The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-14

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THURSDAY, MAY IA, 1856.
EIGHT PAGES.
The japanese in Hawaii sent $4,000
TO Japan to aid the Red Cross Society
in the late war.
Thomas C. Platt says that McKinley's
nomination will breed discord and dis
aSter in the Republican party.
The Cuban Junta in New York has
just receivegd two letters in one mail
from Paris. one Enclosing $4,000, the
other $4,000.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has re-
versed the finding of the lower court
by which Seventh-day Adventists were
fined for working on Sunday.
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State after State has slipped from his
control, but Thomas b. Reed still conf
IDENTIFY counts on the bicycle vote, says
the Terre Haute Qnd) Gazette.
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Gen. Grosvenor, who desires the nomi-
nation of Mckinley, announces that the
Ohio man has 495 votes secured and will
have many more on the first ballot.
1t Is said that the light field pieces
which were sent to Cuba aboard the
steamer Commodore have been landed
and are now being used in Garcia's army.
1t Is officially reported to Gen. Palma
in New York that Narcisco Lopez. an
American citizen, was snatched from
nhe breakfast table by Spanish soldiers
passing Maguarayas April IL, taken to
the road and shot.
"A resolution was introduced in the
Senate by Mr.. Call asking the Presi-
dent to protest against the execution
by the Spanish Government OF American
citizens captured on the schooner Com
petitor by Spanish gun-boat.
On the Democratic side the leading
candidates for the nomination for Gov
ernor of New York, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. are thought TO be Perry Belmont
and Assemblyman Stanchfeld, the mi.
nority leader in the last Assembly.
Indiana Democrats think that Cover.
nor Matthews is just the man for the
Chicago nomination, and think he would
get Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,, Colora do
and other Western States, and are talk.
Ing the ticket, Matthews and Flower
The Washington Post asserts that al
Ohio men who hope to hold office have
subscribed to the Mckinley campaign
fund.-" and the Chicago Dispatch thinks
that If that is true Mark Hanna can't
spend the money he has at his command
When man like Senator Teller
threatens to desert the Republican party
unless 1t obeys his orders, the Mai,
and Express thinks /. is about time for
the organization to balance its accounts
with him and announce dissolution of
partnership.
Ohio ladies' who are now compelled to
sN'S'S sACll tdl mas u all places of
amusements ask for law regulating 60
Ing out ito see man" between the acts
They are right. Such amusement-goers
have long been nuisance, remarks the
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Every American President has hs0
from three to thirty-two towns named
for him. Thirty cities and towns were
named after Alexander Hamilton, and
there are so Clintons, "a websters. 20
Bentots. 13 Calhouns. z clays. 10 Quin-
cys. 81 Douglases and 20 Blaines.
The Galveston News is responsible for
the following: 1t is said that the other
night policeman discovered three men
poitering in a store in one Of the subur-
ban wards of Dallas and was about to
bag them, He demanded that they give
an account of themselves. and received
the Information that they were holding
e primary election TO select delegates to
tao State convention.