The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09

has been completed.
Chief Bushyhead one of the big chiefs
Of the CherOkees, is dead.
rich deposit Of silver ore has been
discovered in New Mexico
John Wanamaker is to be the leader
of general war on Quay.
The report that President Diaz of
Mexico would tour this country is de-
MED.
Bradstreets Commercial report shows
that expectations of grain and flour are
falling off.
The anti-Quay Republicans want to
name John Wanamaker for Governor
of Pennsylvania.
The Minister to Russia will hereafter
be in first class, with England, France,
Germany and others.
The Klondike fever has broken out
in a more general way than the Cali
fOrnia fever did in 1849.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature providing for a big
exposition in that city in 1901.
The Canadian government offers 25,-
900 acres Of land for each mile of rail-
road built from the coast to Klondike.
The Illinois house has passed reso-
luton requesting its Representatives in
Congress to vote for the postal savings
bank bill.
The British fleets in Chinese waters
are being strengthened materially by
the addition of vessels drawn from
other points
The Lake Shore and the New York
Central railroads have been consolidat-
ed. The Vanderbilts own the majority
of the stock in BOTH
Governor Pingree has secured a tenn
pOrary writ of mandamus directing the
Michigan Central to put into effect a
2-cent passenger rate.
1t cost the city of New York $4,000
to remove the snow which fell in the
recent storm, from the sidewalks of the
borough of Manhattan.
Governor Adams, of Colorado, has
ordered an investigation of the charges
of cruel treatment of the girls in the
State Industrial School,
Ohio's Supreme judges are not salts
fed with salary of $4,000 per year and
constitutional amendment increasing
their pay is being agitated.
Judge Hagner, of the Equity court of
Washington, D. c., holds that Congress
sional appropriations for sectarian
schools are unconstitutional.
Fonty-eight Germans left New York
last week for Klondike They went we'll
prepared for the hardships of the trip
and are strong, vigorous men.
The Union Pacific has cut dts force of
shop men 10 per cent At the Omaha
shops the men who are working are get
ting but forty hours time week.
The course of the alumni of Brown
university in demanding the right of
free speech to the members of the fac
ulty is endorsed by the President of
Harvard.
Germany has prohibited the impOrta-
tiOn of American green fruit California
fruit growers say that as it does not
apply to dried fruits it will not greatly
affect them.
H. G. Frick, Carnegie's manager, has
bought a 100000 picture and presented
it to the city of Pittsburg. He is one of |
the men who cannot afford to pay men
living wages.
President Mckinley is said to be IA
vOrably impressed with the idea of es-
taDlishing national department of
industry, the head of which is to be a
cabinet officer.
The manufacturers of New England |
claim that the laws favoring labor
should be repealed and that wages
should be reduced to a level with those
paid in the South.
A. Detroit woman, the wife of former !
missionary, has sued the King of Siam
for $l70,O6O in damages growing out OF
the seizure and confiscation of her hus-
bands property in Siam.
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