The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-08-06
& qSr national committee Of the peo.
-, party, otherwise the populists,
~ make Washington the headquar-
|Sers Of the organization.

rM make WdSn1ng ton Cue neduQu8f'
>ers Of the organization.
9ar president. on the goth, appoint
- John Sheridan, of West Virginia
government director of the Unior
SseiAc Railway Co., vice Fitzhugi
-. now sul-general at Havana.
THE fourth international Socialistit
ride congress opened in London, on
~ 27th. 500 delegates from all parts
e Europe and the United States, Aus
and the Argentine Republic be-
g present.
Ar DAYTON, O., on the 29th, Henry
fiupIe, night watchman, threw some
vster on fire he had discovered in a
s 1tnme house, and electricity from a
rossed wire passed through the wa.
taar and killed him.
A pIsPATcH from Ohe-Foo, China, on
B he 2eth inst, said that tho little Ger
nan gun boat Hits was lost in typhOon
I a July % at point 40 miles southeast
q the Shang Tung promontory. Only
4 IN of those belonging to the war ship
eeere saved. All the others, IS in num-
k5sr including the officers, perished.
Cor. w. E. MACARTHUR, clerk Of
Representative Herman, of Oregon,
vas found lying unconscious on the
$ street in Washington, on the evening
a the 29th, and died shortly after at
! the hospital. Cause, sunstroke. Nc
Arthur was from The Dalles, Ore,
where he formerly published a paper.
OK the goth Consul-General Fitz-
hugh Lee telegraphed the state de-
partment, in response to inquiries
made at the instigation of Gen. Miles,
J. that there was no information in Ha-
vana regarding the reported killing OF
Pierce Atkinson, who went to Cuba
from this country to assist the reb-
els
WILLIAM j. GILBERT, the well-known
hw-boek publisher, and for many
years a prominent resident of st.
Louis, died, on the 27th, at his resi-
dence in that city, aged 81 years. He
was at the head of one OF the oldest
hw-book concerns in st. Louis. and
Was known to every lawyer in the
dty.
Two FRENCH fishing crews arrived at
81 Johns, n. F., on the 27th, reported
that the schooner Anna Marie, with
u men, sunk in collision with the
schooner Pacifque, and that the
schooner Tedel with Is men foundered.
The French crews were landed at St.
JOINS, having been picked up adrift in
dories.
AMONG the passengers who arrived
st the port of New York on the 2sth,
by the steamer Caracas, from LaGuay-
n, was the son of Jose Maceo, who
was killed in battle in Cuba recently.
The young man is, together with ten
ether Cubans, on his way to the island
70 join the rebel army. He first
learned of his fathers death on land
ing at New York.
A DISPATCH to the Madrid Impartial
from Havana says that Capt. Gen.
Weyler had issued a decree in which
he promises to the captains of vessels
III
steamer, and $1,000 for each flibus-
tering sailing vessel they seize. The
eaptains making seizures will be freed
a all responsibility.
! A SMALL cyclone passed eastward,
short distance north of Waterloo. Ia,
on the night of the 26th. Crops were
Destroyed in a belt two miles wide.
and many farm buildings were de.
molished. The Illinois Central and
Chicago Great Western railways suf-
Tered heavy losses between Waterloo
and Dubuque by washouts.
HAVING reached the age limit, Gen.
Richard N. Batchelder, quartermaster-
general of the regular army, was
placed on the retired list on the 27th.
His army record is an enviable one, and
have been showered on him for brav-
cry on the field and diligent duty at
his post in and after war days.
II was announced in Madrid, on the
18th, that the shipbuilders of Genoa
had repudiated the contract their rep
resentatives had made with the Span
ish government to furnish the latter
promptly with two cruisers of 1000
tons. Great excitement prevailed in
Madrid, as it was added that the YES
els had been purchased by the United
Bates.
The International Socialist Trades
sngress. in session in London, met
pa the 2sth and the QUESTION of the ad-.
Mission of anarchistS as delegates,
which precipitated a free fight tho
day before and caused the chairman to
declare the congress adjourned, was
again taken up for final action, and it
vas decided by large majority not to
Admit them.
Ex-CITY ATTORNEY MoRELAND, OF
k1ftsburgh, Pa, who pleaded guilty to-
sae' charge of embezzling city funds,
VAS sentenced to three years in the
eenitentiary on the Goth. w. H.
House, assistant city attorney, con-
eteted of aiding. and abetting City At.
forney Moreland in embezzling city
noney, was also sentenced to the PEN
aentiary for two years and three
I0ouths.
Il SoUNTEss BIsCAIANTTI, who died re.
seutiy at the Rossini Foundation
home for Musicians and Artists,
n Paris vvac at opo fiuoo a ca1ob,o< "a