The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-07-09

the treasury, $3.50, 9O5, ,63a.
TURKISH troops en- route for Sauran.
SYRIA, revolted at Jiddah, on the 1st,
and refused to go any further until
their arrears of pay due, from 1894 to
: the present time, was received.
Ex-CoSeREssMAN JOHN w. K1ILINeER
died at his home in Lebanon, Pa,
on the night of the 3Oth, from the eff
fects of carbuncle. He was we'll
known republican, and spent many
years in congress.
In the British house of commons, ON
the 3Oth, VIM. st. j. Broderick, par.
liamentary secretary to the war Office,
stated, in reply to question on the
4 subiect, that the total of the British
forces now in South Africa was 5,92G
men.
LATER news from the scene of the
mine disaster at Pittston, Pa, on the
2Sth, stated that water was pouring
into the shaft, and that if the men had
not been killed by the falling of the
mine roof, they had certainly been
drowned.
JUDGE Cow1Na, in the court of gen.
eral sessions, New York city, on the
e9th, sentenced William Turner and
William Robert Dunlop to nine years
each in state prison on their plea OF
guilty Of stealing 500, 900 worth of jew
slry from l. Townsend Burden.
AT st. Louis, it is said, ''the choice
of u candidate was settled in advance
and the question was one of platform.
At Chicago the platform is settled and
the question is the man. What the
Bland movement now needs and all
that it needs is aggressive manage.
ment.'
A NEW political party was organized
In Tacoma, Wash, on the 1st, imne-
diately after the adjournment of the
Bimetallic league of that state. The
new organization is to be called the
Free-Coinage Republican party, and it
is composed of republicans who favor
the free coinage of silver.
BLAND's candidacy is said to have in.
terfered with the cleverly-laid plans OF
any number of democratic leaders.
Whether they be silver. gold or com.
promise leaders, the men addicted to
the management habit are shy OF
Bland. The political management want
somebody else, anybody else.
THE committee appointed by the
Louis to notify Mr.. Mckinley of his
- - 4,
United States, performed that duty,
at the home of the nominee in Canton,
O., on the Goth, in the presence Of a
large assemblage of citizens.
THE National Sunday School conven-
ton closed it's first annual term OF
three weeks at jackson, Tenn, on the
29th. The convention proved a decided
success. DR.. L. II. Simmons, the org
inator, says that he has already made
arrangements with some of the best
lecturers in the country for next year.
THE July estimate of a Chicago stat
istican makes condition of winter
wheat IT'S against 74.a June 1, and the
condition in the six surplus states cas-,
against 664 last month; the average
condition of spring wheat is estimated
at 90.3, against 9S.5 month ago. Re-
serves of wheat put at A, ,OOO, 900 bush
els-about the same as year ago.
A PARTY of Is business men, consist
Ing of representatives of the National
Association of Manufacturers of the
United States, sailed from New York on
the steamer st. Paul for Southampton,
on the 1st, for n three-months' trip
through Argentina, Uruguay and Bra
Gil, for the express purpose of Guilt.
vating closer trade relations with
those countries.
AT a meeting of democratic business
men of Indianapolis, Ind, on the 2eth,
42 of those present pledged themselves
to go to Chicago on a special train and
remain until after the Democratic
National convention to work for sound
money. A committee was dispatched
to Chicago to secure headquarters, and
general invitation was extended to
sound money democrats of the state to
Join them.
DIR. MATILDA ADELE WALTER, w.
H. Jemmett, father of Mrs. Walter.
Ralph Creese, Walter Creese and Adam
Miller, counterfeiters. were arrested
In st. Louis on the 1st. At the home
OF Mrs. Walter a complete counter
letting outfit was captured, consisting
OF photo engravin2s Of SEQ bill, some
OF the bills, the copper plates and all
the necessary paraphernalia for etch-
Ing the plates.
AT the first convention of the Social.
st Trade and Labor Alliance of the
United States and Canada, held, on the
18th, in the Labor Lyceum, New York
city, Delegate Charles Wilson de.
scribed the manner of working mines
n Pennsylvania, and said that the lats
eisaster at Pittston was due to the
greed of the mine owners" who, he
AID, failed to provide proper safe
guards for their worlmen.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND left Washing.
son. on the aoth, to spend the summer
nth his family at Gray Gables With
ann went Private Secretary Thurber,
.ncse wife and children are at Ma.
ION, across the bay from the presi
= I0oeo summer homA