The silver star., 1897-10-14
TELEoRAPHIc sREv,rlEs.

The panic on account OF yellow fever
has aba;ed in Texas.
Governor Pingree OF Michigan II tax
ing trip to Venezuela.
Horatio d. Davis, NJ. p. has been
chosen lord mayor of London.
DIR. Nanses il coming to America to
deliver sixty lectures for $65,OOO.
The next session of the Irrigation
Congress will be held at Cheyenne.
The National Irrigation Congress met
at Lincoln. Nebraska. on the 30th.
Edward Langtry the former hus-
band of the Jersey Lily. has gone crazy.
The Mail and Express refuses to sup
port Tracy for mayor of Greater New
York.
President Mckinley returned to
Washington from Massachusetts on
the Both.
The Carlists in Spain are very active
now and IL is said that n revolution IL
impending.
Roger Wolcott has been renominated
by the Republicans of Massachusetts
for governor.
The greatest scarcity of water known
for seventeen years prevails in south
west Missouri.
New York banks now have SO much
gold that they are obliged to pay their
balances with it,
]. Frank Starbuck defeated Jimmy
Michael in a twenty-five-rnile race at
Philadelphia by six yards.
The Massachusetts gold Democrats
have put up state ticket with DIR. Will
liam Everett for governor.
Two outlaws held up three stages
near Milton. California, on the goth,
wounding several persons.
John r. Mclean of Ohio has with
drawn from the senatorial race in fav
or of General A. j. Warner.
Carl Schotte, wealthy Chicagoan,
was fined SO for shooting an elk in
Wyoming without a license.
J. Pierpont Morgan and other Ameri-
can capitalists are figuring on a big
loan to the Chinese government.
A strike of coal miners at Diamond
Vile. Wyoming, is still on. although the
difference is only cents ton.
A Rock Island train was held up in
Indian Territory in broad day light a
few days ago and the passengers
robbed.
Senator Wolcott has returned to Lon
don from Paris to get an answer from
the government to the commissions
proposals.
The power house Of the Capital Trac-
ton Company at Washington, D. c.,
was burned last night, causing a loss
of 100000.
The total wheat crop of this country
is now estimated at SIS. 900 600 bushels,
corn 1.150,0c0.000 bushels and oats
S14 900, 600 bushels.
A British ship company has been
granted concession which, il Is feared,
will interfere with the rights of the
Nicaraguan Canal Company.
An unknown iron sailing vessel is
reported TO have been wrecked on the
northern Atlantic recently and the sail
ors, numbering nearly forty. are be-
lieved 10 have been drowned.
Captain Price. a prominent cattle
man. formerly of Colorado. was arrest
ed in Custer county, Oklahoma, on the
charge OF assisting to burn the Day
'PhhAs 'ouAN Houst a year ago.
w. c. Brann. editor of freak publ
cation called the Iconoclast. was COM
PEELED by students of the Taylor Bap-
tist University at Waco. Texas. TO sign
retraction and promise to leave
town
Reports continue to pour in from
all parts Of Winnipeg Of destruction by
prairie fires. In some districts not a
farmer escaped loss by the fiery wave
that swept over the country. Several
lives have been lost.
As result of the revival in trade the
mint in San Francisco will at once re-
sumo the coinage Of silver dollars in
accordance with instructions received
from Washington. The order necessi.
tated the appointment of fifteen new
employees.
General Neal Dow. the veteran tenn
perance worker died at Portland.
Maine. on the 2nd. He was 93 years Of
age. General Dow's death was due to
the infirmities Of old age. Once he
said he was very weary and was eager
Tor the moment Of his release.
Lieutenant Commander Hawley has
recommended that Chicago be made a
'hbph ttnutLNouS
the enlistment Of men for the naval ser
vice and that temporary rendezvous
for a similar purpose should he estab.
lished at various places In the north.
west.
Tammany's platform practically ig.
nores national issues. declaring nj tho
outset: We regard as the supreme H.
sue OF the municipal campaign the In
auguration Of wise. liberal. honest
and Democratic government In place
OF the present costly. wasteful, illiber-
nj and inefficient administration.
The government of New South Wales
INSERTS that 1t has found such difficulty
In placing In England an order for 2.
900 tons OF steel rails OF high carbon
quality that II hns been compelled 10
place the order In America, where the
manufacturers have readily undertak.
en- the contract Mt $25 per ton.
in n race at Springfield. Illinois, Star
Pointer not only maintained his repu-
tation as the king Of PAGERS by defeat