Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The proportion of pension money that comes South is 1.3 per cent.

troduced in the Virginia Senate.
 Mckinley will send Charles P. Bry- an, of Illinois, as Minister to China.
 Sugar trade in Jamaica is almost at standstill owing to the depres- sion in prices.
 I President Mckinley will be urged to attend the Trans Mississippi Con gress at Wichita, Kan.
 German papers declare that all the powers are preparing to cut slices out of China for Christmas.
 The Southern Express office at Columbia, s. C., was robbed and a package containing $10,000 carried away.
 1 Goal miners at Richland, Tenn, have struck against a reduction in wages. There may be D spread of the trouble.
 l It is asserted that George Bitner, poultry dealer of Greenville, Tenn, fioated worthless checks to the amount of $25 ,000.
 Members of the Mckinley Cabinet are unanimously in favor of uphold ing the Civil Service law.
 A mysterious woman stole a couple of school children at Chebey- gan, Wis.
 Weyler has taken typewriter in hand to denounce the Mckinley mes sage.
 John Griner, hotel proprietor at Duryea, Pa,, shot and killed his step- daughter over money difference.
 Josiah Quincey, Democrat, was re- elected Mayor of Boston ovar Cur tis. Republican; Riley, Democrat Bryan, and Goldstein, Social. l Joseph Weinard. aged 69. St. Louis,
 as found in his kitchen strangled
 ) death with Q towel. The mur- derers arc unknown.
 Retirement of National bank notes reached $3 ,000,00 in the first twenty days of December, which beats the record.
 Freight and passenger trains on the Detroit. Toledo and Milwaukee railroad collided, damaging proper ty and iniuring several people.
 A railroad wreck on the Pennsyl- vania road near Altoona caused loss of three lives and $75,QoO. It was a runaway engine. English warships will make dem onstration off China as a protest against disintegration of the empire without England's consent.
 A German Chinese commission has been formed to settle the boundaries of the Kia-Chou district, thus indi- eating Q permanent occupation by Germany
 At Madrid there are published stories showing frightfuI mortality among the Cuban insurgents and the success of Spanish arms. Disappointment in love induced Clara May Harper, t19 years old, at Nashville, to take a fatal dose of strychnine.
 ". NJ. Boiling, wanted by the Fed eral authorities for pension frauds, has been captured at Huntsville, Ala.
 Congressman Williams, of Missis- sippi, has offered bill to make con tracts in futures non-enforeeable in courts.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has issued a circular of warning against splenetic fever which pre- vails among Western cattle.
 Newt Whitten shot and killed An nie Van zant at Tunnel Hill, Ga, be- cause she refused to surrender pho- tograph he gave her when they were sweethearts.
 Conservatives at Havana, said to represent so per cent. of the wealth of the island, held q meeting that was noisy and earnest, and asserted the futility of autonomy.
 The Fall River manufacturers in their answer to the operatives reit- crate tho necessessity for cut Tn wages, repeating the reasons hereto- fore given for that proceeding. The operatives, 1t is said, are inclined to resist. The manufacturers at Mill- way cotton mills also give notice of acut.
 James Clemma and Eliza OeKalb are on trial at Norristown. Pa, as accomplices in the murder of Mrs. Kaiser, whose husband is already under sentence of death for the crime. 1 The DeKal woman made confession. Insurance of $l0,0O0 was the purpose of the murder.
 Congressman Gaines has called at tention of Congress to the unusual distribution of public expenditures to the South. Little pension money comes this way, appropriations of naval Improvements go to the North, likewise the military expendi- tures.
 The insurgents have a report of l the battle on Canto river on Decem-