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Judge Henry C. Caldwell is said
to be Bryan's choice as a running
mate.
A troop Of cavalry to fight with
the Boer army is being organized in
Chicago.
Failing health is said to be the
cause of Gen. Wheeler resigning
from the army.
The only bank at Philippi, W.
Va, was robbed by safe blowers of
$4,000 in cash.
Gen. Wheeler writes that the in
~surrection in the Philippines is
practically over.
DeArmopd, of Missouri, intro
duced a bill in the house repeating
the bankruptcy law.
J. L. Dunn, of Quincy, H.. sur
rendered and confessed to robbing a
mail sack at Effingham, III.
The German merchant ship Bun
desrath, seized by the British at sea,
was released with an apology.
Gen. Otis reports that a majority
of the Philippines have hid their
arms and returned to their homes.
The final vote on the bill fixing
gold as the standard of value will be
taken in the senate February 18th.
Italy has requested of the United
States hal the lynching of five Ital-
ians in Louisiana last fall be inves-
tigated.
The bankers Of Venezuela who re-
fused to advance money to the gov
eminent were arrested and thrown
into prison.
A son of Crispi, the Italian states
man and former premier, has been
sentenced to four years imprison-
ment for theft.
For the second time in its exist
ence. Dawson City. the great min
ing town in the klondike, was almost
wiped out by fire,
The senate passed a resolution by
Senator Hoar calling for informal
ton respecting the conduct of affairs
in the Philippines.
While digging a we'll on his farm
near Carlinsville, H., Jacob Kline
struck an apparently inexhaustible
supply of natural gas.
The Mississippi State Teachers
Association, by unanimous vote,
adopted a resolution against a uni
form system of text books.
Capt. Merrill, of the battleship
Montgomery, is charged by members
of his crew with brutality. The
matter will be investigated.
Up to the first of January there
had been filed at the pension bureau
$500 claims for pensions, based on
service IN the war with Spain.
The Iaqui Indians have attempted
to establish a form of civil govern
ment and proclaimed the indepen-
dence Of the state of Sonora, Mex.
According to the evidence of some
Of the witnesses in the Clark case, it
cost the gentleman a good deal of
money to be elected to the United
States senate.
An Englishman has invented a
device for steering torpedoes and
submarine craft. 1t is said to be
on the lines of the Marconi system
of wireless telegraphy.
Two robbers. one dressed as a wo-
man, entered the millinery store of
Mrs. Wheelock, in Chicago, bound.
gagged and robbed Mrs. Wheelock
and set the store on fire.
Frank Conrick, Of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Conrick was bit
ten by a dog, and the dread of hy-
drophobia had unsettled his mind.
J. ". Murphey, cashier of the
Third National Bank at Columbus.
Ga. shot and killed his assistant, Il.
7. Schutze, and then ended his own
existence by sending a bullet through
his brain. The tragedy occurred
in a private o at the bank. Muir
phey was evidently insane when the
shooting took place.
Alfred Henry, a deputy sheriff,
was murdered in jail at West Plains,
Mo. Henry had gone to feed the
prisoners, and, after entering the
Jail, was gagged and dragged to a
cell. where he was beaten to death
with a club. Ed Grady and Ben
Richardson, the murderers, took the
deputv's revolver, locked the Jail
doors and made their escape.
Lieut.. Blue, [. S. n, was pre-
sented with a medal by the women
of South Carolina. his native state.
in recognition of his services in the
Santiago dc Cuba campaign.
The Associated Press reports a