The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-02-22
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ton of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, S219, 1862, 97S; gold re
serve, $166, Gas, 739.
A decree has been gazetted, accept
ing the resignation of Senior Dupuy DE
LONE, as minister of Spain at Wash
ington, and severely criticising hiDL
A bill appropriating $4,000 900 to
provide a battleship to replace the
Maine was introduced in the house
Friday afternoon by Mr.. Foote, of New
York
Achievement has been set afoot to
have the United States erect a monu-
ment to Gen. Lafayette in the city Of
Paris, to be dedicated during the Paris
exposition.
Christopher Columbus Luby, white
man, who has made his living by fish
ing, was hanged at Blazely, Ga. He
was convicted of numbering his wife
on the night of April s, 1896
The Dominion government has de-
cided not to issue free miners certifi
Gates at Lake Tagash and American
ports. The miners will have to get
them at Vancouver or Victoria.
The navy department has received a
cable dispatch from Capt. SymmOnds,
commanding the Marietta at San Jose
De Gauemala, reporting all quiet az
that point, with the town under mar,
tial law.
August Ringling, father of the Ring
ling Bros, of circus fame, is dead at
Baraboo, Wis, after an illness of sew
eral months aged II. His death oc.
Cured on the 10th anniversary of his
wedding.
a dispatch received in Copenhagen
from PolsingfOrs says that a tract of
ice on the coast of the Gulf of Finland
broke adrift in a snowstorm and was
carried to sea with 200 fishermen and
several horses.
AS a result of the conference held
in New York Thursday by representa-
tives Of Yale, Harvard and Cornell,
there will be a triangular race be-
tween Yale, Harvard and Cornell at
New London this year.
Christopher Merry, the peddler, who
was to have been hanged Friday for
wife murder was Thursday respited
for 60 days by Gov. Tanner. Merry's
lawyers asked for time to appeal to
the Illinois supreme court.
The house committee on naval af-
fairs which has charge of the appro-
priation bill is at work on the meas
ure. An appropriation of $500, 600 fol
the building of a new ship for duty on
| Lake Erie has been agreed to.
The latest phase of the lola trial has
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many. The papers believe the newly
revealed document a forgery; but
they say that in any case, even if gen.
uine, it can not affect Germany
/ Gen. Booth, commander-in-chief of
! the Salvation army, arrived in st.
Louis Friday accompanied by his staff.
! A large demonstration was held in
Music hall Friday evening, at which
! prominent men acted as vice presi-
| dents.
Lieut.. +. F. Sobrai, naval attache of
the Spanish legation at Washington
was in New York Friday actively CO.
operating with the authorities in pre-
i pairing for insuring the safety of the
Spanish battleship Viscaya during her
stay in that port.
The post office department has been
! informed that after March l samples
OF liquids, greases, powders and glass
will be admitted to the mails of Great
Britain. Samples of these materials
are already admitted to the mails of
number of countries.
Martin Riorden, a submarine diver
of Key West and a survivor of the
| Maine, has been telegraphed for from
Havana by Consul Gen. Lee and Capt.
Sigsbee and will 60 over Immediately
to dive under the Maine and discover
the cause of the disaster.
Both houses of the Virginia legisla-
ture Thursday passed resolutions or
dering the national and state flags
over the state capitol half-masted for
"a hours as a mark of respect to the
American sailors who persisted at their
post of duty on the Maine.
The Spanish government has cabled
! instructions to the commander of the
warship Viscaya, leaving it to his dis
erection when to quit New York. Or
ders have also been issued to Capt.
Peral to open an inquiry into the cause
of the disaster to the Maine.
Ulysses G. Carter. a Negro, was
hanged at Decatur, Tex, Friday after
noon in the presence of at least ten
thousand people. The condemned man
met his death calmly and his neck was
broken by the fall He killed Jailor
Coberly at Denton, Tex, February %,
1897.
Capt. A. M. Hunt, superintendent of
construction of Towards ship yards at
Jeffersonville, Ind, has arrived at San
Francisco from the east. He is on his
way to Alaska to commence the build
ing of four steamboats, for the Alaska
Commercial Co., to be employed on the
Yukon.
A fierce duel was fought Friday be-
tween Prince Philip, of Saxe-Coburg
and Gothic, husband of the Princess
Louise Marie, of Belgium, and Lieut..
Mittachich. They fought first with
pistols and then with swords The