The Advocate and news., 1898-02-23

will be opened February 25.
John Jacob Astor is at the head Of a
syndicate which will gobble up every
thing worth having in Honduras
A sheriff has been indicted in Nevada
for willfully permitting the lynching Of
prisoner who was in his charge.
The girls Of the university at Ann
Arbor have inaugurated war on the
use of tobacco by the male students
National Chairman Butler says that
honorable cooperation should be the
policy of the opposition to Republican,
ism.
The Superintendent of the lndianap-
oils street car system has been fined for
failing to heat car which was run Jan
uary 81.
President Barrios, Of Guatemala, was
shot and killed on the street in the cap
ital city last week His guards killed his
assassin at once.
The employees of the ]. M. Slower
shoe factory, at Lowell, Mass, have
struck. The strike Is caused by Sec
Ond cut in wages.
The German prohibitive order against
American fruit does not refer to dried
fruits, and a contract has just been closed
for the shipment of 100000 worth Of it.
Weyler says that the explosion of Che
Maine was caused by the Incidence Of the
crew. He wants to go to Havana and
become candidate for member of the
Chamber of Deputies.
The Republican League Of Ohio don't
seem to be as much Of Hanna affair as
it might be. It endorsed Governor Bush
nell and elected Forakers brother-in-law
to The office Of President.
The TippeCanoe club, the Cleveland
O., Republican organization, has dropped
the names Of Mayor McKisson, Senator
Burke and Representatives Mason and
Bramley from the membership roll be-
cause they opposed Hanna.
Miss Frances E. Willard, who has been
at the head Of the W. G. T. U. for years,
and who has really been the leader in
the temperance work for long time,
died of a complication Of diseases in
New York last Thursday.
The Minnesota Populist State commit,
tee meeting was controlled by the fu-
sionists and the date set for the State
convention is June Is. The anti-fusion-
lists made strong fight for control and
will renew it in the State convention.
Republican papers go on talking about
the improvement in business when New
York banks increase the amount OF
money they have loaned. When the or
dinary man has to borrow money he
figures that it is not dead sure evidence
of personal prosperity.
Mr. Lewis, who made the Republican
race for Governor Of Missouri in 1896,
Is fighting mad because Maj William
Warner has accepted the office of United
States District Attorney. He says that
Warner asked him to make the race for
the place and agreed to support him.
The National Woman's Suffrage con-
Vention, which has just adjourned at
Washington, demands an amendment to
the constitution Of the United States CIV
ing women the right of suffrage, de-
mands equal custody and control of chill
dren for mothers, equal use Of inherit
ance money for wives and widows and
equal representation on school boards.
Ex-Delegate Flynn (Rep.), of Okla
hOma, is in Washington fighting the
free homes bill. He is doing this to
counteract the efforts of Delegate Gala
han, who defeated him, in the hope that
he may seriously discredit him at home.
Free homes has always been Flynn's
hobby in the past, but he can easily
change if he can gain political point
thereby.
Governor Tanner, of Illinois, being
fully impressed with the fact that he
had an opportunity to gain a little no.
tOriety, sent message to the Legisla-
ture relative to the blowing up of the
Maine and asking for authority to tender
to the President ''the moral and ma
terial support" Of the State in any emer-
gency which might arise. A resolution
II Il