The Taney County republican., 1899-06-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The governor of Jamaica, Sir Angus
tus w. L. Hemming, has received in
structfon from Secretary of State for
the Colonies Joseph w. Chamberlain,
to send two delegates from the legis-
lature to Washington, there to meet a
delegate from London for the purpose
OF comforting with the state depart
ment on the subject of Jamaica's tariff
| and reciprocity with the United States.
President Gonzaga of the Philippine
commission, previous to his departure
from Manila, on the 25th, said: 1--WE
greatly appreciate the courtesy shown
us. We have spent some time with
Your commissioners, incidentally con-
sidering the American constitution. Its
principles impress us profoundly"
AT Denver, Col, on the 25th, Judge
Butler, in the district court, decided
the suit of Mary "A. Coffin against A.
Z. Reynolds and others to recover a
half interest in the celebrated New
York silver mine at Creole, Col, worth
about $4,OOO.OOO, in favor OF the de-
PENDANTS.
The Standard Oil Co., having ac-
quired not only the old Russian title,
but IL later mineral land grant from
the United States government to the
coal lands at Cook Inlet, Alaska, is
preparing to develop the coal fields,
which are of vast extent.
Acting Secretary Cortelyou called
upon Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Vanderlip, chairman of the Dewey
Home fund, on the 25th, and placed in
his hands check from the president,
constituting Mr.. McKinley's contribu-
tion to the fund.
Admiral Kautz will return from
Samoa with the Philadelphia. The flag
ship will be replaced at Apia by the
cruiser Newark, which is as formida-
BILE in every respect as the Philadel-
phia.
Resolutions adopted by the general
assembly of the Cumberland Presby-
terian church, in session ut Denver,
Col, on the 25th, pledge the members
of the church to the prohibition policy.
The Diamond anniversary celebra-
ton of the American Sunday-school
union came to a close at Philadelphia,
Oh the 25th, by a rousing big meeting
at the Academy of Music.
The New York senate passed, unau-
imously, on the 25th, the bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the expenses of the
celebration of the return of Admiral
Dewey.
ST. Louis has been selected for the
next meeting place of the Presbyter
general assembly.
During a conflagration, believed to
have been of incendiary origin, on
Couey Island, on the Goth, in which
200 buildings were destroyed and dam
age to the amount of half u million
done, an army of thieves appeared
upon the scene, and looted both burn
ing houses and those safe from the
fire. Thirty-five hundred persons
by the flames.
a sensation has been caused by the |
arrest of two physicians in Elberfield |
and Renischied, towns of Rheinish |
Prussia, charged with systematically |
drugging recruits so as to exempt !
them from military service. 1t is as |
serted that four of the persons thus |
treated died from the results of the |
drugs administered to them.
The distribution of the $3,OOO,OOO !
which the United States government |
has offered as n gratuity to the Gu |
ban troops on disbanding and surren-
dering their arms, began in Havana
at ten o'clock on the morning of the |
27th.
The Spanish Gen. Montero, while Oh |
L.
the Spanish garrison from Zamboan-
ga, on the steamer Leon XIII. died of !
wounds received in a recent engage !
ment with the Filipinos in Mindanao. |
Failures for the week ended the
26th, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co.,
were: For the United States 142,
against PAS for the corresponding
week last year; for Canada the fail
ures were 16, against 81 last year.
FormerPresident Benjamin Harrison,
who is acting as the legal representa-
tive of Venezuela on the boundary
which meets in Paris, on
June Is, arrived at that city on the
Goth.
Senator Aldrich, chairmen of the
senate committee on finance, has is
Sucu d GILL IOF Injecting Oh tnaC COLI
mittee, to be held at the Fifth Avenue
hotel. New York, June 9.
Admiral Dewey telegraphs the navy
that he will stop at vari-
Gus places on his way to the United
States. and will reach New York about .
October /.
An electro technic congress was I:
opened at Goettingen, Hanover, on the
Goth, with $50 delegates in attendance.
The United States cable ship Hook ;
er, from New York, May 1, for Manila, |
arrived at Port Said on the goth.
The steamer Umbria, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 27th,
took out 415,0O0 ounces Of silver. /