People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-27
The Latest News.

builder OF the great Ferris Wheel 81
Chicago, died in Pittsburg on Sun.
day from Typhoid fever.
John A. Hoffer, cashier of LIE.
banon, Pa, bank has owned up to 9
defalcation Of $4,000. Says he
sunk the money in a Colorado gold
mine.
Earnest MeElhsnon, a Tallapoosa.
Ga, boy, was killed at Ocala, Fla.l
on Saturday while trying to steal a
ride. He was horribly mangled but
lived long enough to tell who he was
and where he lived.
General Weyler has at last been
heard from. Instead of hunting up
Msoao, he is terrifying near the town
of San ChristobaI, and does not pro-
pose to advance GA Maceo until after
Christmas, Although Weyler has a
larger and better armed force, hs is
evidently AFRAID of the game aud
willy Cuban.
8 dispatch from Madrid to the
London Standard says the Spanish
government has intimased to Weyler
that for reasons Of international and
domestic politics it will not be ex-
pedient for him TO return to Havana
until he has achieved decisive VIC
tory over Maceo.
At Linn, Mass, meeting Of the
Armenian Revolutionary Society on
Sunday evening broke up in lively
fight. There are two branches Of
the Society and the meeting was
called to consider the advissbility Of
combining. The discussion soon
grew warm between those in favor
Of and those opposed 10 union, and
benches, sticks and othar material
substances were resorted 20 as more
effective than words, if not more oon.
vineing. The police were called in
to quell the disturbance.
The great wire nail trust which
has bsen robbing the people the past
eighteen months has gono to pieces
and nails have fallen 40 per cent and
the price is still going down. While
the people have been robbed the
trust has not prospered. 1t was not
only heavily taxed by being forcsd
to buy or lease and close up a great
number of factories, but was forced
to keep employed host Of deteo.
tiyes to see that the trust companies
''toted fair" with each other. The
ooroners verdict over the dead trust
will be, killed by It's own dishonesty
and greed.
Berlin, Nov. GA section Of the
contrast psrty in the raichstag, chiefly
composed of members from the south
German states, have decided to OPP
pose the increase of40,0G0,000 marks
in the naval estimates which will be
proposed in the budget, and are ar
ranging coalition with fraction of
the national liberals and the radicals
and socialists for the purpose OF de-
feating tho proposal. The movement
renders The passage Of a naval H.
crease clause OF the budget highly
improbable. Ministerial reports in
circulation in the lobby Of the roich.
stag agree that the kaiser is deser-
mined to dissolve the chamber if the
increase is not granted and this being
the case hot fight over the naval
estimates seems inevitable.
Prince Hohenlowe, in speech last
week declared that officers of the
German army who, hereafter declined
to fight duel on account OF con-
ecieutious convictions should not be
forced to resign from the army as
heretofore. The radical leaders in
the reiohstag profess to believe that
while an officer declining to send or
accept challenge, may not ba
formally expelled, he will be socially
ostracised which will amount prac.
tically to tae same thing. Herr
Riokett, radical unionist leader, has
announced that when the debate on
the military estimates comes up, he
will again bring up the question OF
dueling by moving that any military
officer or official who engages in a
dusl shall be deprived Of his rank and