The Holly chieftain., 1897-10-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE


THE WORLD AT LARGE.
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Summary Of tho Daily News.
WARRINGTON NOTES.
FIRE broke out in the central power
station of the Capital Traction Co. ut
Washington the other night and In 50
minutes the magnificent six-story
structure was doomed. Loss, nearly
$500, 900.
PREsrDESr MCKINLEY and party got
back TO Washington on the soth. The
president had hardly reached the white
house before Secretary Sherman ap-
pesred and held brief consultation
with him, presumably in references "a
the fall OF the Spanish cabinet.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the
post office department inviting persons
who heve new designs for canceling
postage stamps to submit them to the
committee recently appointed for the
purpose. ssNt.lt{sf
THE monthly statement of the gov.
ernment receipts and expenditures
during September. 1897, shows the re-
ceipts 70 have been ssi. .9ss, 0os and the
expenditures se5. .s6s, ,si5. An excess OF
expenditures over receipts of eS. 4S5, ,s!7.
THERE Is . larger demand for male
stenographers and typewriters in the
departments ut Washington than the
civil service commission has been able
TO meet The salaries range from $500
to $1,000 per annum. q
THE first meeting of the cabinet
since the return Of President McKin-
ley TO Washington from his Maasachu.
setts trip was held on the lst Foreign
affairs were principally discussed. The
Spanish crisis was thought to be .
change for the better
GENERAL NEWA
Four of a crew of seven men were
recently drowned at North Long
Bran n. N. J., by the capsizing Of their
fishing boat. huge wave struck Il.
SAMUEL J. k.SAicMILLAS. ex-United
States senator, died at st Paul. Mimi,
from un@mia, agea IL.
Sixty villages near Tung Chou,
China, containing ovsS go, 600 inhabit.
santsg have besa 6satsred -bys Aocds
and the people drownSd or forced to
hcc. Chinese authorities estimated
that Is, 900 to 20, 900 were drowned. G
SEVEN houses In North Des Moinea,
Ia, recently caught FIRE from blaze
in barn in the vicinity. Loss, about
10000.
EDWARD McELsoY, gambler At Kan
sss City, Mo-, shot his wife and then
himself early on the morning Of the
5th. Both may perhaps live. Dome.-
tic troub le was the canse.
THE Mondamin carnival opened 1t
Sioux City, Ia, on the 4th to continue
one week.
A FIRE supposed to have been started
by tramps destroyed the Burgess stock
barn at Winona, Ill, the other night
and 80 fine horses were burned to death.
The mint in San Francisco has no
ceived instructions from Washington
to resume the coinage of silver dollars
1t once.
The anarchists in Chicago asked the
Federation Of Labor to take part in
the demonstration in memory Of the
men executed for the Haymari<et mas
sacre. After half hours violent de-
bate the federation fiatly refused to
take any part in the exercises
Two factions Of the congregation Of
St John Baptistc at Chicago quarreled
in church on, the Sd aud continued 1t
in the street afterwards. where It cul.
minated in n pitched battle betv Sen
200 Armenians, Assyrians and as;5ios,
men and women both taking part,
Black eyes and bloody noses were
abundant and two of the combatants
were seriously cut A wagon load Of
police finally succeeded In restoring
quiet.
The plethora Of the gold in the New
York banks and In tho treasury and
the scarcity of greenbacks IL causing
banks dialculty In making payments
1t the clearing house in biiIs.
FRANK SrAR1uCK. at Philadelphis.
defeated Jimmy" Michael. the '.Wclsh
wonder" in sS-mile pacsd race 1t
Willow Grove BY elk yards e etsrbuck's
time was ~ minutes LIS seconds, and
Michael's ~ minutes 2-s seconda
TnK New York Herald ON the 4th
printed . number of interviews with
leading Cubsns In the city ON the situ-
alton on the islsnd. They all declared
that autonomy was out of the ques-
tion, but werc In favor Of paying Spain
an indemnity II she would cvacuste
Cuba 1t once.
NEAL Dow, the great temperance Id
vocate, died at Portland, Me. on the
I'd. aged %.
DEEDS arc recorded In the land books
Of Mcdowell county, w. Va, for over
1.000, 900 acres of land when In fact the
county only contains 600, 900 acres II
was believed that . gigaatic scheme Of
fraud was being perpetrated In large
eastern and western cities by gang
Of swinilers.
IT Res reported from San Fruuciscu
that the Chinese had found . means 10
successfully evadc the Chinese rcstric-
tion act by laudingi In the United Ststxa
on certificates issued IN Nadso, . For.
tugucse possession. The certtHcatss
entitle them TO land, according % On
opinion Of Tie United states otscrhey.
general delivered IN teee.
Tnx Uaitsd states mint In Philadel-
phis db8pietsA the gtsatest asisass
A. one month N IL history. The ss1n-
tsr statsmeut 4ee ee.0eptoubos ~ fol-
lows: Gold, 0,3eey ~ etlves, I'M, a.
~ dvs esoS4 otb4kfn SIati 913,x14
The total nlntsr q ptesss tarnsd ~