The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-03-18
Brief Glimpses at
the General News.

be decided Dy pleDlsclte3 or sue
will share with the powers the work
of pacifcation of the islands says a
cable to the Sun.
President Mckinley has decided
that he will not hurry in the matter
of appointments to office, and also
that he will not recognize the candi-
dates Of faction in any Sta'e.
Some of the foreign Ministers have
recommended that all foreigners in
Athens leave the city while they may
do so in safety.
President Cleveland's forestry res
ervation proclamation includes the
best mineral districts in Washington,
and people of that State are protest
ing.
Linwood Riggin. of Pittsville,
Nd, while in an epileptic fit, fell
into ditch full of water, and was
drowned. A woman Immediately
drew the body out, but doctor de-
clared resuscitation impossible.
General Edward S. Bragg, ex- Min
lister to Mexico, slipped in the bath
tub Of his house at Fond du Lac,
Wis breaking rib.
Ex,Queen clip of Hawaii, is
pressing for an audience with Presi-
dent Mckinley, on "business."
President Mckinley will have but
two naval cadetships at large this
year, and one at West Point. There
are 13O vacant Congressional naval
cadetships.
Senator Wolcott has been told by
| the President that he wanted more
time to think over an international
monetary conference
Commercial travellers oppose the
anti scaIpers' bill that recently
passed one house Of Congress.
The Republican members of the
ways aud means committee believe
small duties should be imposed on
articles now on the free list.
General Miles, commander of the
army, has issued an order prohibit
| ing the admission to seacOast defen-
ses Of any person except an officer
Of the army or navy without per-
NIT from the commandant of the
place.
The search for the dead bodies in
the San Francisco mine, near Som
breerte, Mexico, still continues. One
hundred and five bodies have been
recovered and sixty five miners are
still missing.
| Advices from Modevideo are to
the effect that the revolution in
Uruguay is spreading and that the
government troops have suffered two
defeats.
The Brazilian troops in the State
of Bahia suffered a severe defeat al
the hands of the fanatical insurgents
on Sunday.
Antonio Ezeta, formerly vice pres.
ident of San Salvador, is dead.
If the President allows the AS
sistant Postmaster General to finish
their four-years' term of Office, First
Assistant Jones will remain unit
May 10, as he succeeded Ii. Clay
Evans of Tennessee on that date
Second Assistant Nelson succeeded
J. Lowrie Bell, who resigned OIL
September 13, 1893, and Kerr
Craige, the Third Assistant, snc-
) ceeded Gen. Hazen on May 10, 1898
The Washington Inaugural Com
mittee estimates the total receipt
will foot up about $4,000 over ant
above expenses
The executive committee Of th
; national Republican committee ha
l decided to maintain the permanen
| headquarters in Washington
s President Mckinley is having
, good deal Of trouble in fndin,
places for the sons of ther Presi-
dents, says the New York Sun. Rus
; sell Harrison has not offered himsel
for appointment because he is yer,
S busy running trolley road in Terr
Haute, but Alan Arthur is ascandi,
date for Secretary of one of tn
= European Embassies, and one of tn
Hayes boys and one of the CARTEL
boys are candidates for foreign az
t pointments. With Mrs. Logan urg
f ing the appointment Of John A, Jr
- as Minister to Austria, keeps Presi
q dent Mckinley quite busy.
A band of armed men, who az
. believed to be Carlists, are travers
IS ing the province of Garagossa, Spair
selling the officials of the variou
If places through which they pass. /
% similar band is marching tbroug
the province of Valencia. TrooE
, are in parsuit of both bands.
~ Miss Isabella Fulton, Chicag
20 school teacher, committed suicide q
} Reading, Pa, by throwing herse
III front Of a train.
At the meeting of the Texs
l. branch Of the American cotto
le growers association resolutions WEI
d passed urging the suppression {
:, dealing in futures by legislative &C
70 An address was issued appealing
81 all the cotton growers to redu'
lC NhClI dIlSaSVs W IdleS uiOIS 1bI
W crops, and to patronize home indu
If tries. The attendance upon tt
:, convention is very large, and repr
% sents all branches Of the cottc
e, trade.
The fourth attempt has been ma,
to burn the Wesley au Female CO
l lege at Macon, Ga. Sometime as
'y detectives were put to work on tt
ID case and they came to the conclusic
at that all of the fires were of an il
At cendiary origin. Two of the cole!
~ girls were suspected and afterwar,
le left the school. One of the strans
le condolences of each fire is that thu
D. happened on Tuesday about Il
m same time.
A despatch from Berlin says tn
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