The silver star., 1898-10-27
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Tho yellow fever situation In tho
South IL improving.
General Lnwton hns reached New
York from Santiago.
The German National Bank nt Pitts
purg has closed its doors.
Don Carlos, the Spanish prctcnder. 10
going to London to raise loan.
The German emperor was given .
great reception at ConstantInople.
The war Investigating commission
!elt washington for Jacksonville ON the
10th.
Snow fell In Chicago on the 18th, the
earliest In tine scason for twenty-Six
years.
New surveys show that the Alaskan
coast mt the mouth OF the Yukon IL
twenty-five miles further west than
supposed.
Tho Algcr battery from Cheyenne
ms been assigned for permanent gar
rison duty at San Francisco, and will
not go to Manila.
Queen Wllhelminn. Hollands youth.
ful ruler. IL about to wed. Her royal
consort, 1t Is announced. will be Prince
william of Wicd.
It Is reported that Princess KaIulani
will wed Andrew Adams. former
providence newspaper reporter, but
now resident OF Honolulu.
Farmers In the Kansu district, China.
ascrlbing the cause OF long prevailing
draughts to the telegraph wires, have
demolished poles and wires.
General Brooke has plennry powers
IN Porto Rico and will have sole charge
of the government OF the island until
ZONE other arrangement IL made.
Major General Francis v. Greene has
been ordered TO report to General Fitz-
hugh Lee. Seventh army corps, and
will command u division Of the army
Of occupation.
1t Is reported that the Santa Fe rail-
road has purchased the San Francisco
Il San Joaquin Valley railroad In Cali
fornia. probably seeking an entrance
to San Francisco.
a dispatch from Pretoria says that
MIR. Hope, representing an American
syndicate, offers to loan the Transvaal
government S12.50O.O0O Mt per cent.
and 2la per cent. commission.
band of despcradocs. numbering q
600, with 10000 disbanded Mansu SOL
diers took possession OF the gold mines
north of Kirin, China, and Is hindering
Russian railroad development.
Pope Leo. 1t is announced in Vatican
circles. Is preparing an encyclical de-
nouncing anarchy and anarchists. 1t
Will be issued In the near future and Is
considered very strong document.
Judge Hammond Of the United States
Circuit Court at Cleveland, Ohio, grant
ed the application Of the American
Steel and Wire Company for an injunc.
tion against the striking wire drawers
The prospects are that the big deal
whereby an English syndicate Is to se-
cure. through purchase, possession of
the Cincinnati breweries, will be CON-
pleted some time during the present
week.
The Pullman company has decided to
increase its capital stock fifty per cent.
to be divided pro rata among the
stockholders, in order that the capital
stock may equal the assets of the COM
pany.
The National Council of Women of
the United States will meet at Omaha,
October oath and Goth, under the aus
pices of the womens department Of
the Transmissssippi International Ex-
position.
The total receipts from internal rev.
enue since June 30th, the day follow
ing which date the law went into ef-
feet, was SS3,65l ,556.62, an increase
over the same period in 1897 Of $32,-
029, ,G67.O4.
Central Pacific officials will attempt
to negotiate blanket mortgage of
S11S.000,0OO to liQuidate all bonds and
debts of the system. This will check
mate the plans of reorganization of the
English stockholders.
American imports into China con-
tinue to increase. while those of other
countries decrease. This is shown by
a statement of the Chinese trade re-
ports for 1897, just received by the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics.
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
has offered reward of 1000 for the
recovery of the Jewels said to be val.
ued at S15O,OOO, which she lost on
board Of n train bound for Calais,
while on her way to London.
Frank H. Sargent, grand master of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, who was appointed n member of
the National Labor Commission by
President Mckinley, has resigned the
commissionership in order to retain his
position with the brotherhood.
The police have found S51 900 worth
of government bonds In an old closet
in South Minneapolis. They proved
to be all of the $4,000 worth of bonds
stolen from the Hardwood Manufac-
turing Company two weeks ago, and
had been secreted by the thieves.
The Government Industrial CommIs.
sion has organized by selecting Senator
Kyle chairman, eX-Representative Phil
lips of Pennsylvania, first vice chair
man; Representative Gardiner of New
Jersey, second vice chairman, and J.
NJ. Farquarhar of Buffalo, temporary
secretary.
During the handshaking in Chicago
the other day, number of young
women, and one or two not so young.
tried to kiss the President hut alfhnnoh