The silver star., 1897-07-22
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Masked men are raiding the eheep camp
about Heppner. Oregon.
The japanese minister announces that hi
country has no designs upon Hawaii.
The national conference of charities an.
corrections met In session at Toronto on th'
sth.
Brigadler General H. c. Merriam has beer
ordered to command the department OF th'
Columbia.
Durrants parents will place his photo
graph on sale all over the country to secure
funds for his defense.
A Christian Endeavor train narrowly IS
| capped being wrecked at a burning trestl'
near Redding.. California.
Ten large breweries In Allegheny county
Pennsylvania, were consolidated in one com
pany. with capital of 100000.
Further details Of horrible atrocities prac
ticed upon the Armenians by the Turks and
Kurds are being received in Europe
Consul General Lee has found call thu.
far for only s6uo Of the $4,000 appropri
ated by Congress for the relief of suffering
Americans in Cuba.
A cable-ram says that the Bradley Mar
tins have bought Barney Barnato's house In
| Kings Park. London. and will finish 1t on
the magnificent scale that the kafir king
planned.
Mrs s. J. Fillmore Of Oakland, California,
has deposed that Jay Gould told her In
| 1857 that he had a wife and child, corroba
rating the claim OF Mrs. $. a. Angel to the
Gould estate
The Spanish mail steamer Havana on the
10th carried 1000 sick soldiers. many OF
whom will die on the way home. Eleven
thousand sick soldiers have been sent TO
Spain since January 1st
dispatch from Montevdeo says that
| severe fighting between the revolutionists
| and government troops has occurred at
Acegua. In the province OF Cerro Largo. Ac-
cording TO the government report. the rebel.
were obliged to retreat
By special desire of the Queen. all the col
onlaI premiers. including Sir wilfrid Lau-
rier, premier of Canada. visited Windsor
castle to present to her majesty the Jubilee
addresses from their respective colonies,
Subsequently the premiers were sworn In
as privy councillors.
Five hundred persons at Wappinger' :
Falls. New York. were poisoned at a Fourth
Of July picnic by eating ham sandwiches.
most OF which had been cooked IN copper
bottomed kettle. Three hundred of the af-
fected ones suffered severely and are not yet
, we'll. hut none have died.
A sailboat carrying fve persons was cap
sized in the middle of Eagle Lake. Indiana.
resulting In the drowning Of Georgia Coul-
i'E. 1cuihtK VI Nut
University Of Chicago. and Bertha Yarnell.
daughter of Edward +. Yarnell. Fort
| Wayne. Indiana. The others were rescued.
The demand for harvest hands in the cen
tral and western portions Of Kansas still
continues. Avery Turner. assistant general
superintendent of the Atchison In Topeka,
has received request from the agent al
Nekoma. Kansas. a small station on the
Great Bend branch. for 100 harvest laborers.
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stations in the central and western portions
OF the state.
II is stated that the administration has
taken steps to keep Its grip on Hawaii.
Any aggressive Interference on the part Of
Japan will result in the landing OF ma
rines and the hoisting Of the American nag,
with or without the ratification Of the pend.
Ing annexation treaty. The administration
realizing that some crisis might arise while
the treaty still hangs FIRE In the Senate, has
taken steps TO be prepared for any emer.
gency.
Three highwaymen. armed with revolvers.
held up a trolley car on the Cicero and Pro
viso line. Chicago, Thursday night and
robbed the conductor motorman and the
passengers OF their watches and about 800
| In money. They escaped without being pur-
| sued. Within an hour after the hold-up In
Cicero five highwaymen boarded an Archer
avenue electric car at Thirty eighth and
Kenzie avenue and after covering the mo-
| torman and conductor with revolvers. Sc.
cured $50. a watch and revolver.
The international copyright law has been
upheld by the court Of Ontario In an I'M
portant case. and in the future the Interests
of United States music publishers In Canada
will be protected. The action was brought
for the infringement OF copyright on two
Of sousa's marched. The Judgment re-
strains the Toronto nrm perpetually from
| publishing these two pieces of music and
orders that all copies OF the pieces now on
hand be given up. well as the lithograph-
Ing material used in printing the music.
After August LIST suspensions will be things
u the past on the Santa Fe road. Instead OF
receiving a lay on for ten, twenty. thirty OF
| sixty days, an efnploye OF the engine OF
| train service who violates rules, neglects
duty or fails, In any manner. to carry out
| his work properly, will he charged with %
many dement's. under the Brown system
the number to be regulated by the gravity
Of the ofense. When the number Of de
merits reaches the limit on some roads 90
ON others %. md still others 100, ths
employe Is discharged. Discharge under the
| system is Anal.
The police department Of Kansas City
| Kansas. will begin working women prison
ers nt breaking stone, the same as the mai.
prisoners. the police commissioners havinl
adopted the rule upon recommendation Of
Chief Quarlcs, who argued that womei
prisoners kept In idleness were not suf
hciently punished. The police commission
ers have adopted regulations for the limo
walton. The women will wear coarse over
nlls, the snme MS the men. They will hnv.
no skirts 10 impede their work. The work
ing Of the women prisoners will he the frn
| EFFORT Of the kind ever made In Kansns.
| The appearance Of the cruiser San Fran
cisco In the harbor Of Tangier has had
snlutary eject upon the Moorish authofitie
In the mntter Of securing American rights
Rear Admiral Seifridge. who is on board tn
San Francisco. has cabled TO the Navy De
pnrtment that when the Morocco authori
ties learned that American warships hat
been ordered to Tangier. they had dispiaye,
considerable activity. and hnd arrested on
Of the assaiiants Of the American. who ha,
been knocked down and robbed. There wer
two men involved In the assault. and upol
the repeated demand Of Consul Genera
Burke. which was enforced by the pressnc