The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-09-24
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Miss Cecilia lyman. son and daughter
Of p. j. P. lyman, the Irish invincible
under arrest at Boulogne, together
with their grandmother, sailed from
Queenstown, on the 10th, on board the
steamer Aurania, for New York.
SENATOR PALMER, of Illinois, and
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, of Ken
tucky, were formally notified of their
nomination as presidential and vice
! presidential candidates of the National
democratic party before an immense
| audience at Louisville, KY, on the
night of the 12th.
PETER WAENER, well-to-do farmer
near Edwardsburg, Mich, having no
faith in banks, hid $4,000 in bills in
| the parlor stove. His wife was enter.
| tanning some company the other even
| ing, and it being cool, started what
proved to be the most costly fire of her
life, the entire roll being destroyed.
HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN, demo-
cratic-populist-silve nominee for the
presidency, was given a great recep-
tion at St. Louis, on the night of the
18th, where he addressed three i'm
mense audiences in as many different
portions of the city.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TAYLOR
| has declared to the Spanish govern
ment that the United States is most
| favorably disposed toward Spain, but
that owing to the extent Of the United
States coast line, she is unable to pre-
vent the departure of flibusters for
the island of Cuba.
| ANOTHER GLORIOUS victory" is re-
ported from Cuba, wherein Spanish
troops under Gen. Molinas. ruthlessly
| butchered 1s men and four women and
| wounded 13 others, including three
children-all non-combatants-on the
Las Canas sugar estate.
lyman, the notorious Number One" :"
| the murderer of Lord Frederick Cav
| endish in Phoenix park, Dublin, on
May 6, 1852, was arrested in Boulogne,
France. on the 18th.
VICE-PREsIDENT STEVENSON and
Speaker Reed having given their con-
| sent Mr.. Bryan will, on his visit to the
national capital, speak from the steps
of the capitol building.
J A MAN said to be Lawrence A. Gull
yer, accused of being the absconding
| president of a Logan county Qnd.)
| bank, was arrested on a Vandalia
west-bound train at Terre Haute. on
the 14th, charged with taking $50, 900
in 1892, and with being fugitive dur
| ing the four years succeeding the en-
bezzlement. He refused to talk.
MIR. BRYAN reached Louisville, Ky,
on the evening of the 14th, after
14-hours' journey from st. Louis,
during which he had made score of
impromptu speeches to assembled
multitudes along the route, tired al
most to the point of prostration, but
concluded his days labors by speaking
before three large audiences.
POLK WELLS, the notorious outlaw,
who was transferred from Fort Madi-
son to the Anamosa Qa.) prison re-
Gently, died at the penitentiary on the
12th. The remains were shipped to his
wife, who lives in Missouri.
The Capital furniture factory at Sac
ramento. CAL, was destroyed by fire
on the 14th. Jacob Heintsman, en-
| ployed as a watchman, was burned to
/ death; loss, $25, ZOO.
Hon. WIN. v. ALLEN, chairman of the
Populist national committee, sent to
Hon. William Jennings Bryan, by
mail, on the 14th, official notification
of his nomination as presidential can
didate by the Populist national COLI
vention.
| Ii Hung CHANG sailed for China on
the steamer Empress of China, which
left Vancouver, b. c., on the 14th. AS
the steamer left the wharf the Chinese
started fusillade of frecrackers
which was kept up for over an hour.
| In lengthy letter Senator Butler,
| of North Carolina, on the 18th, Off
cially notified Hon. Thomas E. Wat
son, of Georgia, of his nomination as
vice-presidential candidate by the Pop
ulist national convention.
| HENRY LICKEY was killed at Waupa-
koneta, O., on the 14th, by bull which
he was taking to watering trough.
The animal butted him until he was a
shapeless mass of flesh.
A THOUSAND Harrison county (O.)
wool growers paid their respects to
Maj. Mckinley at Canton, o., on the
14th, and had a very pleasant visit
with the republican presidential nomi-
| nee.
IT is now said that the arrest of Pat
rick J. lyman and three other dyna-
miters by and at the hstigation OF
| the British police authorities broke
up an extensive dynamiting plot which
! had for its objectives British and Rus
sian royal personages.
AFTER a 1A-hours' trip through Illi-
! nois, Indiana and Kentucky, on the
14th, William Jennings Bryan arrived
! at Louisville. The entire trip was q
series of enthusiastic greetings and
speech-making, and by the time Louis
| Vile was reached Mr.. Bryan was
pretty nearly a used up man.
The London Pail Mall Gazette, OF
the 18th, asserted that it was the de-
sign of the conspirator lyman to blow
up Marlborough house, the residence
of the prince of Wales, when his royal
highness should be there. According
to this yarn, the dynamiters intended
to reach the princes house by tunnel
ing from the house opposite.
In letter written to Gen. Powell
Clayton, of the republican national
committee, Gen. Joe Shelby, OF Mis-
souri,. uses the following language:
81 pledge you my cordial cooperation
in averting the perilous conditions
which must inevitably follow the cleo
tion of Mr.. Bryan. Whatever l can
do in that direction / will cheerfully
do to the fullest extent"
NOTWITHSTANDING efforts OF press.