The silver star., 1897-11-11
TELEoRAPH,c BREvlrlEs.

Dorn on the ZStn.
Kansas City is to have a new 5000
600 passenger depot.
Norway will send an expedition to
look for Professor Andree.
The London Spectator looks for war
between the United States and Spain.
| A hundred thousand people attended
the funeral of Henry George In New
York.
Senator Wolcott sailed from Liver
pool with General Paine, Saturday, Tor
home.
One steamship took 800 carloads OF
cotton from New Orleans for England
| on the LIST.
The National Womans Christian
, Temperance Union has been In session
in Buffalo.
The sale of the Kansas branch OF the
Union Pacific has been postponed uh-
til December 10.
Henry George. Democratic candidate
for mayor of New York. died suddenly
of apoplexy on the 18th.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition
closed on the 31st The total attend
ance amounted to 1,65O,OOO.
DR.. Barr of the City of Mexico saved
man whose carotid artery had been
| cut by wonderful operation.
Ex-Congressman Mondell of Wyom-
ing has been appointed assistant COM
missioner of the general land once.
The President has appointed James
Iongstreet of Georgia commissioner oil
railroads vice Wade Hampton, re
| signed
Kuhut &Deissler of Berlin. Germany,
have invented perfect smoke consum.
er which saves 20 per cent in fuel ana
costs $50.
The governor of Minnesota has or
dered an investigation of charges OF
brutality to convicts in the saltwater
penitentary.
Walter r. Houghton, n postal clerk
running west from Cheyenne. has CON
| fessed to robbing the mails of a Slo,-
600 package.
The governor of Washington protests
against putting troops in Alaska to sup
port the Weare and Alaska CONNER
cial Company monopoly.
An engine collided with train at
Eilenberg on the Hallo-kottbor line,
fifteen miles from Leipsic. twenty
nine persons We're injured and of this
number six may die.
The Ottoman government has mott
ned the powers that it objects to the
appointment of Colonel Schaeffer as
provisional commissioner of the powers
for the island of Crete.
DIR. ]. C. Spencer, bacteriologist of
the board of health. reports that he has
discovered the bacilli of tuberculosis in
Chinese-made cigar which he exam
ined at San Francisco.
The American Public Health Associa-
ton indorses the use of Individual cups
at communion services and recon-
mends the establishment of govern
ment department of public health.
The new Mills hotel in New York.
nine stories high and provided with all
modern improvements. has been opened
in the poor quarter Of the city. 1t will
give a bed and bath for 90 cents per
night.
Brigadier General James +. Wade of
st. Paul, comanding the Department of
Dakota. recommends the abandonment
of Forts Custer and Assinaboine, Mon
tana. He says that they are unsuited
for use.
President Bashford OF Ohio Wesleyan
university has announced that the late
Stephen Watson of London Ohio had
left a bequest OF $4,000 to the univer-
sity for the purp,se of endowing new
professorship.
A telegram was received at the War
department from Captain Ray. dated
at Fort Yukon. Alaska. September IL,
iu,r an haI la
visions there to be freighted by dogs
to Circle City and Dawson when the
river closes. Circle City has no sup
plies, but the situation may he improved
by spring.
A movement is on foot among St
Louis manufacturers and other large
consumers of coal TO operate mines and
get the product ut first hands. As n re-
suit of the strike among Illinois coal
miners, the pits from which the sup
ply of coal for st. Louis is dug are
closed and there Is great scarcity of
the bituminous article there.
A profound sensation has been caused
at Athens by n naval scandal of for.
midable dimensions II has lust been
ascertained that all the cartridges fitted
to the torpedo guns during the war be.
tween Greece and Turkey were not pro-
vided with percussion caps and fui-
minatin2 mercury. Hence. II the tor.
pedoes had been wanted. they would
have been perfectly harmless.
General A. $. Wcisscrt of Milwaukee.
Wisconsin. and General Paul Wander.
WORT Of Omaha. Nebraska, each an ex.
grand commander Of Minneapolis hive
just secured 22OO0 acres OF innd in the
coast region OF Texns This purchase IA
made for locating thereon veterans
OF the late war; 500 families Of whom
are said to he on route for settlement
on the land. The location selected r.
an Ideal one In Mniagordn county.
The Spanish cruiser Alfonso XIII.
with Marshal Blanco. the new governor
general Of Cuba. on board. entered the
harbor Of Havana on the 31st, and
Lieutenant General Weyler, the M0r.
quIs Ahnmadn. Admiral Navarro and
other high military md naval officers
went In the special steamer to meet
General Blanco. After long ana cor.
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