The silver lance., 1898-04-22
TELEGRAPHiC BREviTIES,

The Cuban junta declares that only
S1,OOO.OO0 in Cuban bonds have been
sold.
Colonel J. J. McCook denies that he
has any interest in Cuban bonds or
finances.
The Southern Pacific pattern store
house at Sacramento burned, causing a
loss Of over $5OO,OOO.
Officers had a fight with cattle
rustlers south Of Cerrillos last week
and captured one Of them.
The South and Central America re-
publics will recognize Cuban independ-
ence If the United States leads.
Emile Zola and NJ. Perrieux will be
civilly prosecuted for libel by the ON
GERS of the Esterhazy court martial.
Spain has settled the German claims
no account of the Cannahaba outrage
by agreeing to pay Germany $S5,OOo.
The Philippine island insurgents are
more active than ever and spanish
troops there are unable to snbdue them.
Commander Harrison, of the Illinois
naval militia, has been offered the
command of a monitor by the war de-
partment.
During the recent Turkish massacres
in Anatolla, Turkey, forty churches
were destroyed and 10000 children
were made orphans.
Governor Pingree's bill for increas-
ing the taxes on railroads failed to pass
the Senate by two votes. II had passed
the House by an almost unanimous
vote.
The Richard Ashworth herd Of cat
tie ranging on the Gray Bull river. Wy
oming, has been sold tc the Murphy
Cattle Company for $50 head. The
herd numbers 5000.
Charles Crane, late state Republican
chairman of Utah, has left that party.
Rev. p. Smith, priest Of st. Stanls-
laus' Cathedral at Modesto, California
died in the pulpit last Sunday.
Several dispatches from Madrid say
that advices from the Philippine is
lands report that the rebellion there is
increasing and that 10000 rebels are
now under arms. Trouble is feared at
Manila
An order for 10000 blouses, besides
number of shirts. drawers, etc, has
been received at the quartermaster's
d
dred and fifty extra seamstresses have
been employed.
The Pekin correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: The extension OF
British territory at Kau-Lung. opposite
Hong Kong, will follow Immediately
after the French occupation of the new
coaling station at Kwang-Chau-Wan
A burglar who blew open the safe OF
the Farmers Bank at Sheridan, Iowa,
has been identified in a new way. A
chemical analysis of the notes stolen
reveals the effects of gases generated
by the nitroglycerine used by the burg
lar.
The Armenian Patriarch has sent to
the Turkish relief committee list Of
forty churches wholly or nearly de-
stroyed during the recent massacres in
Anatolia. He fixes the number of Or
phans whose parents were killed, at
10000
The Anglo Egyptian forces, under
the Sirdar, General Sir Herbert Kitch-
ener, attacked the Dervish position at
TAO Friday morning and rushed NAH
moud's zariba to the center Of the for
tifications without check. The attack
was entirely successful and the Der
wishes lost heavily. Mahmoud himself
was captured.
The sixty-eighth annual conference
Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints convened in the Tabernacle
at Salt Lake City on the 9Th, with 1000
saints, including nearly all Of the gen.
eral authorities of the church, In at
tendance. President George Q. Cannon
in his opening address said that there
are LOO missionaries in the field.
Mr.. Gladstone has finally become re-
signed to the abandonment of his lit
erary work, and though it has deeply
grieved him, he will give up writing
his biography and will end his six
months devoted to it on 1.-The Early
Fathers" In a letter to his publisher,
couched in spirit of heroic resigna-
tion, Mr.. Gladstone says he is no longer
able to read or write. The old states
man continues his affectionate leave
takings of old friends. To one Of the
latter Mr.. Gladstone said: mo doubt
l have suffered good deal during the
last six months, but then 1 had 176
months almost without pain"