Show NEWS OE THE DAY Fears of a war between Russia and England appear to be dissipated under the good influences of diplomacy Dr Collier of Washington will talk to the New York Chamber of Commerce Thursday on the possibility of making sugar for a cent a pound from sorghum The morning dispatches give very minute accounts of Prosident Clevelands trip from Albany to Washington Along with several millions of people we rejoice re-joice that he got there A 1n ute named Calhoun went from Clarion Center Kansas to the Leaven worth penitentiary on Tuesday to begin a sentence of fortytwo years for crimes of peculiar meanness The English ministry report that they are at peace among themselves Thats good But the people of Great Britain do not feel so peacefully disposed toward the cabinet The seventyfifth anniversary of the Popes birthday March 2 was heartily celebrated by the great pontiffs many admirers We can hardly expect Leo to stay on earth many years longer and the better man to fill his place will have to bo searched for under electric light Yesterday was Idaho day at the New Orleans Exposition and Col Shoup was in his glory The fact is that this veteran Idaho merchant is every inch a man and a credit to the Rocky Mountain region AVe are glad he is laying aside the cares of business in hope of restoration to health and a comfortable old age The railroad strike on the Gould system sys-tem of lines in Texas has already stopped all freight trains and this morning it is probable there is not a passenger train moving The mail coaches with engines are exempted from the restraints of the strikers Our sympathies arc on principle I princi-ple with the railroad boys who pursue I their dangerous avocation faithfully and ought to be fairly paid Today at noon ends President Ar thurs career at the White House lie has proved a better man than we expected ex-pected incorrupt faithful to duty and in his personal demeanor finely sustaining sustain-ing the dignity of the Presidential office He remained bn duty up to the last moment mo-ment and will go into retirement with the cordial respect of all the American people Last night as the train conveying the New York County Democracy emenred from the west end of Union tunnel a shot I was fired at it from the tunnel of Green I Mount Cemetero The ball passed through the window of a car and through the hat of one of the passengers The police were at hand but the assailant jumped down nearly twenty feet into the cemetery grounds and escaped A continuous line of picket composed exclusively of United States soldiers will be posted along the Rio Grande river at the northermost point of the border and extending at short intervals south to the mouth of the river Tile bands of Mexican Mexi-can bandits on the west bank of the Rio I Grande and the incessant appeals for aid from bordering ranchmen are the actuating motives Through communication communi-cation will be established and every precaution pre-caution take to check raids in thoir inception in-ception Stanley says with this new system of outposts and the volunteer aid of Texas residents rapine murder and theft will become rare crimes on the border bor-der |