The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-12-31
THE GIST OF THE NEWS.
CONDENSED PARAGRAPHS OF GENERAL
INTEREST TO HASTY READERS.
senior Sagasta Is Better--.san Antonio mas
n Horse Ouarantine.--Queer Christmas
Present Of the King Of Italy.-.spanlsh
Troops Arrive at Cadlz...Other Items
Gov. Tanner, of Illinois, is very Ill

Troops Arrive at Cadlz...Other Items
Gov. Tanner, of Illinois, is very ILL
Thousands are focking to Dawson
City, the new gold camp OF Colorado
The Grand Duchess Xenla, sister OF
the car, has given birth to son.
The Second Louisiana, 666 strong,
sailed Saturday on the transport MO-
bile for Havana.
Judge Day presented to President
Mckinley on Saturday the peace
treaty signed at Paris.
The Duke of York will not, as an
nounced, visit the United States the
coming year.
O. R. Winslow, of Marshfeld, Mo-,
died Saturday, apparently OF an over
dose of morphine.
Harry Nelson was shot and killed
by John Gleason, his partner, at pa
lem, Mo-, Saturday.
John Henry Collins, on trial at To-
peka, Kan, for the murder OF his
father, was found guilty by the jury
John Hill, of near Hamilton, Mo-,
committed suicide Saturday by Jump
ing head first into a we'll.
In miners row in Pana, ILL.,, last
week, white man was disfgured and
a negro fatally wounded.
After Christmas exercises at Aud,
Mo-, julie Boillot was shot and killed
by John Holloway.
An American firm has secured an
order for $1,000 tons of steel rails Tor
the Eastern Chinese railroad.
A botanical expedition, under the
direction of allison N. Armour, has
sailed for coast of Yucatan.
Creek Indian Council appointed q
commission of seven to negotiate a
new treaty with the Dawes commission.
The condition of Senior Sagasta, the
premier, is better, and the attending
doctors are now hopeful Of his recov,
cry.
The Lee line steamer City of Osce
ola sank in twelve feet of water neal
Cairo, III. The steamer was valued
at $4,000.
The property of the Shepard ,Mors'
Lumber company of Boston was de
stroyed by fire Saturday. Loss $3.50.
900.
, The Hobson Literary Club of Lew
! isburg, Tenn, has discarded its nam
on account of the Lieutenant's kissing
g bees.
The Spanish Transatlantic lin
steamer Colon, from Havana Decem
Der 10th, arrived at Cadiz Sunday
She had on board 1000 Spanish troops
I San Antonio, Tex, has horse quar-
antine to prevent the spread Of CLAN
ders among government animals o
Fort Sam houston.
q AS1,GOO gold and silver mounte
D sword was presented to Gen. H. Y
. Boynton as the Christmas gift of cit
o zens of Chattanooga.
q A tablet on the Lafayette monumen
J will be reserved for an inscription fror
): the Daughters of the American revc
s luton.
= B. D. Woodward, the assistant CON
" missioner general to the Paris expos
ton, has arrived in New York fror
Paris.
A recent search in the Columbus
s O., penitentiary disclosed the knit
4 with which, in 1868, Confederate Ger
Il eral Morgan dug his way out.
Mrs. Dugald McAlpine, a patient g
+ st. Mary's intirmary, Galveston, Tex
f wandered away from the institutio
g and was killed by train Saturday,
: The King of Italy has received 400
{ 900 postal cards, asking amnesty fo
s political prisoners for Christina
greeting.
Commissary General Egan has d.
@ MED explicitly and altogether tn
= charges made against his departme1
! by Gen. Miles, and demands o search
: ing examination under oath.
Q Admiral Sampson charges that th
Spanish officials have attempted t
rob the Cuban people of certain prof.
erty by transferring it to privat
ownership.
l The title of the Northern Pacif
: railroad to nearly 100000 acres (
f land in the State of Washington is il
l valid, according tie majority report (
9 the State Legislative committee.
Hobson at San Francisco.
SAN FRANCIsCo.-Lieut. Hobson a
rived here Friday evening and was e.