Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-11-29
BRIEF ITEMS.

BRIEF ITEMS
Alexander Dumas, author of "Ca
1 MILE died at Paris on the eth.
! Henry Clews, the New York fnan
cier, says a bond issue is already q
foregone conclusion.
j The Trans Mississippi Commercial
/ Congress, in session at Omaha, elected
4 Hon. W. ]. Bryan, OF Nebraska, as
president
The ceremony of the elevation of Mgr.
i Satolli will occur at the cathedral in
Baltimore, December Is. A large
representation of heads of the Catholic
hierarchy will be present.
Yanbton dispatch; South Dakota
/ officials have completed the appraise-
lnent Of Defaulter Taylor's lands, and
find there is still shortage Of S14o, COO.
| The bondsmen will have to make this
up, and actions viii be begun against
them at once"
Twenty villages have been burned in
the northwestern portion of the dis
trict of Aleppo, Turkey, The lnhabi-
tants were massacred. The Kurds are
gathering on the borders of the
Euphrates, preparing to march into
Syria to massacre Christians
A blizzard. which visited Chicago on
the a5th and 26th, was one of the worst
the city has experienced in years The
city was completely cut off from tele-
graphic communication with the out
side world and traffic was suspended.
The storm was severe in Ohio, Kansas,
Oklahoma, New York, Kentucky and
Tennessee.
AT the request of the Spanish minis
ter, the schooner John w Foster, which
left Philadelphia for Tampa, Fla,
was seized at Lewes Del, on suspicion
Of carrying munitions of war to the
Cuban insurgents. The cargo will be
thoroughly overhauled. The agents
of the schooner claim the vessel was
coal laden.
Minister Cooper, of Hawaii. is author
ity for the statement that Francis NJ
Hatch, the new Hawaiian minister,
does not go to Washington to ask for
protectorate. Mr.. Hatch will use his
best endeavors to bring the annexa-
ton question before the next congress,
and high officials state that nothing
else will satisfy the government.
II. II. Wentworth, an aged man wear
ing long hair, is performing cures in
Atchison. Kan, very much the same as
Schlatter, the alleged Messiah, did in
Denver, except that Wentworth does
not touch his patients. He is credited
with number of cures, and is attract
ing much attention. Many are flock
ing to see him. He is 81 years old.
The interior of the dry goods and
woolen exchange building, a seven
story structure at the corner of Van Blu
rem and Franklin streets, Chicago, was
destroyed by FIRE, entailing a loss OF
1915, 900 upon the owners and tenants
of the building and causing loss OF
five lives, the fatal injury Of two others,
and the injury of six other people, all
Of whom are expected to recover A
large number of girls were employed
in the building and number of them
jumped to the pavement, nearly every
bone in their bodies being broken.
Joseph Murray, special government
agent, has just arrived at Washing
ton from Alaska, being summoned by
the president toreport on the boundary
survey between Alaska and the British
possessions. He declares the reports
about excitement in Alaska and the
building Of British forts on the disputed
territory are all bosh. He says that
only twenty-five Canadian police are
on the border and they are men of
excellent character and very useful in
watching the highway robbers infest- |
ing the gold camps.
Late details received By steamer
from Santa Clara show that the town
of Guinea DeMuiranda, the most i'm
portant in the district, has been
entirely destroyed by fire by the
insurgents. Before the revolution
there were $500 inha bitants there.
The small garrison defending the place
made a heroic defense. An insurgent /
has attacked Fort Fluriach. I
in the province of Puerto Principe.
After an hours fighting the insurgents
were compelled to retreat. Many
are reported to have been
badly wounded.
A Milwaukee dispatch says: Henry
w. Roddis, who thirty years ago dis
with large sum of money
belonging to his uncle, and who was
believed by his wife and children to
have been murdered in the south, has
just been located at Cherolzes, Iowa
where he is said to be living with
woman with whom he
eloped. He has eight children in the
Cherokee family. Roddis is well con
nected in Iowa, where he accumulated
considers Bile money, and is secretary
Of the Citizens Life Association OF
iow' cred he has