Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-28
NEWS BRIEFS.

MI dHu Mr6. bryan were received l by State officials upon their arrival
 at Guadalaiara.
 l The scope of the wire trust Is to be textended so as to include all steel
 billet men in the country.
 John M. Taylor of Lexington.
 Tenn, is in the race for Governor ol 1 Tennessee.
 l Whitecappers not far from Austin, Tex, are warning farmers against
 paying rent.
 Henry Cameron of Sparta, Tenn. fell on his face, his pipe in his mouth. The stem was forced through his throat and he is dead.
 The total railroad mileage of Ar kansas is 2.546 S9 miles, according to the report of the Secretary of State.
 Mazzautini's closing bull fight at the City of Mexico was scarcely up to the standard. The famous tor reader came near being killed.
 The British steamer Lambert S Point put in to St. Johns, N F., with cotton. cattle and general car go, all on fire and the ship in a bad state.
 The London press ridicules the purchase of the Danish West Indies by Great Britain.
 Letter, while promoting his big wheat deal, has turned a neat trick in the oat market on the Chicago Board of Trade.
 Reports from skaguay and Daw- son City say the famine is already on. Coil oil is worth $45 per gallon, and no mining can be done on ac- count of scarcity of light
 Japan has a ministerial crisis. The Marquis Ito may be the new Premi- CT. The trouble is of a domestic character.
 It is said the Chinese Emperor will lease Kaio Chou to Germany in per petuity, to avoid the reproaeh of lost territory.
 Washington authorities deny that claims for indemnity aggregating $8,O00,O0O have been presented to Spain.
 Members of the House Committee on Military Affairs have gone to Chickamauga to inspect the military park prospects there.
 Copenhagen advices say the United States government has offered to buy a slice of Greenland from Dem mark for u coaling station.
 Miss Annie Virginia Wells. society woman of Washington. and friend of Miss Herbert's, took her own life with her brothers revolver. . There are reports of extensive and rich gold outcroppings in the Llano country of Texas. Some oft assays $1 200 to the ton.
 4 cinnamon bear, shipped as ex- pres s, broke loose in his ear on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, road, chased the messenger out and devoured all the edibles in sight, de- any amount of freight.
 Merchant J. V. Malone of Block ton. Ark, shot and killed Fiddler John Barnett in the course of a Christmas dance. The fiddler was full.
 Four highwaymen held up tolley car at Morristown, Pa. The passen- gers were covered with reVolvers. The motorman escaped amid ashow- CT of bullets. The conductor was shot dead. The robbers rifled the peck cts of the dead conductor.
 Milton Neal. prosperous farmer, and his aged wife were murdered in their home near Jacksonville, Pa, by unknown persons for unknown reasons. It was a most brutal crime.
 Pink Livingston shot and killed his brother, John, at the Blue Creek mines in Alabama. They fell out in the course of a Christmas debauch. The dead man had slain three men, and four weeks ago was pard9ned out of the penitentiary, where he had been serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister.
 El Heraldo of Madrid says the en- croachments of the United States on the internal politics of Spain have become intolerable, and that in re- ply to the note presented by Minister Woodford the Spanish government will take occasion to refnte the state ments made in the Presidents mes- sage and to warn this country against further interference.
 Corea is the exposure of the war prophets in the Orient. England is said to have seventeen and Japan thirty warships ready to cooperate The British admiral is said 10 have directed an ultimatum to the Gore ans protesting against the dismissal of Brieish officials and the appoint ment of Russians. Russian troops arc arriving thither. There are ru- ,,,,rs that 2. British force landed and