The silver lance., 1897-10-15
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Zaimis.
The panic on account Of yellow fever
has abated in Texas.
Governor Pingree of Michigan h tax
ing a trip to Venezuela
Horatio D. Davis, M. p, has been
chosen lord mayor Of London.
DR.. Nanses is coming to America to
deliver sixty lectures for $3.50
The next session of the Irrigation
Congress will be held at Cheyenne.
The National Irrigation Congress met
at Lincoln, Nebraska, on the 30th.
Edward Langtry. the former hus-
band of the Jersey Lily, has gone crazy.
The Mail and Express refuses to sup
port Tracy for mayor Of Greater New
York.
President Mckinley returned to
| Washington from Massachusetts on
the Both.
| The Carlists in Spain are very active
| now and 1t is said that a revolution Is
impending.
| Roger Wolcott has been renominated
| by the Republicans of Massachusetts
for governor.
The greatest scarcity of water known
for seventeen years prevails in south
west Missouri.
New York banks now have SO much
gold that they are obliged to pay their
balances with it.
| ]. Frank Starbuck defeated Jimmy
Michael in twenty-fve-mile race at
Philadelphia by six yaIls. -ssI
| The Massachusetts gold Democrats
have put up state ticket with DIR. VIII
liam Everett for governor.
| Two outlaws held up three stages
near Milton, California, on the Both,
wounding several persons.
John r. Mclean of Ohio has with
drawn from the senatorial race In fav-
or Of General A. ]. Warner.
| Carl Schotte. a wealthy Chicagoan,
was fined $75 for shooting an elk in
| Wyoming without license.
j. Pierpont Morgan and other Ameri-
can capitalists are figuring on a big
loan to the Chinese government
| A strike of coal miners at Diamond
vile, Wyoming. is still on, although the
| difference is only 2 cents a ton.
A Rock Island train was held up in
/ Indian Territory in broad day light a
few days ago and the passengers
robbed.
Senator Wolcott has returned to Lon
don from Paris to get an answer from
the government to the commissions
proposals. IF
The power house OF the Capital Trac-
ton Company at Washington, D. O.,
was burned last night, causing a loss
of 81 100000.
The total wheat crop of this country
Is now estimated at 5S9. 600 900 bushels,
corn 1,75O,O0OOOO bushels and oats
814, ,O00.O 600 bushels.
| A British ship company has been
4! granted concession which, II Is feared
will interfere with the rights of the
Nicaraguan Canal Company.
An unknown iron sailing vessel IL
reported to have been wrecked on the
northern Atlantic recently and the sail
ors, numbering nearly forty, are be-
iieved TO have been drowned.
Captain Price, a prominent cattle
man, formerly of Colorado, was arrest
ed in Custer county, Oklahoma, on the
charge of assisting to burn the Day
county court house year ago.
w. G. Brann. editor of a freak publi-
cation called the Iconoclast, was CON-
PEELED by students of the Taylor Bap-
tist University at Waco, Texas, to sign
a reraction and promise to leave
town.
Reports continue to pour IN from
all parts of Winnipeg of destruction by
prairie fires. In some districts not a
mad 1x.ee I.wr
that swept over the country Several
lives have been lost
As result of the revival in trade the
mint in San Francisco will at once re-
sumo the coinage of silver dollars in
accordance with instructions received
from Washington. The order necessi-
tated the appointment of fifteen new
employees.
General Neal Dow, the veteran tenn
perance worker. died at Portland,
Maine, on the 2nd. He was 93 years Of
age. General Dow's death was due to
the infirmities of old age. Once he
said he was very weary and was eager
for the moment of his release. ~
Lieutenant Commander Hawley has
recommended that Chicago be made a
permanent station and rendezvous for
the enlistment of men for the naval ser
vice and that temporary rendezvous
for a similar purpose should be estab-
lished at various places in the north
west.
Tammany's platform practically fg-
nores national issues, declaring at the
outset: We regard as the supreme is
sue of the municipal campaign the in
auguration Of a wise liberal. honest
and Democratic government in place
OF the present costly, wasteful, illfber-
al and inefficient administration.
The government of New South Wales
asserts that it has found such difficulty
In placing In England an order for 2.
600 tons OF steel rails of high carbon
quality that IL has been compelled to
place the order in America, where the
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