The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-12-28
NEWS ITEMS.


The Alma national bank of Alma,
Kan, has been authorized to begin
business. Capital $50, 900
1t is understood that John V.GeOrge,
a brother of Henry George, will soon
be reinStated Us special inspector OF
customs
Prince Bismarck, who for the past
Joying satisfactory health. He spent
Christmas quietly with his family.
The Russian government has entered
INTO communication with the govern
ment of New South Wales, with the
object of procuring shipments OF
meats to Vladivostock
1t is denied at the United States pen
sion office in New York that wholesale
frauds were discovered in the payrOlls
sent on from Washington.
Forty weaverS at the BridgctOn, n. j.,
WOODEN mills struck Friday on account
OF heavy fine list and as Il result 200
hands are thrown out of employment.
The mills have plenty of orders
James c. Ollard, of Tacoma, has
closed contract for three twin screw
steamers for use on Lake Tcslin and
the Stickcen trade. The boats arc ex-
pccted TO make lG knots an hour.
News has reached Victoria, 3. c.,
that the steamer Willpa returned to
Ucuclat from the north sound of the
island without finding any trace of the
boat missing from the Cleveland
The Vicnncsc papers comment with
ill-disguised JOY on the rumor from
Berlin that England's confidential in
quiries at Washington regarding COM
mon action in China have failed of the
desired result
The medal which was recently pre-
scented to Lieut.. Perry, u. S. N, the
Arctic explorer, by the Edinburgh
Geographical society. and which was
subsequently lost, has been found in a
theater in London.
A board of medical examiners of the
marine hospital service will be con-
vened in Washington on January %,
1898, for the purpose of examining APP
plicants for the position of assistant
surgeon in that service.
The army pack train has left Chey-
enne, WyO., for Alaska, II packers
and 90 mules forming the outfit. Be
fore leaving the packers wages were
increased from $50 to $3.50 a month and
the chief packers from $3.50 to $3.50 a
month.
Samuel Sloan, president of the Della
ware, Lackawanna e. Western rail
road, was Thursday presented with a
$4,000 golden service by the officials
and employees of the company in COM
memOratiOn of his eightieth birthday,
which falls on Christmas.
Through his attorneys Stephen A.
jerks, a stakeholder, made application
to United States Judge Adams at ST.
Louis Friday for a receiver for the
Herring Hall Marvin Co., manufacture
ers of safes. Judge Adams named Mat
thew Leonard as receiver.
According to the Washington CORES
pendent of the New York World, it
has decided that j. w. Wills, of New
Haven, Ct, will be made chief Justice
of the supreme court of New Mexico
His nomination will not be sent in un-
til after the holiday recess.
The Berlin Neuste Nachrichten SAYS
that since the occupation of Kiao-Chau
bay the Chinese government has
engaged German military instructors
and is now arranging for fitting recep-
tiOns of Prince Henry, of Prussia, at
the different Chinese ports he will
visit
The Novoe Vremya, of st. Petersburg,
advises England to come to an arrange
ment with Russia, France and Ger
many, but says it does not expect Lord
Salisbury to accept the advice, be
land would not get the lions share of
China"
A pension has been granted to the
widow of Knud KnudSen, a soldier in
the late war, the back pay of which
aggregates over $4,000. The man is a
native of Norway and was married to
the woman who now gets the pension
in April, 1858. The woman never left
Norway.
Conrad p Helms, who left New York
last September to ride to San Francis
co on wager and make the golden
gate in so days has arrived. He made
the trip of 3,9l2 miles in IS days, after
going through seven rain storms, five
snow storms. one blizzard and three
sand storms.
Formal steps have been taken in
Denver, Col, by the incorporation of
the Abraham Lincoln Memorial asso-
citation for the establishment of Il suit
able monument to the martyrcd presi-
dent in Colorado. The site selected is
the summit of Mount Lookout in the
Arkansas valley
Amid scenes of riOtOuS disorder and
intense excitement the Illinois house
Thursday passed the republican sena-
tOrial apportiOnment bill by vote Of
20 yeas to - nays There were but
two votes to spare 1t was hair
breadth escape from defeat for the re-
publican managers.
George w. Simpson, president of the
Fort Worth, Tex, stockyards, who has
been appointed special food commits
sioner to the island of Cuba, will sail
for Havana next week. He has in
structiOnS from the agricultural de-