Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Two Chinese students have been
admitted to Vanderbilt university.
Bullet proof shields are being
manufactured for the British soldier.
The South Carolina income tax
law, enacted two years ago, has been
repealed.
A free public school is to be i'm
mediately established in each prov
ince in Cuba.
Friends of the Nicaraguan canal
will push action in the matter by
the present congress.
Street-car employees at Troy, N.
Y, are on strike for higher wages
and shorter hours.
The remains of Gen. Lawton will
be inferred in Arlington cemetery,
Washington, D. G.
The Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany subscribed $4,000 to the st.
Louis worlds fair fund.
Coils. Geo. NJ. Randall and James
Bell have been commissioned briga-
dier generals of volunteers.
The Knights of the Fireside, a
fraternal insurance order, has made
an assignment and will disband.
Jamaica has rejected Chamber,
lain's scheme to divert the bulk Of
the colony's trade from America to
England.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate increasing Gen. John NJ.
Palmer's pension from $50 to 500
per month.
The superintendent of immigra-
tion reports that 1900 Americans
became residents of Canada during
the year 1899.
The transport Pekin is en- route
from Manila to San Francisco with
the bodies of 156 soldiers who died
in the Philippines.
& Edward Moore shot and killed his
wife at Hillsboro, Ill. Moore, who
has been arrested, claims he mistook
his wife for burglar.
The house committee on the case
of Mormon Roberts voted unani-
mously against his being allowed to
retain his seat in congress.
George and Edward Meeks, con-
victed murderers, were taken from
the jail at Fort Scott, Kas., and
lynched by mob of 500 men.
The British losses in killed.
wounded and captured up to Janu-
arv 18th in the South African war
is given at 1887 officers and men.
The Paris & Orleans Railway of
France has placed an order with the
Baldwin Locomotive Works in this
country for 80 ten-wheel passenger
engines.
A dispatch of the goth says the
British troops to relieve Ladysmith
were within few miles of the town
and that the Beers were resisting
desperately.
Gen. Otis has given the Philip
pinos assurances that the individual
liberty guaranteed all citizens by the
American constitution will not be
denied them.
The December statement of the
collections of internal revenue show
the total receipts to have been $24,-
219, 308, an increase over December,
1898, of 2,O26, Alb.
Thomas Edison is having erected
plant near Santa Fe, n. NJ, and
will experiment with machinery in
vented by him for the extraction of
gold from low-grade gravel and
placer dirt.
The Mexican government has
issued Instructions to the authori-
ties of all Mexican ports not to per-
NIT the entrance of any vessel from
Brazilian and Asiatic ports, owing
to the danger of the beubonic plague.
An agent of the Transvaal last
week purchased train load of beef
from Chicago packers. This is the
second train load of beef purchased
in this country for the Beers, the
first consignment being now on the
ocean.
Clifford R. England, who stole
$4,000 from the Warren Scharf
Company of Detroit in 1897, was
captured last week in Chicago. Eng
land says he spent the money in a
trip around the world.
Geo. Rife was arrested at Colum-
bus, o., charged with attempting to
burn to death Mrs. Susie Brobst,
his boarding mistress. Rife knocked
the woman down, saturated her
clothing with gasoline and set fire
to it.
Seven people were killed outright
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