Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-01-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK

.llVEWC VI HE WIEN
Venezuela is said to be negotiating
in the United States for war supplies.
i Commissioners have been appointed to
arrange an anti-English alliance
among the South and Central American
republics. -
| 1t is said United States Minister
Terrell at Constantinople, has inform
ed the porto that indemnity must be
paid for the losses sustained by mis-
sionarics and others in the recent
massacrcs
A Winnipeg dispatch says: The
government Of Premier Grecnway has
followed up the announcement Of the
| dissolution of the legislature with a
formal reply to the appeal of the
Dominion government for n compro-
mise in the parochial school question.
| The reply is addressed to Lord
| Aberdeen, the governor general, and
after long preamble setting forth the
| facts, says that no compromise can be
accepted.
AT the old Front Street Theater ut
Baltimore a few nights ago a gas
| burner, with no tip on it, caused a
sheet of flame to flare up suddenly.
Some one in the gallery cried fire"
and mad stampede for the doors be-
gan. Despite the efforts Of the actors
to quel the tumult, the auditors piled
upon top of each other in their efforts
to gain the outside. When the mad
dened crowd was finally quoted, it
was found that thirteen people had
been killed, two fatally injured and
ten more seriously injured.
It is said that in the capture of the
city of Zeitoun by the Turks $500
Armenians and $50 Turks were killed.
Justice Brewer, of the supreme court
of the United States. has been rendered
and has accepted a place on the Vcne-
zuelan commission.
1t is said that Russia and France
have promised diplomatic support to
the United States in the Venezuelan
dispute
An immense gold nugget, weighing
thirty-two pounds, has been found at
Eldorado, N c,
Twenty burning locomotives, each
weighing ninety-sevcn tons, built by
the Baltimore locomotive works, were
recently shipped to Russia.
A man has been found at La Crosse.
Wis, whose heart occupies the same
position on the right side that it should
on the left.
The Defender inquiry at New York,
caused by charges made by Lord
Dunraven, has ended, and it is said the
charges fell fiat. Dunraycn has
returned to England.
President Cleveland has appointed
the Venezuelan boundary commission
as follows: David j. Brewer, rep.
of Kansas, justice of United States
supreme court. Richard H. Alvey,
DEM, OF Maryland, chief Justice of the
court OF appeals of the District Of
Columbia. Andrew D. White, rep. of
New York. Frederick r. Coudel.t, dem,
OF New York. Daniel c. Gilman. of
Maryland. president of John Hopkins
University, who is said to lean toward
rcpublicanism.
The English officials in the Trans
yaal have begun operations against the
Beers. The Beers are of Dutch origin
and Germany will support them in
their present quarrel with Great Brit
ain. The German press is highly in
dignant at the action of England.
a bond issue is expected now at any
time.
a dispatch from Breslau says: In an
explosion of fire damp in collicry at
Noldenburg, Prussian Silesia. fifty
miners are known TO have been killed
or injured. Seventeen arc missing,
and twenty-cne bodies have already
been recovered. Twelve injured have
been brought to the surface.