The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-17
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.

III N 80 -
The Satanita beat the Britannia and
vigiiant IN . race at Ryde, Isle Of
Dispatches from steamers arriving AZ
Victoria announc the death of the king
Oh Siam.
The butchers strike &c the Chicago
stockyards has been declared of on tRe
terms proposed by the strikers.
y ~. s. Rather has been dispatched
% Slainese waters 20 anticipate the Dos.
eiDle trouble yer the succession.
Santo, Carnot's assassin, was ruilo.
tined at Lyons Thursday morning 4
large crowd witnessed the execution.
The notorious outlaw and escanad
convict, John Fields. was killed near
g Gibson, /. T., while resisting a.
rest.
Mrs. Virginia L. Miner, d Of the
oldest and best known Of the earlier
woman suffrage agitators, died at Sc.
attorney General Olney has appointed
MOritz Rosenthal Of Chicago assiS,ant
district attorney for the Northern dis.
trict OF Illinois.
The Manitoba crop bulletin estimates
the yield of wheat In that provinca ~
10, ~, 1913 bushels, an average of * 4
bushels per acre.
The congressional convention for the
Ninth Wisconsin district, unan.
imously nominated Alexander Stewart
Of Wansau Tor congress.
Judge Bartlett has decided that Lillian
Russell until next October may perform.
act or do what she pleases in Enrnne or
elsewhere, under any management.
The Hawaiian royalist commissioners
who came TO Washington abont ia days
tigo, LETT the city Wednesday for CHI.
cage. presumably on their way home.
President Cleveland has signed the
bill 70 authorize the taxation of tIe
treasury notes by states and municipali-
Ties on the same terms that other 8
lis taxed.
General Wade Hampton. commits.
sloner 0f railroads, has left for the Wac
70 make he annual t1ip Of inspection Of
the properties OF the bonded Pacific
"A dispatch to the London Times from
Snanghal says that Japan is pouring
Iresn troops into Corea, and that up.
wards OF 5000 Japanese soldier ara
now In Corean territory.
California fruit is arriving at New
York more freely than ever before.
Last Week h receipts were ITO cars.
y from Saturday till Monday 10 cars
We're received, of which 26 were sold.
The damage to the corn crop in parts
OF and Nebraska is SO great that
the q, Joseph and Grand Island rail.
roau ~ issued orders for the abandon-
ment OF over q dozen stations on its
lines.
" ~ understood that Senator Black.
burn OF Kentucky has been agreed nnnn
among the Democratic leaders to All the
vacancy on the senate finance commit
tee, caused by the death of Senafnr
Vance OF North Carolina.
Under call of President Mcbride Of
the United Mine Workers, a convention
was held at Columbus to form an indie
pendent political organization and
adopt = platform, severing raai0naaboF
mel from the old political parties.
.Advices dated Samoa, Aug /. saw chat
several thousand armed natives continna
Az their encampment within rifle shotl
of the government forces. No seriOus
engagement has taken place, however,
2 only an occasional straggler has
been killed.
lt Is stated that a protocol has been
signed uniting Guatemala, Nicaragua.
San Salvador and Honduras into one
republic, to be known as the Central
American republic. Costa RIGA was
also represented at the conference. but
that government has declined to sign
the protocol.