Show REVIEW OF IM IMPORTANT TANT events at rome home and abroad during the past week A busy yet uneventful period commencing Z with that sunday when for tile the first time the gates ot of the worlds fair were thrown thron wide open to thousands who sought 0 admission dext ext in point of interest to this much vexed and much discussed question was the celebration of memorial day and closely approaching this in popular interest was secretary hoke re construing 0 of certain pension laws which under liis his ruling t will not be as costly as heretofore by from fifteen to twenty 1 v million dollars annually on oil the afternoon of may 30 president cleveland left the white house for a fishing trip on ilog hog island he be is still absent there have baa e been no disturbances disturbance S iu in the business or financial world in spite of the alleged tightness on tile the money market 30 was found for investment in the reorganized philadelphia and reading rail road in Blis missouri there las has been a great and destructive storm ft bile in m louisiana the floods have rendered thousands of people homeless with all mil military ilary pomp and much civic ceremony the remains of the late jefferson davis davia have been interred permanently at richmond the feature of the criminal records has been the discharge by court of dr groves who was once sentenced to be hung for tile alleged poisoning of mrs barnaby and just about is when bell he was being released ex state senator john P mcfarlane the defaulting president of tile ruined american life insurance company and the wrecker of the bank of america of philadelphia returned from his exile in brazil to receive ins ills sentence of four years in prison the most important appointment made duchi during the week is that of col 1 george gcorge S sternberg who was promoted to surgeon general of tile the i army I 1 ABROAD germany is still discussing the army bill and all hought the emperor william has withdrawn or de dared blared to be untrue some of the statements which were credited to him nevertheless at le least astone one faction of the center party is now negotiating with chancellor caprisi caprivi foursome for thing worth having in return for their support of tile the army bill in the next reichstag italy is worrying with a financial crisis that seems to be e quite serious and which is evidently ly due to a shortness of silver some som ching from which the united states baa as not guff suffered ered for sonic some time past The sea court of arb arbilla itra ion is sull in paris and ar urgent is proceeding as slowly as ven the most dignified 1 ouli wish it to glad stone contin es to push forward the home rule l ill 1 but is not being materially as by those lie is apparent jy y cuik adoring to benefit for ilie arnel lites will present ovea pien Men dents to the measure as soon as tl I 1 opportunity is 19 alfored them the of the death of william Will lain j e enu who had at one time considers y real estate interests in the terri y which gov ov Patti soll now rt les es was suitably remembered by I 1 e english members of the society friends there have been but few disturbances in the mercantile world the principal happening being the wrecking 0 of mr a coffee merchant cf havre who tried to corner the european coffee market and failed faile d at 1 hamburg lam burg marseilles and toulon cholera has once more made its appearance pe arance but up to this time the number of cases has been small there is uneasiness in spain because of the anti taxation movement but no serious serious trouble is apprehended just now DOW the royal geographical society of london decided to present to W IV rockhill the american explorer now chief clerk of the state department the gold medal fo for r his bis remarkable work in thabet and adjoining countries of the many accidents which oc cured none were more serious than the loss of the british ship germania which went down in a cyclone in the bay of BeDr bengal RI taking with it sixty four men in nicaragua the revolution came to tn a satisfactory ending the revolutionists compelling the president to resign and thus bringing t ta about the order ader for which were striving 1 I P A |