The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-12-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Happenings Of the Wide world
briefly ard TerneIy Told.

Thursday.
King oscar II of Sweden and Norway
is confined to his bed. the result of sud
den Illness.
! A conference in furtherance Of the
czar's proposed peace conference was
held in London.
Agents of the Russian government are
said to be in New York negotiating a
loan for the car.
1t is cabIed from Paris that war
rant has been issued for the arrest of
Count Esterhazy.
A bitter attack was made upon the
German emperor in the reichstag Wed
lnesday by the Socialist leader
ST Mary's Episcopal church. New
York, celebrated the seventy fifth ami
versary of its founding Sunday.
Colonel Carlos Garcia, eldest son of
the late General Calixto Garcia, arrived
in New York from Cuba Sunday night.
The Duke of Connaught, it is report
ed, will go to Khartum to lay the cor
nerstone Of the Gordon Memorial coli
lege.
The British steamer Brinkburn was
wrecked on Maiden Bower rock, Scilly
islands. on Thursday night. Her crew
was saved
The resignation of the Rev DR.. Ly
man Abbott was finally accepted Sun
day by Plymouth church and society
in Brooklyn.
'sOld SIeuth" Harlan r. Halsey died
suddenly Friday at his home, Ill Nc
Donough street, Brooklyn, Of cerebral
lhemorrhage.
Henry White. United States charge
d 'affaires in London, has gone on visit
! of two days to Lord Salisbury at his
country residence.
A cabinet crisis was narrowly averted
during stormy debate in the French
chamber Friday, when two ministers
threatened to resign.
Ex-Judge Steele has notified Govern
or Elect Roosevelt that he is willing to
succeed Mr. Marean as district attorney
of Kings county, N. Y
A monument to the Russians who fe'l
| in the Russo Turkish war was unveiled
by the Grand Duke Nicholas at San Ste
fano near Constantinople.
The steamer Georgios. the first of the
line between Russian Baltic ports and
the United States. has sailed from Riga
for New York and Boston.
News was received Tuesday in Seat
tie, Wash, of the loss of the lives Of
six persons by an avalanche in the Chill
koot pass, Alaska, on Dec. g.
The British steamer Govino bound
from Leith to Baltimore, foundered at
sea on Dec. II. Her crew was saved by
the Danish steamer Thingvalla.
Lord Salisbury, the British premier,
at the Constitutional .club, London.
Friday night, delivered a speech upon
the governments foreign policy.
The first petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy from Chinaman was filed in
the clerks office of the United States
district court in New York Saturday.
1t is said that the international con-
ference on anarchists which met in
Rome laid the foundation for uniform
action against criminals Of that class
The Georgia legislature Thursday
adopted resolutions commencing the
presidents speech referring to federal
care of Confederate dead and approv-
ing his conduct of the war with Spain.
Frank Knaak of New York has been
acquitted of leze majesty in Berlin for
calling Emperor William sleeps head
on the ground that he was Intoxicated.
A deputy in the Italian chamber as
serted Friday that an agreement equity
| alent to formal treaty existed be-
| tween Great Britain and Italy relative
/ to North Africa.
Colonel William J. Bryan returned to
Washington Sunday night after spend
| ing a quiet Sunday in New York. He
| said his visit to the metropolis had no
political purpose.
| Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
| ident of the American Federation of La
Dor at the closing session of the annual
convention of that organization at Kan
| sas City Tuesday.
| Fire in the shopping district of Terre
Haute, Ind, destroyed property worth
! $4,000 900. Many people narrowly escap-
ed being burned to death and several
were severely injured.
| The funeral of ex-senator Calvin s.
| Brice took place in the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church, New York, on
| Saturday. The remains were taken to
Lima, o., for interment.
The London Daily Chronicles dirigi-
! bic balloon travelled from London to st.
| Romain, near Havre,> Tuesday in 4
hours and 81 minutes but the aeronauts
had narrow escape in midchannel.
/ 1t was reported in Philadelphia Thurs
| day that plan to organize in one con-
/ Germ all the large street lighting COM
panies east of the Mississippi river,
with s12, 1000 900 capital, had been formed
! in that city.
A Paris paper announces that the Sc
| cret documents in the Dreyfus case
have been handed to the court of cassa-
tion under the pledge that they shall
not be communicated to Dreyfus' coun-
sci or to any one outside the court.
| Three women were killed and several
persons were injured at a fire which
! partially destroyed the residence OF
Charles H. Raymond general agent OF
the Mutual Life Insurance company, at
$50 West Seventy third street. New
York, Tuesday.
NThe will of Edwin f. Knowltop who
committed suicide at West Upton
Mass, has been admitted to probate
in Kings county, N. Y. 1t bequeaths
over 81 900, 900, the largest sum OF
| which goes to his daughter, German
countess.
Advices from La Paz capital of Bo-
| 1;xy;a axpoti,oa that tha rayoT1Ifioufcts 6