NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thursday, May 11. The National League of Republican Clubs and the national Republican com mittee both held meetings in Louisville Arguments were made in the supreme court in the cases of the three Chinamen arrested to test the constitutionality of the Geary exclusion law The fact that Grover Cleveland restored E. S. Stokes to citizenship in December. 1884, catne to light The body of Roehl, who escaped from Sing Sing prison, was found in the Hudson. He had been murdered by his companion, Pallister Sir Charles Rus sell begun the presentation of the Brit ish case to the Behring sea tribunal Queen Victoria opened the British Im perial institute in London. It is said that it was her last public appearance James H. Blount was appointed envoy ex traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Hawaiian Islands Frank H.Jones of Illinois was appointed first assistant postmaster general Joseph Francis, in ventor of the lifeboat, is dead Stock holders of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi cago and St. Louis railroad voted to issue now mortgage bonds for $50,000,000 at 4 per cent The British warships went to sea. The officers of the Neuve de Julio were en tertained at dinner in New York city, and a reception for the officers of the Van Speijk was given in Brooklyn The funeral of Mrs. Depew was held Emperor William's speech on the rejection of the army bill is the leading subject of discussion in Germany. Preparations for the elections on June 15 have begun Admiral Gomez y Lono, who commanded the Spanish squadron at the naval review in New York harbor, died in Havana Carlyle W. Harris so fascinated a young woman who met him by chance in the Tombs that she broke her marriage engage ment and promised to become Harris'bride as soon as lie should leave prison Dele gates ol 17 Keeley clubs in New York state formed a state league and elected of ficers At a vestry meeting pewholders and others voted to make the Church of the Ascension, New York, a free church. Friday, May 13. W. W. Tracy of Illinois was chosen pres ident of the Republican National League of Clubs by the Louisville convention. The convention adjourned after selecting Den ver as the next place of meeting The Co lumbia National bank of Chicago, and the Capital National of Indianapolis suspend ed The New York World charged the Brooklyn health authorities with neglect ing starving poor people who were quarantined on account of small pox The Nicaraguan revolutionists were successful and took possession of the canal and the capitol Mayor Boody of Brooklyn testified for ths defense in the Pigott trial Several pas sengers were found to be suffering from smallpox on the steamers Lahn and Gem at the port of New York Sir Charles Russell became angry at interruption from Senator Morgan and Mr. Phelps while he was discussing before the tribunal of arbi tration the seizure of Canadian vessels in Behring sea In the house of commons Mr. Chamberlain inquired why the gov ernment's supporters offered so few amend ments to the home rule bill. Mr. Glad stone replied that they would not be driven into obstructive debate The Earl of Aberdeen has been appointed gov ernor of Canada William Town send, the would be assailant of Mr. Gladstone, was committed for trial General Dodds, who commanded the French forces in Dahomey, has arrived in Marseilles on recall by the government Spanish Republicans in Madrid make a demonstration against the postponement of the municipal elections It is reported that Carlyle Harris' inamorata, who was known for many months as "Carrie Jones" to the Tombs officials, is really Miss Carrie M. Bruning of 202 West Seventy-fourth street, New York, but she denies the story emphatically Bishop Wigger and many priests of the Newark diocese intend to slight Mgr. Satolli by not attending a re ception given in his honor. Saturday, May 13. It came to light that Francis 11. Weeks of New York had misappropriated trust funds and was a fugitive A large num ber of western hanks closed their doors as a result of the failure of the Columbian National bank of Chicago Information received by the Nicaraguan minister at Washington indicates that a decisive bat tle probably took place in that country A conference in regard to the Pullman in terests in Heading was held at the offices of the road in Philadelphia General S. C. Armstrong, principal of Hampton Normal institute, Virginia, is dead It was decided to throw open Jack son park on Sundays, but that the exposi tion buildings should remain closed The