The advocate., 1897-11-17
Notes and Comment.


house of the Georgia Legislature.
A terrible famine is reported in the
province Of Archangel In European
Russia.
An ordinance is pending in the Chi
cago City Council to prohibit football
playing.
A general reduction in wages has been
made by the cotton manufacturers at
Fall River, Mass.
Tamnany seems disposed to open a
fight on Mr.. Bryan because he did not
come to its support in the recent cleo
tion.
So far as Platt, Hanna and German
experiences go, there is abundant ground
for belief that this is a hard year on
bosses.
Perry Belmont who is the American
representative Of the ROthschilds, would
like the Tammany nomination for Gov
ernOr Of New York.
Four banks in Crawford county Ken
tucky, closed their doors last week. A
very large number Of farmers and bust
ness men are affected.
Mcpherson Opinion: "Old Spain
chained Columbus for finding Cuba, and
1t would now be the proper thing to
chain Weyler for losing It"
The City Council of Denver has
adopted resolutions which are in the ma
ture of a preliminary step to municipal
ownership Of the waterworks plant.
President Mckinley has appointed
Charles p Bryan, of Chicago, as Min
lister to China, Mr.. Bryan is not related
in any way to Mr.. McKnley's opponent.
A syndicate Of New York people who
are interested in Cuban bonds are try
ing to get this country to openly take
the Cuban side in the contest with Spain.
Over at Kansas City, Mo-, the Missouri
Republican Club, Of which Ralph Ingalls,
is a member holds It's meetings over a
saloon and the principal thing on the
bill Of fare Is beer.
Another train was held up at Blue
Cut, just east of Kansas City, last week,
This is the seventh hold-up Of train
in this vicinity. The first one was in
1870 by the Jesse James gang.
A man who has broad foot and who
is tortured with narrow shoe has less
respect for a fellow who wears tooth
pick shoes than for one who parts his
hair in the middle and smokes cigar
cites.
President Andrews, Of Brown Univer-
sity, delivered a Henry George memorial
address at Providence recently in which
in the main he indorsed the single tax
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tenn OF taxation.
On the face of the returns the Repub-
licans have five majority on joint ballot
in the Ohio Legislature. There are sew
eral Republican members, though, who
will vote for some one other than Hanna
If the opportunity Is given
Cottonwood Falls Reveille: The En-
gineering Magazine says that the United
States has sold during 1897 100000 tons
of steel rails to Europe. Now will our
high tariff friends tell us why the ne,
cessity of tariff on steel rails?"
The report of the expert who has been
examining the books Of eX-State Treas
urer BARLEY (Rep). Of Nebraska, shows
that his shortage reached $4,000. Bart
ley has already been convicted and sent
to the penitentiary for twenty years.
Clay Center Dispatch: Mark Hanna's
explanation of the results Of the election
Is that the good times made the Re-
publicans careless, and they didn't turn
out to vote MIR. Hanna will no doubt
see that they have no such excuse next
year"
Charles J. Bonaparte, a Baltimore
grand nephew of Napoleon, put up $685.
600 to the Republican campaign fund
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