The new North-west., 1897-04-16
ALL OVER THE WORLD
GRIST OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Industrial Pointers, Occurrences In
Political Circles, Fire Losses
and So On.


throne at the opening of the Italian par
lament said the accord Of the powers OF
the eastern question tended to preserve
peace and prevent massacres.
DR.. J. H. Walton, 80 years of age, {
well known physician of Dubuke, Iowa
committed suicide in Chicago by cutting
his thoat with razor. He is believed
to have been temporarily insane as the
result of recent illness.
The provincial legislature of British Co
lumbia has passed the bill preventing
Japanese as well as Chinese from being
employed on undertakings aided by leg
slative charter rights. The japanese
consul is highly wroth, and will, it Is ex-
pected. strive to get the act disallowed
by the governor general in council
Yuma, Arizona, has become an excited
mining town district, some % miles north
of Yuma, on the California side of the
Colorado river. There are the Golden
Dream and MONDAY mines. For several
weeks the men at those mines have been
getting into rich ore, and the owner has
been offered as high as $1750OO for his
mines. On the same day the men in both
mines ran into the edges of ore that yield
over $4,000 to the ton. The lodges in the
pichacn district are all large.
d. Bemis has been reelected superin-
tendent of the Spokane schools at a sal
ary of $4,000.
Fire destroyed the Arcadia theater at
Spokane, causing loss of $4,000.
Theodore Roosevelt of New York, has
been nominated as assistant secretary Of
the navy.
During his visit to Washington William
3. Bryan called at the White House and
was warmly greeted by President Nc
Kinley.
The new torpedo boat No. 3 went 25
knots an hour on her trial trip, making
her the fastest boat in the world except
the Farragut.
The Manchester, N. H., mills are MAX
ing large quantities of cotton goods for
the Chinese trade.
Governor Smith of Montana has refused
to pardon Albert Jackson, VINO is serv-
ing life sentence in the penitentiary for
the murder of Bruno Laveille near
Marysville in July, 1889.
Governor Adams of Colorado, has sign
ed the bill recently passed by the legisla
ture abolishing capital punishment in
that state.
Mark M. Dintonfass barber, living
at Charlotte, N. c., has received notice
that he is one of the heirs to an Austrian
estate, valued at 100000 florins.
Michigan will adopt the apple blossom
as the state flower.
EX-President Cleveland has gone to
Florida on a fishing trip.
The Spanish forces claim great VIC
tories in the PHILIPPINE islands
uS uedlL IL announced VI w AlliH w.
Fisher a millionaire dry goods merchant
of Denver, Colo.
Commander Montgomery Sicard has
been nominated rear admiral.
A citizens movement against Sunday
base ball has been started at Cleveland,
Ohio.
j. B. Catron of North Yakima has been
appointed warden of the Washington
state penitentiary.
The Minnesota house of representatives.
has passed bill prohibiting sectarian
instruction or the wearing of sectarian
garb in the public schools.
President and Mrs. Mckinley will sum-
mer at Lake Sunapee, N. H., as the
guest of Colonel John Hay. Colonel Hay
has begun an extensive addition to his
residence.
Thirteen cities have thus far adopted
the Pingree potato patch plan for the
coming summer.
Cambridge Springs, a health resort near
MeadVlle, Penn, has been almost entire
ly destroyed by fire, causing the loss of
one life and 100000 of property.
The average weight of the hogs receiv-
ed at Chicago during March was eight
pounds lighter than returned in February,
and 16 pounds lighter than in March, 1896.
Two Akron, Ohio, people have just re-
ceived notice that they have inherited
good fortunes. Jacob Doffelnger, a sign
painter, gets $250000 from an aunt in Aus
tralia, and Mrs. Joseph Wisley wife of
bricklayer, receives $50 900 from an aunt
in England.
Advices received at Pierre, S. D., from
the Moreau river country, are to the ef-
feet that the loss of cattle in that sec
ton during the past winter has been be-
tween 40 and so per cent.
Secretary M. j. bowling of the repub!i-
can national league announces that the
next convention will be held in Detroit
Mich, July 13, IA and 10
Nv the will of tha la tn Miss Winnifred
Martin, who died at Baltimore. April H.
about a million dollars is bequeathed to
various Catholic churches and charities
in Maryland and California.
The next steamer from Tacoma to Jap
an will take 100000 cigarettes.
Ex-Governor w. j. Mcconnell of Idaho
will go into the dry goods business at
Spokane.
c. p. Huntington has been reelected
president of the Southern Pacific.
Colonel William Rufus Shafter, First |
infantry, has been nominated to be brig
adler general
John r. Bresler of Nebraska, has been
appointed a government director of the
Union Pacific.
President Dole of Hawaii, has sent a
special commissioner to the United states |
to urge annexation.
C. A. Spreckles, the sugar king, has
discharged all but two of the white men |
on his Hawaiian plantation and put ori- |
entails in their places.
In replying to an inquiry from the sec |
retary of war, Morgan Johnson of Fargo, |
N. D., says $4,000 is needed for the i'm
mediate relief of flood sufferers.
By the suspension of the Globe Savings |
bank in Chicago, over 100000 in cash
and bonds OF the University of Illinois
are missing. The president of the bank |
cannot be found.
The senate committee is working on the
line of cutting down the Dingley bill tar
ifs.
Ten lives were lost and a block of
buildings burned at Buenos Ayres by |
the explosion of a car loaded with fire |
works.
The burning of the Lancaster House at |
Rossland, b. c.. caused a loss of $1,000.
The boarders also lost their effects.
The trotting stallion Ashland Wilkes, |
10 years old, and sire of John X. Gentry, |
2O0la has just been sold for $500.
Secretary Bliss has re-instated Captain |
Henry c. Potter of Ohio as chief of the |
mineral division of the land office at |
Washington.
War preparations throughout the Turk |
ish empire continue to be steadily press
ed.
News comes of a cyclone passing over !
a portion of Saale county, Alabama de- |
molishing many houses. One woman was |
caught by the falling timbers of her
home and died before she could be res |
cued.
Notwit hstanding the fact that the floods |
along the Red River of the North caus- |
ed a loss of a quarter of million dollars |
at Fargo, N. D., ard inundated SO miles |
Of fertile territory, the people in that sec
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