The silver star., 1900-03-23
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

1A negrOo converts Were -
a Baptist church.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher. who was
pastor Of Park Church. Elmira, new
York. for forty-six years, and brother
OF Henry Ward Beecher, dieo n ME
home ON the 14th Of paralysis.
A arm Of Washington bankers II get
ting ready to start for Cape Nome at
the opening OF navigation for the pur.
pose Of establishing bank, and Will
carry a complete outfit for q safe de-
posit company.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York has subscribed for e.
600 600 of the new English war loan.
The company mt first offered to take
this amount outright, and even now
hopes to secure 1t.
A committee was formed in Cape
Town a few days ago for the purpose
of working for peace. The committee
consists of prominent lawyers, includ-
Ing a brother of the Justice OF the Coi-
ony, clergymen and Afrikander ladies'.
The British steamer Oceanic, which
arrived Wednesday brought 1900 Irish
immigrants. There were many young
men among the passengers. They lett
Ireland because OF the fear that they
would be drafted and forced to light
the Beers.
Another war Is threatened in the
Tonic Basin country, Arizona. similar
to that of 1887 and 1883, when forty
people were killed in what was known
as the Tewksbury- Graham feud. The
trouble Is between the cattlemen and
the sheepmen.
The Second Presbyterian church, .Nat
Twentieth street and Michigan ave
nue., Chicago, was burned on the Sth.
1t was the home of one Of the most
aristocratlc congregations In the city.
The loss ON building and furnishings
IL estimated at 100000.
The special committee appointed to
wait upon Monsignor Sbarretti and
present to him the protest against his
appointment as bishop of Havana were
Informed by Sbarrctti that he could
not abandon the position, rs he had
been sent there by the Pope.
Serious conditions obtain In Morocco.
From advices received yesterday II
appears that state OF anarchy pre-
walls throughout the kingdom and that
much blood has been shed and many
lives lost. 1t is thought that European
Intervention will ultimately be neces-
sary.
A SPECIAL to the Salt Lake Herald
from Price, Utah, says: Indian Agent
Myton has leased 100000 ncres of gov
ernment land on the Uintah reserva-
ton to eastern flock masters. The
leases run for five years and the
amount involved is SIS, 300, which goes
to the Uintah Indians.
More than 500 men and women sat
down at the Lincoln dinner given by
the wOrklngmen's committee of 100 10
New York. 1t was dollar dinner,
but both menu and decorations ex-
celled those Of the celebrated Bryan
dollar dinner, given In the Grand
Central Palace last year.
A conspiracy to establish q mon.
archy in Brazil has been discovered.
Various high officers are implicated, in
cluding Admiral Mello. The plan OF
the conspirators was to establish pro-
visional government and then take
plebiscite. Energetic movement by the
government has foiled the plot.
Mrs. Lucinda H. Stone, widely
known as the mother of "Women's
clubs" and a writer and educator of
note. died on the 18th at the age of
sighty-six. Kalamazoo College, which
for many years was under the tutelage
Of Mrs. Stone and her husband, DR.. J.
A. B. Stone, was the first institution In
the West In which women were taught
the higher studies.
1t Ii emi-ofiicially announced that
when the Orange Free State and the
Trnnsvaal address to n number of the
larger and small states request fos
friendly mediation, the German gov.
ernment men replied that 1t would will
Ing participate provided the essential
condition OF such mediation were pres
ent, namely, the certainty that both
belligerents desired II.
The final steps have been taken fol-
the Incorporation Of the Armour pack
ing interests with a capitalization OF
$2O.OO0,O0O. Formerly the business
was conducted as a co-partnership
The Incorporation will not change ths
management In any sense. The pa
pers, which were forwarded to SprinR
field for filing, provide for a corpora
ton embodying all the packing inter
ests Of Armour 4 Co. at Chicago and
elsewhere.
A cablegram received in Washington
announces the marriage OF Mrs. Fran
ces Hodgson Burnett to Stephen Town
send. Il. Il. @. s., Of the Inner Temple
Continental Club. London. Mrs. Bur
nett came over to this country In Octo
ber Inst, and after having spent tn,
winter at her Washington residence
sailed for Gcnoa on February 2Sth. o.
her arrival In Genoa she was met b,
Mr.. Townsend nm. the marriage wal
quietly celebrated.
Attorney General smyth Of Nebraskf
has decided to file damage suits fol
nearly x1.5OO.OOO In the Supreme Cour
Monday against the Union Pacific, Mis-
souri, Pacific and the Rock Island rail
roads under the maximum freight rat,
law. the state holding that tho failur,
OF the roads to comply with the ac
has made them liable to heavy pen
alties. The Union Pacific is sued fol
SC0.OOO the Missouri Pacific for 3435,
600 and the Rock Island for 1910, 600.
II IL snld that the sale on the Stool
exchange OF 10000 ounces Of silver m
6l. buyer 10. Indicated that the Unitct
Metal Selling Company is prepared I,
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