Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-06
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.
The s5o,OO0,Ooo Chicago plow trust has
been abandoned.
The postoffice at Hargrave, Rush county,
Kas., has been re-established.
The National Bank of New York will
send sl0O0,O0O in gold to Europe to-day.
Past Assistant Surgeon S. S. White,
United States navy, died at Juneau, May 80.
DR.. r. A. Workman has been appointed
Q. I.
The English house of commons yester-
day voted General Lord Kitchener a grant
and his wife, called upon Mrs. Mckinley
yesterday.
The postofiice at Caney, Kas., will be-
come presidential on July l, salary of post
master at $1,100.
A dispatch from Auckland says both ma
tive factions, the Malietoans and the Ma
taafans, are disarming. Mataafa has sur
rendered l,so0 guns.
"Bill Adler" of Chicago, being the official
mankiller of that town, killed Fred w.
Tucker with his fist.
The matter of municipal ownership and
operation of street railways will come to
a focus in the meeting of the Detroit COM
mon council tonight.
The United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy Will hold their annual reunion at
and Thursday of this week.
The First bank, of Skaguay, has closed
its doors, and j. G. Price has been appointed
receiver. The liabilities of the bank are
estimated at $4,000: assets, $4,000.
Contracts for carrying the mail have been
awarded as follows: Herald to Shelby o.
T, to George H. Trader, and from Climax
to Twin Fills. Kas.. to G.. Cowles.
The officers and executive board of the
National Congress of Mothers have decided
upon Des MONIES, Ia, May 49, 1900, as the
place and date for the next congress.
The 150th performance of Mrs. Leslie
garter in in "Zoza.% at the Garrick theater.
ing audience despite the immense heat
The steamer Dirago, which has arrived at
Seattle from Alaska, reports that the Alas
ka rate war is ended. The old rate of 800
from the lakes to Dawson has been re-
stored.
Baron Edgar de Bara and his wife, Fan
ME, were yesterday found guilty in the
having used the United States mails to de-
fraud residents of Great Britain.
General Carlos Ezeta, eX-presi6ent of Sal
vador, lies dangerously Ill at his home in
tertained as to his recovery. He is suffer
ing from congestion of the lungs.
At the meeting OF the Oxford convoca-
ton next Thursday. in London. the public
gree of doctor of civil law be conferred
upon Professor Newcombe. of Johns Hop
kins' university.
James A. Price, commander of Reynolds
post No. Il, G. A. r., Philadelphia, yester-
day committed suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor. 1t is believed that he killed
himself while temporarily insane from ill
ness and heat.
Florence Spies, of st. Jacob. and Miss Hal
lene Jack, of Beaucoup, ILL.,, students of
Mckendree college, were drowned in Silver
creek, two miles north of Lebanon, ILL.,, yes
terday afternoon
Governor Sayers, of Texas, has tele-
graphed to all the governors and attorney
generals of the Southern states a call for
an antitrust convention to meet in St.
Louis September 20 for the purpose of
securing concerted action against trusts.
The trustees of Amherst college appoint
ed to select new president for the col
lege, have extended an invitation. to Rev.
Mr.. George C. Harris, president of the An
dover Theological seminary and professor
of that institution, to accept the position.
yesterday. She carried a large number of
passengers, some of whom are destined
for the Cape Nome district which some
people credit with being RICHER than the
Klondike. The steamer sailed from San
Francisco.
| W. B. Tate began suit against the Drum
mond Tobacco Company and others for
$4,000 damages y,da yesterday IN the ne common common
the defendants of declaring a boycott
| against his tobacco warehouse and running
| his business.
In the Canadian house of commons yes
| terday Sir W!lfrid Laurier presented the
| protocol of the Anglo-American conference
on the Alaskan boundary question. There
was nothing in what the premier read to
| the house which was not covered by the
| cables on the subject.
The Guggenheim Exploration Company.
capital s6,000O0o, was Incorporated in Tren-
explore in mines and minerals. The incor-
porators are Morris Guggenheim and Isaac
| Guggenheim, of New York and Edward P.
Matthews, of Perth Amboy, N. ].
The will of the late Robert Goelet was
| filed for probate at Newport, R. l., yester-
day. After making provision for certain
| bequests for the widows support during
| her lifetime, 1t divides the remainder oil
the estate between the son. Robert Walton
Goelet, and the daughter, Beatrice.
Mr. Nat Goodwin, Miss Elliott and then
company appeared at the Duke of York's
theater in London last evening under the
management of Mr.. Charles Frohman, In
| the Cowboy and the Lady" by Mr.. Clyde
Fitch. They were accorded most cordial
ing the theater.
The breach. of promise suit for $4,000
brought by Mrs. Alta Humphreys, of Chi
cago, against c. Elwood Brown, a wealth!
| mining man of San Francisco, which wa:
to have been heard in the United States cir
| cult court to-day has been ordered with
drawn by the plaintiff. The terms OF th'
| settlement have not been made public.
The Democrats of the District of Co
lumbia held an enthusiastic meeting last
night at which, after many speeches eu
| logizing Bryan and indorsing him for the
next president were made, there was for.
warded to Mrs. William ]. Bryan, of Ne
braska, a fine marble bust of her husband
for presentation to her on her birthday
The proceedings against the New Yorl
Herald for Iese majestic for printing tn,
verses of the song. "Hoch Der Kaiser,
which Captain Joseph B. Coghlan.. of th'
United States cruiser Raleigh, gave a
the Union League Club, New York city
last April, have resulted in an order b,
the court in Berlin directing the suppress
sion of that issue of the newspaper.