The Globe-republican., 1896-01-02
LATE NEWS NOTES

LATE NEWS NOTES
The terms Of eighty-three Presiden
tial postmasters will expire in jam
ary.
Senator Palmer says-that he doesnx
think that either the House tariff a,
bond bill will become law.
The Knights of Labor. BY request
have suggested that Labor Commis
sioner c. D. Wright investigate the
problem of enforced idleness
The plant Of the Chicago Mill and
Lumber company At Cairo, ILL.,. VA
destroyed by fire.
Thomas N. Duncan, circuit clerk Of
Scott county. Arkansas, was convicted
Of forgery.
The Louisiana Republican committee
has changed front, and is now for
Reed for President.
Millions Of railroad ties were lost
by the flood in the Usage valley, and
the losses sustained by contractor
and the railroad companies viii be
heavy.
The six members Of the Jones fam
ily reported drowned in tho Sac river
are alive. They were rescued from
q drift pile in the middle Of the
river.
The Civic Federation, Of Alton, Ill,
employed a detective, who secured
abundant evidence against saloon
keepers who violated the Sunday law,
but no convictions resulted.
The fate of the Armeniaus left in
Zeitoun after the bombardment i
still uncertain.
The remains of Sergius Stepniak,
exiled Pole, were taken to WokinG,
England, to be cremated.
The United States does not recog-
nize the right of Turkey to exclude
foreign warshipsrf from the Dardanelles.
Kenesaw Lands, who was the late
Secretary Gresham's private secretary,
has been appointed Special United
States Attorney to prosecute the beef
trust
The State House Of jackson, Miss,
is said to be likely to collapse at any
time.
Negotiations concerning the extradi-
ton treaty between Germany ard the
United States have been resumed.
The Russian rOTSgn Ministe. says
that the Gar VIII restore order In
Armenia if requested to do SO by three
European powers.
A. w. Patswald, an Oklahoma City
sooner, has been convicted of perjury.
Jury was out eigh' days.
Harry Hayward's body was Gre
mated in Chicago His friends have
been uneasy lest ghouls get it. !"
Four trainmen were killed and three
tramps hurt in a collision ON the
Georgia Pacific, near Chattahoochie,
Ga.
Leading London papers arc not
pleased with the passage of the new
tariff bill by the American Congress
Cleveland and Lamont think General
Miles is talking too much about the
weakness of the country's defenses.
John Winniger. Ottumws, Iowa,
killed his wife and himself
Olney, it is said, has privately
cabled Salisbury not to worry.
Twenty-three federal prisoners
b1 oke Jail at South McAlester, Ind.
Ter.
A syndicate of New York, Boston
and Chicago capitalists will open up
the Western part of Mexico by con-
structing railroad.
According to the Railway Age rail-
way building in the United States
reached this year a lower point than
any of the last twenty years, and in
only two years since 1865 has SO small
q mileage been built Texas leads
with 224 miles put down for the year.
Total mileage December 81, Isl, 900.
Importers are withdrawing goods in
bond for fear of the higher tariff.
A i1adruple alliance between Spain,
England, France and Holland is
talked Of
Ey-President Blanco of Venezuela
believes war is inevitable and that
Russia will stand by America against
England.
Walter Ramsey of Owingsville, KY,
quarreled with his sweetheart, Miss
Martha Warren, and shot himself in
her presence.
Bill Doolin is reported to be weary
of an outlaws life, and to be anxious
to surrender, if assured of q short
ponite ntiary sentence.
The British steamer Belleroph0n
sank the French steamer Selsise in
the Algiers harbor, and thirty passen-
gers drowned.
George Rogers and Will French
fought with knives over q girl near
Independence, G county, Okla, and
the latter was fatally wounded.
Manitoba reasserts its devotion to
uniform non-seetarian public school
system and refuses to establish separ-
ate schools in any form.
Kwan Ping, a Chinese war vessel
captured by the japanese, was wrecked
on the Pescadore islands, and tt
officers and sixty men drowned.
A Burlington passenger train col
lided with freight near Seward,
Neb., and Engineer Reed Of the latter
train was instantly killed, and two
passengers dangerously hurt.
By the explosion Of $50 sticks Of
dualin and !, 1000 pounds of black pow
der, three men were killed at Hazel
ton, Pa
The English loan companies doing