Times-promoter., 1898-12-10

OdSllud' odu AN lOulO, MO DldnCO, JlU
, acoa and Guanabacoa the situation i:
: pitiful.
Mrs WILLIAM MANTELL, who killed
her husband and attempted suicide in
Alameda, Cal, will recover. She de
clared that they quarreled and that he
knocked her down before she Shot him.
THE Sixth Missouri volunteers, in
camp at Savannah, Ga, have been or.
dered to embark for Cuba.
THIRTYsEvEN people were drowned
who were on board the British steam
err Clan Drummoud, from the Clyde for
Cape of Good Hope, wrecked in the
bay of Bscay.
ADvICEs from New South Wales said
that the steamer Culgon had sailed
from Sydney with a cargo of provi-
sions for Admiral Dewey's fleet at Ma
Mia. The cargo consisted of 5000
carcasses of muttons, $50 of lambs, 1875
tons of potatoes, ST tons of onions and
% tons of carrots.
THE war department has decided to
adopt at once the suggestion of Gen..
Wood, in command at Santiago, that
the removal of the remains of Ameri-
can soldiers from that section of Cuba
be deferred until February at the ear
liest. Officials believe they have no
right to expose to the horrors of the
yellow fever outbreak the large popu-
lation of Santiago and neighboring
towns from a mere sentimental con-
sideration.
A DISPATCH from Wymore, Neb.,
of Nebraska against holding another
exposition at Omaha was very bitter
on account of the heavy loss of trade
incurred by the small cities, their
usual patrons having made their pur-
chases at Omaha while attending the
exposition.
The National Municipal league
closed its session at Indianapolis Ind,
on the I'd by adopting a resolution
favoring competition in asphalt street
paving. Mayor Jones, of Toledo. o.,
spoke against granting franchises to
individuals or corporations to minister
to a city's social necessities and
thought it was wrong in scientific
theory.
AT special meeting of the South
western Passenger bureau at ST. Louis,
at which all the roads were repre-
sented, homeseekers' excursions were
decided upon for the first and third
Tuesdays during January, Febru-
ary and March, 1899, on the same
basis of excursions in effect during
December. This arrangement carries
with it the use of the Sebastian form
of ticket A onefare rate was also
made for the meeting of the National
Live Stock association at Denver, Col,
January 24-27, 1899; Sebastian form of
ticket to be used for this occasion also
The steamer Portland, plying be.
tween Boston and Portland, Me-, was
wrecked off Highland light in a gale |
and her entire crew and passengers, |
90 persons in all, perished within a
short distance from land.
MORE than 80 skaters narrowly es-
capped death in the Semple avenue
pond, st. Louis, the other afternoon.
Two modest heroes risked their lives |
to save their fellowmen. One, boy, |
Joseph H. Lang, paid the hazard with
his life and the companion whom he |
died to save survived. The other, a
man of 80, dragged two drowning |
strangers from imminent death and |
lives. Both deeds followed the break
ing of thin ice beneath skating parties
The Cherokee senate at Tahlequah,
l. T., on the 30th refused to concur in
the house bill for commission to
treat with the Dawes commission
The full-bloods are strongly averse to
any change and this action indicates
that no treaty will be made between
that nation and the United States.
COMPUTATION made at the Yale OBJ
at New Haven, Conn.,,
showed that the new Chase comet was
about $50, 900, 900 miles away from the
earth or about ~ times as far as the
sun. The time of its perihelion pas
sage is April %, 1899. and it must con-
stantly grow brighter until that time
and be visible for several months, pos
'ibly to the naked eye.
THE Virden, ILL.,, grand jury has re-
turned ten indictments, involving "a
persons, for the recent riots at that
place. Among those indicted is Gov.
Tanner, for failure in responding to
the sheritf's call for military aid to
suppress the riots.
COMPLAINT has been made by author-
ties at Copenhagen, Denmark, OF the
lnclean condition of the cargoes OF
corn exported to that place by Ameri.
,an shippers. Broken grains crushed
and crumbled cob and dust and dirt
in considerable quantities are present
n all consignments. The impure ex-
ports may have the fleet of stopping
the trade.
A PRICE has been placed on the head
If every footpad in Kansas City Mo.
The edict has gone forth that any
policeman who brings in a highway
nan, dead or alive, will be promoted.
This announcement was made by the
BOARD of police commissioners.
PRIVATE L. p. Holt, troop f. Tenth
United States cavalry, has been SEN
,enced by a court.martial at Hunts
'ille, Ala, to death for the murder of
l comrade while intoxicated The
sentence awaited the approval of the
president.
The Rational Municipal league
opened it's sixth annual conference at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 3Oth. Its
purpose was to discuss the best meth.
IDS of governing cities.
A NEGRO soldier named Will Kempin
vas shot to death at Macon. Ga. while