The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-04-01
Brief Glimpses at
the General News.

grlnQ-stone.
Mckinley is said 10 have sent no.
tice to Ohio Office seekers that their
implications must cease for the pres
| ent.
VIM L. Cham bers, the new chief
| justice of the Samoan islands, was
appointed to that place by the United
States, England and Germany.
Sailor Sharkey evidently believes
he can whip Peter Maher, and has
posted $4,000 with "Parson" Davies
to find match with the talkative
Irishman.
Senator Turpie argues in support
of constitutional amendment to
make United States Senators elective
by popular vote.
The sentry box at the White
House for the protection of police
men, and known as "Thurber's
Fort" has been removed as insight
ly.
Former Vice President Stevenson,
who is practicing law in Blooming
ton, ILL.,, may Le nominated for a
Judgeship by Populists and Demo-
Gratis.
The steamer Iceland has arrived
at st. Johns N. F., with "a full car
go of $4,000 prime seals.
Leon CabeIl, an insurance agent,
who committed suicide at Milwau-
kee, Wis was heir to $4,0OO,0OO.
Arbuckle Bros application for a
receiver for the Woolson Spice Com
pany, has been denied.
The new tariff bill increases the
duties $117,3O7,S67
Korea's King has returned to his
palace after years residence at the
Russian Legation.
Illinois Republican Legislators
are determined upon judicial and
congressional reapportionmeDt.
The New York Journal says: "The
Sugar Trust is up in arms against
the specific duty of one cent a pound
imposed on all cane sugar by the
Dingley Tariff bill 1t demands
that its friends in the senate shall
see that the rate is made ad va
| lorem."
| Arrangements have been perfected
for the consolidation into one cor
poratien of half a dozen of the
smaller firms of brewers doing busi-
ness in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Charles A, Collier, wife of
the mayor of Atlanta, is dead.
.Itis stated in New York that the
widow of Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew
philanthropist, will give $l,8OO,OOO
to divers benevolent enterprises in
the United States. =.
| The model doll show for display
ing fashions in women's costumes is
in progress at the Waldorf Hotel,
New York.
DR.. W. Godfrey Hunter, Republi
can, received &c votes at Frankfort,
KY, for United States Senator
Seventy votes are necessary to a
choice
Within a week it is expected by
railroad officials that not one of the
organizations having jurisdiction
over passenger and freight rates will
be in existence, as a result of the
decision Of the United States Su-
preme Court that all associations
which have for their purpose the
maintenance of agreed rates and the
division of the traffic are illegal.
The latest news from Madrid is
that Gen. Martinez Campos Will be
appointed Governor General of Gu
ba and Gen. Sabas Marin, now al
Porto Rico, will be Commander-in-
Chief of the Spanish army in thu
| field. The Senor Canovas has de-
clared that no more soldiers will be
sent to Cuba
A slight earthquake shock shook
Montreal and the cities along the
Canadian border Yesterday.
| The Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians, hundreds in number, have
been visiting the Otoe and Ponca
Indians for some days, and all the
tribes have been engaged in ghost
dances. -Four Cheyennes died Tues
day night from exhaustion in going
through the dance. The dance is
prohibited by the government. On
this occasion fifty Inlians engaged
in their revelry till they were unable
to stand.
Professor D. A. Ollie, formerly 8
professor IN Dayton University, Ten
nessee, at present principal of the
Dayton city high school, has been
forced to leave the city in order to
avoid prosecution for theft.
Senator Loud has introduced in
the senate his bill for the regulation
of second class mail matter.
There are conflicting opinions az
to the effect of the Supreme Court
decision on railway traffic associa.
tons. The Interstate commerce
commissioner thinks it will be suffi
cient to deter the railroads from
unlawful combinations.
The Cuban insurgents have cap,
tured the town of Holguin, in The
province of Santiago de Cuba.
1t is announced at Montreal thai
the Dominion government has con-
cluded contract for a Canadian line
of swift Atlantic steamers to cquaI
ANYTHING now entering New York.
The original log of the Mayhower
now IN the library of Lambeth Pal.
ace, England, will be presented tc
the State of Massachusetts upon the
recommendation of the Archbishop
of Canterbury.
The civil service act and the civil
service commission received an old.
| fashioned drubblng in the senate
Tuesday, a number of senator's tax.
ing part in the heated debate.