Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-29
NEWS BRIEFS.


 fleeing from the islands.
 The Randolph County Bank of Ar kansas has been chartered.
 Barnum X Bailey opened at Lon. monday to 22,671 people.
 Mason X Cobb, shoe manufactnr- CTS, of Auburn, Me, have failed.
 Two mine workers atWilkesbarre, Pa. fell down shaft 450 feet.
 Insurgents have blown up some railroad culverts near Havana.
 A couple of St. Louis electric power plants have been consolidated.
 John Mccoy, near Conway, Ark, shot Henry Miller, stole horse and rides gaily away.
 Cannadian officials have reached Washington to confer over measures of relief for the Klondike.
 State Senator Worthen, of Arkan- sas, shot a white man who ran a. muck on his plantation.
 Harry English, prisoner in jail at Ysteta, Texas, set fire to his person and burned to death.
 Berlin correspondents do not think there will be a tariff war between  Germany and the United State.
 Li Hung Chang has been side tracked by the Emporer of China since the recent troubles arose.
 Mrs. Lillian McIlroy, of Nashville, took her own life with a revolver at Union City in hotel
 Fires Monday did $500, 900 dam age at Charleston, W, Va., $400, GOO at Lynn Reiis, Norfolk, England.
 Mayor-elect Van Wyck has given John W. Keller, newspaper man, $7, 300 berth.
 Gen. Ruis Rivera, insurgent lead CT who was captured, imprisoned and released, is back at Cadiz, his native city.
 An entire Christian village in Per sia, containing 800 inhabitants, has been annihilated by Koordestan raiders.
 Patrick Kelly, of Louisville, was Q year ago stricken dumb while swear ing. He thanked God when he re- covered his voice yesterday.
 Lord Salisbury declines to enter into the proposed sealing arrange ment with the United States, as it is not agreeable to Canada.
 Charles W. Charnley, ex. treasur- CT of the Presbyterian College Aid Board, has been indicted at Chicago for embezzlement of $65, 900.
 J. H. Herrell, mine superintend- ent, was arrested at Bessemer, Ala for insulting Mrs. Collins and daughter. Collins, the husband, called at the jail and shot him dead. Pressure is brought to bear on President Mckinley to appoint State Senator David T. Litter, of Illinois, to fill the vacancy in the Commerce Commission, rather than Judge Paxton.
 Cubans claim that while the tug Somers Smith was under surveil- lance by the entire fleet of revenue craft at Mobile an expedition of three schooners got away for Cuba from point lower down.
 Two Polk county, Tenn, young men have been arrested for using the Unted States mails for fraudu- lent purposes. They represented themselves as ladies, and received many Cristmas prestents.
 Marcus Nassuer, luted lover, shot and killed Miss Kate Dosen- bach at Clayton, Mo, and then shot himself. The Dosenbach family is one of the highest in St. Louis county. Mo.
 Washington authorities cannot understand why the Spaniards are so hot about the note recently pre- sented at Madrid. The note con tained no new matter, and was merely argumentative of the posi- tion assumed by the country in as- serting an interest in the affairs of Cuba. and showing the expense this 1 country has been at to prevent the of flibustering expedi- 1 tions.
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