Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-01-14
GENERAL AEWs.

nls Lie iOr 9oU,VOV' - 49,
The Kansas legislature met on tba III
inst, with the populist, in control Qi Res
branches.
1t is pretty generally conceded that
Thomas G. Platt will be elected U. S. Sen
ator from New York, to succeed David b.
Hill.
Senator Hansberough, of North Dakota,
has been nominated By the Republican
caucus of the legislature of that State to
succeed himself.
The Republican members of the Tenn,
legislature have signed lengthy RECON-
mendation of 81. Clay Evans for position
in McKinley's cabinet.
The Legislature of West Va, met on
Wednesday, and elected Republican
officers. 1t is thought the present session
will be short one.
The controversy between Arbuckle Bros.
and the Sugar Trust still continues. We
hope the fight may continue and the
public be benefited Thereby.
John A. Howard, who, with detach-
ment of Federal soldiers, captured Jefer.
son LAWS in Erwin county, Ga. at the close
of the war, died recently at Chicago.
Harold NJ. Sewall, son of the recent
Democratic candidate for Viee-Pres't was
elected on the 9th inst. a member of the
Maine legislature. The young man was G
Republican.
Masked bandits held up DR.. Partridge
and his clerks at his general store near
Guthrie, o. T., robbed the safe of 81 600
| and set fire to the store, burning up $6,0OU
worth of goods. II
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The Spanish authorities are telling that
the Cuban general Gormez is anxious for
peace. We suppose heis, but don't believe
he wants it, except coupled with the free.
dom of Cuba.
1t is now confdentialy stated thal Mr..
Mckinley has rendered the position OF
Secretary of State to Senator Sherman,
and that he has accepted and will be the
premier of the incoming administration.
At Johnstown, Pa. ,stLouis Mo-, Mont
peler, Ind. and Bristol, Pa, iron and
steel mills that have been closed have reT
sumed operations. These assumptions
are going on all over the country and will
necessarily tend to improve business con-
ditions.
Col. William Lamb, of Virginia, has APP
peared before the Ways and Means Com
mittee of Congress, which is framing
new tariff bill, and advocated the restora-
ton of the rates on coal that prevailed be-
fore the passage of the Wilson-Gornian
bill.
have returned convinced fully Of ultimate
Cuban success-a conviction I by no
means carried to Havana with me-" Sem
ator Money says further that the Span
iards make no attempt to fight their foes,
that they travel main roads and make no
pretense of invading the open country.
When the resolution calling for the
recognition of Cuba is before the U. 5.
Senate and its passage is being urged,
delegation of men from New York headed
by Frank Mayo, will present monster
petition, signed by 100000 persons, In
favor of the resolution.
One of the tortures practiced in the
prison at Uskub, Macedonia, is by means !
of ants. The victim is fastened to the
floor, so that he cannot move body or limb,
and fifty huge ants are then permitted 70
wander over him, and cause intense agony
Julius Barthman is to establish the e-beet
sugar industry in South Carolina. He Will
bring over FIVE hundred families from Sax
ony. He has secured $1,000 acrs Of land
in South Carolina, and will divide it into
farms of twenty-five, fifty and one hundred
acres.
Turkey sends out tobacco, the cereals,
nuts, almonds, olives, all sorts OF dried
fruits, coffee, madder, opium and M'
enormous amount of wine, the last named
article to be rebottled and exported. A
very important trade is also carried on IN
fish, sponges and coral.
A French girl applied for work at a
Biddeford (Me,) factory, but when she
gave her age as fourteen she was told that
she must go to school. She angrily in.
ouired if married woman must go to
school, and upon learning that ahe was
married and had a husband to support the
agent gave her employment.
Senator Money, of Mississippi, who re-
Gently returned from trip to Cuba, pub.