The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-12-17
THE GIST OF THE NEWS.
A SUMMARY OF THE WORLDS IMPORT
ANT HAPPENINGS.
Gen. Garcia Seriously nl...Tobacco Com
pany Incorporated...Col. Bryan to Re.
sign...Accident to the Battleship Massa-
chusetts-..Other Items of Interest.

mark, ILL.,, shot ghl and then killed
himself Saturday.
Forty-seven applicants. passed the
examinations for admission to the llll-
nois bar at Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, last week.
The Anglo-American Commission
considered the reciprocity questions
Monday.
Capt. Dominick Palmieri, promi-
nent citizen of Houma, La, committed
suicide Saturday.
The Chicago milk trust is now an
assured fact. The organization will
have capital of $40, 00O,OOO
The treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain was signed at
Paris Saturday.
Senator Hoar says if this country
takes the Philippines the downfall OF
the republic will date from the Nc
Kinley administration.
An accident occurred to the battle
ship Massachusetts off Governors Is
land shortly after she left the Brooklyn
Navy Yard Saturday.
The Texas Quarantine Convention
decided to ask the Legislature OF that
State to create State Board OF
Health.
William Hutchings, Of Free Soil,
Mich, killed John Hunt, his brother
in-law, Mrs Hunt and their hired man
and then cut his own throat Saturday.
In an interview the Pope expresses
the opinion that the United States, be-
ing great nation, will be generous
with the weak, meaning Spain.
Miller won the six-day bicycle race
| in New York, covering 2OO7 miles,
beating all records by twenty-four
miles.
All on account OF a dog, two neigh
bors at Shattuc, ILL.,, fought with fists
and pistols. None of the injuries are
dangerous.
Mrs. Barron, of Springfield, Mo-,
was terribly burned while vainly try
ing to save her baby, which was
burned to death.
Articles of incorporation OF the Con-
! tinental Tobacco company were filed
in New Jersey Saturday. Capital
stock, $75,00O,0OO.
The noted Cuban filibustering steam
ship Laurada is again in trouble. She
is now charged with smuggling whis
key in Alaska.
DR.. Leon Barthault saw and talked
with Capt. Dreyfus in his prison a
Devils Island. The famous prisoner
does not despair, but is weary of thu
ordeal to which he is being subjected
Gen Calxito Garcia is still serious
| ly ill at his hotel, in Washington, ant
his recovery is very. doubtful. Th'
members of the Cuban commission arr
continuing the work without him.
The president has notified tn
customs officers of Cuba, Porto Rice
and the Philippines to admit for fire.
entry Christmas presents for the sold
iers.
Arrangements are being completed
to have at the reunion General 10
Wheeler's old cavalry brigade in tn
celebration of the jubilee next week
Veterans will act as escort for tn
doughty little warrior.
} Col. William Jennings Bryan, col
onel of the Third Nebraska regiment
now at Savannah, has either forward
ed his resignation to Washington or i
about to do so. Of this there seem
to be no doubt.
Mrs. Lula Johnston of Pond Greek
Okla. is in Jail at Pond Creek, Kan.
: and will be tried December Is on tn
charge of poisoning her sixth husban
, at Lawrence, Kan, in May. She
> also accused of poisoning half brothe
= in Sumner county, Kan, last July.
Mrs. Wallace Kenyon, of Elgir
ILL.,, while insane, gave strychnine t
one of her twin sons, aged 2 years
and he died in agony. She said tina
u she intended killing the other chill
: and herself, but the babes cries TEN
u porarily restored her reason and sh
exerted herself to save him.
4 The Cuban commission in Washing
ton had a conference with Attorney
y General Griggs Saturday. They re
!. ceived q cablegram that Gen. Rui
Rivera, who was taken prisoner
f Cuba by the Spaniards and sentence
+ to life imprisonment on the island {
Ceuta. had been liberated and woul
arrive at New York Sunday by
French steamer.
Cabinet Crisis in Spain.