The silver star., 1897-11-04
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Father McGlynn is to be given a New
York parish again.
DIR. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, has
reached New York.
Disastrous storms have been raging
along the Atlantic coast.
Luetgert has had forty offers of mar.
riage within the last week.
Ex-President Cleveland made an ad
dress at Princeton last week.
The Fowler bicycle company made
an assignment the other day.
Miss Willard has been reelected pres
ident of the Worlds w. c. T. u.
England is drafting large number
of soldiers to reinforce the army In In
da.
The National Bank at Asheville
North Carolina, has been forced to sus
pend.
The new Yerkes observatory at Gc-
neva, Wisconsin, was dedicated lasi
week.
The Society OF the Army of the Ten
nessee Is in session in Milwaukee thi.
week.
The report that Lord Salisbury is soon
to resign the premiership is again beins
circulated.
The state auditor of South Dakota
has been arrested on a charge Of EN-
bezzlement.
| An effort is being made to have the
sale Of the Union Pacific postponed to
I December 10th.
Fifty-nine men and eleven vessels be
longing TO the Gloucester fishing fieet
were lost this year.
The birthday OF Neal Dow. March
20th, will hereafter be observed as II
national temperance day.
Kansas banks have deposits aggrp-
eating an average of $50 for every
man, woman and child in the state.
Les Miserables" has been replaced
on the list of eligible books in the Phil
adelphia girls high school.
Twenty persons We're killed and eigh-
teen injured is wreck on the New
York Central road, near Garrison, last
Sunday
The big silk importing firm of W. c.
Hitchcock X Co., New York. made an
assignment Saturday. Liabilities, ST.
100000.
Senator Plat says Tracy will surely
be elected mayor. Mr.. Tracy himself is
reported to look upon his chances as
hopeless.
The total number Of persons drowned
in the train which fell from the New
was eighteen.
The one-hundredth anniversary Of
the launching Of the Constitution was
celebrated in Boston by naval parade
a few days ago.
There is little change In the yellow
fever situation in the South. From ten
to twenty new cases n day are reported
at New Orleans.
The exodus from Klondike is said
to be as remarkable as was the rush to
get In a few weeks ago. Scarcity Of
food Is the cause Of the scare.
Mr.. Pullman is said to have left most
Of his property to his favOrite daughter,
Mrs. Florence Lowden. His twin sons
have been provided for by annuties.
The biennial convention of the
Worlds Women's Christian Temper
ance Union opened at Torento on the
23d. Miss Millard was reelected pres
ident.
General Miles has made his annual
report TO the secretary OF War. He
asks that Congress authorize TWO more
regiments OF artillery to garrison new
fortifications and five additional regi-
ments of infantry
General Weyler has published card,
congratulating the loyal Spaniards up.
on the near appropach Of peace. He
claims to have killed Off nearly all the
prominent Cuban generals, and says
that peaceful pursuits may now be en-.
gagged in safely.
The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion has decided to give n hearing 10
all railroads Interested for an exten.
sion Of time beyond January 1st. 1893.
for eQuipping freight ears on their
lines with automatic couplers and train
brakes, provided application for such
extension Is made before November
Goth.
| A pitched battle at Mammoth tank,
forty-hve miles west OF Yuma, Arizona.
between Yuma county officials and 200
Mexican railroad laborers, Monday af.
ternoon. resulted in the death OF from
three TO seven Mexican, wOunding OF
several more ana dangerously wound.
Ing Of Deputy Sheriff George Wilder OF
Yuma.
At Guaymas, Mexico. construction of
tire new custom house IL to be com.
menced mt once. II will cost 5000, 900.
contract has also been let for the
construction Of new market. The
structure will be Of stone, glass and
Iron and will cost $4,000. A new
municipal palace Ii also to be erected
In the near future.
Professor Charles NJ. Shields of
Princeton University authorizes ths
statement that. In consequence Of The
unjust, unconstitutional and defama,
tory action Of certain Presbyteries.
and synods involving his good name
he has decided for hts own personsj
protection. to separate himself from tbe
Presbyterian church In constitutional
manner. with the least possible delay.
This refers to the granting Of a Iiauof
license to the Princeton Inn. Professor
Shields being one Of tho signers Of Inc