The silver lance., 1898-08-12
reIEcRAPHic BREviTiE ).

Admiral Camara has arrived Ut C"uiA
with his squadron
Tom Reed of Maine has been renoi
mated for Congress.
Heavy imports of gold 1roii'
are looked for this fall.
I.ouis Kemper has been appoin'eu
postmaster at Santiago.
Five people lost their lives III d "o'N
fire at Chicago on the ISL
Tho Emneror of China is said to nave
been deposed by his mother
The camp at Miami, Floriua, Is ~
he abandoned, as it is unheai'hs.
A tornado caused much destruction
in northeastern Missouri last week.
The Pope has asked our governliitthma tha
,,ro,a.t C.tholics at Cayite from the
insurgents.
General ]. b. Weaver will run Tor
Congress from Iowa this 1a'f OIL
sion ticket
Martin Thorn, the murderer OF WI,
liam Guldensuppe, was elee'roe"'eu
Sing Sing on the 1st-
The battleship Texas reached ine
Brcoklyn navy yard on the 3lst. one
is to be cleaned and repaired.
The government has decided 10 per
nit bonds to be assigned TO other par
ties before they are delivered.
General Garcia is reported to nave
had a battle with force of Spanlarus
near Nipe, in which he held his own.
Miss Jessie Schley who went 10 MA
drid in the hope of an interview Win
.f
turned to Paris.
The expulsion of NJ. Emile Zola from
the Legion of Honor promises 10 ere
ate a serious division in the organiza-
tion. Several well-known mempers
have resigned.
The contract for the proposed steam
shin line between San Diego, Calior
mia. and Japan, has been signed, anu
| the steamers will begin their trips
| about December list.
| The convention TO formulate consul
| fulton for a federal union OF the States
! of Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua
is still in session, but little progress Is
being made in the work
The transport Uto, has gone to Porto
| RICO with 500 negro laborers to work
on docks. roads, etc. The Tito carries
n cargo of G0.OO0 feet of pine lumber
TO be used in the work i'll Porto Rico.
The commissioner of education has
received through the Department Oh
state n program of the first Internat1on'
nj Congress of Art, 10 be held at Brus-
sells. September 4th to 2Sth of this yeai'
Mayor Harrison of Chicago has re-
ceived a commodore's pennant taken
from the Spanish man-of-war, Isle de
Luzon. in Manila bay. The pennan'
is two feet square and is spotted VIII
blood.
NIB. Atkinson of New. York, who
started to the Klondike by way OF Inc
Ashcroft trail, has returned to Seattle
with the story that 500 prospectors are
stranded at a point about fOO miles
from Ashcroft
Arrangements have been perrecteo
by a number of capitalists for the con
struction of colossal Amusement
and convention hall in Chicago, rival
ing the recently destroyed Coliseum il
size and capacity.
Adjutant General Corbin, at til,
direction of the secretary of war, has
issued orders granting sick and
wounded soldiers at hospitals, wher
able to travel, one month furlough and
transportation to go to their homes.
The commission appointed to ex
anime the city prison at Santiago and
deal with cases of excessive sentences
has finished its work. 1t will recon-
mend the release of more than forty
prisoners, who have been locked VI
without trial for years, or have been
undergoing cruelty harsh treatment
for trivial offences.
Victor Emanuel, count of Turin, has
left New York for Chicago. 1t is un.
derstood he will take a long hunting
trip in the Rockies. From Chicago the
count will go direct to San Francisco
but intends to return by way of Den
yer, and from there to visit Durango
Colorado, in order to study the ruins
of the Aztec cliff dwellers.
The steamer Hiawatha has sailed on
n cruise in search of bodies of victims
of the Bourgogne disaster She will
call at Sable island and cruise on
the Grand Banks and vicinity in search
of remains. The expedition is fitted
out by Judge Dimon of New York and
John T. Perry of Kansas City, both of
whom lost wives and children. The
steamship company refused to send a
steamer.
President Mckinley, it is said, has ex-
pressed his acquiescence in the belief
that the government possession of the
! Nicaraguan canal is now necessary
and that the war and its results make
the canal Indispensable to the United
/ States. The President intends to make
strong recommendations to Congress
for legislation, making immediate pro-
vision for completion of the canal and
for making it the direcl property of the
government.
The Pope has issued an encyclicaI to
+ the Scotch people, the terms of which
are significant, in view of the recent
4 reports that the thoughts of his holi-
ness are absorbed with his death. He
says that in his stress he addresses
them because he sees that his last dav