The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-12-17
THE GIST OF THE NEWS,
A SUMMARY OF THE WORLDS IMPORT
ANT HAPPENINGS.
zen. Garcia Seriously Ill---Tobacco COM
pany IncorpOrated---Col. Bryan to Re-
Superintendent to the Battleship Massa-
chusetts---Other Items of Interest.

llsh novelist, died in London Saturday.
William Emner, farmer near Den
mark, ILL.,, shot gill and then killed
himself Saturday.
FOrty-seven applicants passed the
examinations for admission to the Hi
nOis bar at Mt. Vernon, H.. last week.
The Anglo-American Commission
considered the reciprocity questions
Monday.
Capt. Dominick Palmieri, a promi-
nent citizen Of Houma, La, committed
suicide Saturday.
The Chicago milk trust is now an
assured fact. The organization will
have capital of $40, 900, 900.
The treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain was signed at
Paris Saturday.
Senator Hoar says if this country
takes the Philippines the downfall of
the republic will date from the Nc
kinley administration.
An accident occurred to the battle
ship Massachusetts off Governors Is
land shortly after she left the Brooklyn
Navy Yard Saturday.
The Texas Quarantine Convention
decided to ask the Legislature of that
State to create a State Board of
Health.
William Hutchings, of Free Soil,
Mich. killed John Hunt, his brother
in-law, Mrs Hunt and their hired man
and then cut his own throat Saturday.
In an interview the Pope expresses
the opinion that the United States, be-
ing a great nation, will be generous
with the weak, meaning Spain.
Miller won the six-day bicycle race
IN New York, covering 2007 miles,
beating all records by twenty-four
miles.
All on account of dog, two neigh
bors at Shattuc, Ill, fought with fists
and pistols. None of the injuries are
dangerous,
Mrs. Barron, of Springfield, Mo-,
ives terribly burned while vainly try
ing to save her baby, which was
burned to death.
Articles of incorporation of the Con-
tinentaI Tobacco company were filed
in New Jersey Saturday. Capital
stock, So, 0OO,0
The rote;i Cuban ilibusterlng >.am-
mp LAd,,,,La is again in trouble. She
IS now c red with smuggling whis-
key in Al44-a.
DR.. Leon Barthault saw and talked
With Capt. Dreyfus in his prison at
evils Island. The famous prisoner
does not despair, but is weary of the
ordeal to which he is being subjected.
Gen Calxito Garcia is still serious
~ i'll at his hotel, in Washington, and
his recovery is very doubtful. The
members of the Cuban commission are
continuing the work without him.
The president has notified the
customs officers of Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines to admit for free
entry Christmas presents for the sold
iers.
Arrangements are being completed
to have at the reunion General Joe
Wheeler's old cavalry brigade in the
celebration of the jubilee next week.
Veterans will act as escort for the
doughty little warrior.
Col. William Jennings Bryan, col
onel of the Third Nebraska regiment,
now at Savannah, has either forward
ed his resignation to Washington or is
about to do so. Of this there seems
to be no doubt.
Mrs. Lula Johnston of Pond Creek,
Okla. is in jail at Pond Creek, Kan,
and will be tried December Is on the
charge of poisoning her sixth husband
at Lawrence, Kan, in May. She is
also accused of poisoning half brother
IN Sumner county, Kan, last July.
Mrs. Wallace Kenyon, of Elgin,
Ill, while insane, gave strychnine to
one of her twin sons, aged 2 years,
and he died il agony. She said that
she intended killing the other child
and herself, but the babes cries tenn
porarily restored her reason and she
exerted herself to save him.
The Cuban commission in Washing
ton had a conference with Attorney
General Griggs Saturday. They re-
ceived cablegram that Gen. Ruis