The silver star., 1897-04-29
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Madison Square Garden may be purchased
by New York City.
Great fiocks OF wild pigeons have appeared
near Reddin. California.
II was reported on the 18th that Prince
Hohenlohe had resigned.
New Orleans suffered from fire to the
amount OF 100000 on the 18th.
Wheat Is advancing on the exchanges as
result Of the war between Turkey and
Greece
A dynamite explosion in a mine near Jo
hannesburg, Killed eight English and twenty
native miners.
The government In Hawaii has issued a
call for laborers, in which Japanese are
adroitly Disseminated against.
Investigation by legislative committee
among the coal miners near Plttsburg re-
veals the fact that many of them are on the
verge Of starvation.
The Londan Daily Mail says that Russis
Is strongly opposed to the silver standard
and that Great Britain. Austria and Ger
many would place insuperable difficulties In
the way of international bimetallism.
The book written by Mrs John Hays Ham
mond, the wife of the American engineer
sentenced to death in the Transvaal, but sub
sequently released upon the payment OF a
There has been a great decrease in the
virulence of the plague In India. Only 800
cases and 1874 deaths from the disease oc-
CURED last week In Bombay, compared with
$50 cases and 323 deaths during the preccd-
ing week.
Judge James A. Storrow. lawyer of Bos-
ton. dropped dead In Washington on the
18th. Judge Storrow took an active part In
the proceedings Incident to the arbitration
treaty between the governments of Great
Britain and Venezuela for the settlement OF
the boundary dispute.
William J. Bryan iectured in Music hall,
Cincinnati. to over 1000 people who had
paid 25 and so cents admission. His lecture
was on bimetallism, and II was delivered
under the auspices of the Ohio Valley Bi-
metallic League. After the Grafton he was
given banquet by members of the league.
Ex-State Treasurer William w. Taylor. of
South Dakota, has been released from the
penitentiary, after an Imprisonment of one
year and a half. Good behavior reduced
his two-years' sentence six months. He left
at once for his old home at Redfield where
he will stay few days. and then go 10 In
diana to visit friends.
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times says that the Russian minister of war
publishes in the Russkij Invalid an order OF
the Czar providing that hereafter all Grim
inals condemned to Imprisonment in Siberia
shall Re conveyed there by railway instead
OF being compelled to make the march by
way Of Tomsk and Iruski. which caused So
many deaths and so much suffering to thou
sands.
The franklin County iKentuckyl grand
jury has returned true hills against DR.. W.
Godfrey Hunter. the Republican nominee
for senator: eN-Congress1nan Henry Wilson.
Of the Eleventh district; Hon. f T. Franks
OF the Second district; Captain Noel Gaines
and his brother-in-law. Thomas Tanner. of
Frankfort. These named have been indict-
ed for conspiracy 20 hrihe All are Republ-
cans, with the exception Of Gaines and Tan
ner.
The trustees Of Drake University have
decided to reverse the order OF
the medical faculty excluding women as stu
dents because women had been subjected TO
Insults which could not be well avoided.
The trustees passed resolution strongly
condemninC such action and providing for
the protection OF women students. They
say no such actions will occnr in the future.
Male students offending will he promptly
expelled.
The Missouri Railway Company. Of St.
Louis. comprising three lines, the Olive
Street. the Market Street and the Laelede
Avenue Red Line. was bought on the 18th
in the name Of Edward Whitaker and
Charles II. Mcclure for the I.indeil system.
BY this purchase the Lindell system becomes
the greatest in St Louis, and probably the
greatest In the world. While the figures
have not been given ont. 1t is understood
that in the transfer nearly s2cooco was
Involved.
The Illinois Steel Company has received
si,r .ttn
a proposition looking to the company's bid
ding on the armor plate for two Russian
warships. The contract is to he for 5000
tons. and in case OF award the Chicago con
cern would turn into its treasury In the
neighborhood OF s3.cno.otn. 1t Is said the
Offer Of the Illinois Steel Company to fur.
nish the United States government with ar
NOR plate at the remarkably low figure Of
$40 ton has startled war departments the
world over
The President has decided 10 appoint an
other expert commission TO act In conjnnc.
tion with the one already selected by Great
Britain TO visit Bering sea this summer and
to study the conditions surrounding seal
life. The British government has named
the same commissioners II employed in this
capacity last year. namely. Professor Thomp
son and Gerald II. Hamilton. Our commits
sionsrs were President Jordan OF stanford
University and Professors Stegneger and
Lucas. Whether the same experts will be
reappointed will he determined In the course
of few days.
The New York Tribune says; There Is a
prospect OF gold exports In the near future.
II will not be surprising II shipments are
made within the next ten days. Until very
recently II WIS thought thnt no gold would
20 10 Europe this year. or at any rate until
very late In the year. The out-go Of gold
which now seems inevitable. VIII he due not
to condition in this country. hut to the sltua.
tlon in London. or 10 be more exact. 10 the
position In which the Bank Of England finds
itself. The hank has recently sustained tire.
mendous losses of gold from It's vaults.
chiefly by reason Of Withdrawals for transfer
TO Austria and Japan. and especially to the
latter country.
The retroactive clause of the Dingiey
tarin bill has alarmed the Mexican cattle
shippers Of Kansas and Missouri. They have
entered Into contracts with Mexican cattle
owners for at least 5000 head of Mexican
cattle. These contracts were made last win
ter. They are made In this way year after