Show A TOUGH AFFAIR charles stewart parnell charged oh arged with adultery i m DATES M 1 oshea the husband of the guilty woman maintains the cliar ijes are ame special to the ENQUIRER LONDON dec 28 captain oshea filed petition for divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery and named charles stew art parnell as the core co re it andt nr specific acts alleged fo have taken place during the period extending from april 1886 ro date of petition at the residence of Mr in an interview today to day oshea said the charges ft ere true though he doe not claim damages INFLUENZA 03 THE INCREASE the 28 the number of deaths from influenza is increasing here the manifest a panicky feeling the condition of dr minister i war who is prostrate alie di is changed for tse worse TUF CHAELES fiedt KING rj eci il to the ENQUIRER LISBON dec as the ceremony of Iro claiming charles the first king of 3 rt igal and abgarians Alg arians took place toay at lisbon and great enthusiasm NO TIlEn MOVE TO COMPLETE THE PANAMA to the ENQUIRER ARis Dec 28 mr the in of the dredges used in excavating ane bed of the panacea canal arrived in taig city io day it is asserted that the purpose of his visit is the formation of a franco american company to complete ohp canal the capital of the company is to be francs and it is stated then one half of that sum is already lodged A LENGTH special to the ENQUIRER I 1 PITTSBURG pa dec 28 gustav lindenthal den thal a prominent engineer of this city left for yew york today to day where ho proposes exhibiting a model which he has completed of a bridge to span fire hudson river from this city to jersey city alie structure is to be a suspension bridge feet in length ane rier span will be 2850 feet and the ater two spans over 2000 feet the the bridge from the floor to atie riar trill be beet and the road vy sn sufficient to accomma if intimated that the cost ot the structure will be A special to LONDON dec 28 A russian giantess named elizabeth dyska who has just arrived in london is attracting much attention although only twelve years of age she is six feet eight inches high weighs pounds and is still growing at the rate ot an inch every two months her parents were poor peasants not taller or broader than other peasants she grew as other children grow until she was four years of age and then she began to be a little giantess in her fifth year she gained ten inches in height from her fifth to her ninth she grew only an inch or two between her ninth and tenth birthdays she gained one footland foo tand between her tenth and eleventh a foot and four inches GLAD STONES EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY special to the ENQUIRER LONDON dec 28 to mon ivr will be mr Glad stones eightieth birthday and he enters on ins eighty first year as sound in body and mind as when his great intellect first astonished the world in the ever famous budget speech when chancellor of the exchequer in 1853 The talk everywhere today to day is of the matchless splendor of his career whose incidents have been before the gerld since the vearow the great reform and which has in the belief even of his enemies been unstained by any ignoble or unworthy action lie is alone among men in the perfect blending of moral force intellectual power and bodily vigor his untiring act acts like an inspiration on public life and is to a greater extent than is acknowledged the motive force of the democracy manifests itself in the energy that the leaders display in the pursuit of the ideals in political and social life at the age of four score when life to most men is a burden they would gladly drop and the shadows of the future confound 1 and confuse their reason he is laboring with the zeal of loyola in the great cause to which he has consecrated der of his life stimulating the flagging spirits of the radical hosts by powerful speeches in which DO one can trace the faintest indication of decaying power or the loss of a jot or tittle of faith and hope in the future of humanity it is now admitted that the greatness of the grand old damrill only be fully apprehended when history sums up the splendid story of his life he was occupied nearly all alie mornine reading and telegrams from his friends andy admirers all over the world in the afternoon he received a large number of visitors at hawarden HOW THEY GOT special to the CHICAGO dec 28 there is some icahn if the wage workers will patronize the four concerts which arc to be given for their entertainment at the auditorium by the apollo abiusi cal club the working people have not taken kindly to the big structure as those who were employed in its construction st were not members bof any labor union organized labor was not at with the capitalists who fur dished the funds for the building and endeavored frequently to thwart their plan gerior to the last republican convention the labor unions of the city served notice on the leaders of the republican party eliat if the convention were held in the auditorium they would jax erfe their howerto power to defeat the nominees tle threat was dia regarded and the convention ven tion was held arthe structure which atthe tim ewas unfinished the socialists anthoine anT soine well known members of labor organizations leave r 1 cwi a ly At v y s r 3 j J its ay advised their followers and fellow workers to boycott the concerti concer tb the first of ahe concerts ib to be given to if the statements of the are correct the wae workers have determined not to heed the suggestion or advice to keep away from the concerts for it is imported that applications for seats h e already been made this is nearly four times as many as can be accommodated commo dated the tickets are placed at 10 cents 5 cents and 25 cents according to location and boxes containing five seats at the managers took all the precautions they auld to prevent any hut those for whom the concerts are to be given from securing seats ko employer was permitted to purchase tickets and ave them to his employed emp loyes and he was not permitted to sell them to any of his employed emp loyes who received a regular salary of over per week SUING A MOB special to the en DORADO kan dec 30 mrs margaret edwards who in company with her husband aaonzo edwards was maltreated mal treated by a mob last summer on the suspicion of having murdered and concealed the remains of little sadie bloomer has brought suit against D B tilton the leader of the mob and forty five of his followers for the sum of 25 for injuries received at their hands mrs edwards and her husband were brutally beaten by tilton and party and both were hung up bv the neck several times till hiie was nearly extinct in an effort to make them leveal the place where they had hidden the remains of the child the child was afterward found on tho doorstep of a neighbors giouse totally uninjured and the folly of the mob law was again exemplified the defendants in the suit are nearly all prosperous farmers and stock raisers and the sum asked by the plaintiff can easily be recovered from them AX EXPLOSION IN AN OMNIBUS special JS C dec SO four prominent young men of charlotte went to concord last night to celebrate new years eve in a valise they had many large firecrackers fire crackers and aliey reached the depot and got in an omnibus just before starting from the depot one of them smelled something like a match barnin bur nin and opened his valise to see it anything via wrong with it in an instant the exploded the omnibus was full of people who were through the door and windows the windows were broken out by the explosion the lamps were broken and the lights put out the horses became frightened and things were in dire confusion all the occupants were amt some lost all their hair and others were cut by glass A DRUGGIST S MISTAKE special to the ENQUIRER gouverneur N Y dec 30 john D van valkenburg who was suffering from headache yesterday went to xa backs drug store and asked for five grains of mr lavack by mistake gave him five grains of a le adly epison ir tool the medicine at his home in the evening and despite tha efforts of physicians sic ians died shortly afterwards |