The state herald., 1897-10-22
rELEoRAPHlc BREv,TIEs.
Count Tolstoi is quite III.

Lending brewers of Chicago and Mil
waukee have organized to oppose dlcta
ton from the English brewing syndi
| cate.
The municipal council of Paris has
passed II resolution asking the govern.
ment to make reduction of four francs
In the customs duties on Grain.
A naval rendezvous is to be establish.
ed in San Francisco for the purpose OF
facilitating the shipping Of sailors to
man the war vessels of the navy.
An organization known as the Cana.
dian Independence Club has issued Il
manifesto stating that the time has
come for Canada to throw Off its con
nectlon with England.
General Weyler has granted amnesty
to twenty-six more political prisoners
including several women who have
been incarcelslted on the island of
Pines.
Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of
Paris, has issued n pastoral announcing
the institution at Saint Sulpice. in the
department of Tarn, Of n brotherhood
for the conversion of England.
The King of Corea has declared him
self to be emperor. This action would
seem to Indicate that Corea will not
hereafter be subject in any way to
China or other adjacent countries.
Reinforcements of Spanish troops for
Cuba are being hurried forward by the
military authorities. About 5000 ad.
ditional soldiers will leave Spain for
that island before the end of the present
month.
Thirty-thrcc thousand dollars is what
1t cost the Atchlson railway company 10
| pay for the lives of the three engineers
and three iiremen killed in the wreck
near Lang station on the evening of
October Sth.
Saturday. October 18Th. was the
fourth and last day of registration in
New York City. The total registration
is 324. SOC, as compared with 330,6l3
last year. The total registration of
Greater New York is 510,T49.
The Minnesota Presbyterian synod
has appointed committee to act as Il
bureau of information 10 counleract the
pernicious doctrines of Mormonism,
which are being quietly and very per-
sistently taught in That state.
The Indiana Presbyterian synod has
accepted the report Of the committee on
temperance, recommending that the
general assembly investigate the report
that liquor Is sold at the Princeton Inn,
the resort of the students at Princeton
University.
DIR. Jordan, American delegate to the
sealing conference, says that "if ma
tions We're as honest and just in their
dealings as private citizens are forced
10 be, the whole sealing controversy
could be settled in a day. And 1t must
be settled"
Abram Garfield and Sarah Granger
Williams were married nj Cleveland on
the lith. Abram Garfield is the young
est son of the late ex-Presidcnt Gar
field. Guests OF national prominence
We're present. Irving GARFIELD, brother
of the groom, was bes, man.
Francis Sealy. government tea in
spector. has condemned $50 chests of
tea which arrived from the Orient on
the steamship Monmouthshire. Sew
eral days ago he condemned I22 chests
consigned to n Chicago firm. The en-
tire lot was found to be old, trashy tea,
unfit for use.
Edward Langtry, husband of the not
ed Jersey Lily" died In an asylum
for the insane ON the 10Th. Ii Is sup
posed that Mr.. Langiry was suffering
from conclusion OF the brain. due TO
falling down the gangway OF the steam
er on which he travelled from Dublin
TO lIolyhcad.
The Wclls-Fargo Express office at
Quincy, California, was robbed come
time during Friday night, the robbers
taking the express box. which was
awaiting the outgoing stage. and ear
rci 1t to field half mile distant and
broke ii open. They secured coin. gold
dust and n gold bar amounting TO Si00
and $500 In checks.
Another remarkable shipment of iur-
quolsc was sent east from Santa Fe by
Wclls-Fargo Express n few days ago.
II consisted OF five cut stones, the
weight OF which respectively Were 10
30. 30, ~ and - carais. The combined
value being $500 These gems came
from southern New Mexico. but the cX-
act location of The mines is carefully
guarded secret.
The sessions OF the International lep-
rosy conference closed at Berlin on the
10th with the recording OF the conclu.
slons unanimously reached. They Were
as follows: "rhc leprosy bacillus is the
true cause OF the disease. Man Is the
only animal In which this bacillns eN-
lists Lcprosy is contagious but not
hereditary. The ISOLATION OF patients Is
desirable, and, under circumstances
such ns exls, In Norway, should be com.
pulsory."
Warden l.. $. Wright Of the Pennsyl.
vnnla pcnitentiary has discovered that
II number Of convicts confined In that
institution have been manufacturing
counterfeit 5occnt pieces. He has un'
carthcd the metal from which the
queer" money was mnde, the moulds
In which II was east. and the names of
several convicis who were connected
with the matter. hut ms yet has been
unable 10 Ind the man who originated
aud cnrrlcd out the scheme. The coun.
,erfclis are magnificent specimens Of
the colncr's art.
The Central Wyoming News sizes M
the situation about us II Is when ',
tnya: "ihcrc seems 10 he no end IA
the profits Ia the sheep business. II
WIS exceedingly rcmunoTntiyc without
a tnriff, hut now with the added siim
ulus " II, as one prominent shcepmni
kays: 1t i lust like drawing n pen
siou to he the owner nf n band Or tw,
VI sheep. the size Of the pension vary
lng according To the number OF sheep.
Another ehccpmnn II of the opinion
that prosperity has struck the sheep
mnn sure enough. II wns n pnylnl
business before. hut now ID Is sImpl,