Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10

Gen. Merritt has returned to Wash
ington from his tour Qfainspection of
the southern coast fortii iiffcatiohs, great
ly pleased withsthe conditionsTh he found
s:preyaiiing g. 81 &
There were 251 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
Eended on the i4th, against 233s the week
Eprevious ana 246 in the corresponding
period of 1897. 'r.a;..s.sg..F
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
81 1,541, ,s55,2os, against ST ,2o1, ,7s4,156 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was $50.
In all portions of the country all
signs point to an unprecedented vol
ume of business being done. 81 : s'&'
aAdvicess from Tacoma, WASH, say
that 100000. persons are moving across
Chilkat and White passes toward Klon-
dixie rasG izjs& stR,w tosi@4% ;.t* Al 3
s''"'Kd' Mccoy, of Indiana, champion
middle7weight- pugilist of the. world,
defeated Nick +Burley, of California, in
Hot Springs, Ark, in the second round.,
At a cabinet meeting, in Washington
a reward of 81 500 was offered for the
arrest of the murderers of. Postmaster
Baker at Lake City, S. C. ~.. .,%' q :
Will Jones s(colored) was lynched at;
Lake Cormorant, Miss, by mob for
assaulting colored woman. 1-...1.. .
At Biddeford, Me-, the strike of the
$500 employees of the Pepperel and La
coma cotton manufacturing corpora
tions, which began January II, has been
declared off. ..
President Mckinley has refused a re-
quest fror, the Spanish government
that Consul-General Lee be recalled
from Cuba, and also a request that the
American war ships which have been
designated to carry supplies to Cuba
for the relief of the sufferers there be
replaced by merchant vessels.
The tug Underwater, reported to
have been lost while en- route to Ha-
vana, has reached the Charleston Is.
CO. harbor after a rough passage: -.
Adolph Kraus, ex-president of the
civil service commission; Dudley Win.
ston, Hampstead Washburne and Rob
crt Lilldblom, members, Of the commits
sion, were indicted by the grand jury
in Chicago. on charges of violation Of
the civil service law.
Alfred S: Hea]y, a 25-year-old stem
ographer, killed s16-year-old Libbie
Brauschand at Cedar, Rapids, Ia, and
then killed himself. No cause for the
tragedy IS known.
In a tenement house' fire in Fits
focated and four persons were fatally
burned. '%r@-'@5* .Ss@s.'s''se%
1t ., is announced that So: United
Statesman ships wiH.be at Key West
and vicinity within thesnext'so days. =
Crazed by jealousy C. w. Wood mur-
dered Mrs. Irene.Breider and:afterward
sent bullet through his own brain at
Ottawa, ILL.,. .g .. -.
Adolph L. Luetgert was taken from
the Jail in Chicago to the state prison
at Joliet under life sentence for the
murder of his wife.
DR.. Edwin Klebs, professor of pathol-
ogy and bacteriology in a Chicago med
ical school, has discovered the cause of
yellow fever. sjE - II d.. F.. ~,
Fred Fivecoats and Frank Jackman
were sentenced at Creston, Ia, to i'm
prisonment for life at hard labor for at
tempted trainwrecking. Both are
young men, ,.H2 ~. Z d, 49,. ..! -- .,'
Adrian Braun, a convict in Sing Sing
.(N.sY prison, murdered his wife, who
was paying him a visit. 5.:a1nis ~.n