis Bonaparte, Lieutenant-Colon
of the Russian Dragon Regiment of Mimi
Novgorod, has been promoted to the rank of
Colonel by the new Car.
John Ninet. renowned Swiss Egyptoiogist
who died in Geneva a lew days ago. was Is years
old. BE formerly Secretary of Arab
Pasha.
Fred E. Sickels. the actual inventor of the
Corliss engine, Sickels's automatic trip steam
cut-oe, and other devices. died at Kansas City
the other day poor man. after others had made
fortunes from his inventions.
Louisville, Kentucky's chief city, where the
next National Encsmpment will be held in
Septcm Der, now has 200 600 Inhabitants, includ-
ing those in the suburbs
In the old biographies the area of Kentucky
WAS put down at $3.50 square miles, but sub
sequent surveys make it larger. Some make
lt AS high as $4,000 square miles The differ
ence lie more than Delaware and Rhode Island
combined.
duel between Oscar Wilde and the Marunis
of Queensbury is reported imminent. Both
men are now at Monte Carlo. The trouble be-
tween the tive men started, so far as the public
knows, in the Marquis sending to London
club postal addressed to Mr. Wilde, calling
him every kind of vile thing 1t was casually
read BY several persons before the club steward
took charge Of the offensive card.
The Arizona Legislature has passed bill
providing that no one charged with contempt
of court shall be tried before the Judge against
whom the of1ense was committed.
Secretary Carlisle has written the GAR
Committee on Entertainment of Louisville.
KY, granting the use of the old Custom. house
as quarters for the veterans during the Eucamp-
ment.
Col. Andrew ]. Houston, the son of Gen. Sam
houston has sent the dagger handed his father
by Gen. Santa Ana after the battle of San
Jacinto to the Mayor of Cincinnati. The gift
was made in recognition of the fact that two
cannons were sent by organizations of ladies in
that city, and were used for the irst time in
that famous battle.
The Government has filed suit in the United
States Circuit Court at San Francisco for $I5-
$500 against the estate of Leland Stanford
An e1-oficial of Boston informed the Leeis.
lstivc Committe that Boston has rst had an
honest election in Is years.
The initial attempt to announce by search.
light the approach of gale and a cold wave
was made the other night from the Auditorium
tower in Chicago. A white flash succeeded by
a green light was seen for over 30 miles over
the Lake. 1t was considered q success.
Capt. Aud, of Baltimore, Nd, son of Hugh
Aud, who was the owner of Frederick Doug
lass during his days OF slavery, has in his pos
session the original bill of sale for Douglass
given by Thomas Aud to Hugh Aud.
Cardinal Gibbons will sail from New York
for Rome May 4.
In 1894 the population Of the United King.
dom, according to the Registrar-Generalsr re-
turns, was 3S.776. 154; England and Wales hay.
ing ooooo,763, Scotland 4, 1874 69l, and Ireland |
59o,1O The blrthrate for the year in Eng. |
land and Wales was the smallest on record, 29.6 |
per LOCO. per 1000 less than the mean for |
the last 10 years; the death rate q SO per OOO)
was also the lowest on record, being Is per |
900 less than the previous lowest rate. that of
1883, and &c lower than the 10-year average. |
The Nebraska Senate has passed Q bill TO
abolish capital punishment
The Missouri Legislature has passed q bill
to prohibit the sale of imitation butter.
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