The indicator., 1897-10-16
TELEGRAPHiC sREViTIES.


Five Canadian vessels arrived at
Victoria on the Tth with over 1000 seal
skins
Five hundred miles of Russian rail
road through Siberia has been COM
plctcd.
The big fire in Detroit ON the Ith
causcd Il loss of over half a million
dollars.
The President has appointed George
. II. Bridgman of New York minister to
Bolivia.
Nine persons were burned to death
In the recent forest fires in CaSselman,
I Ontario
\ glass rrust including all the glass
makers Of the country has been or
/ gauizrd.
\ British steamer is anchored of the
/ Massachusetts coast with yellow fever
In her crew.
Jimmy Michael. tile Welsh bicycle
racer, rode a mile paced in 1876 Il few
/ days ago IN Philadelphia.
\ big water main burst In the bust
I ness portion of cleveland the other
I lay and did much damage.
Gold rp thr amount of s.. 10000 has
Lft .ll llAl Il'Na At'fl It'NAN l+Al IL' Af AAtt
/ United States since September 3uth.
The buhoulc plague which has ragged
at Nmoy, China, for three months, is
now regarded as having ruu It's course
/ The brazilian fanatics lrtvc been
nearly eNJprmiunted, tile result of their
recent battle with the regular brazilian
troops.
General BHueo ha- been appointed
tu surce,d Nrylor U cuba. He is
supposed ru be- more merriful u his
methods
The Pacific Mail steamship China.
having secured Hawaiian register,
other vessels of the company Will APP
ply for one.
/ Red Moon and other Ute chiefs threat
pu trouble iu Hh because the depart
VIII not le. them send 81 delegation 10
Washington.
Hon Hukr smith, former secretary
of the Interior. has been elected prcsi-
dent OF the Board OF Education OF At
lautH. Gcurgiu.
A band Of men have been arrested nt
] Dalton. Tennessee. charged with sys-
rpmJirIlly ruhbug freight cars 90 tn"
amount of Sluu.upu.
The European bureau of the New
/ York Herald asserts that the Indian
government declines to reopen the In
diau miut- to silver.
The imperial Japanese government
has just contracted with the Illinois
/ Steel Company for 10000 tons of Steel
rails and fasteuiugs.
\ rour-foot water main burst ~ the
corner OF Madison avenue and Forty
eight street, New York. the other day,
doing damage 20 the amount Of >luu.-
900 before The water could be shut of
/ The French steamship Company Will
] shortly construct new fleet Of steam
ers for service between HIyrc and
] New York. and the average speed OF
each steamer Will not be llss than
| twenty-five knots per hour.
/ Emmot c. Gibson has been arrested
ar New York charged with being mn
nll-nruuud Swindlcr. He Is said TO
have defruuded Iuhn WauImaker and
many others. His specially WAS IN
paying hotel bills with worthless
] checks
Tn" railway mail clerks of the Unit
ed States are preparing TO demand of
| Congress that better projection Ice Civ
on their lives while they are ON duty.
The clerks say q ~trou. mail ear should
. me- prov .'lftl anu lliH. II ~AtNll Ice
placed further back i'm the train.
During the railroad strike Of 1884.
large numbers of Wabash employees
We're killed um and their applications
for rc-tu~tu Ermru. have not been heed
ed if is now given out ON good official
authority Thar all the old men Will be
taken back us rapidly as possible.
Professor $lahy, assisted by the mil
rafr HFV.T-
with Narcpu'S wireless telegraph sue
cecdad perfectly at Berlin u spite of
adverse 1tmospherical conditions, in
exchanging messages without wires mt
distance of rwcuty-one klometers.
Oscar Cakallu. q miner employed in
1hc Union Pacific Coal Cpmpany'S No.
I Hanna mine. was Instantly Killed
by % fail of coal CakHlla was ro-
turning TO work after firing q shot.
when. without warning. an Immense
mass OF ovcrhuugu= coal fell upon
him.
Governor Richards of Wyoming. As
si~tWt Attorney General Van Drvau-
--r and cy-Guvcruor Barber who re
Gently returned from a hunting trip in
the Big Horn basin. report % weird eN-
perl,ucc with 30 dumuutud mnu whom
they found ON ur west slope uf Cloud
peak,
The Monetary Commission recon
veu,d at Washington un the 11ih Com
missouprS Leighton, Bean. Fish and
. Patterson were absent About 100
communications on the general subject
. of currency reform iuVu s0 fJr been re
r,ivad and today Nee ing was lur-e-
ly uIuu up iu heir discussion.
Itl -tuTcd tina. sixty locomotives and
crews from Tine southern PHrifc's
s.uh ru route have been trJnsrc rsd tp
tb" Courral Pacific and win b. scat
Hrnd along he r ad bo wccu SIcrumcu-
to- 20 ogden. The change is caused hy
HE big business thnt g.; being dome and
'hp closing OF Ihc southern route ON
account uf ihr quarantine Ht New or
leans
Tile secretary uf Ehe London Fedcrat-
ed Trades comprising thirty important
industries. announces that the eNccu-
tive committee lus definitely decided to
call out ull IFS members IN syupa by
with the ~trngel" uf the engineers
against their employers on the 18th.
when. it u.s. estimated, Il Total of 100000
Iuen viii be on, of work ON account OF
the great labor dispute.
Tur past years transactions in the
Cour uf United States Private
Land Claims. as per the annual state
mem forwarded To the Department of
Justice by Assistant Attorney w II.
Pope shows the number of cuscs tried
to ho iifty-sevcn. number Of grants in
volvod forry-srvrn. area claimed >
G12.3j5. area confirmed by The court to
grant claimants, lIT.SGl acres area re