The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-12-17
NEWS or THE wEEM


gress, Comptroller Eckels recommended
establishing branches of national bank
in small towns sucb branch banks not &c
have the right to issue circulating notes
Republican Senators Dubois Of Idaho,
Cannon of Utah, Mantle of Montana, Pet
tigrew of North Dakota and Squire Of
Washington refused to attend the Repub-
lican caucus Senator Dubois resigned as
secretary of the caucus
Timothy Porter, millionaire, who is
suing in Bridgeport, Conn, to recover
damages for an alleged attempt to put
him in an asylum for the insane testified
that his son had cursed him because he
wished to marry again.
Thursday. Dec. 10.
General Harrison declared that he was
not candidate for the senatorship from
Indiana.
A building for permanent Republican
national headquarters in Washington was
selected by Chairman Hanna.
Mrs Hewlett Brewer, at Cape May
Courthouse, N. J., repelled three times
the attack of robbers and wounded one
with pistol bullet
Miss Lucy Follett Uhl, daughter of EN-
bassador Uhl, was married to Guy Van
gordder Thompson of Yale university at
the American embassy in Berlin.
Colonel A. K Mcclure, editor of the
Philadelphia Times, was the guest Of
honor at banquet to commemorate the
fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into
journalism. Many prominent Pennsylva-
mia, New York and New Jersey newspa-
per men were present.
1t was stated in ST. Louis that in re-
cent conference between Mr.. Bryan and
leaders of the late silver campaign it was
determined to make speaking canvass in
every county in the United States, the
orators to volunteer their services and con-
tinue their work until the presidential
election of 1900.
Friday, Dec. IL.
The Union League club of New York
indorsed Joseph H. Choate for the United
States senate.
The aquarium in Battery park, New
York, was opened, and it is estimated 50,-
900 persons saw the exhibit.
Hwang Tsun Hsien, the recently ap-
pointed Chinese minister to Berlin, turns
out to be persona non grata to the German
government.
Carl Schurz, Theodore Roosevelt, Rob
ert r. Bowker and Silas W. Burt made
Reform league in Philadelphia.
Luigi Cappiello shot his wife Francesca
three times in crowded Second avenue
car in New York because she refused to
return to him. She will probably die.
It was said at Washington that the office
of secretary of the treasury in President
McKinley's cabinet would be rendered to
Nelson Dingley of Maine and would be ac-
cepted by him. ~
The Canadian Independence club has
been organized In Montreal to work with
other clubs throughout the Dominion to
secure the national independence of Canada
by pacific means.
Saturday, Dec. 12.
Maria Barberi, the Italian woman who
was acquitted of the murder of her faith
less lover in New York, refused an offer of
$500 week to appear in museum.
Ching Foo, a 1aundryman on Mott
street. New York, attempted to commit
suicide Because his queue had been cut off
while he slept. His loss is believed to have
driven him insane
The tests made at Norfolk on the steel
plates intended for the battleships Ken
tucky and Kearsarge show that their elOn-
cation is only 23 per cent, while the CON
tract calls for minimum of 25 per cent.
Four New York Bowery dodgers pur-
chased seven revolvers and went on ma
rauding expedition. They shot tramp in
freight train and were captured near
Poughkeepsie after a brisk fusillade with
a posse of police
In New York. Columbia university
sophomores kidnapped three freshmen in
Guiding the class president, and ted Them
babys food for supper. Police had to stop
a fight between the 1900 men, led by VIII
liam r. Grace's son, and sophs, in which
several'of the latter were roughly handled
Monday, Dec. IA.
The Rev. Dr. James A. McCauley died
in Baltimore
The pope approved the selection of the
Rev. J. e, Quigley to be bishop of the dio-
cese of Buffalo
DR. Eliphalet Mott Potter has resigned
the presidency of Hobart college at Gene
va, N. Y. He has accepted professorship
at Union college.
William Johns, an employee of the Ho-
tel LIE Grand of Chicago, was shot and
killed by bandit because he refused to
throw up his hands
The New York state officials are puzzled
over the problem of supplying work for
the idle convicts of the state and the In
mates of the hospitals
Rudolph Lederer, 81 years old, of Alba
ny, believing that he was becoming in
sane, shot himself in the left breast in the
presence of his two brothers at II East
One Hundred and Thirteenth street, New
York
Tuesday, Dec. Is.
The First National bank of Holidays
burg, Pa, and connected private banks al
Martinsburg and Williamsburg, closed
Secretary Carlisle has written letter tc
a Boston banker in which he says he shall
not issue gold certificates for the present
The annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor opened at Cincinnati
President Gompers delivered his annual
address
Charles A. Prouty of Vermont was
nominated by the president for member
of the interstate commerce commission tc
succeed W. G. Veazey, resigned.
Alfred Schluss shot and fatally wound
ed Margaret Peters, for whom he had left
his wife, and then killed himself in hel
rooms in Fifth street, New York.
The Argentine government has ordered
the governor of Entire Rios to dispsrse ths