The Advocate and news., 1898-01-26

Massachusetts savings banks show
evidences of prosperity.
1t is now proposed to let the Ha-
Waiians vote on annexation.
Governor Griggs, of New Jersey, will
succeed Attorney General McKenna.
An anti-hirting bill has been reported
adversely in the Virginia Legislature.
At Hamburg, Germany, 64,5S9 barrels
of American apples were received In one
day.
Montgomery, Alabama, has decided
to establish municipal water-works
plant.
The Sierra Madre, a New Mexican
railroad 154 miles long, has been COM
pleted.
The paper trust is gradually taking in
paper mills and now includes sixteen
of them.
Ten dollars day at Klondke will
buy about as much as $3.50 will buy
in Kansas.
January % was the Chinaman's New
Years day According to their calen-
dar this Is the year 1880
BY vote of 81 to 40 the Iowa Legis-
ltaure instructed its Senators to vote
for Hawaiian annexation.
An Investigation of big steals in con-
nection with canal construction Is soon
to be made in New York.
Senator White, of California, has been
elected chairman of the Democratic Con-
gressional campaign committee.
That organization and combination is
the order Of the day is shown by the fact
that the beggars of New York have or
ganized.
The government has bought islands
in the vicinity of Boston on which to
erect Notifications for the protection of
the city.
Mr. Cleveland has bought eighty-five
acres of land, which, after being prop
erly stocked, will be used for game
preserve.
Young fellows used to be "hired" and
get bounced" Now they accept 'lu-
cratlve positions" and tender their res
ignations"
Ocean rates for passengers and freight
to Klondike have been materially ad-
vanced. A combine of ship-Owners
brought it about.
What has become of H. e. Taubeneck?
Two years ago he was more in evidence
than anybody in the party which he
represented deemed necessary.
The Hanna investigating committee
of the Ohio Legislature Is meeting with
considerable embarrassment because of
the refusal Of witnesses to testify.
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature, and it will likely pass, to
redistrict the State so as to make Cen
eral GrOsVenor's district Democratic.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the dis
covery Of gold in California is being Gel
ebated this week. San Francisco will
be the central point for the festivities.
Denver's department stores have come
to the terms fixed by the daily papers
and the boycott has been declared off.
The stores were trying to dictate rates.
The failure of the last Legislature to
make an appropriation for the West
Virginia penitentiary has resulted in
the exhaustion Of the funds of that insti-
tuition.
A judgment for the alienation Of the
affections of his wife has been secured
by Samuel G. George against George D.
Saxton, who is a brother Of Mrs. Nc
Kinley.
Charles Lee a Mississippi colored
man threatens to sue the State for dam
ages growing out Of the lynching of his
father and three other members of the
family.
A st. Louis woman's heirs are trying
to collect an accident insurance policy
on the ground that her death was caused
by taking poison which she mistook for
medicine.
The government inspected 1881, 1909
speciments Of pork last year, of which
1895 were diseased. The inspections