The silver lance., 1897-11-12
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President Mckinley went homo to
Oanton to vote.
Ex-President Cleveland has son,
born ON the 28th-
Kansas City II to have . new $3,OOO.-
900 passenger. depot
Norway will send an expedition 10
look for Professor Andree.
The London Spectator looks for war
between the United States and Spain
A hundred thousand people attended
the funeral OF Henry George in New
Fork.
Senator Wolcott sailed from Liver
pool with General Paine. saturday, Tor
home
One steamship took 500 carloads Of
cotton from New Orleans for England
on the LIST.
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has been In session
In Bufalo.
The sale Of the Kansas branch Of the
Union Pacific has been postponed un-
| III December 15-
Henry George, Democratic candidate
| for mayor Of New York. died suddenly
Of apoplexy ON the 18TH
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition
closed ON the 31st. The total attend
ance amounted to 1.65OOOo
DR.. Barr of the City Of Mexico saved
a man whose carotid artery had been
cut by a wonderful operation
ExCongreesman Mondell OF Wyom-
| ing has been appointed assistant COIL
missioner Of the general land once
The President has appointed James
LonRstreet Of Georgia commissioner OF
railroads vice Wade Hampton
| signed.
| Kuhut &Deissler of Berlin. Germany
| have invented a perfect smoke consun,
er which saves 20 per cent IN iuei an"
costs $50.
The governor of Minnesota has or.
/; dered an Investigation OF cnarges oL
| brutality to convicts In the Stiliwater
| peoitentiary.
Walter R. Houghton. postal clerk
running west from Cheyenne, mas es,h-
fessed to robbing the malls OF $io'-
600 package
The eovernor of Washington protests
.esinst puttina troops in Alaska to sup
| mort the Weare and Alaska CONNER
cial Company monopoly
An engine collided with a train at
FII4nn4FK
| fifteen miles from Leipsic. Twenty
nine pereons were injured and OF this
number six may die.
The Ottoman government has not-
hed the powers that 1t objects 70 tne
snCoIntment of Colonel Schaefer as
| urovisional commissioner OF the powers
for the island Of Crete.
DR.. J. G. Spencer, bacteriologist OF
the board Of health. reports that he has
discovered the bacilB Of tuberculosis In
Q Ohinese-made cigar which ne exam
ined at San Francisco.
The American Public Health Associa-
ton Indorses the use Of Individual cups
n communion services and recon-
Il mends the establishment OF \ govern
ment department Of public health-
The new Mills hotel In New York,
nine stories high and provided with all
modern improvements. has been opened
in the poor quarter Of the city. 1t will
Riye q bed and bath for 20 cents Per
night.
Brisadier General James F. Wade Of
81. Paul, commanding the Department Of
Dakota, recommends the abandonment
Of Forts Custer and Assinaboine, Mon
tana. He says that they are unsuited
for use
President Bashford Of Ohio Wesleyan
university has announced that the late
Stephen Watson Of London, Ohio. had
Mt q beQuest Of &35, 900 to the univer-
sity for the purpose Of endowing q new
profess0rship.
Il A telegram was received at the War
department from Captain Ray. dated
at Fort Yukon. Alaska. September IL,
saying he had landed 900 tons OF pro-
visions there to be freighted by dogs
to Circle City and Dawson when the
river closes. Circle City has no sup
piles, but the situation may be improved
by spring.
A movement II on foot among ST.
Louis manufacturers and other large
consumers Of coal to operate mines and
get the product at first hands. As re-
suit Of the strike among Illinois coal
miners, the pits from which the sup
ply of coal for St Louis is dug are
Closed, and there IL q great scarcity of
the bitumfnous article there.
| profound sensation has been caused
at Athens by q naval scandal Of for
midable dimensions. 1t has Just been
AscertAined that all the cartridges fitted
to the torpedo guns during the war be
tween Greece and Turkey were not pro-
vided with percussion caps and fuf-
mInating mercury Hence II the tor
pedoes had been wanted. they would
have been perfectly harmless.
General A. 8. Weisert Of Milwaukee,
wisconsin. and General Paul Wander
wort Of Omaha, NebraslA, each an ex-
grand commander Of Minneapolis, have
just secured p 600 acres Of land In the
coast region Of Texas. This purchase =
made for locating thereon veterans
Of the late war. 800 families Of whom
are said to be en- route for settlement
ON the lAnd. The location selected =
m Neal ONE In Mafngori7a cnunfY