The Monte Vista journal., 1897-11-06
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President Mckinley went home to
Canton to vote.
Ex.President Cleveland has . son,
bora on the 2Sth.
Kansas City u to have new 5000.
600 passenger depot.
Norway will send an expedition to
look for Professor Andree.
The London Spectator looks for war
between the United States and spain.
A hundred Thousand people attended
the funeral Of Henry George In New
York.
Senator Wolcott sailed from Liver
pool with General Paine. Saturday, Tor
home.
One stea msiip took 100 carloads OF
cotton from New Orleans for England
on the LIST.
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has been In session
in Buffalo.
The sale Of the Kansas branch Of the
Union Pacific has been postponed un'
Ill December IL.
Henry George. Democratic candidate
for mayor of New York. died suddenly
of aIoplexy ON the 18th.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition
closed on the :,lst. The total attend
ance amounted to 1.GiD,OD.
DR.. Barr OF the City of Mexico saved
a man whose carotid artery had been
cut by wonderful operation.
Ex-Congressman Mondell OF Wyom-
ing has been appointed assistant COM
missioner OF the general land Office.
Counterfcitcrs ut 81. Louis are turn
ing out silver dollars that contain more
than the standard amount OF silver.
The President has appointed James
IonrsIrcct Of Georgia commissioner oi
railroads vice Wade Hampton, re-
signed.
Kuhut SDeisslsr of Berlin. Germany.
have Invented a perfect smoke consuh'.
.r which saves ~ per cent. In fuei an"
costs SSD.
The governor of Minncsota mas or
lcred an investigation Of CHARGES OF
brutality to convicts in the saltwater
pcnitentiary.
Walter Il. Houghton. n postal clerk
running west from Cheyenne. has con
fessed to rolIbing the mails OF SIo,'
90 package.
The governor OF Washington protests
against putting troops In Alaska To sup
port the Weare and Alaska CONNER
cial Company monopoly.
An engine collitcd with train ut
Eiieuberg IN the Halo kottlcr line
| fifteen miles from Ieipslc. Twen'!
nine persons were injured and OF tbs
number six may die.
| The Ottoman government hns not.
fled the powers that II objects 10 th'
appointment Of Colonel Schaefer n
| provisional commissioner OF the power
for the island OF Crete.
| DIR. ]. G. Spencer. lncicriologist o'
the bourd Of health. reports that he has
discovered the bacilli Of tuberculosis IL
"a Chinese made cigar which lie exam
ins.i ut San Francisco.
The American Public Health Associa
fion indorsex the Use OF Individual cup
at communion services and recon-
mcntis the establishment Of u govern
mcnt department Of public health.
The new Mills hotel In New York
nine stories high and provided with nj
modern improvements. has lsr.n opsnes
In the Joor quarter Of the city. !; vii
give a bed and hath for ~ cents pc
night.
Brign,iicr General James +. Wade o
~. Paul, tomanilng the Department o
Dakota, recommends the abandonment
| Of Forts Custer and ApainalpOinc. Mon
inna. He snys that they are unsuite'
for use.
President Rashfor.l Of Ohio Wesleyan
university has announced that the lat
stephen Watson of London. Ohio. In,
left a b-lucst OF ESQ to the unlve,
sity for the purpose Of endowing neN
pWfs-~orshlp.
4 telegram was received at the Wa
department from Captain Hay. date
nt Fort Yukon. Alaska. September Ii
saying he had landed sspO tons Of PR
visions there to Ia freixhted by dog
10 Circle city aud Dawson when III
river closes. Circle City has no suI
plies. but the situation may bt Improve
by spring.
4 movement In on foot among n
IIytiIs manufacturers and other larg
consumers Of coal 10 oIernte mines an
get the pro.iuct at first hands. As 4 r,
suit Of the strike among Illinois COS
| UtueIr, WV ptsH iiuu Wus'u WV Wul
ply Of coal for ~. Louis In dug ar
rloss-d. nnd there " great scarcity q
the bitunInous article there.
A profound sensation has been cause
at Athens by = naval scandal Of fo
inidai,le dimensions. 1t has just iee
Rsc~rtaIned that sll the cartridges hti~
TO the torpedo guns during the wnr b,
tween 1rscc and Turkey were mt pr
vided with percussion caps and fu
minstiug mercury. Hence. n the to
ts.,los.~ had lssn wanted. they woul
} have been perfectly harmless.
General \. \. Wclsser, Of Milwaukee
Wisconsin. and General Paui Wander
WORT ~ Omaha. Nebrarka. each nm e,
grand commander II Minneapolis. hny
J lust sscursi :!s!!GD acres Of land In III
fy,ast rrRion of Texas. This purchase
mad" for locating thereon veteran
of the late wnr. sD families of wloi
are said % In. en- route for sctilcsncS
on ihH land. The ksaflon selected
an ideal one In Matagorsia county.
m. Spanish cruiser Alfonso MI
with Marphal Blnnco. the new YOvrrnt
general Of Cuba. on tsoar,i. entered III
hnrior Of Havana an the Jist. nn
Lieutenant General Wry.er. the Ma
Vuia AhumndR. Admiral Navarro nn
other high military and naval Osiiccl
went In the sj,s.t%Al steamer ~ me-,
General BiausO. After a long AMI "a
dial conference. Lieutenant Gcncri
Wryier yielded mn Ills command n Nj