Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-15
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Ladysmith realizes for the first time that
war is good deal of Boer.
| Lord Kitchener has issued a series of
| Soudan laws settling land questions and
| regulating the sale of alcohol. No liquor Is
| to be sold without license costing $780,
Ex-Mayor Stokley estimates that the city
of Philadelphia will need to expend 81 600 900
more to complete It's big marble city hail.
and there will be nothing left of this sum
to provide the furniture required in the
added rooms
Lieutenant Brumby, who was Dewey's flag
officer after the latter was made an admiral
is a second cousin OF former Vice President
Adlai e.. Stevenson. His father was West
Point graduate and distinguished himself in
the Seminole war.
Grand Sire Alfred S. Pinkerton claimed at
the banquet of the Veteran Odd Fellows
association in Boston that there are ,OO0, 900
Odd Fellows on this continent, and that 90
per cent of the army in the Philippines are
members of that order.
Nathaniel Hawthorne appreciated his pub
Usher, James T. Fields. Somehow or
other" he once wrote to him, "you smote
the rock OF public sympathy in my behalf
and stream gushed forth in sufficient
quantity to quench my thirst, though not to
drown me-"
The Wichita Eagle says that General Fred
Funston looked out of the car window at a
small town in western Kansas and saw a
seething mass of humanity at the depot to
do him honor. Turning to his wife he said:
Two years ago l lectured to an audience
of seven in this town"
On top OF the agreement OF the powers as
to Samoa comes the announcement not only
Of Germany's strict neutrality in the South
African war, but of the German emperor's
order that no officer OF his army shall 60
to the war as participant, and that every
thing be done to prevent ex-oficeTs from
going.
The political code OF California demande
that employers shall give their employees two
consecutive hours on general election days
to enable them to vote. and that without
reduction OF wages. The supreme court OF
the state has decided that a special election
ls general election within the meaning OF
this statute.
The suit for damages for libel brought by
James j. Phelan against the New York
World for certain charges made by that
paper against the plaintiff as a dock COM
missioner of New York has resulted in a
verdict for the plaintiff The jury awards
him damages to the amount OF cents. He
asked for $4,000,
Oficers OF the judge advocate generals de-
partment are said 10 have protested 50
much against the constant committing OF
sentences imposed by military court-mar-
tial that the president has decided not to
interfere In the cases OF the four privates
sentenced to death in Manila for assaults
on Filipino women. The need CT carrying
out such sentences in order to maintain
discipline appears to be conceded by all con-
cerned
We Ting Fang the first Chinese minister
TO America able to converse in English |
has already begun to pay the penalty for
such knowledge. He has been interviewed |
by a reporter concerning his opinion n
American women. and being as yet |
stranger 10 the particular brand of di-
plomacy needed in such cases. he said that |
"gentleness is not American quality" |
and that he prefers the women OF China TO |
those OF this country.