Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-25
NEWS BY WIRE.

NEW ORLEANs.-Jack McAuliffe, of New York, and Billy Meyers, of Streat- CT. Ill.,, have signed articles of agree ment to fight with gloves to a finish for g stake of $500O side within three months. The affair to take place be- fore the club offering the largest purse.
 DEs MoINEs.-Interested parties in this city confirm the rumor that an English syndicate has offered three million dollars for the Durango Min ing Company's plant in New Mexico. Besides the plant the company has forty-three thousand acres of land. The capital stock is five million dol lars. The company will probably dis pose of the property.
 WAsHINGToN-Captain Pierce, act ing agent of the Indians at Pine Ridge has made a requsition upon the In dian bureau for the supplies which will be necessary to continue the issue of full rations up to June 18th, 1891 the provisions of the treaty of 1877 The estimates calls for SAG, ,855 pounds of beef, l2,76l pounds of coffee, 15,294 pounds of su0ar.
 Captian Pierce is of the opinion that his beef estimate will probably have to be increased by fifty per cent. owing to the difference in weight Of the cattle now, as compared with their weight when received last October.
 Los ANaELEs.-Work will not be started upon any building on either the Santa Fe or the Southern Pac fic until the results of the Presidents meeting are known. This has occasion ed the stoppage on work and the build- ing of the Santa Barbara branches of the Santa Fe.
 CHICAGO A sewer manhole ex. ploded thls morning at the intersec. tion of Jackson street and Wabash ave nue when both thoroughfares were crowded with shoppers and working people. One woman, Mrs. 0 R. Ross, colored) was killed outright. She was stepping nearly upon the fatal man hole when the covering with startling suddenness flew sky-ward and she was slammed backwards, flat against the curbing. The woman's skull was split open and her brains was scattered about in a circle of the stones; little four year old colored boy who was with her strangely escaped injury.
 WAsHINGToN.-Priva advices from the White House are more favorable than public accounts would lead one to believe. Is is said by the best in side authority that the president IS more than likely to sign the silver bill if it goes to him. or let it become Q law without his signature. If he signs the bill he will do it under protest, but that will not interfere with the legality of the measure. Strange as this may seem he has been advised to this course by those who opposed the bill in the senate.
 DENvER.-A Times Washington special says: The diverse reports from the house with reference to the pros poets of the silver bill still continue. No one can undertake to say definitely what the outcome will be in that body. Senator Teller has spent much time on floor of the house where he has many acquaintance and friends since the passage of the bill by the se- nate, and he thinks the prospects for the passage of the bill are very good. He says that after talking with men- bers of the committee on coinage, weights and measures, he feels assured that there will be no difficulty in get ting the bill out of comittee in its present shape.
 LoNDoN.-A dispach from Buenos Ayres says the revolt in Chili is spread ing rapidly. The insurgents are very energetic and managing the campaign in a skillful manner. The issue of the uprising is very doubtful.
 WAsHINGToN.-The Post to-day as- serts emphatically that the president will veto the free coinage bill should it pass the House, no matter whether the Election Dill is defeated or not. It also says that speaker Reed will make every endeavor to thwart the silver men in their attempt to get the bill