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# THE WEEK'S NEWS Wednesday, Dec. 18. Monroe doctrine enunciated vigorously anew and in no uncertain tones in a message sent to congress by President Cleveland. Correspondence on the disputed Venezuelan boundary matter between the secretary of state and the British prime minister laid before congress. Commission to determine the true boundary recommended. Republican senators heartily support the president--Death of Captain Mason Davis, an old and esteemed resident of Cambridge, Mass--M. Dupas arrested in Paris for conspiring to prevent the arrest of Emile Arnot--Italian chamber agreed to a grant of 20,000,000 lire for prosecution of the war in Africa--American ship Ivy ashore at Santiago--Violence marks the progress of the tailors' strike in New York--Union Pacific re-organization committee meeting with success in its work--Whittier's birthday anniversary observed at Amesbury, Mass--Postmaster at Norwich, Vt., shot an abusive drunken man--Enforcement league at Biddeford, Me., will not mix up in politics--Albert C. Meady of Medford, Mass., took his own life--Two women arrested at Portland, Me., for breaking and entering at Westbrook--The German ship Athena blown to pieces by naphtha explosion and 14 of her crew killed--Mrs. Martha Swan of Lee, Mass., celebrated her 103d birthday--Cashier Lane will probably be indicted in conjunction with Dr. Moore of Manchester, N. H--Mayor Whipple of Brockton, Mass., ordered that Officer Ashport be reprimanded for intoxication--John Fellows, at Providence, sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbery--Drunken man shot at a woman, a child and a man at Concord, N. H--The Meriden (Conn.) election was a sweep for the Republicans. Levi E. Coe was chosen mayor. Thursday, Dec. 19. No real expectation of war is felt at the capital--Supposed infernal machines exploded in the Boston and Albany depot at Boston--Exposure caused death of Jacob Remington at South Weymouth, Mass--Body of James E. Parker found in a lake at Marlboro, Mass--Typhoid fever epidemic again at Providence--Verdict of not guilty in the Herrick murder trial at Hartford--A score of colliers badly injured in a railroad accident at Shamokin, Pa--Boston schoolteachers cannot have their salaries raised this year--Frederick W. Hubbard, who has victimized many ministers, arrested at Gloucester, Mass., for vagrancy--New Haven women carry pistols as a protection against robbers--Decision in the Fayerweather will case is in favor of Dartmouth college--President Mayer of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company resigned--William P. Fairbanks, secretary of the Fairbanks Scale company of New York, dead--Recent purchase of coal in the open market by the navy department causes comment--Executors of the will of the late Eben D. Jordan of Boston filed their bonds. Estate estimated at about $7,000,000--Massachusetts had first choice in selecting convention quarters in the Southern hotel, St. Louis--Gladstone again rebukes Great Britain and the other European powers in connection with the Turkish situation--Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance company decided to increase insurance rates for property within 100 feet of a railroad--Virginia house of delegates passed a resolution endorsing President Cleveland's message on the Venezuelan question. Friday, Dec. 20. The president's Venezuelan message delayed in the senate by politics--Boston city council endorses action of President Cleveland in the Venezuelan matter--Captain Mitten, company M, Ninth Massachusetts regiment, to be court martialed, and Lieutenant Parsons, company D, naval brigade, restored to his command--Franchise granted for new railway from Dedham to West Dedham and Norwood, Mass--Charges against Building Inspector Fitzpatrick being investigated by the mayor of Boston--Receiver of the Maverick bank declares a new dividend of 2 per cent--Mrs. Mary A. Livermore attained her 75th birthday--Commercial day observed by the Massachusetts state board of trade--Moody fish bill, passed by the house, intended to benefit the fishermen of Gloucester, Mass--Alleged filibusters arrested in Honolulu--Wife of W. C. Daly, the noted turfman, got a divorce and $15,000--Schooner Collector wrecked in West Quoddy bay--Case of smallpox on a steamer which arrived in New York--Fall River and Providence Steamboat company to change ownership--Report that Nevada is threatened with another mint scandal--Foreclosure of the Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw railroad demanded--Man supposed to be Alfred Chrystie of Lawrence, Mass., died at a Boston police station from alcoholism--Congress to be asked to provide for an adequate exhibit of American products at the Paris exposition of 1900--Lord Dunraven spent several days in Ireland collecting evidence to submit to the New York Yacht club committee--Senate confirmed the nominations of Interstate Commerce Commissioners Veazey and Weather Bureau Chief Moore--Twenty-second annual session of the New Hampshire State grange ended with the installation of newly elected officers--At a meeting of the Brockton (Mass.) board of aldermen a new set of police regulations were presented. They will probably be adopted. Several reforms are proposed as the result of the recent police investigation. Saturday, Dec. 21. United States senate passed a bill for appointment of Venezuelan commission and appropriated $100,000--President sent a message to congress on the financial situation--Bankers and leading men in other lines of business deplore the war scare--Thompson brothers arraigned at Augusta, Me., for the murder of Augustus Sawyer at Monmouth--Day of great excitement on the Stock Exchanges