Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-12-29
NEWS BRIEFS.

at Guadalaiara.
 The scope of the wire trust is to be extended 50 as to include all steel i billet men in the country.
 John M. Taylor of Lexington, Tenn, is in the race for Governor of Tennessee.
 Whitecappers not far from Austin, Tex, are warning farmers against paying rent.
 Henry Cameron of Sparta, Tenn. fell on his face, his pipe i'll his mouth. The stem was forced through his throat and ne is dead.
 The total railroad mileage of Ar kansas is 2,546 So miles, according to the report of the Secretary of State.
 Mazzantinis closing bull fight at the City of Mexico was scarcely up to the standard. The famous tor reader came near being killed.
 The British steamer Lambert's Point put in to St. Johns, N. F., with cotton, cattle and general car go, all on fire and the ship in a bad state.
 The London press ridicules the purchase of the Danish West Indies by Great Britain.
 Letter, while promoting his big wheat deal, has turned q neat trick in the oat market on the Chicago Board of Trade.
 Reports from Skaguay and Daw- son City say the famine is already on. Coil oil is worth $45 per gallon. and no mining can be done on ac- count of scarcity of light.
 Japan has q ministerial crisis. The Marquis Ito may be the new Premi- CT. The trouble is of domestic character.
 It is said the Chinese Emperor will lease Kaio Chou to Germany in per- petuity, tO avoid the reproach of lost territory.
 Washington authorities deny that claims for indemnity aggregating SS, 100000 have been presented to Spain.
 Members of the House Committee on Military Affairs have gone to Chickamauga to inspect the military park prospects there.
 Copenhagen adviees say the United States government has offered to buy a slice of Greenland from Dem mark for a cOaling station.
 Miss Annie Virginia Wells. society woman of Washington, and a friend of Miss Herbert's, took her own life with her brothers revolver.
 There are reports of extensive and rich gold outcroppings in the Llano country of Texas. Some oft assays S1, 200 to the ton.
 4 cinnamon bear, shipped as ex- press, broke loose in his car on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, road, chased the messenger out and deyoured all the edibles in sight, de- molishing any amount of freight.
 Merchant J. V. Malone of Block ton, Ark, shot and killed Fiddler John Barnett in the course of a Christmas dance. The fiddler was full.
 Four highwaymen held up tOlley car at Morristown, Pa. The passen- gers were covered with reVolyers. The motorman escaped amid ashow- CT of bullets. The conductor was shot dead. The robbers 1lfled the pockets of the dead conductor.
 Milton Neal. a prosperous farmer, and his aged wife were murdered in their home near Jacksonville, Pa, by unknown persons for unknown reasons. It was most brutal crime.
 Pink Livingston shot and killed his brother, John, at the Blue Creek mines in Alabama. They fell out in the course of a Christmas debaueh. The dead man had slain three men, and four weeks ago was pardoned out of the penitentiary, where he had been serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister.
 El Heraldo of Madrid says the en- croachments of the United States on the internal politics of Spain have become intolerable, and that in re- ply to the note presented by Minister Woodford the Spanish government will take occasion to refutc thestate ments made in the Presidents mes sage and to warn this country l against further interference.
 Corea is the exposure of the was prophets in the Orient. England is said to have seventeen and Japan | thirty warships ready to cooperate. The British admiral is said 10 have directed an ultimatum to the Core ans protesting against the dismissal of British officials and Che appoint ment of Russians. Russian troops arc arriving thither. There are ru- mors that 0 British force landed and reinstated one official, and it is ru