Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-05-08
TERSE NEWS.

The voll1sraad, or parliament, of the
Transvaal, was opened on the 9Th by
| President Kruger.
! The sentences of the leaders of the
Transvaal raid to death for high trea-
! son, have been committed by President
| Kreuger.
Rev. George II. Knapp. the American
missionary who was expelled from
| Bitlis, has left Alexandretta for Con-
4 stantinople.
The republican state convention of
| California adopted platform declar-
and instructed delegates to st. Louis
for Mckinley.
Sir Charles Upper, the Canadian
premier, has completed the work of
demonstrating the cabinet and the new
members have been sworn in.
A collision occurred at Woo Sung,
| China, between the steamers New
Chwang and On Wo. The latter sank
and over 200 persons, mostly Chi
nese, were drowned.
At Cleveland recently the eligibil-
ty committee of the Methodist general
conference decided in favor of
permitting the women delegates to
retain their seats in the conference.
New York dispatch: Dun review of
trade states that the general range OF
prices for commodities, farm as well
as manufactured products, is nearly
per cent lower than it was April / and
the lowest ever known, the decline
since October, 1892, being 1917 per cent.
Havana dispatch: Gomez's advance
is confirmed. 1t is now reported he
has entered Matanzas province with
strong force of ten or twelve thousand
men, five pieces of artillery and plenty
of ammunition. 1t is presumed an
attack on the trocha on both sides in
combination with Maceo will follow,
and hot fighting is expected.
At Teheran on the 1st the shah
of Persia was assassinated while enter
ing the shrine Of the Shah Abdulazin.
The assassin fired point blank at his
heart. The shah was at once carried
to his carriage and conveyed to the
palace. There he was attended by the
court physicians, but in spite of their
efforts he expired within two hours.
The assassin was promptly arrested
and said he was Say Yid from Herman.
1t is believed the murderer had accom-
plices. Nashier Ed Din, shah of
Persia, was born in 1929 and succeeded
his father. The heir apparent is his
eldest son, Nuzafcr Ed Din, born in
1853.
VIM. Taylor, one of the Taylor
brothers who murdered the Meeks
family, near Milan, Mo-, was hanged
at Carrollton on the Goth. Taylor's
nerve never deserted him. His neck
was broken and he was declared dead
in ten minutes.
Buluwayo dispatch: Earl Grey, CO.
administrator with Cecil Rhodes, of
the territory of the British Chartered
South Africa Company has arrived with
a strong escort. 1t is no longer likely
that the natives will attack the town
in force, although they still number
over $4,000 armed men IN the vicinity
Governor Hastings has refused to
grant a RESPITE in the case of III. II.
Holmes, who is to be hanged in Phila-
deiphia on May for the murder Of
Benjamin F. Pietzel.
The Arizona republican convention
split and two delegations were selected,
one favoring Mckinley and the other
opposing him. Illinois republicans
selected William Penn Nixon, of the
Chicago Inter Ocean, R. w. Patterson,
editor of the Chicago Tribune, ex-Gov-
ernor Fifer, and Ex-Governor Richard
Oglesby as delegatesat-large and in
structed them for Mckinley