new Cunarder Campania reached Queenstown 5 days, 17 hours and 27 min utes out from New York, breaking the rec ord for the eastward passage. She ran from Queenstown to Liverpool in 10 hours and 3 minutes, breaking another record Russell started an acrid discussion over the forged interpolations in the original American case The Spanish cortes has finished the fifty-fourth hour of continu ous sitting. A cabinet crisis is imminent. There is great excitement in the streets of Madrid Emperor William will open the new reichstag In per son. The Social Democrats are mak ing an aggressive campaign The summing up was concluded in James 11. Pigott's trial in the Kings county court of sessions Bishop Wigger's friends say that when he declined Father Corrigan's invitation to attend the dinner in honor of Mgr. Satolli lie did not mean to snub the apostolic delegate Cruiser Jean Bart sailed for.France. The Spanish squadron will go to the Naval Academy commence ment at Annapolis George Riley was instantly killed Boston by the explosion of a calcium lighUtank Dr. J. E. Reider shot and fatally wounded his enemy, John Ilurst, at Lexington, Ky. Murderer j John Fitzhum has been granted a respite ! until May 29 by Governor Flower j For singing an Euglish song Private Voss fatally stabbed Private Brennan at Fort Niagara Engraver John E. Duey is dy ing in New Haven from the effects of mor phine poisoning, self administered. Monday, May 15. A letter In a pepper box was found, al leged to have been written by Pallister, the escaped convict, in which be confessed kill ing Roehl The New York llerald is to pass into the hands of a corporation It is reported that the Infanta Kuialie will leave Havana for New York today, and there is much talk about how she shall be received Ten miners were killed by fall ing down a shaft in the Calumet and Hecla mine in Michigan Addresses were made before the Y. M. C. A. convention in In dianapolis by ex-President Harrison and ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker Ar thur St. Clair Baker, aged 15, of Brooklyn, committed suicide at Wilkesbarrc, Pu. ——C. M. Bell, the photographer of Washington, is dead Another crevasse Incurred in the levee on the Arkansas front of the Mississippi river Mgr. Satolli celebrated mass in Hoboken, made au ad dress to children and was welcomed to the city by Mayor F.igan The Russian cruiser General Admiral sailed for Europe j CongregationalistsatPatchogue, N. Y., celebrated their church centenary and ded icated a new house of worship Ex-Mayor Gleason of Long Island City was arrested i while laying a street railroad track The Nicnraguan revolutionists are gaining ground. They have won two battles and have taken several towns The shfp Couutess Evelyn was sunk oil the Cor nish coast in a collision with the steamer City of Hamburg. Twenty five lives were lost Pope Leo will | send the golden rose this year to i the queen of the Belgians Theodore Currie, a well known lawyer of Newark,. died of heart disease Lukas Beotsch, 25, of Newark, who hanged himself Satur day, was heir to an estate in Germany The Lunenburg county (Va.) court has been closed because of a smallpox epidemic Mayor Pingree of Detroit is suing the gas company for overcharges for six years past Eleven of the 13 distilleries of Peoria, Ills., will bo shut down on June 1 by order of the Whisky trust The arrangements for the execu tion of Almy, Christie Warden's mur derer, have been completed Erastus Wiman explained that ho made a general assignment because his money was tied up in real estate, but that ho expected to pay dollar for dollar The Brooklyn handicap is to be run today for the richest stakes ever offered at Gravesend The four sailors of the cruiser Baltimore In jured at Valparaiso were paid the indem nities awarded by the Chilian government Composer Gounod is ill. Tuesday, May 10. Almy, the murderer of Christie Warden lit Hanover, N. H., was hanged at Concord in the state prison The Infanta Eulalie and her husband sailed from Havana for Now York The supreme court of the United States rendered a decision sustain ing the constitutionality of the Geary ex clusion act. Justice Brewer delivered a dissenting opinion The women's con gress begun its sessions at the World's fair Bishop Bissell of the Vermont Epis copal diocese is dead The Mississippi has overflowed the lowlands near Bur lington, la., And is still rising at Memphis and at Arkansas City, Ark. Crops in Cass county, Ills., have been badly damaged by floods The North western Guaranty Loan company of Min neapolis is so seriously embarrassed