Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-02-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

for the gold standard.
 A son of Sheriff. R. r. Sale, of Camden, Ark, has been arrested on a charge of grand larceny.
 The best estimate Of deaths in the wreck of the channel Queen off the island of Guernsey is nineteen.
 It is now believed at Washington that the Senate will vote to annex Hawaii.
 There were three fires at Monroe, La, and 9-year.old negro child was burned to death in one of them.
 Another swindle by Americans in the City of Mexico has been unearth- ed. It involves Q bogus mine in Oaxaca.
 It is believed that Richard Ward, a negro murderer, has been lynebed at Galena, Kan. The body has not been tound
 A decree involving $1,6OO,Oo in the case of the State Trust Gompa- ny vs. the LaFolette Coal and Iron Company has been entered at Knox vile.
 At Waterville, Me-, small houses have been buried under the fall of snow. Milis there and elsewhere are closed because operatives cannot reach them.
 A new cable line via Turk s Island and Bermuda has been open ed, giving this country a competi- tive line to the West Indies.
 Off the coast of New Foundland suffering from cold is terrible. A steamer in distress has been sighted in the midst of ice. A large party of men have been carried off by an ice foe.
 At Gloucester, Mass, the blizzard caused $500, 900 damage. Water in the harbor is strewn with wrecks. It s.known that nine vessels have been wrecked in that locality, and many bodies have been washed ashore.
 SIX people are missing in the AL word House at Gloversville, N. Y, which burned to the ground. The fire started on the lower floor of Che four-story building aud ragged up the stairway, cutting off escape of those on top. Many leaped from windows.
 H. M. Seekins and T. ?. MeCabe, Pacific Express messengers, have been arrested at San Antonio, Tex as, and it is believed that scheme of robbery between St. Louis and San Antonio has been broken up. McCabe confesses.
 Marion Manola Mason seeks to re. cover her 17-year-old daughter, who she says, has been abducted by liar ry Askin, late manager of the Mano- la Mason Theatrical Company. The girl was engaged to marry a neph- ew of Speaker Reed.
 A British steamer had a brush with a native vessel off the Suez coast of Morocco. The Britishers were landing arms. The trouble arose out of an extensive mining monopoly held by British compa- ny.
 Earthquakes near Tehuantepec, Mexico, are becoming alarming. They puzzle scientists. They have continued for a year and something startling is anticipated. There is subterranean noise like a lombard ment, sometimes without disturb ance of the earth's surface. The isthmus has been gradually depress- ing, and it may finally allow the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific ocean to rush together The natives are in a panic.
 A blizzard, the worst in a quarter of century, prevails in New Eng land. All branches of business are paralyzed. Railroads and street cars are blocked. Wires of all kinds are down. Disasters are numerous, along the coast. Eight men went down with coal schoon- CT off Nahant. Live stock suffer greatly, and the loss in this direc- tion is great. The mercury goes as low as 20 degrees below zero. Sixty thousand men are at work clearing snow from the sidewalks of New York.