The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-03-25
Germany and certain constitutional
possibilities are hainp 6isorsso5 ,,

PoSoioiiIties are De1ng discussed"
The Pacific Loan and Homestead
Association, of Chicago, has gone
under, the stockholders CHARGING
That the secretary of the concern GOT
away with $232,OOO.
The Railway Mail Service Mutual
ana benevolent Association is in
session at San Francisco.
The total number of lives go far
reported lost in the Mississippi river
Hood Is twelve. The river continues
to rise.
AS result of the quarrel in the
New York police board Mayor
Strong has removed Commissioner
Parker from office.
Representative Lambert charges
gross corruption in the Iowa legis-
lature The speaker of the house
has resigned, and demands an inves
tigation.
The general arbitration treaty,
amended SO as to meet the objections
which those who fought ratification
have raisad, will be favorably re-
ported to the senate. The Salisbury
OlneY provision that King Oscar, Of
Sweden and Norway, shall be the
deciding arbitrator or shall nave the
appointment of that parsonage is
eliminated; and all the other obiec-
tons are covered by the provision
which places in the hands of the
treaty making power (the senate and
the president), the right to decide
what questions shall be submitted
to arbitration, instead of leaving that
! right solely to the executive, as
Olney and Cleveland wanted it.
One of Edison's latest patents is a
two pointed receiver for the phono
graph, which will give two records
at once from the same cylinder.
The Norfolk and Western Rail-
road Company is said to be making
a sweeping cut in the number of
employees all along the line, which
cut, rumor says, is President Fink s
first move towards reducing expen
ses one third, in order to enable the
road to carry out big project of
purchasing the Marietta and North
Georgia road, and building a line
from BRISTOL to Knoxville, thus en-
abling them to have a line through
from Norfolk to Atlanta.
The Osservatore Romano, a papal
organ, publishes an article com
menting upon the nomination of
Hon. Joseph McKenna as attorney
general in the cabinet of President
Mckinney, in which the paper makes
the claim that McKenna is the first
Catholic who has been nominated a
cabinet minister of the United
States since the foundation of the
American republic.
A decision involving the title tc
$4,000 acres of Minnesota land on
which Archbishop Ireland has 10
Gated settlers has been given against
The archbishopin the United States
land office at st. Paul.
June 20 has been definitely fixeC
upon for the jubilee Thanksgiving
day for the celebration of the six
tieth year Of Queen Victoria's reign
The steamer Utrecht, with a hun
dred persons on board, was lost in ;
the French coast.
A manifesto has been issued de-
mandipg autonomy for Catalonia
similar to the scheme proposed TO
Cuba.
Gladstone has written letter OF
the Eastern question, declaring tn
concert Of the powers a gross delu
sion aid asserting that Greece shoul'
: be allowed to have Crete.
Balfour, first lord of the treasur
and government leader in the Brit
ish House of Commons, became in
, tensely irritated by the questions O
Sir John Morley and other leader
of the opposition concerning Crete.
A meeeing was held in New Yor
to perfect the organization of a &C
operative association among dispen
sing druggists of this country an
: Canada.
The faculty of Union Theolog
cal Seminary has awarded the sec
; ond place in this years graduatin
i class to a daughter of Rev. D.
: Briggs, of New York.
. Mrs Annie Besaut, the theosoph
Ii cal leader, is in New York
Il Il The annual caravan, carryin
q presents of the Sultan to the shrin
- Of Mohammed, has started fror
- Damascus for Mecca.
u "McKinley is not forgetting hi
:, friends" said a Senator to the Pos
u glancing over the nomination
10 II 'Clayton looked after Arkansas an
- contiguous States; Osborne mad
the famous swing around the circ
!. 40 through the South after delegate
= Brigham is an Ohio man who W;
u u quite useful, and Heath was anoth'
~ u one Of the effective ante-conventio
u u managers. The original McKinle
u, =. men are beginning to come into the
10 rewards"
,n Amy Busby, the beautiful actres
~ was privately married in Rochest
~ to Eugene H. Lewis, New Yol
mno m lawyer.
ne ne japanese immigration to Hawa
Ill is increasing so rapidly that it
- thought to be part of a systemat
e. plan of the japanese government
az secure control of the island.
y. The Norfolk Light Artille,
"' Blues, one of the Oldest Americ'
/ military organizations, have been i
=, vited to attend the jubilee in hon
Il" of Queen Victoria's sixty yea
,u reign in Montreal.
eW Admiral Walker has been plac