that its suspension is expected. The Farmers and Merchants' bank of the same city has suspended The assignment of Nehr & Carpenter of Troy was announced. W. B. Mygatt, banker, of Denver, failed At the Gravescrtd race course Diablo won the Brooklyn handicap New York shippers have prepared a demand against the Co lombian government for damages caused by the detention of a cargo at Barranquilla A dinner was given for Archbishop Satolli in Hoboken George J. Gould said ho would agree to the New York rapid transit commission's proposition for i compensation if it its definition j of net profits August Wanner, a die- I charged workman, killed his foreman, Henry Gebhardt, and then himself in front of the Central hotel, Broadway, New York William Koch, proprietor of a saloon in New York, took his own life on account of business troubles The alumni of the Union Theological seminary had their an nual dinner There were three more Aus tralian bank failures. On the London Stock Exchange the feeling was pan icky. Three defaulters were posted, and a fourth failure will be announced today It js said that France is strengthening her German frontier The White Star line is about to build a steamer 800 feet long German patriot ism is being "worked" in favor of the army bill by statements that France is increas ing her forces on the frontier The wife of Professor Koch, the bacteriologist, has procured a divorce, anil he is about to marry an actress A clerical paper charges that ' - Kossuth advised I is followers to support the Hungarian m nis ry after being prom ised an annuity of $5,000 by the govern ment Fales, the boy murderer, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from jail at Newark, N. J. The Massachusetts legislature adjourned early to attend the opening baseball game of the season John L. Sullivan, the ex-champion pugil . ist, was put in jail at Bangor, Me., ou a : charge oi assault- Three barns, 19 cows , and 7 horses owned by State Senator Nich ols were burned near Syracuse. Wednesday, May 17. The meeting of the cabinet to discuss the Chinese question was without definite re sult. The Geary law is practically nullified by the lack of money to execute it. Trouble | is feared for Americans in China During ; the trial of the Long Island anarchists at . Maspeth a story was told of how a satchel full of dynamite bombs, intended for the police, was taken into an anarchists' meet , ing in Union square, New York, about a year ago The body of Pallister, who escaped with Roehl from Sing Sing prison, was found floating in the Hudson river. A bullet wound was in the bead The day at the World's fair was cold and disagree able. The laborers and janitors on the expo sition grounds are clamoring for their pay. The local directors voted to open the fair on Sunday .Grand Lake levee in south ern Arkansas and the protective levee at Point Pleasant, La., have given away Governor Flower vetoed a bill to re turn to the Western Union Telegraph company taxes paid by it in 1881 ; Several appointments to offices were made by the president The senate | committee on immigration met at the i Hotel Normandie, New York The com- j mencement exercises of the Union' Th- ! ological seminary took place Consider- i at ion of the Irish home rule bill was re- j suiiied by the house of commons In com- ! mittee Sir Charles Russell continued his argument for the British case before ; Behring sea court The City of Mel- ! bourne bank of Australia failed Part j ! of the palace of the bishop of Sodor j and Man was burned. Valuable books and [documents were destroyed A la- | borer at Schiffiuck, near Hamburg, ia said to have died of cholera A number of anarchist bombs have been discovered by the French police, and five arrests have been made It is stated in Rome that Mgr. Satolli has represented that Catholic laymen in America want an American le gation at the Vatican Suit was begun to compel John £ Risley, United States minister to Denmark, to account to his ! former partners in the prosecution of Ala- I baina claims, and to restrain him from i going out of the jurisdiction of United States courts until the case is decided Twenty people were killed by the explosion of a boiler in Robert's cloth factory, Sedan The steamer Havana is a total wreck at Bingo, N. F. The crew were saved Mrs. Michael Wilcox committed suicide by hanging near Waterville, Oneida coun ty, N. Y. Peter Fuclm killed himself in a coal bin in Buffalo by almost severing | his head with a butcher knife The I steamer Seneca of the Lehigh Valley line went ashore at Bay View, N. Y. ECKLEY