The age-herald., 1899-08-09
TICKS FROM THE WIRE!

llOkS FnOM lHC WlnL. London, August s.-Andrew Carnegie has
 given e1OO0O to found public library at l Keighley, Yorkshire.
 London August s.-United States Ann 1 bassador Joseph Choate will leave London
 tomorrow for three weeks tour in Scot
 land.
 Chicago, August S.-The Catholic Total | Abstinance Union will begin its twenty
 ninth annual convention here tomorrow. i About four hundred delegates are expected.
 Duluth. Minn.. August S.-The labor
 shortage is greater than ever and wages 1 for common laborers average s2 a day. 1 The industries mostly affected are the saw
 mills, mines and lake shipping. l New York, August S.-It is said that Eddie 1 Bald, the bicycle rider, has retired from
 the track. He will sail for Europe on Tues
 day on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm de
 Crosse with Jockey Sloan.
 Los Angeles, Cal, August S.-Sheriff P. l D. Rice, of Oklahoma, started for Penca 1 City today with Clyde Mattox, wanted to
 answer a charge of murder there Mattox
 has killed several men in Oklahoma. Chicago, August S.-A suspension of min | ing operations in Illinois Is threatened be- 1 cause of the failure of the union to appoint | an arbitrator under the Pittsburg agree ment to fix the price and machine differ l entials.
 New York, August S.-The New York sub treasury distributed s2,16o,OOo in gold certi- 1 ficates, which was received from Washing l ton yesterday. At the sub-treasury notice has been posted saying that one dollar bills 1 cannot be spared at present.
 London, Ky, August Screen Griffin, who took part in the fight against the Phil 1 pots three weeks ago, was tried before County Judge Wright today and acquitted I Both Griffin and Robert Philphot are recov- 1 ering from wounds received in the fight. 1 Salt Lake, August S.-F1rst Sergeant John l Jackson was shot and killed at Fort Douglass tonight by Private w. H. Carter, and the latter was then shot and instantly killed while resisting arrest Both are ne- groes and belonged to the Ninth United States cavalry.
 Paris, August S.-M. Mallet-Prevost, at today's sitting of the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary arbitration commission, contin- ued his presenta ton of the Venezuelan case, and devoted the day to showing that the Dutch never claimed territory which Great Britain now says they owned.
 London, August S.-DeWolf Hopper has secured an extended lease of the Lyric the ater, and a continuation of "El Capitan" will depend upon a release of the comedian from his autumn engagements in the United States. This is now being arranged. Warsaw, August 8-Tomorrow will be the biggest day of the season at the Vii mona assembly. William J. Bryan will de- liver an address on Pending Problems" and his presence has been widely adver- tised and immense crows are expected q Washington, August S-General Brooke reports the death at Pinar del Rio on Au- gust of Corporal William Bowers, Com pany M, First Infantry. of pernicious ma larial fever. Private Sperman Coreswell, Company K, Eighth Infantry, died August 3, at Havana, of laudanum poisoning and delirium tremens.
 Washington, August S-Actfng Secretary Meiklejohn today issued a circular de- signed to prevent smuggling in Cuba and which virtually applies the United States law on the subject to the island. It pro- vides for rewards for seizure of smuggled goods, and for the recovery of duties on goods fraudulently taken into the island
 Washington, August S.-The number of enlistments yesterday We're 442. making a total of 1O,769. The Twenty-sixth regiment, commanded by Colonel Rice, has 1912, which is more than the full quota and the Thirtieth, commanded by Colonel Gardner. has 1.505, only four short of the required number.
 Jacksonville, Fla. August s.-Melvin Washington, a negro, shot and instantly killed Deputy Sheriff Van B. Jackson at Bristol, Fla, yesterday. He then took to the swamps with White posse after him. At o'clock this morning Washington was captured and placed in the Bristol jail. mob threatens to take him from the jail and lynch him.
 Nashville, Tenn, August Ex-Governor McMillin today declined to surrender Will Littlefeld, for whom Governor McLaurin Of Mississippi has made requisition. Lit tlefeld is wanted in Mississippi on a charge of murder, having killed three deputy saer- ifs and a negro woman while resisting ar- rest. He is held on the charge of robbery. burglary and attempted murder at Mem phis.
 Monument to Gen. Forest