The silver lance., 1897-09-24
TELEORAPHIC BREvirIEs.

Buas
Miss Luti A. Lytle, colored, has been
admitted to the bar in Tennessee.
Plans are already under way to build
q railroad to the Klondyke region.
1t seems certain that the potato crop
In Ireland is ruined and great suffering
will follow.
Some inexperienced robbers attempt
ed to hold up a train in California on
the 9Th but were frightened away.
A British steamer foundered in the
Yellow Sea during a recent typhoon
and twenty-one of the crew are miss
ing.
President Mckinley has pardoned
Francis A. Coffin, the indianapolis bank
wrecker. He has served one year oui
of eight.
The gold Democrats Of Ohio met at
Columbus on the 9th and nominated a
full state ticket with Julius Dexter for
governor.
An investigation Of the boundary line
between Tennessee and Georgia is now
being made which may result in throw
ing Chattanooga into Georgia.
The pension office has received con
science contribution of $3.50 from pen
siOner In Pennsylvania, who states that
he obtained the money fraudulently-
1t is announced that peace has been
concluded between the president of Ur-
uguay and the Uruguayan insurgents,
through the mediation of DR.. Ritmierz.
John B. Edwards of Kansas City,
who was arrested for numbering n
man nQmQd Kau IN pixa,c DaaIx hos
been released, as the evidence was in
sufficient.
Before a distinguished company gath
cred In the parlors of the governors
mansion at Atlanta, Georgia. General
James Longstreet and Miss Ellen
Dortch were united in marriage ON the
9Th.
An explosion of dynamite has taken
place in the magazine of the George
Goch deep level mine, causing terrible
havoc. Five white men and twenty
five Kaff1rs are known to have been
killed.
John L. Sullivan has announced that
ne would run for mayor and that he ex-
pected to poll 5000 or 1900. Sullivan
and his political platform would be to
license gambling places and disorderly
houses.
The International Trades Union Con-
gress has adopted a resolution recon-
mending all societies affiliated with the
congress to by all means possible re-
strict or abolish overtime In their re-
spective trades.
Chauncy Depew and several other
wealthy New York men have arranged
with the government Of Honduras to
build railroads and telegraphs and will
have the power to fix tariff duties and
practically run the country.
Another result of the visit Of the
Duke and Duchess Of York to Ireland
10 that a royal residence will in all
probability be established In that coun-
try, and in addition, the early abolition
of the vice royalty is everywhere ac-
cepted as a fact.
The directors Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad Company
have decided to declare the regular
semi-annual dividend Of 2 per cent. and
an extra dividend of per cent. A divi-
dend Of 21a per cent. on the preferred
stock was also declared.
The Japanese government has given
an order to Thompson Il Co., the Clyde
ship builders, for another first class
battle ship of 1900 tons, a sister ship
to the Skikishima. 1t is also contem-
plating the building of a first-class
cruiser Of 5000 tons at Yokosuka.
Pope Leo XIII. has, through Cardi-
nal Rampolla and Archbishop Keane
signified his intention of presenting to
the Stanford University library an. ex-
pensive bound copy of the catalogue
Of the famous Vatican library. No copy
Of this catalogue is now on this coast,
and but few copies of 1t in the United
States.
Todd Kinkaid, president Of the Cor
unna Coal Company, of Owosso, Michi-
gan, has notified his miners that since
the first Of the month the price of dig
ging has been advanced five cents per
ton, making the rate from eighty to nine
ty cents, an advance of ten to fifteen
cents per day to a miner. The advance
was given unsolicited.
The annual report of the auditor of
the Interior Department shows that the
amount paid for pensions during the
last year was $40, .637. The pay
ment on pension account for the fiscal
year 1896 was $13S, 722, 127. and for the
fiscal year of 1895, $154, ,522, PA. The
COST OF the service HIST year was S3.o9
per $1,000; for 1915. $4.O7; for 1895, 81;
for 1894, $3.77, and for 1898, $3.35.
The Spanish Official Gazette has pub
lished the new customs tariff in Cuba.
Nearly all American goods are subject
ed to lower duties. The tariff prohibits
the entry into Cuba Of arms, projcctiles,
munitions of war, dynamite, gunpow
der, sugars Except Spanish sugar. hon
ey, molasses, silver or bronze coins, Sc
cret pharmaceutical preparations, to-
bacco Except snuf), chewing tobacco
and all artificial wines.
1t is stated that freight conductors on
the eastern division of the Atchison,
who two months ago were content with
an earning of $50 and $50 month, are
now drawing checks to an amount of
$50 and $175. Brakemen who thought
thns,1cnIuoo 1od in,