The silver lance., 1898-01-21
rELEoRAPHIc sREvITiEs.

There is glut Of grain at Galveston.
Major Moses P. Handy died on tne
9Th.
Secretary Alger is sick with q low
| fever.
The bubonic plague is raging vioient-
| ly again in Bombay.
Mrs. Ballington Booth is recovering
| from her recent illness.
The Chinese universally resent the
governments concessions to Gerhany'
Another French cruiser has sailed to
reinforce the French feet in Cnlnese
waters.
Th New Bedford spinners, 700 in
number, have voted to strike against
reduction in wages.
John D. Rockefeller is said to have
secured a controlling interest IN tne
Wisconsin Central railroad.
Ex-Representative Mark s. Brewer
of Michigan has been rendered posi-
ton as member of the Civil Service
Commission and will probably accept.
The nephew of King Leopold of Bel
GUM, Prince Albert Leopold, the heir
presumptive to the Belgian throne, VIII
make a long tour of the United States
and Canada.
Some difficulty was experienced IN
dispOsing of the remains of Theodore
Durrant at San Francisco, as several
crematories and cemeteries refused
to receive the body.
A New York delegation called on
President Mckinley the other day to
urge that Turkey be made to come to
time on the payment of damages to
American Missionary Societies.
George l.. Watson has finished the
design for very large steam yacht Tor
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor
of the New York Herald, which will
probably be built on the Clyde.
Railroad Commissioner Reagan OF
Texas, who has been an ayowed candi-
date for United States senator against
Governor Culberson and Senator Mills
has issued a formal card to the public
withdrawing from the race.
Living tortoises, with their backs
covered with jewels, attached by a
gold chain to ladies' dresses, are the
rage in Paris. They cost about $50.
The society for the protection of ami
mails is agitating the matter.
Sir Robert Hart, director of the Chi
nese maritime customs, is negotiating
with the Chinese government for a
loan. The Emperor took the negotia-
tions away from the TsungLi-Yamen
in disgust at the previous failure.
County Judge j. II. Carpenter of
Madison, Wisconsin. has rendered de-
cision, which. If sustained, will have
a sweeping effect. He held that a child
cannot be legally adopted without the
consent Of both parents if living, if the
child has not been abandoned.
By accident at the Creston mine, at
Minas Prietas, Mexico. eight men were
hurled from a height of 500 feet to the
bottom of the shaft. Five were killed
outright, and of the remaining three it
is not expected that any will survive.
The Creston mine has reached depth
of 1,135 feet.
A special dispatch from Cape Town
says Lerothodia, the paramount chief
of Basutoland, has attacked MaOugha
with 1900 men. Numbers are report
ed to have been killed and wounded on
both sides, several villages having been
sacked, the whole country is in fer
ment and all traders are leaving.
Senator Mason will soon prepare and
introduce bill in the Senate providing
for a special appropriation for corn
meal exhibit at the Paris Exposition.
He has taken this means to second the
efforts of our representatives in Europe
in widening the markets for the abun-
dant corn crop of the United States.
An assembly of 1SO representatives
of the Methodist Episcopal Church is
now in session at Washington, for the
purpose of effecting a union of forces
between the branches of the church,
North and South. This assembly con-
sists of three bishops, three ministers
and three laymen from each branch Of
the church.
The new United States revenue cutter
McCulloch has started on a long voy-
age by way of the Suez canal to the Pa
cific ocean and San Francisco. The con-
templated trip, which has attracted con-
siderable attention in maritime circles,
will be 23,O00-mile trip. She expects
to reach San Francisco some time in
the middle Of May
Miss Julia Cling of Minneapolis, the
twin sister of Katherine Cling, the vic
tim of Murderer Harry Hayward, has
lost her suit against the Travellers Ac-
cident Insurance Company, to recover
the face of an accident policy on her
sisters life. Judge McGee held that
the murder was not an accident and
that Miss Cling was not killed in de-
Tending her own life.
Lyman =. Cooley, the well-known
engineer of the Chicago drainage canal.
and other engineers bound for Nicara-
qua, have carefully examined the Gu
Zebra cut, extending from Pedro Miguel
to Bas Obispo. They are unanimous
in admitting the feasibility of the Pan
anna canal along that route, alleging
that the obstacles to be overcome else
where would be greater.
An order for 10000 Of the latest pat
tern of military rifles and 100000
rounds of ammunition has been placed
with the Winchester Arms COMPANY.