The Republican journal., 1897-02-04

In BRIEF. The London Daily Chroni-
Gle publishes despatch from Washing
ton saying that Lord Salisbury has re-
moved the last obstacle to the signing Of
the Venezuelan treaty by conserving that
the Venezuelan government shall nomi-
nate one of the members of the board of
arbitration. 1t is agreed the member
nominated by Venezuela will ask Chief
Justice Fuller to act as her representative.
$50. An inventory of the estate of the late
Abigail Dodge (''Gail Hamilton'') was
filed in the Salem, Mass, probate court
Jan. 20th. The estate is valued at S31, :
029 of which 81, $50 is in real estate at
Hamilton and 81, 600 in Augusta. There
are S2I 900 in various securities. -. A de-
spatch from Madrid says that the prime
minister has stated that if Weyler does
not succeed in putting down the rebellion
before the rainy season sets in he (Canovas)
will resign..... The understanding on Wall
street is that the government has agreed
to a settlement of the Pacific railroad Oh
legations by taking So, 600, COG and giving
up the sinking fund. -. The Park street
congregational society of Boston has
made an agreement whereby it parts with
its notorious pastor, Rev. Isaac j. Lans-
ing, at the end of March, paying him his
SdldlS up W llldi tlLue, anu %, 0OU duQl-
tional. go. The official figures of the CEN
sus just now completed show the total
population of the German Empire in De-
cember 1895 to have been 81, 279, 901 and
of Prussia 81, $50, 1913 Madame Melba's
voice is said to be injured and she will
have to leave the stage for the rest of the
season. -. There are 365, 600 men employ
ed in coal mining in this country, of
whom 135, 600 are at work in the anthra-
cite regions of Pennsylvania. For every
100, 600 tons of coal mined one poor miner
on the average loses his life by accident.
.....A despatch from Teheran, capital of
Persia, says that severe earthquakes oc-
Cured January 18th on kishm Island, the
largest island in the Persian gulf, and the
loss of life was enormous. .... Sir lsSac Pit
man, the inventor of the system of stenOg-
raphy which bears his name, is dead.....
The official returns of the output of the
gold mines of British Guiana for 1896
show it to be in excess of -, $50, 900. ......
The new revenue cutter Daniel Manning
was launched from the yard of the Allan
tic Works at East Boston Jan. 22d in the
presence of a large concourse of people.
800. The first decisive step to secure a
foreclosure of the lien of the United
States government on the Union Pacific
railway has been taken at st. Louis,
Mo. United States District judge
Sanborn was called upon by Attorney
Cowen of Omaha, who asked the judge to
direct that the foreclos ure proceedings be
begun at once Jan. 23d was the birth
day of the Spanish king and thirteen
prisoners We're released in Havana No
Americans were among them. i. Edward
j. Ivory, the American accused of beng q
dynamiter, has left England for America,
the case against him having collapsed.....
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has arrived in
Washington. 80. Reports from Nebraska,
Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Colorado and Min
nesota tell of bitter cold and biting wind
and terrible suffering of poor people.
Railway traffic is delayed and cattle are
perishing.