The Bourbon news., 1899-03-24
NEWS ITEMS

French chamber of deputies, will mar
ry, it is reported, wealthy American.
The death is announced at Mentone
of Countess Dzi Lalynzki, nee Princess
Czarteriska, who once refused the hand
of Napoleon III.
1t is understood that the Chinese
minister has informed the Italian gov
ernment that China absolutely refuses
the demand of Italy for concession at :
San Nun bay.
Gov. Stone sent a communication 20
the house Tuesday announcing his APP
proval of the resolution designating
May l, 1899, as dewey day." and a
legal holiday.
SenOr Degota, secretary of the in
| terror In the colonial cabinet, Porto
Rico, has resigned on account OF, i'll
health and will be succeeded by Seror
Atilles Del Vale.
The remains of Lieut.. William
| George Elliott, Z. S. A., whose death
occurred August II last at Santiago.
were inferred with military honors AT
Arlington Tuesday.
Sir Thomas Upton, the challenger
for the Americas cup, has decided not
to attempt to sail the Shamrock across
| the Atlantic under her own rio. He
will tow her with his new steel yacht,
the Erin.
Gusseczall and Czuby, two Galicians
convicted of numbering another of
their race named Bojeczke and his chill
dren, at Stuartburn, have been SEN
fenced to be hanged in the Jail yard at
| Winnipeg, Man, on May 26.
According to a report from ScoGf0
capital of Corea, the whole Corean
cabinet has been dismissed and two of
the ministers have been banished be-
cause of wholesale changes made by
the cabinet in provincial offices. e
The court of appeals in reversingt
decision of a lower court at St. Loui
has upheld the right of citizen &
vote Notwithstanding he may have
moved from one house to another il
the same precinct after he had regis
tered.
The transport Dixie has been or
dered to proceed with haste from New
York to Trinidad to bring home the
Tennessee volunteers. Gen. Brooke
has been directed to have the regimen
in readines to embark when the tran
port arrives.
| Ev-orv- Of tho R11ffo o1 al
ing works, the local branch of the
Calumet and Hecla Mining Co., We'd
J nesday received an envelope contain
ing bonus of ten per cent. of the
/ wages earned during the past year
The gift to the employees is in lieu OF an
increase in wages
An endowment fund of $500, 900 has
/ been subscribed for the purpose of re
moving Washington uni1exsitH.. of ST
Louis TO It's proposed new site 49,
Q Forest park. Erection of the ne 4
). buildings will begin at once and it :
intended to have them ready for til
autumn term of 1900.
Secretary Alger and a party o.
friends left Washington Wednesday
night for Savannah, Ga, on their way
to Cuba. They occupied special car
on the train leaving over the Southern
railroad at 9:2O o'clock, which is
: scheduled to reach Savannah about 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon.
The attempt to secure the pardon of
the Younger boys, who are serving life
sentences in the Minnesota peniten-
tiary for their connection with the
shooting of a Northfield bank cashier
and others, in which the James boys
were said to also be concernd, faile9
Wednesday in the state senate.
James Billings, a Negro ex-convict,
was arrested in Brooklyn Wednesday
on the charge of having killed Susie
Martin in the district known as ''Hells
Kitchen" in 1894. Billings arrest was
, brought about by the confession of
William Johnson, a Negro convict,
whose sentence at Sing Sing has just
o expired.
, Gen. Otis has cabled the war depart
ment announcing the arrival of the
: transport Sherman at Manila. The
: Sherman sailed from New York with
D the 3rd infantry and four companies
r of the nth infantry under command
of Col. j. Fl. Page. The troops are
: reported as arriving all well and in
e good condition.
4 Rev. James A. Spurgeon, brother OF
: the late Rev. Charles Haddon Spur
e geon, for many years the celebrated
l minister of the Metropolitan taber-
l nacle in London, was found dead in a
railway carriage Wednesday evening
? on the arrival in London of the
4 Brighton express. 1t is supposed that
S death resulted from apoplexy.
g Great excitement prevails in P2S$
anton, Kan, over the rich strike ii-S>k
d zinc mines here. For several days t&
t miners have been following the leaC
t and taking out rich ore. The lead is