The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-05-20
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
JEWS ARE ExIlEO FROM The RUSSIAN
CAPITAL, FOREIGN NOT EXCEPTED.
Harvard Beats Yale in Athletic Soh'e
Coal Operators Take Measures OF Pfote0'
ton Against Unions---Fiiipinos flreo S''
ooo Round. of Am munition, Killed ons'

The French chamber of deputies
has approved the Anglo-French-Nlger-
Nile convention.
Admiral Dewey expects to retain ms
position on the United States fhlIlp-
pine commission.
President Mckinley has sent IN
structions to Gen. Otis to force the
fighting in the Philippines.
Hon. Roswell P. Flower, ex-goyern-
or of New York, died IN Long lSlaii"
Friday. after short illness.
Up to rssA Saturday the railroads
brought in at least 25, 900 visitors u
see the gunboat Nashville, at st. Louis
Harvard won decided victory over
Yale Saturday afternoon IN the ahhual
athletic games at New Haven
The lower house of the Texas leg
stature has adopted the antitrust Ia"
with amendments by an overWheiil
ing vote.
A movement is on foot to present Au
miral Dewey with handsome home III
w ashington, bought with popular
subscriptions.
R;sbon Potter declares Rev. DR..
Briggs will be ordained ON sunday
the day originally fixed for the hp's-
copal ceremony
Major Cuignet of the French army
has been cashiered on account Oh
having divulged the contents OF GER
tain letters to the Petit journal
Gen. Jno. B. Gordon and all the
other officers of the L. {. '. have been
re-eleced, and Louisville has been 1. Sc
lected as the nextplace of meeting.
An explosion occurred in chemical
works in Lancashire, England, killing
four people and badly woundlng TWEEN
tv. The works were totally destroyed
DR.. J. P. Greene, professor of WlI-
liam Jewell College OF Missouri mas
been elected to the presidency OF the
Southern Baptist Seminary of Louis
vile.
China has acknowledged receipt of a
communication respecting the Anglo
Russian agreement, but declares the
acknowledgement in no wise lmpiles
scquiescence.
A collision on the Pennsylvania
and Reading road at Exeter, Pa, Fri
dav. resulted in the death OF twenty
eight passengers and the injury OF fifty
others.
Illinois coal operators, at meeting
held have decided to raise a defense
fund of 81, 900, 600 to protect the mem
bers of the organization in future
trouble with the labor unions.
The Russian government has decided
upon exceptional measures against the
Jews. The anti-Jewish measure was
promulgated Friday, when the stav OF
all-even foreign-Jews was prohibited
in st. Petersburg.
The First Nebraska regiment has
asked to be temporarily relieved at
the front. The men are exhausted
from the severe service. The regl-
ment has lost 225 men, killed and
wounded since Feb. 2.
OF the fifty-six members Of the Fill
pino congress, twenty want peace al
any price" an equal number are ire
conciliable, and the remainder, the bal
snce of power, admit that independ
ence is impossible, but want better
! terms than have been offered.
The Americans have taken San Idle
fonso. The ,Filipinos were so terroriz
ed that, although they fired 20, OOO
rounds of ammunition, they only Sigh
tly wounded one scout. The Ameri
cans killed one insurgent officer anr
yOuned six men