People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1898-03-18
GnEAN1Nas IN GENERAL.
LONDON, March 10.-George Muller,
the philanthropist, is dead.


the philanthropist, is dead.
LONDON, March lathe failure of
h M Lindsay g. Co., stock brokers. is
announced.
GREEN BAY, Wis, March 14.-Captain
John Dennison, the pioneer shipbuilder,
died today, aged So.
BUDAPEST, March lin duel, just
fought, Deputy Ivanka shot Privy Coun-
cillor Szllavaszky, the governor OF Press
burg, in the knee.
LONDON, March 15.-Mr. Elgate Wen
theim, q stock broker and a well known
South African financier, has committed
suicide by hanging himself.
SEYMOUR, Ind, March 11.-Ex-Con-
gresham Jason B. Brown Of the old
Third Indiana district, is dead Of con-
gestion of the liver, aged 80 years.
LONDON, March 14.-Senor Domingo
Cana, the Chilian minister at Washing
ton, has been appointed minister pleni-
potentiary to the court of st. James.
OMAHA, March 10.-Fire this morning
destroyed the Deadwood and Delaware
snelter and a considerable amount of
resident property. Loss about $3.50, 900
New YORK, March 1O.-Samuel Comp
ers, president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, denounces in vigorous
terms the decision of the Lattimer trial.
BERLIN, March ia dispatch from
Frankfort on Main says Professor Hor-
ace Fem, who formerly resided in the
United States, has committed suicide by
drowning.
HARRISBURG, March 10.-A respite
was granted by Governor Hastings to-
day for go days for Walter Goodwin of
Toga, who was to have been hanged at
Wellsboro March 81.
BERKELY, CAL. March 1o.-Dr. Pep
per, a prominent eastern educator, is
mentioned as q possible successor of
Professor Kellogg as president OF the
University of California.
HONG oNa, March 10.-The British
frstclass cruiser Edgar has been ordered
to Manila. It Is believed this is due to
further activity on the part of the in
surgents in the Philippine islands.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-The senate
committee on interstate commerce today
agreed to recommend the confirmation
of Hon. W. J. Calhoun as interstate
commerce commissioner. There was no
opposition.
CAPE Town, March 14.-Mr. Woolf
Joel, the trustee Of the estate of the late
Barney Barnato, the South African mil
lionaire, was shot and killed in his office
this morning at johannesburg by a for
mer soldier.
DUBUQUE, Ia, March 11.-During a
fight last night between John Earl and
his stepsons Charles Redmond, aged Is,
and William Redmond, aged 10, the old
man was so terribly beaten that he died
today. The boys escaped.
New YORK, March 15.-WilNam J.
F.oerner, the newspaper artist, was SEN
fenced today to Imprisonment for life
for the murder Of Rose Redgate, his
sweetheart, on Sept %, 1896. Koerner's
attorney will appeal from his conviction.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE agri-
cultural department. crop report says:
Wheat in farmers hands, 121, 900, 900
bushels, equivalent to 1919 per cent Of
last years crop; corn, 100000 bush
els, or Ali per cent of last years crop.
ST. LOUIS, March 14.-Chairman Sam
B. Cook of the Democratic state com
mittee has issued call for the state
convention to be held at Springfield
Aug. 10. It will be the largest ever
held by the Democratic party in this
state.
LONDON, March ia dispatch from
Vienna to The Daily Mail says the agra
rian revolt in Hungary is spreading. In
conflict between the peasants and gen
darmes on Sunday, at Duna, Fold
var, two peasants were killed and 40
wounded.
CHICAGO, March 10. - Ex-Assistant
State Attorney E. S. Bottum died today
of Bright's disease. His age was 40
years. MIR. Bottum was CHI. cele-
brated for his successful pro- IA of
Prendergast, the assassin of Carter Fl.
Harrison.
CHICAGO, March TO- Henry Ievison
of Chicago has lifted two lo-pound dumb
bells from his side to arms length above
his head 1900 times in hours and 10
minutes, breaking the record, which
was previously 8 hours. George Siler
was referee.
No declarations against fusion will
count until fusion committeeman is
bounced
SENT FREE TO MEN,