History Of A Week

Italian canneü tomatoes are supyutui.Ing the American tomatoes at Belfast, owing-, as the dealers say, to the fact that the American vegetable is overcooked and over-ripe. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is passionately fond of bullfishts, and maltes it a rule to visit the "ring" whenever she is in Spain. Governor Jones will cali an extra session of the Arkansas legislature for April 26 to take action on a no-fence law. W'illiam E. Mikell, a prominent memte of the bar from South Carolina, has been appointed instructor in law at the University of Pennsylvania. Mme. Melba will sing with the Damrosoh company next season. A sensation in Austrian parliamentarian circles if the elopement of a young daughter of Dr. B'erdinand Kronawetter, leader of Vienna Democrats and member of the reicbsrath. f riüay, April 9. Mrs. Ormiston Chant, the social reformer, and six nurses have lef t London for the Island oí Crete. Lady Somersel and B. F. Keith, of Boston, financing the mission. By the will of the late Miss Winifred E. Martin, who died at the Hotel Altamont, Baltimore, nearly, iL not quitw, $1,000,000 is bequeathed to various Roman Catholic churches and charities in Maryland and California Rhode Island has elected Elisha Dyer, Republican, governor, by a raajority of 10,000. Frank Brede, aged 64, a retired business man, for flfty years a resident of Dubuque, Ia., and one of the wealthiest and best-known citizens, was strickeu with paralysis and died within two hours. Four childrenwere drowned at Mound Landing, Miss. General Julio Sanguilly, the Cuban leader, has been arrested by United States authorities at Jacksonville, Fla., on the charge of attempted violation of noiitralitv laws. Saturday, Api'il 10. Mrs. John Lang, of Derby, Conn., hanged herself in her home during a fit of melancholia after having beaten her 16-months-old child on the head with a blunt instrument. The child will die. Schrader, the "divine healer," who achieved rauch notoriety in Denversome months ago, has located in Providence, R. I. The Greater New Tork charter has been returned to the legislature with the disapproval of Mayor Strong, of New York, and Mayor Wuerster, of Brooklyn. Colonel William R. Shafter, First infantry, U. S; A., has been nominated to be brigadier general. The Glone Flour milis at Cornwall, Ont, were burned. Loss, $33,000. David Brown, of Chicago, died at the county hospital from the effects of sutposed arsenic poisoning. The man, it is said, attempted to commit suicide at his home. Alonzo J. Whiteman, ex-mayor of Duluth. has been acquitted of the charge of grand larceny at New York. The LaCrosse. Wis., gas.works have been sold to the Edison Electric company, of LaCroi Momhiy, April 13. An Austrian has invented a lace-making machine that makes lace not distinguishable from handwork. A party of prominent railroad officials and others has just left Milwaukee, where it had been in connection withthe reorganization of the Wisconsin Central property. A Louisville newspaper gave a concert Saturday for the benefit of the Mississippi valley flood sufferers and raised $1.800 net. Thé Burlington (Ia.) street railway was sold at public sale to a Boston syndicate for $50.000. One hundred thousand dollars in improvements wlll be made by the new company. Ed Geers, the horsemen, was thrown from a sulky at Selma, Ala., and had one wrist broken and his ankle cated. Pneumatic tube exploded. The eotton losses of the Mississippi flood- in crops that wlll not be grown- are estimated at $50,000,000. Secretary I,ong has referred to congress all of the bids and letters received by him touching the armor plate question. Tuesday, April 13. According to advices brought by the Gaelic, just arrived at San Francisco, natives in the vicinity of Ichang, China, are dying by hundreds of starvation. Thirty English volunteers have arrived at Arta to join the Greeks. They include among their number young Harris, the son of the British admiral in Cretan waters. Sophia Traubmann, the singer, was married to Charles Patzousky, of New York. Feb. 15. The Pure Food Product company at 544 North Water Street, Chicago, has failed. The liabilities of the concern General John R. Brooke, the new commander of the department of the souri, who succeeds General Merritt, has arrived in Chicago. W. L. Sandiers, operating general stores at Frankfort, Kan., and Falls City, Neb., has failed. Assets and liabilities are believed to be large. Professor Edward Brinker Cope, Ph. D., died at nis home at Philadelphia from kidney trouble. Mr. Cope was professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the school of biology of the University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday, April 14. Otto Snyder and cousin, John Snyder, young men, were drowned in the river at Eldora. Ia. It is reported that T. V. Powderly, former general master workman of the Knights of Labor, will be appointed commissioner of immigration to succeed Herman Stump. Paul Genz, who killed his mistress at Hoboken, N. J., Aug. 28, 1894, has just been hanged by the sheriff at Jersey City. Queen Lil wants to run for president of the Hawaiian islands, and says that if the "people" of those islands are permitted to freely vote their sentiments she will be easily be elected. By a decree of Dec. 14. 1874, the king of the Belgians instituted an unusual prize of 25,000 francs for the best military history of Belgium. Chicago detectives are looking for John Craft, who, it is alleged, robbed his mother, Mrs. John McDonald, of $900.