CLIPPINGS. As in former years Memorial Day will be observed in Eckley in a patriotic manner by a parade of the societies of town in the forenoon. The line of parade is not completed, as the commit tee appointed at the citizens' meeting on Saturday evening will not meet until Sunday, by which time answers will probably be received from all the societies. The order of parade so far has been arranged as follows: Chief Marshal—John Wagner. Aids —Win. Aubrey, Ambrose Rickert. P. O. S. of A. Drum Corps. St. James' Sunday School. Camp No. 144, P. O. S. of A. Shamrock Drum Corps. St. Mary's Sunday School. St. Mary's T. A. B. Society. St. Mary's T. A. B. Cadets. After the parade the societies will march to the cemetery and decorate the graves of the fallen heroes. Miss Bessie Stranix, who had been an inmate of the Presbyterian hospital, Philadelphia, for the past month, re turned home on Friday. Misses May and Bridget Maloney re turned home from Weatherly on Satur day. Patrick O'Donnell, of Highland, was among friends here on Sunday. Hugh McGill, a miner in No. 2 slope, hail his left eye injured by a piece of coal on Friday. Frank Mcllugh, who was injured at the stripping here last September, was seen on the streets last week for the first time since he was hurt. The young folks were tendered a fare well party by Mr. James Ilerron and wife Wednesday evening. Dancing was the feature of the evening. The music was furnished by blitz's orchestra. Rumors of another social hop can be heard for the past. few evenings among the sports of town. If all is true this hop is to take place on Main street and it promises to be the daddy of all socials ever held here. John Murphy, of Ilazle Brook, was in town Tuesday evening. John Campbell, Jr., is confined to his bed with an att ick of la grippe. Mrs. Mathew Murphy removed her household effects to Freeland yesterday. Washington Camp, No. 144, P. 0. S. of A., of this place, has organized a drum corps. George Kritzburger has accepted a position as docking boss at Sandy Run. Stephen, a twelve-year-old son of Jos eph Steibler, is suffering with heart disease. Mrs. Thomas Tully, of Kreeland, is teaching the intermediate school in place of her sister, Miss Ella Campbell. Base bail in Eckley is like the Free land electric road—at a stand still. This is the season of the year that the Huns enjoy life, especially when half a dozen or more of them get married at the one time. Nothing less than eigh teen kegs of beer at each wedding to keep the dust down. Eckley will have two on Saturday. I'rank McGill, Jr., left for the county seat on business yesterday morning. Mrs. Murphy, of Ilazle Brook, for merly of this place, is seriously ill. John Shelhamer, who was employed as a carpenter here for the past few years, left on Monday for Portland, Ore. John has the best wishes of all the boys. Samuel Wyatt, mine foreman at No. 10 slope, is on the sick list. Mary, the eldest daughter of John Ileeney, was bitten on Friday evening by a large dog belonging to an Austrian living on South street. The owner re fused to allow the monster to be killed and he is still at large, but there is no telling what time or place he will re ceive a pill. MARY ANN. HIGHLAND DOTS. The brush fires which have been raging in this vicinity during last week will cause a shortness in the huckleberry crop. Pay day will be here on Saturday in all its mightiness. William Holier, of Cranberry, spent Sunday among friends in town. The sportsmen of this place intend having a big time bore on Memorial Day. A shooting contest will he the principal feature. Thomas J. Boyle left yesterday to at tend a convention of the T. A. B. soci eties to be held at Nanticoke. Millard Kester returned home last week after performing the sad duty of burying his mother at Bloomsburg. Charles Snyder, of Sandy Run, was among friends here on Sunday. Mrs. Margaret Kellar, who was so dangerously ill, is improving again. Ihe mutual death benefit fund seems to be of the Rip Van Winkle kind— gone to sleep and will remain so for twenty years. David Oliver left for Buffalo last week, where he has accepted a position. Morgan McShea has moved his family to Drifton. It is several months since the light fingered people, who visit us occasionally, have been heard from. Last week they made their rounds again and carried off whatever they got their hands upon. This kind of thieving is of the lowest KELLMEE I s IM>T lbs. oat Hake 25 10 gold corn meal 25 | 2 cans salmon 25 [ 5 boxes sardines 25 ; 3 quarts beans 25 ! 5 lbs. 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