The state herald., 1891-12-25
THE WORLD At LARGE.


journals to attack the French govern.
ment.
The city marshal OF Effingham, Kan
sas, was held up and robbed the other
night.
Influenza is raging in many parts
OF the United Kingdom and increasing
In severity.
Governor elect Mckinley. who has
been very sick with the grippe is get
ting better.
The telegraphers on the Atlantic &
Pacific have won their case and gone
back to work.
To add to the horrors of the famine
in Russia the smallpox is now attack
ing great numbers.
At "A riot at public meeting Tues
day John Dillon was hit on the head
with II stone and badly hurt.
1t is reported that II. NJ. S. Anson
encountered a severe gale near Glib
ralter and several of her crew were
swept overheard.
Anton Rubenstein, the Russian plan
list, has accepted an offer OF 1928, 900
for series OF fifty concerts to be given
in the United States.
Governor Winans OF Michigan has
appointed II committee 10 investigate
the secretary Of states affairs. The
secretary has resigned.
Non-union miners have commenced
to operate the block coal mines al
Brazil, Indiana. There has been no
trouble with the strikers.
Annual Christmas poultry train
from Canada to Boston this year is
twelve cars, valued at $26,000. The
customs duties were $3.50.
The fine OF $3.50 imposed on Jay
Gould for not appearing us a juror has
been remitted on the ground of Mr..
Gould's illness at the time.
Official statistics OF the wine season
in France show a yield OF 100000
hectolitres above the yield OF 1890.
In Algeria the yield is doubled.
Insurance agents all over the coun-
try have been notified to advance rates
from 20 to 10 per cent. This is on
account of the increased number OF
serious fires.
Texas telegraph operators have
been ordered TO sign pledge to leave
the Telegraphers' Union. A strike
on the Southern Pacific in Texas is
threatened.
The Chicago postoiilce authorities
have offered reward OF $500 for
the arrest and conviction OF the
thieves who held up the mail wagon
Monday night.
The people Of Butte, Montana. are
vigorously protesting against the
work of a smelter. which il is claimed
causes many deaths by reason OF the
sulphuric fumes.
AT Steelton, Pennsylvania, $50
pounds OF dynamite exploded on the
llth. No one killed. The people in
surrounding country supposed it was
an earthquake.
The two great street railway sys-
tens of Pittsburg have been brought
under one management and under the
control of the Elkins- -Widener-La.
mont-Whitney syndicate. q
4 The corporation Of the city OF Lon
don has voted the sum OF 1900
Rulneas for the, purpose Of providing
u wedding present for Prince Albert
Victor Of Wales and Princess Victoria
Mary OF Teck.
The decision OF the attorney general
that children OF white fathers and In
dian mothers have no rights to lands
as Indians, has created CONSERVATION
among the squaw-men In the Dakota
Sioux reservations.
A collision occurred on the Chesa.
peakc Il Ohio ra' road, near Anderson.
West Virginia, Wednesday morning
between freight ana passenger
train. Two trainmen were killed and
n number OF others injured.
In long article on the peculaiions
OF Edward NJ. Field the World saws
tina, Field robbed his partners and
friends OF 81 2s7, 900. Revelations 20
to show that he has ou,stripped Ferd-
inand Ward and Henry S. Ives.
Sioux half-breeds are ubou, to bring
suit TO declare the sale OF the Sioux
reservation Illegal. They signed the
treaty as Indians. Now II they are
declared not Indians, then they had no
legal right to sign that treaty and |, is
null and void.
An express train on the Pit,sburp
" Fort Wayne road jumped the track
near Lima, Ohio, on the 10th, and
several cars We're wrecked. Two
cooks In the dining car. and eng ineer
were killed and twenty other persons
were Injured more or less.
W. Hausier has been ele ted pres.
iden' Of the Federal Assembly of
Switzerland and president OF the Swiss
confederation. lie was formerly chief
of the military department. Presiden,
liuusior succeeds President Welt,
who resigned recently on accoun,
OF disappointment Of the sale Of the
Central railroad TO German syndl.
cate.
The biggest deal In pine lands In
the south has Just been consummn,cd,
The Boston Pine Land company has
just purchased s,G77 acres OF land n,
20 por acre. This means extension Of
the Santa fo Into Eastern Texa. and
Louisiana nnd opens upn market for
lumber In Chicago. Kansas City aud
St. Louis, and the Santa fo will be ono
continuous line.
An iialinn vessel arriving nj Lon.
don reported n murderer In tho YES
sells hold whom II was impossible to
capture. Hc wns n seaman who In n
row Ind killed n companion and then
had barricndcd himself In the hold
behlLd some merchandise. The Lon.
don police In vain tried TO got him
out bu, had To give II up. Hc wa,
finally starved out and surrendered.
"a dispatch received nj the Gath.