The silver lance., 1898-07-29
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out on the 27th.
Two big banks Of Phhaoeiphia
failed few days ago.
Mrs. Ballington Booth, who mas Deen
dangerously sick, is better.
Three Chicago aldermen nave peen
indicted for keeping gambling resor's'
Bishop Talbot of wyoming will take
charge of his new diocese in PenhsyF
vania in February.
Twenty tons of liquor being shipped
to Alaska was seized by revenue oH-
GERS and returned to Portland.
Indiana veterans are signing peti-
tions to Congress to pay all pensions
In full at once on the twenty-year
plan.
Mary e. Reynolds was fined $1,oOo
In New York recently for having
drawn pension illegally Tor SIX
years.
Foreman Whitney of the Helena
Frisco mill at Wallace Idaho, was
mobbed and shot Thursday night and
may die.
James Maloney of Gallup, New Mex
leo, while intoxicated shot severai
persons on the street, one of whom, at
least, will die.
Judge Rogers of the Federal Court
of Arkansas has decided that the civil
service law does not empower the
commission to make laws.
Governor Bushnell of Ohio denies
the story that he has consented to sup
port free coinage in return for Demo-
cratic votes for United States senator.
The New York Medical Record re-
ports that DIR. Carl Schlatter Of Zu-
rich, Switzerland, completely removed
the stomach of a woman and that she
is now well and strong.
The interstate commerce commission
has issued circular containing the or
der to all railroad companies to equip
their freight cars with safety apph-
ances within two years.
Three men are under arrest at Mem
phis, Tennessee, charged with plot
ting to kidnap DIR. d. T. Porter,
wealthy citizen. and hold him for a
ransom of $4,000.
Two desperate thieves started fire
in a Chicago department store while
it was crowded, in the hope of rob-
bing the cashiers desk, but they were
foiled and the fire was extinguished.
According to the report prepared by
the New York city superintendent of
schools census, for submission to the
state superintendent Of public instruc.
ton, there are 391 ,4S2 children in that
city of school age-between and 1S
years.
The Corona Coal Company and the
Virginia and Alabama Coal Company,
employing about 1,2OO coal miners in
Walker county, Alabama, have an
nounced that on January 1st they will
advance wages from 60 to 70 cents
per ton.
The will of DIR. Thomas W. Evans,
the American dentist, who gives the
bulk of his large estate to the Thomas
W. Evans Museum and Institute Of
Philadelphia, probably will be con-
tested by relatives who are dissatis-
fed with its provisions.
The London Chronicle asserts that
the negotiations with Germany on be-
half of the Chinese government are
no longer being conducted by Ii Hung
Chang, but by Chang YIN Huan, who
represented the Chinese Emperor at
the diamond jubilee of the Queen.
1t is announced that J. Pierpont Nor
gan and Thomas A. Edison have pur-
chased important water privileges in
the Housatonic river at Falls Village,
Connecticut, and will erect number
of the new Edison separatOrs. They
control valuable ore beds, a canal and
other equipments.
The British steamer Lamberts
days from Norfolk, Virginia, for Liv-
erpool, with cattle, cotton, grain and
a general cargo, has arrived at st.
Johns with her cotton on fire and the
ship in a bad state. The crew had a
narrow escape from death.
Comptroller Waller has made the
best bond sale ever made by the city
of Chicago This bid was SOB, $3.50,
for the entire issue of 100000 3h per
cent, or a premium of % above par.
This would make the interest to be
paid by the city during the twenty
years the bonds have to run just 81
per cent.
Yakob Sargis of Ooramiah, Persia,
now in Cincinnati, giving talks on
Persia and Armenia, has just received
letter from friends ia his Persian
raiders from Koordestan had massa-
cred all the inhabitants of Persian
Christian town, 800 souls, near Sal
mas, Persia.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Margaret Won Courtland Ogden
of New York 1hd Frank McNutt of
st. Louis. Miss Ogden is said to be
worth $20,O00,OOO. The wedding is an
nounced for January 4th. Mr.. Nc
Mutt was a member of the American
legation at Rome under Minister AL
bert G. Porter.
The Philippine insurgent chief, Agui-
naldo, with thirty-six other insurgent
leaders, has sailed for Hong Kong.
They are accompanied by Lieutenant
Colonel Primo Rivera. Aguinaldo and
the insurgents chiefs are emigrating to
China under an arrangement agreed tn
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