The Globe-republican., 1897-04-22
NEWS IN BRIEF:

col chAngeo In the wool schedule a
the DingIey bill
The KnsgAAs Of Lsbst-,hsye added .
free coinage amendment 70 their dec
larstioo Of principles.
Good Friday was Observed 1t the
White house BY barring the rank and
file Of the odiceseekers.
The Republican committee decided
to accept the Democratic proposition
regarding reorganization Of Senate
committees
Maria LOmse, wife Of William IF
Vanderbilt, left an estate worth. $685.
47a She gave $3.50. 600 to st. Barthol-
omew's church in New York.
The 5000 mile interchangeable mile
age book, for which commercial trav-
ers clamored so long and loudly, has
proved to be . failure.
The Texas Senate has passed bill
taxing insurance companies, sleeping
cars. and all outside corporations do
ing business in the state.
Dennis J. Sweenie, chief of the Chi
cago fire department., is the only cab
met officer to hold on under the new
mayor. Carter II. Harrison.
Jack Steiner and Alexander Greg
gains fought twenty rounds to q draw
at San Francisco. Agnew knocked
ont Thompson in tine twelfth round
the same evening.
Senator Vest is championing sectar-
ian schools for Indians He says nom
sectarian Indian schools are failure,
and he would rather see the Indians
Catholics than savagcs.
The President has sent message to
Congress urging it to make suitable
provision for adequate representation
of the United States, at the Paris ex-
position.
A bill was introduced by Senator
Cockrell for the relief of Mrs. A. NJ.
Smith, wife of Major General A. j.
Smith. 1t proposes to pension her at
a rate of 500 a month.
1t is reported that L. v. Powderly,
former grand master workman of the
Knights of Labor, will be appointed
commissioner of immigration to sue
coed Herman Stumm of Maryland.
Milwaukee brewers troubles have
been adjusted.
jefferson Levi has refused to sell
Monticello, the home of Thomas Jcffer-
| son.
! New York Methodist Episcopal con-
ference. East, in session at Brooklyn,
| declined to admit women.
Legislative committees. representing
Minnesota. Michigan, Wisconsin and
Illinois, will meet to devise uniform
game laws.
Japans navy, according to the St
James Gazette. will be a tough propo-
sition for the United States to combat
in case of a rupture between the two
countries.
After four years search, Millionaire
Mohler of Minneapolis located his di-
vorced wife. who had fled with their
young son in defiance of the law. The
boy will be taken by the father.
The Hawaiian government has taken
= firm stand against Asiatic labor.
Railroad contractors hereafter must
employ at least so per cent of Ha-
waiians, Americans or Europeans.
T. B. Cabbanis, of the Dawes Indian
commission, has resigned.
The London Times says there is, no
hope for general bimetallism.
Illinois Steel Works have resumed
! and the 100 strikers are out of a job.
Citizens of Wilson, Ills. scared off
three bank robbers, wounding one of
them badly.
Thirty thousand negroes about
| Greenville. Miss, are destitute be-
cause of the flood
Great Britain declines to. take the
initiative in promoting international
bimetallic action.
The American ship Samaria is given
up as lost.
George 2: Lafier. Perry. Okla, was
killed by horse kicking a redhot
branding iron into his eye.
| Senator Chandler proposes, that the
government take charge of the armor
plate factories
| C. L. Woods, Q Pittsburg banker. is.
under arrest for an attempted gigantic
| insurance swindle.
1t transpires that Altgeld. is a, heavy
creditor Of the recently failed Globe
Savings bank of Chicago.
| Courts have decided that Riley Gram
nan cannot I've barred from the West
chester Racing association track as
attempted.
| Leroy Ellison. Grand Rapids.
Mich. farmer, was strapped TO- death
by his insane son.
A Belgium syndicate is establishing
IN agency in Joplin Cor the purchase
of low grade ores.
Few states have the number of gov
ernmentment appointments due them
undo. the civil service apportionment
Kansas should have us and Missouri
sa3 more places.
| Shot Himself ON His Wife's Grave.
! LITTLE Rock. Ark, April 11.-Cap-
tain Samuel Lyons. one of the oldest
citizens of Little Rock, was seen tn
enter the Jewish cemetery about noon
yesterday. Shortly afterwards wo-
man passing screamed and said that a
man had shot himself. Captain Lyons
was found lying on his wife's grave
dead. with q pistol clutched in his
hand. He was IS years of age. His
wife died in 1877.
Ast0g fer Annexatg0aL
New YORK. April 17.-Col0nel John