People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-27
GENERAL NEWS.
Items of Interest from ALI Sec
lions of the Country.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
The News as Told by the Daily
Papers-National and For
eign Occurrences.

William Foley, a Liberty, Mo-.
man, has been arrested, charged with
numbering his mother and sister.
On Sunday thirteen year old
Pennsylvania boy played with nitro
glycerlne.At last accounts his friends
had found his shoes and fragment
of his skull.
A fisherman on the st. Johns river
on hauling in his tackle found on his
hooks pair of diamond ear ring
His strange catch is valued at over
$500.
Er.banker Anthony Kasat, Of Chi
cage, did not eat his Thanksgiving
turkey at home on Thursd ". Fl 5
books showed shortage Of $4,000
and he was sent to Joliet prison on
Wednesday.
In Maine the thermometer register
cd from seven to eighteen degrees
below zero on Monday. We can at
least thank Fod for our Georgia
weather.
A thirty-nine story building is to
be constructed in New York. There
are to be elk stories, each fourteen
feet high under ground aud thirty.
three stories above ground. The under
ground floors are 80 be lighted With
reflected sunlight.
Capt. V. E. McBee of Baltimore
recently contracted with Mr.. w. j.
Bryan for fifty lectures at $1,000
each. a New York syndicate has
since offered Capt. MoBee bonus
of $4,000 for his contract. The
offer was refused.
J. II. Sickle, president OF defunot
Blue Valley bank OF Hebron, Neb.,
will spend the next two years in the
penitoutiary. II we are 10 Judge by the
penalty imposed, it is worse o1ime
for Georges darkey to steal a shot
gun or suit of clothes, than for a
Nebraska white man to atoal bank.
Mrs. Jarocke, an aged lady, w&y
found starving at her homo in Brook
Ign on Monday. She claims to be
one of seven claimants Cor $4,000.
900 which has been locked up in he
courts for years.
The cabnethas accepted the bonds
of 400,000,000 peaets., representing
the total amount Of the new Spanish
loan, authorized by the Queen regent,
and the bonds already subacribsd
for, 250,C00,000 pesetas, viii b. al
lotted prorata. The sum Of $3.50,
900 ptsatas derived from the loan
will be allotted for the purpose OF
repairing warships. The cabinet az
its meeting November II, passed q
resolution Of thanks to the country
for the generous and patriotic KAN.
ner in which the pao 10 subscribed
to the new loan.
A special from Key West, Fla !,
ssys private advice from the Cuban
insurgent lines, via Matarzas, are
that the rebel brigadier gensral, Der.
nardo Sofa, former president OF
Costa Rice, has been killed in a skir-
mish with Spanish guerillas on the
Havana border. Gin. Sofa accom-
panied Calix TO Garcia'a expedition
to Cubs, joining the personal staff Of
Maxine Gomez.
An elevator, in one OF the tall
New York building, dropped on
last Saturday from the ninth story
to the basement, a distance Of 1870
feet. None Of the thirteen psssen-
gers were killed or fatally injured,
though all were badly shaken up,
Considering the height from which
shey fell, their escape With life and
whole bones was remarkable.
New Jerseys monument, erected
in Chicamauga Park, in memory Of
her troops engaged in the battles of
Ch.oamauga, Chattanooga and Mis-
sionary Ridge, was dedicated on
Tuesday. The monument wss
erected a. cost of $4,000, and is
said to be one of the most beautiful
shafts in the park.
The Clyde Steamship Company
has announced that it would estsb-
fish line OF freight steamers be-
tween Boston, Charleston and Jack
souville. A steamer will leave Bos-
ton and Jacksonville every Thursday,
the first steamer leaving Boston
December 10 and Jacksonville De