The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1899-02-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
News Notes From Every Part Of
the Civilized World.

Inc BrltlSn Jnlfu-ClhSS CrnlSer dur-
anga has started for Samoa.
The Bank of England has reduced its
rate of discount from to 81 per cent.
Marcio Garcia, a son of the late Cen
eral Calixto Garcia, has entered Union
College, Schenectady, N. Y.
The laying of the keel OF the new
battleship Maine has been completed
at Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia.
Raphael MOTTO, eleven years old, wit
messed bank robbery scene in Mount
Vernon, N. Y. theatre and len robbed
local bank.
The bank of Arthur, Ill, was robbed
of 81, 600 by six men who overpowered
the night watchman, bound and gagged
him, and tied him in back room.
A bid Of S34, 600 has been made for a
seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
This is only $500 under the record
price of S34, 500 in 1881.
Sir Henry Irving announces that he
will appear with Miss Terry in Sardou's
"Robespierre" at the Lyceum Theatre;
London, early in April.
Scientists found hidden tubes for COM
pressed air in the walls and floors OF
keeley's laboratory and expressed opin-
ions that his alleged motor was hum
bug.
AS result of free fight in and near
the Ann Arbor Opera House, fonr stu
dents of the University of Michigan are
in Jail on charge of disorderly con-
duct
Ex-Major Esterhazy, who received
safe conduct to return to France to
testify in the Dreyfus revision proceed
ing before the Court of Cessation, has
arrived at Paris.
The public works and property OF
the island of Cuba have been trans
ferred to the various departments OF
the Cabinet announced by Governor
General Brooke.
Officers and crew OF the steamer
Glendower, who were rescued at sea in
gale by the Menominee, were brought
into the port of New York by that
steamer.
DIR. Lapponi, the Pope's physician
says that the constitution of his Holi-
ness is the strongest he has ever known
and predicts that the Pope will live to
see the twentieth century.
The Panama Railway laborers are on
strike to enforce their demand for COM
In consequence shipping is at stand.
still and business is suspended.
1t is reported that New York finan-
ciers have secured options on all street
car systems of ST. Louis except the
Suburban. Brown Brothers, bankers,
are said to have organized the deal.
Bank notes to the amount of 960,610
vanished from PARIS Bank, London.
The. loss of the money was apparently
due to an extremely clever theft, the
notes having been taken from drawer.
John DAILY, the Irish political prison
er, who was released from Portland
Prison in 1896, has been elected Mayor
of Limerick by a unanimous vote under
the new Irish Local Government Act.
Details of the combination of copper
interests show that nearly all the min
ing companies of the country have
Joined under the financial management
of the men who control the Standard
Oil Company.
Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish soldier,
who was sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment by Spanish courtrmartial
for killing an officer who was beating
him, has been pardoned by Governor
General Brooke.
1t is said that China will send COM
mercial commission to Europe and
America in March. If the commission
reports favorably commercial agencies
will be established in the important
foreign cities in 1900.
A bill was introduced in the Maine
Legislature authorizing the incorpor-
alton of the American Ice Company,
with a capital stock of 100000, 900, half
of which is preferred and the other
common stock.
Captain Sea lttebury, of the British
steamship Art lur Head, which arrived
at Galveston, Tex, from Port Limon
without a consular bill of health, has
paid the Collector of Customs there the
maximum fine of S., 900.
Gov. L. G.. Smith has appointed John
Henry Watson, of Bradford Sixth AS
sociate Judge OF the Vermont Supreme
Court to fill the vacancy on the bench
arising from the appointment of Chief
Justice Ross as United States Senator.
r The British first-class battleship Col
lingwood came into collision with the
British third-class cruiser Curacao in
Plymouth Sound. The Curacao was
seriously damaged in her starboard
side, and had to call tugs to her assist
ance.
A pipe in one of the large stills OF
the Standard Oil Works in Olean,
N. Y, exploded, setting fire to the gas
that is always plentiful on top of the
stills and scattering the oil over the
adjacent works. The loss is about
800, 900.
The newspaper America, published
at Manila, has been suppressed by Gen.
Otis, upon the complaint of the German
Consul, for publishing an article alleg-
ing that the German residents of Ma
nila were giving pecuniary assistance
to the Filipino cause.
The President has asked Congress to
vote thanks and gold medals to Lieu.
tenant d. Fl. Jarvis and Il. p. Bartholl
and DIR. Samuel ]. Cobb, of the revenue
cutter Bear, who took reindeers over.
land TO the imperiled whalers in the
Arctic last year.
At'the regular meeting OF the Board
of Directors of the Manhattan Railway
of New York William ]. Fransioli
handed In his resignation as general
manager of the road. Mr. Fransiol
has accepted an executive position with
the American Air Power. Company.
George Dixon met and defeated
Young Pluto at the Lenox Athletic
Club; New York, before large crowd
The bout was to have been a twenty
round contest, but the men did not gc
the limit, As Dixon knocked his mar
out in the tsath round.
Lucky Baldwin has decided to pui
nm an eight-stOry fireprOof building or