The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-12

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Il WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IL, 1898
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Japan's population at the beginning
is of 1897 was 42.7O2,6o4, IN increase OF
E 431644 in one year.
war is on in Kansas between
preachers and civil service officers over
the fees charged for performing the
marriage ceremony
Three packages OF yellow fever serum
u have been received from South America
DOR experiments by the United States
Marine Hospital service.
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The United States gunboat Concord
has left San Francisco. After touching
( at Honolulu for coal she will proceed
81 to join the Chinese fleet. t
General Gomez thinks Cuba Is Will
ing to buy her liberty at the price of
$3.50 100000, borrowing from American
4 capitalists and mortgaglng the island
TO them.
10 Ex-President Cleveland, owing to
4 press of business, has resigned the POSI-
ton of trustee of the New Jersey His
Z horical Society, but will continue to be
81 a. member Of tho society.
With Greater New, York in control of
platform Democrats and with Mr.. Wat
serson back in the party, we ought to
/ have very elegant New Year poiti-
q cally, says the Atlanta Constitution.
81 The boys packed the galleries yes
ter;t,y to chster on Grosvenor.
4 ana The Indianapolis News says
y tacy remind one OF a. lot OF crows slit
& ting on fence waiting for an opDortu
nifty to descend upon The fields.
Certain Bro eklyn saloon keepers have
y bean Brought 10 book for selling cheap
and watered whislley out of bottles
igthat bore rse labels of reliable Ken
tucSy brands. Any man who destroys
Kentucky whiskey byswatering 1t ought
Ito lie brought TO book.
24$ The Savannah News says that an IL
Z lustration OF THE vast difference be-
tween words and deeds Is presented
d in the Ohio Senatorial fight. Some time
4 ol-a,.p
new Foraker is proceeding to do that
very same thing to Hanna.
France is said to he preserving an ex-
peotant attitude toward China; proba-
/. hungry dog who has just made up his
i mind to kill sheep and is expecting his
master to leave in a few moments, OBJ
A serves the Lancaster Examiner.
81 f Il General Weyler's repeated predic-
1. ton is verified, and war breaks out
4 between the United States and Spain.
Y It is to he hoped that the Madrid gov
eminent compels him to fight, instead
4 Of permitting him to loaf around the
4 palace. as he did at Havana, observes
& The Boston erald 81 is372i
Ed. Il, Murphy, i.of Ashland, Mo-, has
3 Just has decision in the courts rem
y dered, giving him his own farm The
\ farm lay on the north side OF the river.
s8ss A flood came, the freacherous current
Il changed, and he found It on the south
4. side. George AZ. Butcher, who owned
~ the djoining farm, claimed title by ac-
* az cresIon,$ and Murphy was compelled to
bring suit to recover MS own proper
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552 n ISxSMayor Strong, Of New York,
$ 4 & anent the talk of investi gating the re-
form administrat ion. fsays:#'If there
81 has been. q nyt hing wrong In the city
n apartments during my al al administration,
y s5 say go ahead and find II or, AMI If
any Thing - found snail be very
IL much q isapp ointed ;sbRt { q dollar has
spris ttt I. the yrons pa cket, let the fact
one sosit .ss They g going ~ examine
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