The silver lance., 1897-11-19
rsrEca pniu sasv,riEs.

$4,000.
Senator y olcott arrived at New horA
on the 5th.
The Luetgert trial cost Cook county
nearly 5000
Ton persons died from yellow ie'''
et New Orleans on the 5th.
The government paid over $lSeoOU'-
600 to pensioners last year.
Three persons lost their lives ~ no'
Spriues. Arkansas, in fire.
Work on naval vessels at the BROOK
Ivn navy yard is being pushed.
Lieutenant Foote's bullet PROOF CO. Co.
has been successfully testeu IN
York.
Eranees e. Willard will try 70
raise $500, 900 to purchase the Donus VI
the W. G.. T. U. Temple In Cnicaso'
Rv the wrecking Of the steamer ida-
ho in Lake Erie nineteen men ioe' .neii
lives
At Kansas City on the 4th 23OoU
achool children observed "Eugene
Field Day. -,
1t is now thought that rne nspaD AZ ~,
cans will have a majority oa
joint DaliOt III INC Ohio
The lite delegation at Washington
have become satisfied with rne new
government deal and will return hoine'
The Portland and Seattle Chambers
| of Commerce are moving to get sup
niles to Dawson City to prevent mln-
| ers from starving.
A Brazilian soldier attempted to XII,
| President MOraes, but was prevehteu
| hy bystanders. one of whom was Ia
tally hurt in the struggle
The Cologne volkszeitung announces
| that two Rhenish missionaries, Mes
| and Henle, have been murdered IN tne
southern mart Of the Chinese province
Of Shan Tung.
| Major Moses p. Handy, special COM
missioner from the United States to the
| Paris exhibition of 1900, has returned.
Major Handy and Lieutenant Baker re
ported that they had very succees1ui
| mission.
Five powers of the Latin union, on
| the invitation of Switzerland, nave
signed a convention to increase the
| number of small silver coins by franc
Der head of their population, using the
existing 5-franc pieces to supply the
necessary silver.
Mrs. A. ]. Baird, leading Christian
Scientist of Kansas City, has been
nominally placed under arrest for not
| placarding a house where she had
| case Of diphtheria under treatment.
The warrant was issued by DR.. Won
Quasi, the city physician. and the case
will be pushed. Mrs. Baird's arrest
has caused a sensation in Christian Sci
ence circles.
The Carnegie and Bethlehem steel
companies have no idea Of abandoning
their armor plate plants, erected at
great expense, and have, In pursuance
Of this idea, acquired the new Krupp
process for the hardening Of armOr
| plate The use of the Harveyizing
ovens at Homestead will be abandoned
unless purchasers of armor plate spec
ify that process.
Mrs. Celia Wallace, who resides at
| Chicago and is childless, has taken a
fancy to Evangelina Cisneroe and has
offered to adopt the Cuban maid and
make her heiress to a fortune esti-
mated at $5OO,OOO. Evangeltna looks
with favor upon the proposition and
has taken it under advisement. A def
mite answer will be given to Mrs. Wal
lace within a reasonable. length Of
time.
:. The Supreme Court of Illinois has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
holding that the city of Chicago can
not erect buildings on the lake front
The decision affects the temporary
postoffice and Battery d armory. The
postoffice -'ill be allowed to remain
until the completion of the new govern
ment building, but the decision will
undoubtedly result in the tearing down
Of the old armory.
The agreement entered into by the
| Choctaw, Chickasaw and Dawes COM
Ioissions at AtOka last April has been
ratified by the Choctaw council ut
TushkahOma and has been approved
BY the governor. The Chickasaw Leg
islature passed an act Monday ratify-
ing the agreement. A bill has also
been passed creating a commission Of
six members to wind up the AFFAIRS Of
the Choctaw nation.
The LovejOy monument in Alton.
Illinois, was formally dedicated on the
8th 1t was sixty years ago that Love-
Joy was assassinated in that city be-
cause Of his outspoken and fiery edito-.
rails against the slave trade. Love
Joys remains would have been lost had
it not been for Thomas Dimmock Of
st. Louis, who had the grave located
by an old sexton, the only person who
knew where his coffin was buried.
The United States Supreme Court
has affirmed the decision Of the Cir
cult Court for California refusing a
writ Of habeas corpus to william
Henry Theodore Durrant, under SEN
tence Of death for the murder of Miss
Blanche Lamont in San Francisco in
April, 1895. The case has attracted
attention throughout the whole Of the
United States, and this decision
permits the law to take it's course with
the condemned man.