The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF

Buffalo, \. Y.
The capture of King Lobengula is re-
ported as incorrect.
Right Rev. T. b. Lyman, bishop OF
North Carolina is dead.
The Frankling window glass factory
of Elwood, Ind, is in ashes.
Ex-Minister Stevens has been lectur-
ing in Boston on IIawaiin matters.
Admiral Mello's flagship, Aquida ban,
is again blockading Rio de Janeiro.
| A fire in Troy. n. Y. on Friday last
| destroyed property valued at $500 900.
Mrs. Porter. widow of Admiral Por-
ter, died in Washington few days ago.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Co. advanced pig IRON % per cent.
The total vote east in the recent
election for governor in Virginia, was
2l6, 1874.
1t is reported that Archbishop Satolli,
pal pal delegate, is soon to be created a
cardinal.
The total number of votes cast at the
recent state election in New York was
/, $40, 400.
captured in the mountains of Monroe
county, Tenn.
Admiral De Cana, of the brazilian
government, has declared in favor of
the insurgents.
Secretary Gresham thinks China is
the proper field in which to extend our
foreign commerce.
dispatch from Rio de Janeiro says
President Peixoto has declared Admi
raj DeGama a traitor.
Mrs. w. 7. Smith of Richmond, Ala,
assaulted by ii negro in her room at
night shot him dead.
Gen. Clement A. Evans seems to have
the inside track on the gubanatorial
race track in Georgia.
Rt. Rev Robt. Sam'l Gregg, bishop
of Cork, has been elected archbishop
OF Armagh and prinate of Ireland
A Chinese envoy has arrived in Wash
ington to negotiate Il new treaty be-
tween the United States and China.
Shocks of an earthquake were recent
ly felt at Mt. Vernon, Ind, sufficient to
shake the goods off the store shelves.
Rev. Vernon Oliphant shielded in New
\ ork on the II inst. as the result of an
unbalanced mind caused by over-study
One night recently 900 unemployed,
starving men were huddled shivering
in the halls of the city hall in Chicago
The new italian ca binet is now com
plete, with Signor Crispi as premier,
minister OF interior and interim foreign
affairs.
Our ambassador to England, Thomas
f. Bayard, gives assurance of pacific
policy by President Cleveland toward
Hawaii
The Spanish cabinet council have APP
proved the conduct of Cen Campos at
Melilla, and decided to renew his pow
er in full
The Georgia Legislature has declared
for the coinage of both gold and silver
without discrimination and for state
banks of issue
A gunpowder explosion recently oc-
CURED at Waltham Abbey. London,
killing one person and fatally wound
ing nine others.
Recent opinions by noted biologists
place the duration of the earth upon
which we now live at from 2S, 600, 900 to
$4,000, 600 years.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed AL
bert E. Matthews of Pine Bluff Ark,
and Wing Ching Foo OF New York, as
Chinese inspectors.
Canada, it seems, is trying to estab-
lish and monopolize the trade between
the Hawaiian islands and the United
States to her own sea ports,
The New York legislature. as it now
stands since the recent election. rates:
Senate, republicans 10, democrats 10.
Assembly, republicans "a, democrats 81.
Seventeen thousand women in Cali
fornia have signed a petition begging
the newspapers to give less space to
crlmina news and matters of immoral
tendency.
United States Consul Berlte, at Per-
namo nco, wants vessel as a precau-
tlonarv measure, martial law having
been declared by that government.
Henry Cochran, former weigher at
the mint in Philadelphia, has been sem
fenced to a fine of 1000 and to serve
seven years in prison for robbing the
government of gold bullion.
Cashier Robinson OF the wholesale
stamp department in the Chicago post
office, was slugged in the Office one
night recently and the office robbed of
-, 600 in currency and silver.
Gen. Diamond, who has just returned
from Honolulu. in regard to news Won
get while on those islands about the
situation there, says; The opinion
you get depends on whom you talk to-
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