Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-10
TERSE NJ NEWS.

The state legislatures of New York.
Massachusetts and Maryland convened
on the LIST.
The first state officers of Utah were
inaugurated with imposing ceremonies
on the 9th.
a Washington dispatch says that the
president is angry at Banker Morgan
and is nowtaliing of a popular loan.
Among the New Year honors whicl.
have been gazetted in England is< The
appointment of Alfred Austin to be
poet laureate of England.
The exercices attending the elevation
of Mgr. Satolli to the cardinalate oc-
CURED at Baltimore on the 5th, il the
presence of many visiting prelates.
1t is expected that another bond is
sue will be announced almost any day.
1t is said arrangements have been made
with j. Pierpont Morgan for placing
the loan.
A mail train from johannesburg,
W hiSi NfIiNSo lto.odit. ANdtdls WdS
overturned and several coaches were
smashed. tweaty-eight persons being
killed and entytbrce dangerously
wounded.
1t is officially stated that the publica-
ton to the effect that the United States
had been sounding Russia regarding
the Venezuelan dispute and that Russia
was prepared to support the United
States was at least automatically
unfounded, and that Russia will
observe entire neutrality in the matter
if her interests be not affected.
The president has announced the APP
pointment of the Venezuela boundary
commission as follows: David j.
Brewer, of Kansas, justice of the
United States Supreme Court. Richard
II. Alvey, of Maryland, chief justice of
the court of appeals of the District of
Columbia. Andrew ID. White, of New
York. Frederick X. CouGcrt, of New
York. Daniel c. Gilman, of Maryland.
The commission is regarded among
IIOSc VIII StW tlic IlSU Vi ldulNS dis a
very satisfactory one, whose opinions
and conclusions will be received by the
American public with that confidence
which the standing of the members of
the commission in the public eye in
spires. Brewer and White are repub-
leans and Alvey and Coudert are
democrats, while Gilman, who is presi-
dent of John Hopkins University, has
a leaning toward republicanism.
The London Daily Chronicle recently
printed an article saying that it has
learned on the highest authority that
Earl Granville in 1885 virtually con-
cluded with Blanco treaty containing
an arbitration clause covering the
Venezuelan international boundary
dispGte. The marquis of Salisbury,
however, on coming into power later
in the same year cancelled this clause
by limiting the provisions of the treaty
to commercial questions. Nothing
could have been more unfortunate,
says the Chronicle, inasmuch as the
dioPutC NaiS oii viz SNV VI a
permanent settlement. The Chronicle
adds that it is convinced by careful
researches that there is debatable land
both north and south of the Schom-
burg line, and that it would be a
grave error to imagine that rigid
insistence on the Schomburg line and
a declaration that there is no ground
for arbitration constitute the essence
of the English case.
Breslau dispatch: In an explosion
of fire damp in colliery at Wolden-
burg, Prussian Silcsia, fifty miners are
known to have been killed or injured.
Seventeen are missing and twenty-one
bodies have already been recovered.
Twelve injured have been brought to
the surface.
AS result of mysterious fire in
the home of John II. Hubbard, at Col
umbus, Ohio, Mr.. Hibbard, his
wife. one son, two daughters, and two
sisters were burned To death. 1t is
thought possible that the furnace
which was fed by gas. exploded.