The Globe-republican., 1897-08-12
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

The Glucose trust has put up the
prices on glucose and sirups
Two Japanese warships are building
in this country. and they would be
seized BY the United States in case Of
trouble.
Senator Gorman's reported purpose
to not be candidate for reelection is
believed by many of his friends to
mean that he will be presidential
candidate.
The United States court has granted
q temporary injunction restraining
the Texas Railroad Commission from
enforcing the new express rates
Miss Matte Hutchinson went
riding with Jesse Cook the day
before she was to marry A. ID. Yoder.
Yoder became indignant and refused
to marry her. but the wedding came
of on schedule time. with Cook in the
title roll This has caused a sensation
st Hutchinson. Kan.
The story that 1,5OO natives were
slaughtered by the troops in the re-
cent riot near Calcutta is revived in
spite of government denials.
Carlists in Spain are confident A
leader has wagered 1000 francs that
Don Carlos will be in Spain by next
February.
Mckinley will recommend at the
winter session that the United States
take control of the Nicaraguan canal.
A heavy demand for small notes
from St Louis. Chicago and New Or
leans is reported at the treasury de-
partment.
There are nearly 1000 applicants for
| the fifty-fOur places in the congress
| sional library. One is from man
| who is anxious to leave Alaska.
Guy Patton. a Georgia negro, COM
mitted suicide to save himself from
lynching.
At Bernie, Mo-. f. L. Shoemaker
killed William Parker in a quarrel
over a dead dog.
United States officials say that there
| is no doubt that the Klondyke gold
fields are in British territory.
Germany has devised several schemes
| to bar American wheels, and probably
| will raise tariff rates.
United States Commissioner Smith
reports that most OF the gold seekers
| are too late to reach the Klondyke be-
fore spring.
Crows have become SO destructive in
Lane county, Illinois, that farmers
have petitioned for a bounty for kill
| ing them.
Two buildings collapsed at st. Jo-
| seph, Mo-, and wrecked thousands OF
dollars worth of jewelry, clothing.
| furniture and saloon fixtures. Nobody
| was hurt.
Judge John H. Reagan of Texas. tn e
sole surviving member of the Confed-
crate cabinet. has announced his can
didacy for the Senatorship in oppose
! tion to Mills.
Secretary of Agriculture James VIII
son says that his department has fur
| nished beet sugar seeds to 1000 farm
ers. The industry, he says, is threat
cning the sugar trust.
! Miser Schrage of Chicago is dead.
He never recovered from the shock of
| q IOOOCIy PCi pC Cti aSSN ~ ''Stpy
Burke, by which the latter relieved
the aged money hoarder of $4,000 in
bonds.
| Cannon that were used at the siege
| of Vicksburg will be broken up aud
sold for scrap iron.
Assistant Secretary Howell has de-
cided that calf skins are dutiable rs
"hides of cattle
Deputy Marshal Claude Helmsa was
found guilty of killing Booz Si:ncoe,
near Muldrow, l. r., and life sentence
| recommended.
1t is announced that Governor c. A.
Culberson of Texas will be candidate
ceed Senator Mills.
Temporary Injunction has been is-
sued at Peoria, Ill. restraining the
sale of the plant of the American Glu-
cose company to the Glucose Trust.
Evangelist Stuart created sensa-
tion at camp meeting near Lafay-
cite. Ind. by denouncing the bicycle
as productive of immortality among
women.
Several accident and life insurance
companies refuse to insure persons
going to the Alaskan gold fields.
New Jersey berry piclsers are on a
strike. They will rot brave the mos
quitos for present wages.
Fifty-fve million feet of logs have
come down the PenobscOt-the first
big lumber drive of the season.
Mrs Catherine Try, mother of Stats
Senator Try o: Bourbon county. Kan,
died at Fort Scott at the age of 81.
Iowans have secured !;.oOr acres OF
land thirty miles from Birmingham,
Ala, on which colony will he
formed.
Boys employed in the Elwood, Ind,
bottle factory have struck for an in
crease of IS cents per day in theiz
wages and the factory is closed.
The wives Of two striking miners at
Pana. ILL.,. have been fined S. each for
l cn Co.