Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ool INC ID doOub GO De SeLJleQ. The Kentucky Legislature con vened and organized without in- cident.
 There may be war between the countries composing the Greater Republic of Central America.
 Jurisdiction of the Federal courts has been extended over the Indian Territory without friction.
 Letter, oi Chicago, is said to have unloaded 8,75O,0oO bushels of cash wheat. It is for export.
 At St. Louis many warrants are out for persons accused of smuggl- ing cigars from Mexico.
 There are reports of gold dis coyeries in Labrador equal to those ofthe Klondike.
 Capt. Richard Mcknight, promi- nent Populist of Jackson, Tena., is dead.
 Italy does not expect to combine with Great Britain in the Chinese enterprise.
 Texarkana printers are out on a strike, owing to an effort to reduce compensation.
 Edward Clifford, a detective, was in Jersey City sentenced to hang for the murder of railway superin- tendent.
 A German professor of embry- ology claims to have made dis eovery by which the sex of offspring can be controlled
 Reduced wages have gone into effect in 8 great many New England cotton mills. There will likely be strikes at some places.
 There is misunderstanding as to the privileges granted by the Nicaraguan government to rival canal concerns.
 There is friction between this government and the Greater Repub- lie of Central America, and it is likely that Minister Rodriguez will not be sent here again.
 Prospect of whipping reealcitrant Ohio, Republicans in line for Mark Hanna are not bright They seem to have burned the bridge behind themselves.
 Miss May Thompson, of Dallas, Tex, visiting at Leroy, N. brood ing over prospect of insanity, satur- ated herself and clothing with kero- sene and applied match. She will probably die.
 Railroad attorneys appeared be- lore the Texas Railway Commission and genteelly roasted that body for oppression Of the roads, and lively war is expected to be the outcome.
 A locomotive explosion on the Cincinnati Southern road, near Har- riman, Tenn, killed two men and derailed a train. Engineer Lime han and Fireman Denham are the dead. Two locomotives were at tached to the train,
 Republican legislators of Mary land caucused on organization of the Legislature, and a serlods split developed. There is opposition to the election of McComas as suc- cessor of German. There may be a combine with the Democrats, as in Ohio.
 0. c. Moore, alias Charles F. Aycock, promoter of the gold min ing interests at Reelfoot Lake, has been arrested charged with forgery and embezzlement. He was treasur- CT of Boone county, Ark, and is said to have got away with $3, 200 of school fund and $2, 800 from his bondsmen.
 Owing to the charges against and investigation of the acts of Grand Commander James N. Stubbs, of the Confederate Veterans of Vlginia, there is danger of a duel between Gen. George J. Hunly and Col. John Cussons. Gen. Hunley has been placed under arrest. An express car on the Kansas City, Pittsburg < Gulf road was robbed early Tuesday evening in side the corporate limits of Kansas City. The robbers entered the car as it pulled out of the depot, over powered and gagged Messenger E..