Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-02-12
NEWS BRIEFS.

l
 rich vs. Plowman from Alabama was called in the House.
 salter D. worden, convicted of wrecking a train during the strike of 1891, has confessed. His confession covers 3.60O words.
 Thirteen Americans are in jail in Mexico charged with being implicat- ed in the murder of Mexican in the mines al Herm osilla.
 American fruits are admitted to Germany, but live plants are barred out.
 The Tennessee prison commission has purchased q brick plant and chair factory for the employment of convicts.
 The British Parliament will, in Q few days, be apprised of all facts in connection with the Chinese loan matter.
 Zola's trial is in progress at Paris and the populace are greatly excited. The Military were called into the court yesterday to quell disturb ances.
 A party of Scandinavians from the Northwest are on their way South to find a location for large colony of their compatriots.
 The Kentucky Senate has appoint ed @ committee to draft q reply to Senator Lindsay. The Republican members refused to participate in the business.
 I Arrangement of the details of the tariff treaty with Spain will be talk en up soon. The general lines have been agreed upon.
 Cuban agents claim to have a let ter written by Senor de Lome, the Spanish Ambassador, describing Me Kinley as a low character. De Lome pronounces it a forgery.
 Consul Barker, at Sagua La Grande, writes to Mississippi friend a narrowing sketch of thecon- ditions existing in the neighborhood of his consulate.
 The Havana press has been in structed to boom autonomy, on pain of suppression in case of failure Not even q joke at the expense oi autonomy will be allowed.
 When Emile Zola was being remov- ed from the courtroom Tuesday evening an attempt was made to mob him. The officers in charge fl nalIy got him away only by q ruse.
 Hodgeman, absconding treasurer of the Chicago Building, Trades Coun : cfl, has been caught in the Britisf northwest territory on his way tC the Klondike. He will be brough back. He got away with $25, 1000.
 The quarantine convention of tn , South Atlantic and Gulf States me in Mobile yesterday. Several Gov ernors and many other notables, in } cludlng sanitation experts, were eS l pected.
 ) Charles Donaldson, q painter b! trade, vendor of patent medicine is held at Moulton, Ala. for the poi soning of a woman who died afte : taking a dose of his connection } There is much mystery about the ac , cused.
 Capt. Ray and Lieut.. Richardson U. S A, had hard time standing off lot of ruffians at Dawson City The mob proposed to capture ant sack a couple of coaches, but the off eers stood them off with a couple o United States flags. The Marquis of Salisbury made , statement in the House of Lord anent the Chinese question whicl seems to be satisfactory. He state that none of the Chinese ports vii be closed to commerce. which wa the sole point of British contention.
 In an interview, Madame Dreyfu relates that Major Paty du Clam vis ited her on seventeen successive dayl after the arrest of her husband anC by cajolery and threats tried to ex tort admissions from her that would convict her husband. She declares her husband never made q confei sion, for he hadnothing to confess.
 Two thousand dental students en gagged in battle with the Chicago police yesterday. Students of riva schools engaged in a snowball fight and when the police tried to stoI them they joined forces and sailed into the cops. Riot calls were made from all the Chicago police stations l Twenty-Five students were arrested Four students and two officers wer, badly hurt.
 Camille Lopez, Mexican, was i'm prisoned in the Kansas penitentiarS for Il thirty-year term for murder The matron of the penitentiary took an interest in him, and for three