Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-01-21
GENERAL NEWS.

two year old child at New Castle DEL, OF
the 18th inst, and injured the child 81
badly that its condition is considered crit
ical
Fifteen hundred hands were put to worl
on full time at the Kearny shops of th'
Pensylvanian Railroad Company, Newark
N j., on last Saturday. The shops hac
been running on half time for year.
On the 10th inst, eulogies were de
livered in the National House of Represen
tatives upon the life and services ofthe
late ex-speaker, Charles ]. Crisp, of Geor
gia.
Albert S. Willis, United States Minister
to Hawaii, died from an attack of pneu
monia az Honalulu on the 9th INST Hi:
remains were to have been started for the
United States on the 18th inst
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld has an
nounced that he is going to settle dowu
and make some money, as he says he has
use feor little.
Intimate friends of the late Alexander
Dumas, fills, have resolved to keep the re-
membrance OF the dramatist alive in their
minds by a special dinner every three
months in Paris.
President-elect McKlnIey's instructions
in regard to his Inauguration suit are that
they be made loose about the arms, so that
he may not become fatigued by handshak-
ing
John Browns daughter who is living in
great distress near Petrolia, Humbold
County, CAL, recently received from some
colored people $15 which, che said, helped
her great deal.
The production of gold in the United
States in 1892 was s9S, 100000 in 1896 it
was $4,000, 600, nearly double, OF about
70 per cent, If the production continues
to increase in like proportion for few
years, the country will need no more silver
money or paper initiation currency.
The State of Kansas will be thirty-siS
years old on the 29th of this month.
Out of seventy-three cases of dypthera
in Ogdensburg, n. Y, which were treated
with antitoxine only two were fatal.
A new club is being organization in Chi
cago for the improvement of the State
militia. One feature will be course of
military lectures for several months of the
year,
All the existing Nayfower societies in
the country were organized on Wednes-
day last at Plymouth. Mass, into a gener-
al society, of which they became the State
society.
On FEBRUARY q the next colored con-
ference convenes at Tuskegee, Ala, when
it is expected there will be between 700
and 500 of the colored farmers and me-
chanics of the race present.
DR.. John Morris, president Of the Mary
land Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals, recently suggested to the
society in Baltimore that home for in
digent cats be established in that city,
The residents of Dunedin, city in far
off New Zealand, have sent $3.50 to George
Lears Clark, the George Harris, Of of"Uncle
TOMS Cabin" who is passing the last few
years of his life in poverty in Lexington,
KY.
India is now afflicted with double curse.
Thousands ofits people are dying from the
plague and famine Vultures hover over
Bombay and feed on the unburied dead
The inhabitants of that city. are fleeing and
business is at a standstill.
Senator Walcott who went to Europe in
the interest of bimetalism has been aguest
of Baron Rothschild, at his country seat,
Tring Park, in Hertfordshire. If the Sen
ator does not looksharp the smart financier
will convince him that his mission is use
less,
Ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts,
has been rendered and has accepted the
secretaryship of the Navy under the in
coming administration.
Gen. Gomez the Cuban insurgent leadre'
now has an eficiant army of 1900 men
under his command, and is likely to strike
the spaniards heavy blow at any mo-
ment.
Capt. General Weyler, accompanied
by his staff, started for the field at o'clock
this morning. So says telegram from
Havanna dated Jan. 10. How long will
Weyler face the Cubans in the field?
Joseph C. Willard, the veteran hotel
man of Washington, Z. c., died at his