Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The recent riots in Italy are said tt
have provoked cabinet crisis and Ru
DIM may be overthrow and Crisp
again come into power.
Orders were received at Gort War
rem, Boston Saturday last to remove
all women and children from the for
at once to place of safety in case O.
bombardment.
Speculation is active in New York II
bonds Of the old republic Of Cuba, in
vestors hoping that the obligation
will be assumed by the new govern
ment.
It is officially announced that tn
Queen has accepted the resignation Of
the Earl of Aberdeen as Governor Gen
eral of Canada, to which Office he wal
appointed in 1898.
Henri Rochefort publishes the sug
gestion that the Latin countries, SpaiI
and Italy, should become republic
and join the French republican ALI
ance, to counterweight the Anglo.
Saxon and German alliance.
A copy of the French neutrality de
cree has been received in Washington
It allows prizes captured by the ship
of the belligerents to be taken intt
French parts for twenty-four hours. &
privilege not granted by Great Britain
Gen. Henry R. Jackson, a Confeder
ate major general, q veteran of the
Mexican war and Minister to Mexico
during Cleveland's first administra
ton, was stricken with paralysis al
Savannah, Ga, on Saturday.
A special dispatch from Rome says
that the recent riots in Milan and else
where were premature demonstrations
of a plan to proclaim republic, with
Signor Andries, Of Milan, as president
Andres is now in prison.
Edward Wentz, thirty-six years old
his little daughter, Lulu, four years
old, of Baltimore, and Miss Lucy Plu
grath, of Chicago. were drowned in
Round Bay near Baltimore Monday.
The boat in which they and three 9th
ers were sailing, capsized. The bodies
have not yet been recovered.
J. A. Morgan, a young brakeman,
was found dead Thursday night on
the side of the track of the Southern
Railroad at the Union station in
Lynchburg. He is supposed to have
fallen off freight that passed through
the city just before his body was dis
covered.
At the Arena, in Philadelphia last
Saturday night, in one minute and
fifty-one seconds of combined sparring
and fighting Joe Goddard, the Bar
rier Champion" retired Peter Maher,
with sort of pivot punch, which was
delivered SO suddenly that hardly a
spectator realized what had come off.
Up to the time he received his Quietu
Maher looked like winner.
The advisability of an alliance be
tween the United States and Great
Britain is receiving the serious consid-
Grafton of large number of Congress
men. 1t is believed by the advocates
of q treaty that at the end of the war
with Spain, an alliance with Great
Britain will be consummated If the
United States determines to hold on
to the colonial possession taken from
Spain.
The proposition of the Russian and
German newspapers to make Europe
independent of America for grain sup
plies, by the establishment of State
granaries, is being discussed. The gov
eminent press contends there are no
means to accomplish this, and that
Russia, especially, is unable to supply
the deficiency. 1t is rather pointed
out that there was famine in Russia
in 1891, and it is added that famine at
the present moment is threatening
many districts OF Russia.