People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-01-22
GENERAL NEWS.
Items Of Interest from All Sec
lions of the Country.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
The News as Told by the Daily
Papers and Fer
eign Occurrences.


th Senate without serious opposi
Cl0n.
The Battleship Texas, will go to
Galveston to receive the $4,000
silver service sst that has been raised
by subscription for the big iron clad
that bears the name of the State.
A famous old barn at Nasboth,
Pa, in which some of Washington's
troops we're quartered at one time
during the war for independence,
was burned last week.
The Black Watson contest case
has been again postponed to Jan
Goth. Indications are still good that
Col. Watson will be given his seat.
Two men, William Furguson and
James McKouna, were found dead in
bed in Harlem N. Y. hotel. They
occupied the same room and had
been asphyxiated by escaping gas.
Thomas G. Plat is to succeed
David 3. Hill in the United States
Senate. Joseph c. Choate received
seven votes in the caucus out Of one
hundred ard forty-nine.
Illinois will be represented by ex-
congressman william f. Mason, OF
Chicago, Madden, the candidate Of
the Chicago machine, throwing up
the sponge and coming down in his
favor.
George Mason Lee, son Of the
Consul General at Havana, failed to
pass the January examinations at
West Point, and will be dropped
from the rolls unless the academic
board reinstates him.
The new Governor Of Colorado,
Hon. Alva Adams, has gone to
Leadyille to see if something cannot
be done to arbitrate the big strike
which has already cost the state a
quarter of a million dollars in main
tanning a military guard.
A bill has been introduced in the
North Dakota legislature which
requires man or woman to reside
in the state not less than one year
before they will be allowed to enter
q suit for divorce. The lawyers and
hotel keepers are opposed to the
bill, because they now have a luera-
tive business from the east, from
people who are in a hurry to get the
nuptial knot united.
Minister to Hawaii, Albert s.
Willis, died in Honolulu on Jan. 9th
sad his body, In charge of his family
ID new on board the steamship Aus
tralia now on its way to San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Willis was IS years of
age at the time of his death. He
accepted the appointment to Hawaii
IN 1898. He had previously served
FIVE terms in Congress with distinc-
ton.
Three small darkiss, ages seven.
eight and ter, amused themselves
rocking The pa5een yer train, near
Union Springs, Ala. Several pas
songars had faces ana hands cut by
the shattered windows. Bong TOO
young to imprison the police had the
mother to lay them across her lap
and apply strap where it would do
most good.
Senator John Sherman, has been
rendered by Major Mckinley and
has accepted tbs S5ste Portfolio.
There is no question of his great
capacity, bat tho fact that he has
grown rich as an Office holder and
that it wa5 through his managem ant
that silver vas demonebzed ia 1878,
90 secretly and so odroitly that
President Grant read and signed the
bill without discovering it's force
and effect, causes us to fear Mir
Sherman in any responsible position.
No foreign diplomat can oyerssoh
him, and il be chooses TO be true to
tbs country, America has no more
competent man for the place.
Mrs. Charlotte B. Carson, of Au.
bura, Ala, has entered suit against
ex-senator William Roberts, ST., of
Valdosta for breach Of promise. She
wants $4,000. Dir. Roberts claims
that he sgreed to marry her, pro-
vided his children did not object,
aad that falling to overcome such
objections the promise beaoms void.
Secretary Of the Reform Preas