The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lHE secretary OF tnc lutcTlOE nus
disbarred from practice before the de-
partment in oil it's branches Thomas
Z 81 g. Pike, an attorney of Laurel. Ind,
On the ground that he was irregular
III the execution of his pension vouch-
erz and received illegal fees.
Ar the regular meeting of the sem
ate committee on foreign relations, on
I; 1he 18th, the conference report on the
Cuban resolutions was discussed at
length. The committee decided to
stand by the conference report and to
: urge as speedy action in the senate as
possible.
OK the 10th traffic on the Louis
Vile, Evansville & st. Louis rail-
road was completely blocked, by rea-
GOn of a cave-in at both ends of tun-
mel No. 2, rs miles east of Princeton,
Ind. The arch was made of cordwood.
and this caught fire and was burned
out, allowing the hill to slip in.
THE German transatlantic steamship
companies have agreed to increase
) their rates for stcerage passage ten per
cent, the advance going into effect on
the 18th.
FRANK NEvELs, colorcd, was found
guilty, at Topeka, Kas., on the 10th, of
murder in the second degree for hav-
ling killed Mrs. Matson, who was found
dead in her house in Topeka with her
head crushed in with an AK over year
ago.
The president nominated John j.
Boyce, of California, on the 10th, to
} be commissioner of fish and fisheries,
vice Marshall Mcdonald, deceased.
On the 10th a hastily summoned cabi-
I net council was held in London, at
which Gen. Lord Wolseley, commands
! er-in-chief of the army, was present.
The council sat two hours.
TERRIBLE gales occurred on the 10th
On the west coast of England and in
i Ireland. The force of the wind and
waves was such that the piers at Liver
pool were washed over and flooded.
4 Several tlerelicts and disa bled vessels
were towed into the Mersey. The
ship canal was made unnavigable and
the walls of the canal were severely
tried by the wash of the waves.
A DISPATCH from Bona, in the Congo
! State, says the British steamer Matadi,
which sailed from Liverpool, January
g, and Sierra Leon, February 8, has
been destroyed at Bona by an explo-
3 sion of I: tons of gunpowder. Twenty
I've persons were killed by the explo-
l aion, and the vessel was blown to frag-
ments.
EDWIN F. UNI. of Michigan, for
merly assistant secretary Of state,
sailed from New York for Bremen, on
the 18th, on the North German Lloyd
steamship Saale, to assume his new
post as ambassador to Germany.
The Dominion senate, on the nth,
Hssed bill giving the Canada s
Michigan Bridge and Tunnel Co.
power to construct q bridge with a
sspan OF 1.1OO feet across the Detroit
river.
The house committee on naval af
mtrs decided, on the nth, to recon.
mend in its appropriation bill an in.
crease of the navy by four battleships
S. s md Is torpedo boats
IN the Italian senate. on the nth, a
notion, supported by the marquis d
hudint thanking the British parlia
nent Tor its sympathy, was passed
enid great cheering.
ss DIsrArcH from Hong-Kong says
So nat the pisgue continues there II
npate OF the sweeping sanitarv meas
adopted.
A rRAlz on the Philadelphia. .Wfl
ngton q Baltimore railroad, on the
ht Of the nth, made the iou.ney
- bsit itinore to Gray's Ferry. 9s1
ststke Of tho ship carpenter.