The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1896-01-17
TELsoRAPHIc BREvlTlES.


The pension appropriation will be In
creased from $13S,OOO,O00 to $14O,OOO,-
600.
The pope will shortly issue another
encyclical addressed to all Christian
people.
1t IL now claimed that the queen OF
1orea was not killed In the recent
massacre.
Secretary Morton will have n chance
to explain the suspension Of the dis
tribution of seeds
A test Of armor plate furnished by
the Carnegie works was unsatisfactory
and 615 tons may be rejected.
The people on the Island of Hawaii
are said to manifest an inclination to
secede from the Republic of Hawaii.
1t Is positively announced that Gen
eral Harrison will marry Mrs Mary
Scott Dimmick some time before Lent.
Strong endorsements Of Japanese
troops are going to the Island of For
mosa In order to assist in pacifying that
territory.
Delagoa bay.-.ts-whfch British and
German Earships are being dispatched
Is prop5inced the finest harbor III
SOutt Africa.
II now appears that the alleged out
| freak of Navajo Indians In Arizona
was only row over some ponies, ana
no blood was shed.
Peter Hougaard. thought by the po'
lice to have been Insane, killed HIM
self, wife and five children at Chicago,
by turning on the gas.
Lieutenant Sullivan of the Texas
State rangers and a posse have gone
into Indian territory to capture the no.
torious desperate, Bill Doolin.
Isaac Wilson, Democratic member OF
the Kentucky Legislature. Is dying. IL
Wilson dies the Legislature Will no
longer be tie politically.
Senator Hale yesterday reported
from the committee on naval ahalrs
bill authorizing the enlistment of l,oOo
additional men for the navy.
ID. l.. Snodgrass. chief justice of the
Supreme court OF Tennessee has been
indicted for carrying concealed weap-
ons and for fclonious assault.
The House committee on foreign af-
| fairs announces that Il report on the
recognition of the Cuban insurgents
will be made MS soon rs possible.
1t Is authoritatively announced that
the Yale management has decided TO
| abandon the project for race with the
| OxfordCambridge crews of England.
1t is reported. in connection with the
talked-of admission of Arizona and
Ia,
said there are enough silver men In the
senate.
Letters have recently passed be-
| tween Queen Victoria and Emperor
| William which have been calculated
| to bring about Il more harmonious
state of feeling.
Senator Davis. who has spent much
time in studying the Alaska boundary
line dispute, says that he has discov-
cred nothing to show that the present
lines are not correct.
President Clark of the Christian En-
dcavor has received letter from the
English president of the society ex-
pressing earnest hopes of peace be
tween the two great nations.
Sheriff I.arkin of Atchison county.
Kansas, recently attached an Atchison.
Topeka 4 Santa Fe freight train, for
$1,000 taxes due the county, and re-
leased 1t only on n promise OF payment
in five days.
In Omaha Mrs. Jeanette Halford
her lftisbahn. 'bnnddScr." olf me
ground OF cruelty. She will make her
home with her father, Major Elijah
Hnlford Of Denver.
A special dispatch received from
Rome says that 10000 Abyssinlans
were killed or wounded in the attack
made upon Makale ON January $, due
to the explosion of a mine laid outside
the fortiiications by the Italians.
The situation In Perry, Oklahoma,
over the admission of colorcd children
TO the schools is serious. The feeling
runs high between the two factions.
Officers have forced the principal Of the
High School to admit several colored
boys.
The statehood convention held at
Oklahoma City for the purpose OF dis
cusslng the admission OF Oklahoma.
came to an inglorious end as the dele
gates could not agree on the subject OF
admitting the whole Indian Territory
as a single state.
Sir Hercules Robinson has tele-
vrnpbed TO the colonial office under
date OF Pretoria, January I, as fol-
lows: The reform committee has re-
solved TO re,inauish their arms and TO
comply with the demands OF the Trans.
yaai government. The Joha nncsburg-
ers have placed themselves unreserv-
ally In my hands. confident that I will
see justice done.
The fourth round OF the Information.
nj chess tournament was COMPLETED on
the iIth when Lasker white, heat