The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-03
N VS. OF THE WEEK
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE NEW
AND OLD WORLD.
Comprehensive Review OF the Inn
portnnt Happenings of the
Current Week.

Brgadier General John X. Brooke Is
nominated major general
Edwin Y. Couger of Iowa has been
nominated envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary to Brazil.
The secretary of war has decided TO
promote John X Misner of the 10th caval-
ry, stationed at St. Paul, to be brigadier
general and then retire him Immediately.
Francis s. Jones of Louisiana gets the
determined that the occupation of Thes-
sally by Turkish troops lis to be prolonged
until Greece shall have paid the war in
demnity demanded by Turkey.
Bnger Hermann, commissioner of the
general land office, has announced his de-
cison in the Chicago lake front case, re-
versing the decision of Commissioner La
moreux and denying and rejecting the APP
pliation of Harvey NJ. LaFoliettee and
Matthias Benner to locate the Mckee
scrip on the lands.
The question OF. calling constitutional
convention in Virginia has been defeated
by an overwhelming majority
Under the instructions of the court the
jury at Washinton, d. c., brought in a
verdict of not guilty in the case of Hen
ry o. IIavemeyer president of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company. for con-
tumacy before the senate sugar investi-
eating committee.
Bradford X. Durfee late superintend-
ent of the department of insurance in IL
linois has failed as yet to turn over TO
his successor $2lS916 due the state from
him.
Latimer Ridgley Jones, the New York
horseman who was extradted from Eng
land two months ago to stand trial for
forgery aggregating s20O,O0O, has pleaded
guilty on one charge of forgery in the
third degree.
The far-away province of Kweisan,
/
the Christian missions recently, and it is
rumored that Rev. Father Mazel, who
was in charge of the chapel at Loli, was
murdered III is feared that other whit =
were massacred.
secretaryship of the United States lega
ton at Buenos Ayres.
August Dreyfus, the well known bank
er and financier of Paris, is dead
A thousand striking tailors have re-
sumed work in New York, having gained
the concessions demanded from the mid
die men.
Charles Burdettee Hart of West Vir-
ginia has been nominated to be envoy ex-
traordnary and minister plenipotentiary
to Columbia.
John G. Thompson of Illinois and James
| Osmund Boyd of North Carolina, are
chosen for assistant attorney generals OF
the United States.
1t is understood that Senior Sagasta
the liberal leader in Spain, will soon an
nounce his unalterable opposition to the
sale of Cuba, and his unyielding support
of the maintenance of the integrity oi
Spanish territory.
A dispatch from Athens says thai
Great Britain has declared her intention
to abandon the concert of powers If 1t Is
The Greek government sent q memo
randum to the powers protesting agains
the indemnity demanded by Turkey, als'
against the proposal for rectfication o
the Greek frontier.
Nearly one hundred representatives o
the Independent telephone companio
throughout the central and western state
are in Chicago to participate in conven
, ton called for the purpose of formln.
an organization to fight the Bell Tele
phone Company.
Business failures last week numbers
Pa the smallest in any week since 1895.
President Mckinley will leave Washing
ton June 10 to visit the Nashville exposi
5 tion.
The Hubbard Milling Company and F
5 D. Hubbard of Mankato. Mimi, hav
failed Liabilities, $5OO.OO0; assets, nc
| over $35O.O00.
Whitelaw Reid has been commissions
special ambassador to represent the pres
ldent at the approaching jubilee celebra
tion in England.
? The anarchist VINO attempted 10 sta
King Humbert of Italy last month ha
been sentenced to the galleys for life.
) 1t is now asserted that after the r.
=, treat from Domokos Prince .Constantir
attempted suicide, but was prevented b
. | his officers.
q The Greek government has protested
), | the powers against the action of II
: Turks in occupying a position at Tsopai
q tos in the neutral zone.
l. The political crisis continues in Spai
i 1t is asserted at Madrid that the premi
:. intends to suspend the sittines of Il
= chamber this week, in order to postpoI
IS until October the overthrow of the mi
t. istry.
1t Manufacturers are doing almost not
IS ing in the wool market, though specul
ton has kept the sales large-in fo
ID weeks of May, 2S,SO550O pounds again
I'd 20 15g $50 in the corresponding week of l5'