Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-16
NEWS BRIEFS.
Fourteen towboats of coal have started southward from Pittsburr.

Fourteen towboats of coal haze started southward from Pittsburg.
 Will D. Gray, of Union City is dead. lie was shot by Fate Glover. who accused him fmistreaitng his daugh- ter.
 Charles A. Judson, an ngcd citizen or Des Are, Ark, took his own life on account of financial troubles.
 The standing committee of the dIa- eese or Delaware has refused to con- sent to the conservation of Archdea- con Brown as Bishop of Arkansas.
 Dan Lacewell, an Obion county farmer, is under arrest for arson. It Is charged that he fired the home or his mother-in-law.
 The Ohio Senate will investigate charges that the railway companies discriminate in favor of the Standard Oil Company.
 Japanese priests have issued reso- iatiohs calling upon their people to have nothing 10 do with Christians or Christianity.
 The Democratic Congressional Committee met yesterday at Wash ington and elected officers and passed resolutions calling for T viz orous campaign on the outlines of the Chicago platform.
 The steamer, Clara Nevada. of Seattle, burned in the Lynn canal and forty men arc supposed to have perished. The Alaskan steamer. As torla came near burning to the waters edge.
 The Massachusetts Cotton Mills Company, owning plants at Lowell and in Georgia. held their annual meeting yesterday. It was arranged to make extensions of the Georgia investments.
 The Spanish Minister nd interim at Washington is letting no grass grow under his feet. He has given out a long list of insurgents who have sur rendered to the force of Spanish bribes.
 Astounding revelations as to the conditions prevailing in Cuba are an- ticipated when Congress has been placed in possession of tine informA- ton asked for i'll the resolutions re- gently passed.
 The House committee has reported a strong resolution calling for infor- nation about adulterations of Ger man products and discriminations against this country.
 The House Military Committee will make m inquiry about schrapnel furnished to the government, 90 per cent. of which is worthless.
 The Senate at Washington Monday gave four hours of discussion to the Hawaiian annexation. Pettigrew held the floor much of the time. He opposed annexation. Proctor, of Vermont, was in favor of it. and took some time to say so.
 Gen. Clay's child wife went out in the woods near Whitehall to meet William Bryant. One of the guards came along and took q shot at Bry- ant, who was about to kill him, when Dora knocked up the pistol.
 At a ball play near Carthage, Miss, between Redwaters and Rogue Chit tos, divisions of the Choetaws, the players and spectators engaged in q rough and tumble melee with knives, shotguns and revolyers. Three per sons are known to have been killed and from eight to twelve more or less wounded.
 Riot and attack upon foreigners are the order of the day throughout China. A Wesleyan mission has been destroyed in one of the central provinces. In Canton, where foreign travel is heaviest. there have been many outrages, and ono Europea woman missionary was badly treat ed. In Formpa the whole country is patrolled by robbers. Even in the the European section of Shanghai the foreigners are insulted. One woman, riding on wheel, was spat upon. Even Chinese soldiers take part in the outrages.