The state herald., 1897-02-12
TELEoRAPHIc ITEMS.


trouble with Ice gorges
Senator Harris of Tennessee has been very
sick, hut Is better now.
DIR. Nansen, the explorer, was given ban.
quet In London on the 9th.
The New York Legislature Is investigating
the sugar trust ut New York City.
w. j. Bryan returned To Lincoln on the
18th after hunting trip In Kansas.
Greece has sent number of gunboats to
Crete to watch the revolution there.
The next meet OF the League of American
Whcclmen will be held at Philadelphia.
President Cleveland gave the annual din
ner to the Supreme court on the evening Of
the 9th
The Missouri House has passed, by vote
OF II to 42, n bill prohibiting playing base
ball on Sunday.
The attempt of the German authorities to
prove that American pork Is diseased has
proved failure.
The yarn mill of Gilbert f. whipplc Mt
Harrlsville. Rhode Island, has resumed op-
erations after several weeks idlcncss.
willis l.. Moore, chief of the weather bu.
reau, will shortly return to milwaukee, for
an Indefinite period on account Of Impaired
health.
~. II. tblcIllill, II CLERK IN tie gtHcTNi ihhu
office ut Washington. has been arrested for
selling sets of newspaper and periodical
stamps
A mimic blockade of Charleston, South
Carolina, Is under way by big fleet of way
ships. II costs $4,000 per day, but Is good
practice.
The J. I. Case Thrcshing Machine com
pnny plant at Racine, Wisconsin, which has
been closed for six months, Will start up n,
once, giving employment to 400 men.
At n meeting OF 'he striking dock laborcrs
OF Hamburg. II was voted to resume work,
after the leaders had declared the battle was
lost and that the funds were exhausted.
Preparations are being made at the I'M
mense works Of the Maryland Steel com
pany at Sparrows Point for resumption OF
work. Fifteen hundred men will be affected
by the resumption
The French cabinet has prohibited the
landing of merchandise from places In India
which are infected with the plague, and will
also establish special quarantine against
travellers from such parts OF Indm.
American competition In condensed milk
has overcome all Europe, according to United
States Consul Germain at Zurich, overrun-
ming the German market and reducing the
Swiss exports by more than one-half
According to Colonel Brewer OF the Sal
walton Army. Chicago is 10 be made the
center Of a vast system OF social settlements
similar to that In operation In England.
made famous by General William Booth.
Judge McKenna OF the United States Cir
cult court has authorized the statement that
he has been invited to accept position In
the cabinet OF Psreidcnt Elect Mckinley,
and also that he hns slgnihed his accept
ancc.
Game Warden Henry has Instructed ex
Judge Claiborne to apply for warrants
against 100 game dealers and restaurant
keepers In st. Louis who, 1t Is alleged, have
violated the law by selling game during the
closed season.
II all Of the present plans are successfully
carried out. Chicago will have In April one
Of the largest military and athletic carni'
walls ever attempted In this country. IL Is
proposed to eclipse the recent carnival given
In Madison Square Garden. New York.
A dispatch from Athens says that the situ-
alton at Canca has reached n crisis OF blood
and fire. The Turkish troops have Joined
hands with the native Mu>sulman cut
throats. The consul has sent telcgrams to
the effect that the situation Is hopeless
United States Consul Fowler at Chez Foo.
China. has supplied the state department
made silk lace made Mt that place. The
product Is said to be not only of the best
quality. but also Of remarkable chcnpness-
Secretary oiney has received from Presi-
dent Eliot Of Harvard University an invita-
tlon to fill the chair Of international law nt
the Institution after the expiration Of his
term Of office In the state department. The
secretary has taken the offer under consid-
Grafton.
The warm rain which has been falling
since Friday nt and around Cincinnati has
80 swollen the Ohio us To carry out the lee
obstruction and navigation Is now open
from Porlcroy to Cairo. II Is expected that
the river from PlttshurF 10 Pomeroy will bo
open In short time.
A grand ball on luxurious scale. In
honor of President aud Mrs. Dinz was given
at the city of Mexico on the 9Th, at the
palatlal residence OF Pablo Escnndon, OF
the opulent family by that name, II was. In
point OF Importance, taste aud display, what
the bradley Martin ball will be In New
York
Thcs daily sessions of the Republican
members of the ways and means committee
Of the House which have been In progress
for about two weeks. have brought the tnrin
bill. which Is To be laid before the next Con.
gress. to stage where the character OF the
measure can be- somewhat Eaugcd and where
certain OF the most important schedules are
definitely fixed.
The Portuguese cabinet resigned on the
9th. II appears that Premier Erncsto II,
IllntEe Rlbcrio asked the king 10 appoint
a number OF life senators for the purpose OF
enabling him To carry on the government.
This the king refused 10 do and the cabinet
at once resigned. Luciano de Castro. who
has undertaken the task of reforming the
cabinet. will select purely rrogressist min.
istry. Parliament has been dissolved.
A special from Guthrie. Oklahoma. says:
Crime has become 10 prevalent In wnshita
county that 800 farmers have met Mt Cloud
Chief and organized n law and order league.
Every member agreed not to 40 on the bond
of amy person charged with felony. TO help
officers hunt down all criminals; to protect
all witnesses for the state. and TO prosecute
nny person who attempts TO lntlmldat. Wit.
ncs-es II also IL facility understood that
they will hang the hrst cattle thief or mur.
dercr caught.
Colonel Robert T. Cnfion, Fifteenth In.
fnntry. has bccn arbitrarily relieved by order
OF IN. president. II has bern the desire OF
the war department that this officer should
leave the active service, and efforts ha,.
been made during the past two years 10
attain this rnd, nrst through lntimailon TO
the friends ~ Colonel rrofton that his re-
tIretn-nt would he granted II applied for.
aud, this falling, through that law which