, 1899-12-07
TEL ECRAPH ITEMS.

Nv tOLll-fllllt li FA'A'
country have formed an antitrust so
riety.
The ministry of Chile has resigned
owing to differences concerning the
currency question.
1t is reported that Cecil Rhodes has a
large balloon ready at Kimberley In
which 10 escape if the Beers capture
the town. His life is not worth a cent
If the Beers get him.
Ii Hung Changes appointment as
minister of commerce, already cabled,
is regarded as distinctly a step in the
right direction, and as likely to tend TO
improve greatly foreign commercial re-
lations with China.
The st. Petersburg correspondent Of
the London Ma asserts that the Rus
sian and Persian governments nave
signed an agreement ~prOlonging for ten
years Russia's railway construction
monopoly in Persia.
The ancient single turreted monitor
Passaic, which originally formed a
part of Admiral F~arragut's ironclad
squadron, is to be sold for junk. Ever
since her hostile operations against
Southern ports, thirty-siN years ago,
h has been rusting away at the naval
station at Pensacola.
Advices from Tokyo indicate hat
Japan is putting forth every effort to
get its military and naval establish
melt in condition for effective service.
The war budget has been increased to
S3OO,OOO,OOO-an unprecedented ex-
penditure. Arsenals are being erected
ut Yokohama, Osaka II Nagasaki.
Brevet-C Colonel Sir Francis Reginald
Wingate, with an Egyptian force OF D
o men, forced 5000 dervishes led by
Ahmed Fedil to give battle n few days
ago. The British loss was n officer
mortally wounded and two men slight
ly injured. The dervishes lost 400 KILL
ed. besides n considerable number of
prisoners.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua, ac-
cording to a private letter from Blue
fields, has notified the Roman Catholic
authorities that hereafter he will re-
quire for state purposes one-half their
ecclesiastical receipts. The exactlon
creates intense Indignation among the
priests of the republic, who must sub
init temporarily, although h matter
Is very likely to inspire n revolution.
The battlefield of Breeds Hill, south
of kenesaw mountain, Tennessee,
where the Fourteenth army corps made
such n brave charge to victory during
the civil war, will 500 be purchased
by the survivors of the Eighty-sixth
regiment of Illinois volunteers. The
regiment will improve the battlefield
II ask the state to erect a monument,
and 1t will then be turned over to the
government as n national park.
The War Department has requested
that twelve more army secretaries OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
be sent with the troops to Manila.
When the twelve men under the new
order have sailed there will be fifteen
army Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton secretaries in the Philippines. Miss
Helen Gould of New York has contrib
uted the larger portion of the money
Tor the maintenance of this special
work.
Mayor Jones of Toledo has made n
sworn statement of his campaign eX-
penses. He says he incurred no ex-
penses within the provisions of the
Garfield corrupt practice act. He fur
ther attirms that his total personal ex-
penses in the campaign amounted to
$500. which sum with ST.S66. account
ed FOR by the secretary of the non
partisan campaign committee, includes
every dollar, direct or indirectly, OK
pended in his campaign.
The Armenian patriarch at CONSTANT
nople, who recently resigned his office
n only resumed it when the sultan
promulgated an trade commanding sub
stanual and f~ar-reaching reforms in
the treatment of Armenians. has com
planned to the sultan thai the edict in
question Is a dead letter, that bloodshed
In Armenia still continues. The sui
tan a issued supplementary orders.
commanding the strict execution of all
the provisions Of the trade.
AT the Eastern Indiana Normal Uni
versity at Muncie, Clarence X. DAYTON
was Initiated into the mysteries OF
class societies. Wagon aXel grease was
smeared all over his body and his
clothing was torn of in shreds and an
electric battery was applied. The
shock was so great that his sense of
hearing has been DESTROYED and ,he
young mans condition is dangerous
Another candidate was tied to n tomb
stone In the cemetery and remained
there all night.
A storm OF Indignation has been
aroused at Havana by the apnointmant
of Mgr. Donatus Sbaretti, auditor Of
the apostolic delegation at Washington.
as bishop OF Cuba. The press protests
bitterly against what it terms an '.im-
polite and aggressive resolution on the
part OF the pope. Patria. the organ of
the Cuba national party, asks If there
Is not some Cuban who could have
been appointed. 1t advises the Roman
Catholic people Of Cuba to ENTER nm
energetic protest against the outrage"
Truth that Emperor VIII
liam has achieved one of the objects of
his visit to England in having induced
queen Victoria to give n conditional
promise to visit the Prussian court dur
ing thelast week in April. She will tray
ell 1t appears, from North Italy to Ger.
many by The st. Gothard tunnel and
VIII he Germany's guest for several
lays ut C0blentz or Potsdam. Her
ma1estys visit viii be entirely private.
Inere Will be no receptions, reviews or
other wearisome functions.
A Brooklyn concern known nc ,ho
FRANKLIN syndicate has just gone 10
the wall as II result of the exposure ~
Its Illegal methods. The manu-
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