The silver star., 1898-09-01
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blsm0rck8 estate Is said to aggre
gate about $4,O0O,O0O.
The American Bar Aglociation met at
Saratoga on the 18th.
Naval reserves returling to Detroit
were given a rouslng welcome.
The President and Cabinet will re.
view Skaters army at Montauk Point.
Seven men were killed by falling
earth In railroad tunnel near Pitts
burg.
Spanish soldiers are reported to have
killed many defenseless people In Porto
Rico.
Fully 125,OOO New Yorkers went 10
Staten Island Sunday to see the war
ships.
Printers Of the country threaten to
strike for nine-hour work day In Oc-
tober.
The first coaches for the Alaskan
railway were shipped from Seattle Sat-
urday.
President Mckinley has cabled his
congratulations to Admiral Dewey and
General Merritt.
Miss Clara Barton has gone to Ha-
vana to investigate the needs of the
Cubans thereabouts.
Minstrel Manager Haverly has be-
come bankrupt again, this time with
liabilities Mt 1927, TAO.
Fighting is reported in remote por-
tions Of the Philippine islands be4weeI
Spaniards and insurgents.
Miss Helen Gould has given $4,000
to purchase food and delicacies for the
In
Wikoff.
Five sons of n farmer. living near
Minneapolis, who were sleeping in the
barn were burned to death by fire
started by lightning.
The new torpedo boat destroyer,
Farragut, just launched by the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco, made
thirty knots an hour.
The British government has directed
the governor of Hong Kong to accept
Admiral Dewey's application for per-
mission to dock and clean his ships ut
Hong Kong.
The Pullman Car Company is report
cd to have offered the government n
good price for the Fort Russell reser-
walton, near Cheyenne, for use as a
site for large car repair shops.
The firm OF Solomon G. Koppel of
Bogota are financiering the payment of
the unsettled portion of the Cerruti
claim, the arrangements to culminate
at the expiration OF eight months.
The President has promoted Captain
Charles d. Slgsbee. u. 8. N, now CON-
manding the st. Paul, by advancing
him three numbers on the list of cap
talns in the navy for ''extraordinary
heroism."
London adviccs on the 22nd showed
thnt silver was very strong on a re-
newed demand from Spain. The New
York quotation accordingly advanced
over Saturday from 59H to SOY. A
continued upward movement is looked
for.
1t is the opinion of the officials OF the
Treasury Department that there will be
no necessity for another bond issue
growing out Of the war, and that the
present revenue law, with possibly
slight notifications, should be retained
ON the statute books for an indefinite
period.
The attorney general has rendered an
opinion In which he holds that word
goods In the new war revenue meas
ures, as applied to packages sent by
express or freight, includes packages
of money, and, therefore, the bill Of
lading given the sender must have c
revenue stamp affixed thereto.
A New York dispatch says that Ted.
dy Roosevelt will be tho Republican
nominee for governor this fall. This
was practically decided upon Mt n
meeting Of the leaders Of the Platt ma
chine Monday afternoon. 1t was hard
dose for Mr.. Plat, but Roosevelt Is
regarded a. the only Republican who
can win.
The largest American nag In the
country, its dimenaons being sixty by
100 feet, was nung to the breeze at Ty-
rome, Pennsylvauia, last week, in the
presence Of q vast concourse. The nag
floats nifty feet above Juniata river,
suspended between two mountain tops
from q galvanized wire cable, half an
inch thick, stretched from peak to
peak. $500 feet.
Two private soldiers Of Battery X.
Seventh United States artillery, were
instantly killed and two others serious.
ly injured by having their heads
crushed against the Iron girders Of the
railway bridge at the Ridge Avenue
crossing Of the Pennsylvania railroad
III AthoUClIpulus no AhACA WtEG W0vs
Ing adleua to the crowds, and leaning
far out Of the car windows.
A London paper says that tho Rus
Sian government ID providing thou
sands Of Moujiks who have completed
their three years. military service, with
Inducements Of free passage, an OUTFIT
such ~ horse. cows, oxen and imple-
ments and q loan, repayable ON easy
installments, to emigrate to China and
form colonies, thus forming . splendid
available fighting contingent II neccs-
9ary.
Coincidsnt with tho West Indian
sugar conference TO assemble at Bar.
BADGES on September Ord, for the pur.
pose Of protesting against . sacrifice
Of the colonies, jamaica is preparing d
plebiscite to the British Parliament,
requesting permission TO endeavor 10