The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-02-12
GENERAL NEWS BRIEFS.

South Dakota's senate has voted to
prohibit the formation of all trusts and
combinations.
Five children, from s TO Is years of
age, broke through the ice while
skating on pond near Nebraska City,
Neb., and all were drowned.
The striking miners at Leadville,
Col have become so desperate that they
threaten TO burn the town if men are
shipped in TO take their places.
The New York World asserts that
the L. :. government is being robbed
by the railroads of $40, 900, 900 per year,
by VIGOROUSLY fraudulent overcharges
in carrying the mails.
L. s. Consul General Lee has recon-
mended that President Cleveland de-
mand of Spain the release of Julio San
guillo, the L. :. citizen sentenced to
life Imprisonment in Cuba.
The American Spirits Manufacturing
Co. (the alcohol trust is endeavoring
to secure the privilege from Uncle Sam
of shipping alcohol to the seaboard in
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now required. They claim they will
be able to compete with foreign mar
kets and will consume 10000, 600 more
corn per year.
The Cuban filibuster steamer Three
Friends has been seized and libeled by
L. S. officers. The libel charges piracy,
in that Hotchkiss gun was mounted
upon the bow of the steamer and was
fired at Spanish gunboat at the
mouth of the San Juan river, while en-
deavoring to land an expedition. The
name of the gunboat is not given.
Hon. Don NJ. Dickinson, of Detroit,
chief counsel of the United States in
the Boring sea seal commission, was
returning from Victoria, Il. c., where
| international inquiry was made into
the extent of damages due to Brit
ish sealing vessels by United States
cutters in Boring sea, when his train
was wrecked near Chico, Cal, and Mr..
Dickinson was slightly injured.
Secretary Olney and Sir Julian
Pauncefote have signed the treaty foI
the definition of the commission of sc
much of the boundary line between
Alaska and the British possessions as
is marked by the one hundred anc
forty-first meridian. Several senator:
have announced their opposition to the
treaty as it does not settle the mair
point of dispute, as to what con
stitutes the shore of Alaska.
Mrs. Cleveland's farewell public re
ception drew large crowd, despite ;
drizzling rain. The White House wa
artistically decorated with red anC
white roses and smilax and groups o
bic palms and garlands of vines. Th'
Marine band furnished the music
Mrs. Cleveland was gowned in viole
and white striped MORE silk, the bod
ice of deep cream lace. She wore
bunch ot violets. but no jewels. Mrs
Stevenson. wife of the vice-president
and the ladies of the cabinet, were TIN
Immediate assistants of the mistress o
the White House.
The comparative statement of tn
government receipts and expenditure
shows the total receipts during Jan
nary to have been S24.3l6, 994, and tn
expenditures $40. 200, $50. This leave
a deficit for the month of $685., 3d.
and for the seven months of the pres
ent fiscal year deficit of Si3, 79-
The deficit for the same months of las
wear was sis, 6s6,377. The receipts 10
customs during the last mont
amounted to Sl1.276,s74, a falling O
: of over S.. 100000 as compared wit
} January, 1896. The public debt il
: creased Sl4, 07s, 735 during January an
now amounts to 1907 ,0Os,3l7.