The Billings gazette., 1899-01-03
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The number Of legal executions il
; E1898 was l09, as against 12S in 1897
Governor Roosevelt of New
York took the oath of office Saturday
noon.
i Two cases Of Asiatic leprosy are re-
ported in Perry county, Ohio, the
afflicted being young women.
i Congress will meet again tomorrow
and about the first matter to be taken
| up will be the Spanish treaty.
j The French ministry of the colonies
deny the report that Dreyfus has em.
barked from Cayenne on his return te
France
/ Negotiations for the payment of On.
ban troops are progressing. The idea
is to advance the money, charging it to
Cuban revenues.
Friars have offered for sale all their
possessions in the Philippines, which
consist of many thousand acres Of the
richest land in the islands.
4 The Old Transylvania university at
l Lexington, KY, which has been estab-
/ lished 100 years, celebrated it's centen-
nial anniversary Sunday in a most fit
ting manner.
l Joseph Vacher, the French Jack,
the Ripper" !" has been guillotined. AL
though only 20 years Of age he is
known to have brutally murdered over
thirty persons
| Orders have been issued by Secretary
Long directing the discharge of a large
number Of men who enlisted fer one
year from ships undergoing repairs at
various navy yards.
According to the statistics compiled
by the Chicago Tribune the loss of life
from various disasters in this country
| between January 1 and the morning Of
December 81, 1898, was 7,345.
Secretary of State Hay has disap-
proved the Scrymser concession grant
ing exclusive cable rights to land cables
in Hawaii for twenty years to the Pa
cific Gable company of New York.
The son of wealthy and influential
resident of Chicago has been arrested
in New York on charge of forgery.
He is at the head of slick gang of
forgers, but has run the end of his rope
Beginning with the first of the year,
a 2-cent stamp will pay the postage OH
any letter of the weight of one ounce
Or less from any part Of the United
States to any part Of the dominion Of
Canada.
Work Oh the battleship Ohio has been
begun at the Union Iron works in San
Francisco. The Ohio will be the
largest ship ever built on the Pacific
coast and one Of three largest ever built
in the American navy
The local office of the Wells Fargo
express at San Antonio, Texas, suffered
a. loss of 100000 a few days ago at the
hands of the driver of the delivery
wagon, to whom the amount had been
intrusted for delivery to firms.
A leading Madrid paper publishes an
interview with Spanish minister,
whose name is not given, which repre-
sents him as declaring that the advent
of the conservatives to power is only
delayed by Senior Sagasta's illness.
Orders have been issued for the dis
patch of additional troops to Cuba to
assist in the maintenance of good gov
ernment there. The orders are ad-
dressed to Maj, Gen. J. H. Wilson,
commanding the first army corps at
Macon, Ga.
Senior Don Matias Romero, Mexican
ambassador to the United States, died
at the embassy in Washington Friday.
He was operated upon last Wednesday
for appendicitis and although the oper-
alton was entirely successful the am
bassador never recovered from the
shock
The California Legislature commenced
it's biennial session yesterday at Sacra-
mento A United States senator to
succeed Stephen M. White will be elect
ed by the legislature this year and as
that body is overwhelmingly republi-
can man from that party will be
chosen.
The transport OLDHAM has sailed from
Savannah, Ga, with the First bat
talon Of the Third Nebraska volun-
teers. bound for Havana, where Ameri-
can soldiers are wanted. The second
and third battalions will leave soon on
the Roumania, which is now undergo
ing repairs.
Grant 9. .Gillett, the departed Kansas
cattle plunger. has written several
letters to persons at Abilene and has in
one lengthy communication given a
story of his cattle deals, his profits and
losses. He says: Il may get tired of
Mexico and come home soon.' The
letters are mailed on the railroad near
the Mexican border.
Among the measures coming before
the North Dakota legislature during it's
session will be one providing for more
stringent divorce laws. A large ele-