The Globe-republican., 1896-04-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Clara Barton is allowed to work in
Armenia only under Turkish commits
sion and by lists furnished by the
Turks
w. 3. Davidson of Montreal has
sued Queen Victoria for 81 900 for flow
ers furnished at the funeral of Sir
John Thompson.
Shops of the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern at Washington. Ind,
have been closed, throwing 400 men
out of employment.
A. A. Wiley of Bertrand, Neb., &C.
cused of insulting a girl. was brutality
whipped by mob of excited women
and driven out of town.
General Weyler is out with another
proclamation calling the insurgents
bandits and incendiaries and declaring
they will be shot when caught.
Spaniards at Madrid expect war be-
tween Spain and Uncle Sam to be the
result of the Cuban resolutions.
Huldah Smell of Kern county, Cali
fornia, claims she is the widow of
Andrew j. Davis, the millionaire
ton at Butte, Mont.
Senator Allen introduced n resolu-
ton declaring that Congress should
not adjourn without restoring the
free coinage of silver and taking from
the Secretary of the Treasury the
power to issue bonds
Mrs. Ballington Booth lectured at
Sewickley, Pa, on ''Slum and Shelter
Work in Large Cities" and in an in
terview said she and her husband were
too much Americanized was the cause
of the Salvation Army split.
George Hall. who broke out of the
Milan Jail, where he was confined on
a charge of forgery, was shot and
killed at Vancouver, Ii. c., in attempt
ing to evade arrest.
Twenty-six water companies in
Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys in
Pennsylvania, have been purchased
and combined by New York syndi-
cate, a s., 600, 900 deal.
Governor Altgeld and the board of
trustees of tie University of Illinois
have been indicted at Champaign for
failure to fly the National flag over the
school buildings.
The equestrian statue of General
Hancock will De unveiled at Washing
ton, May l. An illegal levy was made
on it by creditor of Henry Elliott, its
sculptor. for a $50 debt.
Engineer Jack Smith of the Hot
Springs railroad went to Chicago on a
bridal trip. and while the bridegroom
slept the bride took $500 wallet, two
trunk checks and q bicycle and started
for Reed City, Mich. but was arrested
on board the train.
The statement of Kansas national
banks shows reserve of 33. 33 per
cent
William Cobb of Athens. Ga, has
been appointed private secretary of
Secretary Hoke Smith.
The Senate Committee On Education
has presented q bill providing for .
large industrial commission.
A statement to Congress from the
Interior Department shows the cost of
the Union Pacific Railway to have
been $50. 600 a mile.
Six thousand acres of land on tho
east line of Nemaha county, Nebraska.
is IN dispute. Missouriaus claiming the
boundary line extends to the west
O0nK OF the river.
Ohio Senate favors electrocution.
Cnban archives have been seized by
the Spanish.
Kearan Reed. aged 81, committed
suicide in New York.
Oklahoma has adopted the govern.
ments Texas fever quarantine line.
Leon & H. Blum, Galveston, Texas,
have failed for g, OOO. 600
Hiram Fl. Morrison of Boston, while
drunk, chOked his drunken wife to
death.
Mark Twain has recovered and sold |
the copyright for = new book for $780,
600.
Nicola Tesla believes he can trans.
NIT news BY means of electric waves |
without the use of wires
Omaha's curfew ordinance was |
vetoed by tho mayor. ~ being too /
blue for = metropolitan city.
Naval appropriation bill carries
81 ,6l1. O;4. of which Sl2, 77s, 1913 is for
increase Of the navy.
Mrs. Mary A. Dsvidson was acquit-
ted of the charge Of extortiug $500
from Rev. C. o. Brown of San Fran
cisco.
senate 1T Rome, log to 6, adopted
the l40, O0O, 900 lire credit asked for BY
the government to continue the war
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