The indicator., 1897-01-16
rELEGRAPHIC sREvITiES.
Senator Perkins of California has beel
reelected.

England's new cruiser Terrible is the
fastest war vessel afoat. having made
o21a knots an hour.
The buildings at the coal mines near
Gallup, New Mexico. were burned by in
cendiaries few days ago
| An open-air mass meeting was held in
San Francisco Monday night to celebrate
the defeat of the Union Pacific funding
bill.
Chicago aldermen have passed bill
forbdding the wearing OF hats in thea
terS
Two Dubois men were unseated in the
Idaho Legislature Monday, which indi-
Gates that he VIII fail of reelection.
Tuesdays statement of the condition of
tn treasury shows; Available cash bal
ance, S232,5OO,676; gold reserve. Sl39,-
5U2.923.
Kate Fields ashes have been buried at
Mount Royal cemetery. Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts, beside the remains Of her
mother.
1t is stated that Baroness Hirsch will
give another 100000 francs $4,000
to build hospital for consumptivs child
ren on the Riviera.
Mr. Oscar Adams starved to death in
an Altoona, Pennsylvania, tenement
house. The board of health reports 800
persons utterly destitute,
The Midland Steel works at Muncie,
Indiana, which have been idle several
w,eeks. have resumed operations, giving
employment to 1000 men.
The Youngstown, Ohio, Bridge corn-
pany has been awarded the contract for
b1ildlng a steel bridge across the Grand
river at New Castle The price is S9,iS3.
All efforts to unseat Isaac D. Allen, col
orad, as a councillor to the Massachusetts
legislature have failed and the governor
has appointed him on three committees,
two of which are Important
Tie Pennsylvania Oh company is
making preparations TO enlarge its oil
business at Casper, Wyoming. New ma
chinery VIII be put in the refinery and
additional wei drilled. A much larger
market hIs been opened up for the oil
and the prospects for the present year are
unusually bright
Advices received from Manila show
that the philippine Insurgents who were
drported to the Ladrone Islands. the
Spanish penal settlement in the Pacific,
recently made a desperate attempt to IS
cape. were overpowered by the garrison
and Spanish marines Eighty of the CON
vlcts were killed and forty were wound
ed
The arrangements for the Inauguration
Of Presldentelect Mckinley are progress
ing In manner very satisfactory to the
committee having them in charge. and 1t
Is believed that the decorations. illumina
lions and ceremonies Incident to this
event VIII at least equal in beauty and
lmpressiveuess those of any former in
augraton.
Harry Roach. a miner forty-three years
old working in ih1 T0mboy mine, met in
slant death Monday morning, He was
digging a seat in the bottom Of slope,
preparatory no putting in a set Of timbers,
when a mass of ore fell from overhead,
striking him on the small Of the back,
while he was bonding over. The slab of
1re that crushed him weighed about one
ION.
The Rev William ]. Brown. pastor Of
Wesley chapel in London. has just ar
-Iged in this country He comes here to
rollect money TO restore Wesleys tomb
md to complete the restoration Of the
hapel. which is the shrine Of Methodlsts.
England has contributed $4,000. Only
$1,000 more is needed and DR. Brown
Will make t3ur Of the United States and
Canada to raise this sum.
The government of Guatemala Invites
the manufacturers of the United States
to participate in an Industrial exposition
That is to be held in that country. opening
March 10, ami II will afford them the
best opportunity that was ever offered for
Introducing their productions among
the people Of Central America. The er-
position will continue through the sum
mer. and Will doubtless be largely at
tended.
The Turkish reform league has issued
from Brussels an appeal to the people Of
Europe, declaring that the sultan has
planned a massacre to take place during
the approaching ramazan faSts and i'm
plorinz the powers to Interfere, depose ihe
sultan and proclaim Reichad ETendi,
younger brother of the sultan and heir
presumptiva, his successor. with coun-
ell of state made up of equal numbers of
NG5slems, Christians and Europeans.
London Times dispatch from Monte
vIdco confirms the recent dispatch from
Rome which said a young Italian doctor
had discovered the yellow fever germ
after he had himself recovered from the
disease at Rio de Junero and that he had
given the discovery under seal OF the
Rome Academy or Medicine. The Times
gives the name of The discovcrer as Gu
scppe SanarelL an eminent disciple OF
Pasteur and doctor Of the Uruguayan
National Institute.
New York consumes more beer than
and other city in the country. During
the year 1896. 1918 sos barrels Of beer
were sold in the Eastern metropolis
Chicago comes next with a record Of B.
19s, 300 barrels sold during the year The
amount sold In Chicago last year is
540.sS7 barrels more than during the
previous year. This is the largest in
crease noted in any city. New York
comes next with 22T34I barrels increase
over the previous year
It comes from legal circles in Cheyenne
that the sale Of the Oregon Short line will
have an important bearing upon the tu-
L..rn Of tna EI.LE .L..t-L. md tln 70 a.orl-