Show IMPORTANT EVENTS rov rosiew lew of important events of rome home and abroad the past week har hai been one full of political incidents the contest in representative brecki Breckin ridges district in kentucky was found to have been won by liis his young antagonist WC owens by a plurality of about the district central committee meets today to canvass the returns 9 and select the candidate it is expected to be a mere mera perfunctory operation era tion though colonel breckinridge claims that he can produce proof of fraud in the interest of his opponent the new york republicans met at saratoga and nominated dominated ex vice president levi P morton for governor a state ment withdrawing from the candidacy cand ids for the democratic nomination in the interests of harmony the ohio democratic convention at columbus was the scene of excite in ment ent during an impassioned attack on united senators pending the discussion of a resolution favoring the popular election of senators it was intended to censure senator brico brice for his hia course during the tariff debate but his friends prevented this and the convention voted merely in favor of the direct election of senators the democrats of south corolina met in convention nominated john gary evans for governor and endorsed the dispensary liquor system senator john P jones who recently announced that he was not in line with the republican party on the silver question was requested by the republican I 1 central committee of nevada to resign his seat A strike of garment makers began in boston similar to the one recently recently y won in new york the same grievances a exist long hours and piecework they want a nine hour bour day and fixed wages A similar strike is ia threatened at pittsburg re rev v james A mcfaul has been appointed bishop of trenton to succeed the late bishop ofarrell relI the brotherhood of locomotive firemen met at harrisburg reelect re elect ed general marter marker sargent and passed resolutions opposing sympathetic strikers the board of regents of the wisconsin university reported prof eli innocent of the charge of circulating economic heresies her esies and favoring 0 boycotts the connecticut republicans nominated 0 vincent coffin for governor FOREIGN A great amount of fighting 0 has ben been crowded into a few days in the chinese jamane war near pingfang Ping Yang in corea a force of chinese was wiped out by a japanese force of men it is said that sixteen thousand chinese were killed wounded or captured the chinese were left without a foothold in corea A day or so later japanese warship attacked off yalu balu river a chinese fleet conveying a number of transports taking fresh troops to cores corea and dispersed them the chicase succeeded in landing the troops one report says that they were afterward captured but that report has not been confirmed A number of the chinese warships were destroyed the rest sailed to port arthur across the bay for repairs the effect of these two engagements has been to make the japanese masters of the corean situation for a time A spring attack on oil lUan manchuria churia and a march on pekin is now talked of news came of the failure of the jack jackson son H barnsworth arn asworth polar Expedit expedition io n to penetrate beyond the parallel par allol the season in the north has hag been found extremely unfavorable adorable avo rable for arctic exploration I 1 pa |