The National tribune., 1896-01-30
BRIEF NEWS.

John W. Griggs was inaugurated As Gov
| ernor of New Jersey at the Taylor Opera
House, Trenton, Jan. 81.
The Government has ordered $4,000 worth
of first-class shells from the Midvale Steel Co.,
| Philadelphia.
Lord Frederick Leighton, the famous Eng.
lish painter and President OF the Royal
Academy, is dead.
Prince Henry of Battenburg, husband of
| Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen
Victoria, died Monday, Jan. 20, on board the
| British cruiser Blonde, while the vessel was
| en- route to Madeira. The Prince was mem
| Der of the British expedition to COomassie ana
| early in January contracted swamp fever, oil
| which he died.
The Queen of the Belgians is said to be
seriously i'll.
The Chinese Government has appropriated q
large amount of money for the purchase oil war
ships.
Miss Agnes B. Steele, daughter of the Mayor
of Helena Mont. will christen the new gun
boat Helena, to be launched this week at New
port News, Va.
The opening of the Tennessee Centennial
Exposition has been postponed from Sept. l,
1896, to May /, 1897.
The National Convention of American Man.
ufacturers in session at Chicago last week took
up the subject of the competition of Oriental
manu- facturers with American industries, and
n resolution was passed asking the Senate OF
the United States to inquire regarding the
alleged invasion, and determine what means
should be adopted to arrest -.
A movement is on foot to erect monument
to Gen. Sheridan at his old home, Somerset y.
John K Cowan has been elected to succeed
f ~ n IL. ~ ".
r. r. Co. Mr.. C0wan has for number OF
years been counsel for the company, and is
member of Congress from the Fourth Mary
land District.
The big cycle show at Madison Square Gar
den, New York City, is attracting the attention
of bicyclists throughout the country. All prom
inent manufacturers are represented, and many
new designs o! wheel are on exhibition.
Mrs Atgeld, wife of Gov Altgeld, of Illinois,
is a clever story-writer, and occasionally con-
tributes to the Western press.
A. C.. Jones, United States Consul at Chin
Kiang, reporting the wonderful development
of Japanese civilization since the Chinese
japanese war, states that, in the opinion of
military men, the army Of Japan is the best
organized army in the world to-day.
1t is rumored that the steamer J. w. Hawkins,
of Baltimore, has been purchased by Cuban
is said the steamer is now on her way to Cuba.
Ex-Presdent Baver, Of Switzerland, is dead.
Several officers of the British army at Hall
fax have been summoned to Ottawa to consult
with the militia department in regard to the
Canadian militia and the army and the de-
lenses of the Dominion.
James Edwin Campbell, Of Chicago, dialect
poet and story writer, died in POmeroy, Ohio,
Sunday night.
A Paris dispatch to the London Standard says
that pEconOmiste European publishes statistics
showing that the stock of gold in European
state banks has increased since 1890 by
f124, 100000 sterling AT the end of 1895 the
banks of France and Russia possessed between
them gold representing half the stock of gold
in all the banks of Eur6pe-
The German Government has made demand
upon Venezuela for the payment of the claims
of the railway contractors who built the line
from Caracas to Valencia
By an explosion in a colliery near Cardiff,
Wales, Monday, it is feared over 40 miners were
killed.