The Globe-republican., 1898-01-20
CONDENSED NEWS.


The President has nominated
Charles Page Bryan Of Illinois as min
lister to Brazil and E. II. Conger Of
Iowa as minister to China
1t is reported that Japanese trans
port steamer Nara, fOuniered, so per-
sons being lost
The St Louis and New Orleans
Anchor steamship line has assigned to
Archibald Woods of St Louis.
Mrs. Christopher Wollert killed her
is-year-old stepdaughter, Louise, at
Algonquin. III.
Joaquin Miller lost n TO, and an ear
and had both cheeks frozen in going
from Circle City to Dawson. Alaska
The Rothschilds will build rail-
road into the Yukon country over the
Dalton trail, to cost $1,000 900 and BE-
400 miles long.
The price of coffee has been cut
again and consumers can now get ten
pounds for n dollar, all because of the
war by the sugar trust.
A tin can trust is the latest
Striking English engineers are
weakening.
Shoe Inventor Trip is dead at
Lynn. Mass. agell -.
Thomas A. Edison thinks nc has
discovered new metal.
Mrs Mack, the New York murder
ess, gets off with . Is year sentence.
Five thousand dogs have been
bought in Chicago and shipped to
Klondikc.
Parties are going to try the use Of
monkeys at manual labor in the klon-
| dixie.
The drouth in Missouri. Kansas and
Arkansas was generally broken.
Fred Funston is home from Cuba to
| stay, having been wounded and cap
tured but released.
Turkey refuses to pay for American
mission property destroyed during the
Armenian outbreak.
The French court martial acquitted
| Count Esterhazy of treason in connec-
ton with the Dreyfus case.
| Wine and women caused Fred lent
ges to embezzle SIS, 700 from the Moon
Bros Carriage Co., St Louis.
President Patrick y. Largely. 81 the
State Savings bank. Butte. Mont.
was murdered by Tom J. Riley, a man
he had bef-iended.
At a Democratic conference held IN
| Chicago it was decided 10 continue
free silver rs the issue. Bryan, who
expects to be the nominee in 1900, de-
clarcd for fusion.
Senator Vest has introduced bill
in Congress for a $50 pension for Gem
eral Stevcnson's widow. General
Stevenson protected Mrs. Vest at tho
capture of Boorville the day her baby
was born.
In the case of A. P. S. Stewart,
stakeholder in the failed Capital Ma
tional bank of Lincoln. Neb., The
United States supreme court decided
that Stewart could not free himself OF
responsibility by transferring his
stock, after he knew the bank was
going to fail
The fusion free silver forces Of Ore
gon will all hold their conventions at
Portland, March 23.
A block tin trust is being formed.
There are 100 deaths to every birth
in Cuba.
Furniture prices will be higher in
the spring.
The Ness City, Kan, State bank has
quit business.
Bradstreets says the new year opens
favorably for business
The Katy road has built coach es.
pecially for carrying prisoners.
5. w. Wicllham was killed By
thresher explosion near Williamsburg,
Kan.
Gen. j. T. Torrence's will is to bo
contested in Chicago by son o. his
first wife.
Frank Beitel, a rich Texan, killed
himself at San Antonio, because OF
ill-health.
Governor Black, of New York, will
let BOSS" McKane serve out his term
in the ''pen"
jealousy and drink prompted Walter
Gait to shoot his wife and bill himself
near Fort Scott
Mrs Mary Sandbrink fatally shot
DR.. Shep A. Roger and killed her
self at Memphis. Tenn.
B. d. Mills, a Harlan county. Ne
braska bank president. has begun his
five years term in the ''pen."
Northwestern Elevated railway in
Chicago has sued the Daily News for
$500, 900 for libel
W. p. Messener, a second victim OF
the p & g. wreck at Milan. Mo-, Is
dead and Holt Way is likely to die.
John MCGOWAN. j. p, shot his wife
dead ut Bedford, Iowa The couple
had been thrice married aad twice di-
vOrced.
A Missouri fair circuit is proposed,
including such towns as Boonville,
Sedalia, Nevada, Holden, Rich Hill,
| Mexico and Columbia