The silver star., 1897-05-06
TrLEoRApHIc BREvIrIEs.

| Large numbers OF Greeks are leaving Oil
| cago and other cities for Greece.
| Two of Garlbaidfs sons are going tn
| Greece to fight against the Turks.
President McKinley's mother celebrated
her eighty y-cIghth birthday on the 22nd.
| The hrst expectation Of gold since last
| July was made on the 10Th. II was $l.OU
900.
President Mckinley has appointed q. NJ
| Barnes, OF Guthrie. to he governor OF okln
| homa.
The international convention Of the Y. d.
| G. A. was In session ut Mobile, Alabama
| last week.
large number of small houses belonging
to the carncgics. at Homestead. Pennsyiva-
| nia. were burned down the 22nd.
Mrs. Lou Hamilton. a pretty young woman,
| has been arrested at Salt Lake for the muir
| der Of her husband. J. II. Hamilton.
| The officers OF the Federation of Labor
| have sent to the President an address urging
legislation Of benefit to laboring men.
Harold NJ. sewali, OF Maine has been mp
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States 10
Hawaii.
Frank Moss, counsel for the Parkhurst So
clety. has been appointed police commits
sioner OF New York, TO succeed Theodore
Roosevelt
The new commissioner of pensions has
given notice that the drinking men among
his employees must turn over new leaf or
give way to clerks OF temperate habits.
The total cases of bubonic plague at Bonn
bay up to date IL 11.106. There have been
! l0020 deaths from that disease. Many OF
| the Inhabitants Of Bombay are now return.
Ing to the city.
President Cleveland spoke at New York
hefo the Hafn lrtl, tta TIa 1ix-
cussed present Problems and took occa-
sion to scold the Democracy for Its attitude
on the silver question.
The ply sicians who have been examining
Petrio Acciarito. the iron worker of Artegna.
who tried to stab King Humbert with a dag
ger while his majesty his way to the
races. pronounce him insane.
The interior department has given permis-
sion for Chief Joseph. of the Ncz Perces. to
travel with ''Bufralo Bill" Joseph Is the
chief who was captured in 1877 by General
Miles after a 3.1Omile chase.
a pool Of eight manufacturers has been
formed. 1t is said. among the stockholders
Of the Western window glass agency for the
purpose of buying up all window glass the
small concerns are unable to carry
Rev. Frank Gunsaulus. for many years
pastor Of plymouth Church Of Chicago. has
taken steps to relinIuish his pulpit and 60
u
charge Of the broadway Tabernacle.
While Tom Darben. logging man.
absent in Virginia chopping wood. his noun
tain home burned and his wife and four
children were roasted alive. The blaekeDsd
bodies were found In the debris by n pas>er-
by
The decision OF the Senate Republican eau
Gus to accept the compromise proposition of
the Democrats and combined opposition
sxtt.-
tinue TO hold the places they have on com
mittees.
Mrs. George Beane. better known as Mabel
Haines. the dancer. has been awarded yer
diet for $1,000 In the federal court at Chi
cago for injuries received from 4 folding bed
In the Hotel Normandie In that city. June
~. 1894.
United States Consul Germain. at Zurich.
reports that probably within a year the
price Of aluminium will fall to about .. cents
per pound. that only three commercial
metals will be cheaper than aluminium
namely. iron. lead and zinc
President Bonilia. of Honduras. states tina,
he has practically suppressed the revolution
In the republic There have been several
>kirmishes between the rebel forces and the
government troops in the eastern part. bur
that none of them is Of great importance.
far as learned.
The Japanese having been turned away
from Hawaii are trying TO gain entrance
into the United States Fifty Japanese la
borers arrived from British Columbia to
work in California orchards and fields. The
immigration commissioner Is investigating
the report that japanese are coming hi,her
under contract.
A dispatch from Manila. capital OF the
Philippine islands says that a5.oS insur
gents who have not submitted to the Span
Iards have taken up position In the noun
tains and are Offering stout resistance TO
the troops The recall Of General Povalleja.
1t S added has produced bad Impression
in the Philippine islands.
Amid imposing ceremonial the cornerstone
OF the Transmis.iSsippi Exposition arch Of
states was laid on the End. There wa. .
long parade Of military and civic societies
Grand Master Phelps. Of the Nebraska Ma
sons. of1cia,ed. assisted by officers of tn.
Grand Lodge Addresses were made b.
Mayor Broateh- Lieutenant Governor Har-
ris and ex-Secr~tary Of Agriculture Morton.
The uian hypnotifed and buried in the
ground fcr three days at Slvcoe Ontario
| has been disinrerred- Great crowds followed
| the box contaInins the body to the opera
house As the u,rn was being brought haek
! TO nUnal condition be was very re-ties.
and nnaily smashed the box he was lu 10
pleces. IL required iye men TO control him
In his struggles until he Was raaIly re
stored 10 Consciousness.
The rve Eastern life insurance eompanle.
| recently barred from doing business In Kan
sas by Insurance Commissioner MeNalI
have decided to McNalI In the federal
court en the ground that their business.
TRANSMITTED FROM the East. Is Interstate
commerve and therefore out u his juris.iis.
s'n. An Injunction against the eotnml.
s'onsr Will be- asked for. The nsht GROW.
oat OF the famous Hillmon insurance case
Dispatches report damage amounting to
hundreds OF thousands Of dollars TO early
fruits by fro-ts. The greatest damage !. In
Maryland. Virginia. Delaware and North
Carolina In lower Virginia aud eastern
North Carolina IL Is estimated at st..0.o
| Including the loss 20 vegetables. Ice foru,..l
In several places and damage viii bs much
srra,er II warri weather does not come. IN
the Maryiari aud Delaware p~nin .uis nin,.
| buds cut OF ten have psrished- The peach
crup there IL r~unrtei uraeti...llr kltt-.t -