The silver lance., 1898-02-04

pers at Hava
The Iowa S
constitutional
law.
The Presider
soon make a I
States.
President Mel
mated Governor
for attorney gen
Austria will ha,,
600 worth of brea
ing to short crops
Fifty bodies hav~
mine at Tagonrog,
gas explosion recent
A big japanese waA
ed at Philadelphia on
other at San FrancisC
A slab mill to cost
employ 1000 men, Is to
Illinois Steel Company
cago.
Fares from Seattle
Skaguay. Alaska, have
$40 to $50, and freight f
per ton.
The Italian governmeI
to be presented to the
government a proposal I
commerce.
Rev. John Hall has W
resignation and will cont
of the Fifth Avenue
Church, New York.
The Democratic state c
mittee of Missouri has
unite this year with the S
licans and Populists.
A large number of bog
passes have come upon the
Chicago. A number of tic
are likely to be arrested.
Senator Bacon has int
amendment to the annexa
providing that it must first
by a vote of the people of J
The committee of the Oh.
ture which is investigating
bribery in connection will
election has found many with
refused to testify.
The bubonic plague is terri
ing Poonah, Bombay and th'
Thousands have fed from p
Bombay, in each Of which
mortality is 500 to 600 weekly
The National Bank of Paola
suspended business on the
statement of assets or liza
made, but it is stated that the
which are small, will be pal
1t is rumored that Emperor
Joseph of Austria will she
nOunce the bethrothal of the A
ess Elizabeth, daughter of
Crown Prince Rudolph, to the
Spain.
The executive committee of I
don engineers has issued a circ
vising the men to accept the
ers' terms. A ballot of the men
taken, and 1t is probable tina
will be resumed.
The next meeting of the Eist
the great Welsh musical organ
Of the United States, will be
Milwaukee on January IL, 1899.
land expected to entertain Il
gathering, but their great mu'
was destroyed by fire.
Russia is about to present a
Turkey demanding payment
whole balance of the indemnit.
Russo-Turkish war. amounting
100000 ($14O, 100000, with a
making the Sultan more docile
settlement of the Cretan quest
In consequence of the police
ton of the wearing of party
and club uniforms, the Senate
German university at Prague
signed and the students have
to attend no more lectures. The
university has thus gone on a
The national guard Of Misso'
collect money to aid in relieving
ing in Cuba. Adjutant Gener
has appointed a committee fir
N. G. NJ. and issued an appeal
people for subscriptions. Genel
ton Moore of Kansas City will
all subscriptions.
The new Democratic congrt
committee has elected as ch
Senator White of California. A
secretaryship, it is generally &C
that Lawrence Gardner, the inc
will retire. The most prominent
date before the organization {
tee is James Kerr, former CLERK
House.
The announcement of the p
minister of finance, DR.. MIGUEL
Diet, that, Notwithstanding
creased tax receipts and the lar
plus. new Prussian loans are nee
has created a sensation. 1t is
stood the new loans will be
used in improving the rolling s
the roads.
Joseph Letter has been offer
per cent. advance for 7,75O,OOO
of the wheat which he now h,
the Paris house Of Dreyfus & G.
would mean a profit to Letter o
600, but he has refused the offer
is said to have been made in be
the Rothschilds. The latter are
contemplate an unexampled co
wheat.
The New York weekly bank
ment shows the following cl