The Taney County republican., 1896-10-01
a FORCE of 81 Spanish troops started

A FORCE of 81 Spanish troops started
Tor Calabrazar, eight miles from
Havana on the 21st. The next morn
ing i've of the 81 returned to Havana
and reported that their companions
had been killed by insurgents shortly
before reaching Calabrazar.
DELEGArEs from Is states to the
American Bankers association conven-
tion at st. Louis, speaking for the
members from their respective COM
monwealths, declared that the busi-
ness depression now prevailing over
the country is due to the free silver
agitation.
ONE of the three tramps arrested for
suspected completely in the murder of
the chief of police at Table Rock,
Neb., has confessed that he was the
murderer of Officer Moore in Denver in
the spring of 1888.
JAMES CALLAHAN, of Des Moines, and
A. Simmer, the noted philanthropist
OF Waverly, Ia, have united in a dona-
tion of 500, 600 to the home for aged
and infirm in Des Moines- The insti-
tuition was started less than year
ago.
EX-ALDERMAN SALo W. Roth, of Chi
cago. was indicted by the Cook county
grand jury, on the oath, on the charge
of embezzling S43,O from the Ma
tional Loan and Building association.
His bonds were fixed at SIS, zoo.
LOUIS GERHARD, Baron de Geer, of
Finspang, the celebrated Swedish
statesman and politician. died in Stock
holm, on the cath, aged 7s years
THE Spanish government is making
preparations to send 5000 additional
troops to the Philippine islands at
once, and also to increase the garri-
son on the island of Fernando Pc.
The Bank of England, on the cath,
advanced its rate of discount from 21S
per cent. to per cent.
Four thousand persons attended
meeting at Liverpool, on the 24th, un-
der the auspices of the Liverpool Re-
form club, to protest against the rule
of the sultan of Turkey and the mas
sacres of Armenians in the Turkish
empire. Mr.. Gladstone was the prin-
cipa1 speaker of the occasion.
p. J. lyman, the Irish invincible un-
der arrest in Boulogne, France, reject
ed the suggestion of the United States
consul that he employ French law
yers, named by the consul, to defend
him, and informed the consul that he
relied upon the republic to do him
justice.
THE pumping station and depot Of
the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. in East ST.
Louis. ILL.,, were totally destroyed by
fire on the cath. The flames extend
ed to the yards of the Big Four railroad
and consumed a number of cars before
they were subdued; loss, estimated,
$50, 900.
HUGH CONWAY, aged 61, one of the
oldest citizens of Kansas City, Kas.,
while walking on James street, on the
24th, was run down by bicycle rid
den by a 16 year-old boy and fatally in
jured-
DECEMBER wheat began to take an
upward turn on the Chicago board of
trade, on the cath. and John Cudahy,
the accredited holder of nearly all the
contract wheat for December delivery,
was reported to have a deep-laid
scheme to keep the stuff until the dol
lar mark is reached. He was said to
hold at least 25,OOO, 600 bushels Of
wheat
SOME years ago an attempt was made
to destroy by dynamite the monument
on South Mountain. few miles from
Boonsboro, Md, erected to the mem
ory of George Washington by tho
citizens of Boonsboro in 1927, and the
pile was much weakened. Lightning
or vandals few nights ago completed
the work of destruction.