The silver lance., 1898-03-18
rELEoRAPHic eREvIrIes.


recent heavy snow storms in Persia
The Senate has passed the bill ex-
tending the homestead laws to Alaska
The Canadian Pacific carried over
100000 tons of American freight last
year..
Gold coin In considerable quantities
continues to be shipped to New York
from Europe.
o. s. Grant will be a candidate for
the Senate from California to succeed
Senator White. rar
Prince Albert of Belgium comes to
this country to make close study of
Industrial conditions.
w. s. Post. the postmaster at Dia-
mondviile, Wyoming shot and killed
q burgier a few days ago..
The strikers at New Bedford. Mas
sachusetts seem likely to lose the
night owing to lack of funds.
Utah farmers and miners fear a very
Dry summer owing to the light snow
rail- In the mountains thus far.
An epidemic of "black blister" has
broken out in the state of Hydrabad.
Fifty deaths are occurring daily.
Canada win send regular soldiers to
l
mounted police as measure of econo-
my.
The Kentucky House of Representa-
tives has passed a bill frobidding the
insertion of gold contracts in mort
| cages
Senator Mills of Texas has decided
not to seek reelection, which will
probably give the place to Governor
Culberson.
The conscience fund of the govern
ment was increased by contribution
of $2,4OO a few days ago. 1t is said to
be due on whisky tax
There is talk in New York of organ
izing an international American bank
to do business in all parts of the west
ern hemisphere. 1t is to be chartered
by Congress and to have capital of
$25, 5,0OO, 600
| A dispa tch to the London Daily Mail
from Hong Kong says that fresh re-
bellion has broken out in the Phillip
pines, and that fifty-three Spanish sol
diers have been killed. No further de-
tails are known at Hong Kong.
A dispatch from Nagasaki, Japan,
says the Korean cabinet. with the ex-
| ceptiOn Of the foreign minister. Min
| Chong MOuk have resigned because
Min granted the Deer Island concession
to Russia without the consent of the
| cabinet.
All kinds of spectators are flock
ing to Pekin for the purpose of secur-
| Ing concessions for electric lighting
| street railroads and regular railroads.
| etc. The Chinese merchants are show
| ing great eagerness to participate in
the enterprises.
The silver men in Congress are pre-
pairing to send out great deal of lit
| erature from now until the end of the
coming campaign. Everything that has
any bearing on the subject of silver
will be printed and made frankable,
SO that it may be carried in the mail.
The situation at Bombay Is grave.
There Is extreme unrest among the ma
| tives, who are incensed at the plague
measures. which wound their religious
susceptibilities. In addition, the plague
authorities are at loggerheads with the
city corporation. which has stopped
their supplies of money.
The Russian government has ordered
thirty new torpedo boats to augment
the Russian Pacific squadron at Vladi-
vostock and Port Arthur Russia also
| proposes to keep eight cruisers of the
uett continuity Ill IHT east
ern waters instead of the Black sea- 50
as to avoid the possibility Of being
hampered by Great Britain closing the
| SueZ canal.
Ex-State Auditor Eugene Moore of
Nebraska, recently convicted of the en-
| bezzlement of $4,000 of state funds
and set free two weeks ago by the Su-
preme Court on the ground that the
statute under which he was convicted
was invalid, has been re-arrested on an
| Indictment returned by the Lancaster
county grand jury. charging him with
embezzlAnent of fees paid by insur-
ance companies for licenses.
A private letter has been received by
Commodore Schley of the navy from
| Captain Sigsbee. in which the latter
says that because of his apprehension
, of mines and torpedoes in Havana har-
| bor, he caused the bottom of the bay
| where the Maine was lying to be
dragged not only once. but three or four
times every week from the day of his
arrival until the explosion. The work
was done at night so as to avoid OBJ
servation from the Spaniards.
Governor Otero of New Mexico has
| commissioned +. l.. Bartlett to be So
licitor general of the territory to fill the
| vacancy when ne, the governor, al
| leges to have existed in the office ever
since the close of the last Legislative
| Assembly. The governor takes the po-
stion that Fall was not eligible since
| he was a member of the Assembly
| that confirmed his own appointment
District Attorney r. L. Young of
Dona Ana couDtv has sent his resig-
| nation to the governor.
SIgnor Felice Carlo @Cavalotti, poet,
dramatis, publicist, and the we'll
known Radical member of the Cham
ber of Deputies for Corte- Olona, was