The Taney County republican., 1899-09-28

remains.
The naval engineers haye projected
plans for the new battieships which.
if adopted, will provide an entirely
novel type for the navy. The purpose
is to have these ship combine in Them
selves the good qualities of both bat
tleships and armored cruisers.
AS the result of a dispute over 8 suit
of clothes in Chicago, on the 18th, Mar
tin WaIgren, bookkeeper, was killed,
and Theodore Walgrcn and George
Clark slightly wounded by Fred Fish
er, a tailor. Fisher use0 a knife, and
claimed he acted in self defense.
The Chicago & Alton Railroad Co
filed with the recorder of deeds of
Sangamon county, Illinois. on the goth,
a mortgage for $55,O0U.9Oe to the Illi-
nois Trust and Savings Bank of Chica-
60, on all their lines of railroad, sta
tions, terminal holdings, equipment,
etc.
The pope, while receiving the pill
grims from TOulon, France, on the
18th, announced his intention to ad-
dress a letter to the French nation
urging an immediate pacification for
the sake of humanity and SO as not to
compromise the success of the Paris
exposition.
The strike in Havana has assumed
serious proportions. 1t is now esti-
mated that there are 10000 striking
masons, painters, carpenters, cartmen
and laundry workers, and if, as is
threatened, the hackmen, stevedores
and cigar makers go out, they will add
another 1000.
A dispatch from Rennes, France, on
the 10th, said that Capt. Dreyfus had
been pardoned by Presto. mt Loubet
and was believed TO have already left
the city. The report of :he pardon,
though bitterly denounced by the anti
Dreyfusard press, created no excite
ment in Paris.
Hon. Bartlett Tripp, American MEM
ber of the Samoan commission, WAS
entertained at dinner in Washington,
on the 10th, by the German minister,
Mr.. Won Mumm. Mr.. Leigh, special
correspondent for the London Times.
who is on his way home from the Sa-
moan islands, was also present.
A message from the Uintah Indian
agent received in Washington, on the
10th, said that courie.-s sent out from
the agency reported that none of the
Uintah Indians had left their resera-
tiOn. He therefore expressed the opin-
ion that if there are any Indians hunt
ing in Colorado they must be from an
other tribe.
The military authorities at San
Francisco are taking every precau-
tion to prevent an outbreak of small
pox among the men of the. Thirty-first
infantry, one of ITS members having
been stricken with Il suspicious sick.
ness. On the 10Th the entire regiment
was transferred to the quarantine sta
tion on Angel island.
Secretary Root received telegram
from Gen. Otis, On the 10Th, that
seemed to indicate IL weakening on the
part of the insurgents in LuZon. 1t
contained n proposition TO deliver the
American prisoners who have been for
SO many months in the hands of the
insurgents and also sought permission
to parley with Gen. Otis.
The German government has en-
phatically informed President Kruger
that he need expect no assistance in
the event of war with Great Britain
and that the German consuls in the
Transvaal have been instructed in in
form Germans who volunteer their
help that they will be aiding President
Kruger at their own risk.
The tabulated statistics Of the board
of charities of San Juan de Porto Rico
show that out of population of 916.-
S94 there are 291 ,Os9 insli.,ent and H.:
SIS suck. The number Of deaths - q
result of the recent hurricane was g.
GIG. One weeks rations were issued to
293, 3,147 persons, and the number OF
those working for rations was 11,713.
The British admiralty has prepared
q war map of St. JONAS, n. F., and the
vicinity as a preliminary to fortifying
the town. One copy, which is most
complete Typographical presentation
of the city and it's environs, with ev-
cry road located within q radius Of
20 miles, has been forwarded to the
British colonial Office. IT is under
stood that the work of preparing for
forts and a garrison will begin next
spring.
The recent Disturbances at Annoy,
China, in which much Japanese prop.
erty was destroyed and the chancellor
of the consulate seriously wounded,
is exciting much interest IN the ma
tive press, which clamors for Japan
to seize the opportunity to initiate
European powers end to take a firm
stand in order to keep her influence
from sinking into insignificance. 1t is
suggested that the customary demand
.5os fsilway concessions Re made