The western recorder., 1898-03-10
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u. $. Grant will be candidate for
the Senate from California. to succeed
Senator White.
Prince Albert OF Belgium comes to
this country to make close study OF
Industrial conditions.
w. s. Post. the postmaster at Dia-
mondville. Wyoming. shot and killed
burgler a few days ago.
The strikers ut New Bedford. Mas
sachusetts seem likely to lose the
hight owing TO lack OF funds.
Utah farmers and miners fear n very
dry summer owing to the light snow
fall In the mountains thus far.
An epidemic of black blister has
broken out in the state OF Hydrabad.
Fifty deaths are occurring daily.
Canada viii send regular soldiers TO
the Klondike country 10 replace the
mounted police as a measure OF econo-
my.
The Kentucky House of Representa-
tives has passed n bill frobiddlng the
insertion of gold contracts in mort
guges.
Senator Mills of Texas has decided
not to seek reelection. which will
probably give the place to Governor
The conscience fund Of the govern
mcnt was increased by n contribution
OF S2,400 a few days ago. 1t is said TO
be due ON whisky tax
There Is talk in New York of organ
1zing an international American bank
to do business In all parts of the west
ern hemisphere. 1t is To he chartered
by Congress and to have u capital of
S25.o00,00O.
\ dispatch TO the London Daily Mall
from Hong Kong says that a fresh re-
beilion has broken out in the Phillip
pines, and that fifty-three Spanish sol
diers have been killed. No further de
tails are known at Hong Kong.
A dispatch from Nagasaki. Japan,
says the Korean cabinet, with the eX-
ception OF the foreign minister. Min
Chong Monk. have resigned because
Min granted the Deer Island concession
10 Russia without the consent of the
cabinet.
All kinds of spectators are flock
ing TO Pekin for the purpose of secur-
ing concessions fer electric lighting.
street railroads and regular railroads.
etc. The Chinese merchants are show
Ing great eagerness to participate In
the enterprises.
The silver men in Congress are pre-
pairing to send out n great deal of lit
erature from now until the end of the
coming campaign. Everything that has
any bearing on the subject of silver
will be printed and made frankablc,
so that IL may be carried in the mail
The situation mt Bombay is grave
There is extreme unrest among the ma
tiypS who arc iurausaI nj tho MIA o,to
measures. which wound their religious
susceptibilities. In addition. the plague
authorities are at loggerheads with the
city corporation. which has stopped
their supplies of money.
The Russian government has ordered
thirty new torpedo boats to augment
the Russian Pacific squadron Mt Vladi-
vostock and Port Arthur. Russia also
proposes to keep eight cruisers of the
volunteer fleet continually In far east
ern waters instead of the Black sea. ~
as to avoid the possibility of being
hampered by Great Britain closing the
Suez canal.
EX-State Auditor Eugene Moore of
Nebraska. recently convicted of the en-
bezzlement of $4,000 of state funds
and set free two weeks ago by the Su-
preme Court on the ground that the
was invalid. has been re-arrested on an
Indictment returned by the Lancaster
county grand jury, charging him with
embezzlement of fees paid by lnsur-
ance companies for licenses.
A private letter has been received by
Commodore Schley of the navy from
Captain Sigsbee. in which the latter
says that because OF his apprehension
of mines and torpedoes in Havana har-
bor. he caused the bottom of the bay
where the Maine was lying TO be
dragged not only once. but three or four
times every week from the day of his
arrival until the explosion. The work
was done at night so as to avoid OBJ
servation from the Spnniards.
Governor Otero of New Mexico has
commissioned Il. l.. Bartlett to he So
llcitor general of the territory TO fill the
vacancy which he, the governor. al
leges TO have existed In the office ever
since the close of the last Legislative
Assembly. The governor takes the DO
sition that Fail was not eligible since
he was a member OF the Assembly
that confirmed his own appointment.
District Attorney Il. l.. Young OF
Dona Ana county has sent his resig
nation 10 the governor
The State Department has had notice
from the Cuban relief committee at
New York that there were shipped on
March LIST from New York to Santiago
100000 pounds Of relief supplies; on
the md 10 Havana. 10000 pounds; on
the Ith 10 MantanZas. 100000 pounds
and to Sagua Ia Grande, 100000
pounds. In these shipments are 800,
900 grains of quinlne consigned TO each
of the posts except Havana. The relief
measures are proving unexpectedly
successful. The supplies running into
the carloads aud hundreds of tons.
Signor Felice Carlo Cavalottl, poet,
dramatls. publicisf, and the we'll
known Radical member OF the Cham
Der Of Deputies for CorteOlona. was
killed at Rome on the 1th. in a duel
with swords with Signor Macola, mem
ber OF the Chamber of Deputies and
editor of the Gazetta Di Venezla The
encounter was the outcome of n press
polemic in the columns of the Milan
Secola and The Gnzettn Di Nenezia. II
took place at an unfrequented spot
outside the Porta Magglore. Cavnlotti
was "A bitter enemy of Signor Crispi
Delegate Ferguson OF New Mexico
has introduced bill amending the act
providing for a Court of Private Land
Claims. The bill extends the time
fixed In the act from two To ten years
in which claims may be filed. In fact,
however. the bill extends the time but
three years from the present. as seven
years hnve elapsed since the act WINS
passed. Owing to technicalties and
lack of knowledge. many poor people
In New Mexico have been unable to
make good their claims and the court