The Advocate and news., 1898-02-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES

Pfttsburg, Pa, had $1,5OO,OOO fire
last week.
Indiana Republicans want to elect ex-
President Harrison Senator.
Troops have been detailed to garrison
Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbOr.
Dom Paul Kreuger has been reelected
President OF the South African Republic.
The sinking of part of the lsthmus of
Panama is feared from continued earth
quahes.
Senator Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, has
announced himself as a candidate for
reelection.
Japan Is endeaVOring to raise a loan
in this country of from 100,000,00O to
15O,000,0OO yen.
President Mckinley will make a Wash
ington's birthday address at the Univer-
slty OF Pennsylvania.
Tests of ammunition furnished to the
United States army at San Francisco
showed so per cent. Of it to be worthless.
OF the $2,5O0,OOO postal money orders
issued under the new system, only 5000
in fraudulent orders have been reported.
President BarriOs, of Guatemala, has
been assassinated. It is said that Central
America is on the verge of a general rev.
OlutiOn.
The dividends ito annual conferences
were fixed at $4,000, of which $4,000
is from the Western and 1000 from the
Eastern concern.
An extra force of men has been en-
plOyed in the pOstoffice at Havana, Cuba,
to open and examine letters and neWspa-
pers coming from the United States.
Prof. J. James, of the University of
Chicago, has been nominated by the
Bureau of Education at Washington to
represent the United States as delegate
to the International congress of CONNER
cial instruction at Antwerp in April
1t is feared that the black plague in
Bombay, India, will increase rapidly in
a few weeks, and that, through the pen
ming up Of large population, a panic
will occur. A camp has been estab-
hshed ON the islands across the harbor.
Eight hundred families of G. A. R.
veterans are reported to be ready to
start from Minnesota to MatagOrda
county, Texas, where a tract of $4,000
acres Of land fronting on MatagOrda
bay has been purchased for a G. A. r.
colony
Judge Payne has handed down q de-
cisiOn at Chicago holding that an en-
plOyee OF corporation has the right to
sign an agreement waiving all claims
tOr damages, even if the results are
from the gross negligence of the en-
ployer.
Mayor McKissOn announces his inten-
tiOn OF contesting the seat of Senator
Hanna. He has sent to the clerk of
the United States court formal notice of
the contest. He bases his contest uDOn
the ground that Hanna used illegitimate
influence to secure his election.
The total militia force of the various
States, according to the returns Of the
Ad1utant General of the army, aggre-
gates ia 1862. The total number OF men
available for military duty is placed at
1O,3O1 ,339. New York leads all other
States, with 1884 officers and men and
100000 available for military duty.
At the meeting of the book committee
Of the Methodist Episcopal church the
agents and local committee at New York
and Cincinnati were directed to close
every book store pertaining to their es-
Establishments which is not ON a paying
basis. The agents in New York were
authorized to erect manufacturing
building in the rear of the Twentieth
street building and also to purchase
other real estate according to their judg-
ment to meet the wants Of the agency.