Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-12-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

l Statistics show that more gold is being produced at the present time than any time since '49
 A bank has been organized at Mangum, Greer county, Ok, recent ly known as No Mans Land.
 The miners in the Arnott & Go. coal mines at Pittsburg, Kas., have struck for twicP-a-month payment.
 The Texas Railway Commission decided against the M., K. & T. ap- plicatioD for concentration privileges or. cotton
 The 12-year-old son of j. L. Nor folk of Macon county, Mo. was kili- ed accidentally while coon hunting Saturday night
 Receipts or poultry Tt New York last week were six cars greater than Che week previous. owing prln- cipally to Thanksgiving turkeys
 The crusade for the substitution of the crop share system for the cash rent system of tenautry in Texas is assuming formidable proportions.
 Senator J K. Jones promises to make a fight against Hawaiian an- nexation in the Senate.
 Baron von Holleben, the new Germman ambassador, has present ed his credentials to President Me Kinley.
 Alexander Mcdonald, of Virginia, recently United States representative in Persia, has returned to Washing ton.
 The franchise of the Frankfort (Ky.) lottery has been declared in valid by tie United States Supreme Court.
 The statement of the condition of the Treasury shows: Available cash balance, $2l6, ,267 ,645; gold reserve, $l56, ,9SS, ,549.
 Senatar Teller says that a gold standard measure may be forced through the House but it cannot pass the Senate.
 Collector Dahlgren, of Mississippi, urges that Federal quarantine be substituted for State, county and city regulations.
 Captain Wright and Lieut.. Gaya- naugh recommend investigation of the trouble between whites and Indians in Colorado.
 The Government directors and re- ceivers of the Kansas Pacific have submitted to MT. McKenna figures on earnings, 1889 10 1896, inclusive.
 Black measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever and chicken pox are raging at Vandalia, H., and public schools and churches have been ordered closed.
 Stock feeders in Nodaway county, H., are driving their cattle miles for water ponds and wells are drying up.
 Scarlet fever is spreading at Arco- la, H., and the public schools are closed.
 William Carr, who tried to com init suicide by eating broken glass in the jail at Liberty, Mo-, has been chained to the wall.
 The public schools at Clifton Hills, Mo-, have been closed owing to an outbreak of scarlet fever.
 Floating ice has formed solid bridge across the river at BurIing- ton, To-, and steamboat trafc for the winter is abandoned,
 Mrs Martha Thomas of Guthrie, Ok, S2 years old, committed suicide Tuesday by eating powderd glass.
 NJ. c. Beard, 45 years old, and the father of grown children, residing at Guthrie, Ok, eloped with Miss Au- gusta Simpson, schoolgirl of r.
 By means of a fake foot race Mrs. l.. M. Fitzpatrick of Rock Island, H., is supposed to have been robbed of $500.
 Seven men working on the con- struction of the Montgomery exten- sion of the Mobile and Ohio Rail- road have died the past two days from drinking whisky which was mixed with wood alcohol.
 The court-martlal that tried Cap tain Lowering decided that he shall be renrimanded by the Secretary of