The state herald., 1900-10-26
TELEoRAPH,c EREvlTIEs.

General Weyler the former captain
general of Cuba, has been appointed
captain general of Madrid.
Paul Pons, the French wrestler, who
claims the championship of Europe,
has arrived in this country.
Counterfeit gold and silver coins in
all denominations, to the amount of
several thousand dollars, have been
put in circulation in western Oregon.
Firman Bousson made Al unsuccess-
full attempt to sail his dirigible balloon
at Paris recently. He will try again
and hopes to rival Count Won Zeppelin.
Charles Dudley Warner, the cele-
brated author and journalist died sud-
denly from an attack of pneumonia at
Hartford, Connecticut, on the 20th In
stant
Major General Leonard Wood, gov
| ernor of Cuba, is making flying trip
| to New York and other eastern points,
and will take his family back to Cuba
with him.
The Transvaal foreign secretary,
postmaster general and treasurer have
| arrived at Naples on board the German
steamer Herzog. They proceeded to
| Hamburg.
Supplies are being rushed from Van
couyer, b. G., to rescue 200 Indians,
who are reported to be starving at
Humberton Meadows, $50 miles north
of Agasslz.
The Caribou Consolidated gold mine
of Quesnelle, Il. c., has shipped to
My York record-breaking ingot,
wcfgning 1853 pounds and of the value
of S154,7G5.
Rev. DR.. ]. N. Craig of Baltimore
dropped dead in the pulpit on the oath
instant while addressing the Presby-
terian synod of Virginia, in session ut
Newport News.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross Society, who has been d.
recting work at Galveston for six
weeks, was recently quite Ill, but Is
reported to be improving.
The Hon. w. +. Schreiner, the for
mer premier of Cape Colony, has re-
signed his seat in Parliament owing to
the persistent objection of the ex-
tremists to the Afrikanders.
The report of the treasurer of the
Union Printers Home at Indianapolis
for the six months ending August 81,
1900, shows a balance in the treasury
of S16,O0S. The expenditures in the six
months were So. l5G.
There are ninety-two cases of yellow
fever in all at Havana, and nineteen
Americans are down with the disease.
The death rate among the American
victims has been eight per cent. The
fever is decreasing.
The widow of Baron Won Kctteler.
the murdered German ambassador to
China, has arrived safely in Detroit
and is at the home of her father, Hen
ry B. Ledyard, president of the Mich
igan Central railroad.
A. d. Price of Palestine, Texas,
student at an Ashevillc. North Caro-
lima, school, died few days since from
injuries sustained in n practice game
of football His spinal column was
broken between his shoulders.
Commissioner Evans of the pension
bureau states that. $1,000 claims for
pension on account of the Spanish
American war had been filed up to
October 22nd. OF this number, 4,23T
have been already adjudicated.
BY the signing of a three years
agreement with the structural iron
workers today the labor troubles In
| Chicago, 50 far as they affect the con-
struction Of the new postoticc build
ing, have been settled. A large force
viii now be worked.
Great uneasiuess was created in pal
ace circles" says a Constantinople cor
respondent, by n report that an Amer
lean squadron was approaching, and
II It'd rausnr tyns iuSffttgfpI IN prahilff
the press from mentioning the sub
ject"
| Dunayant. Kansas, was partly de-
stroyed by fire October 2ith. The busi-
ness portion IL a total loss. including
Richardson's store and hotel. the post
office building, three residences, steam
laundry, grist mill, Yourley's manufae-
turing plant and contractors shop ani
Office
Among the honorary pail bearers at
the funeral OF Charles Dudley Warner,
at Hartford, Connecticut. were Thom-
as Bailey Aldrich. :. l.. Clemens Mark
Twain, Senator Hnwley. Professor W.
NJ. Sloane of Columbia University, and
President George w. Smith OF Trinity
College.
Lord Roberts cables from Pretoria.
October 2lst. that no orders have been
placed by Colonel Glrouard In Amerl-
ca, but that Wnrnher, Belt & Co.. act
ing for various mining firms, have, ow-
ing TO the inability of English houses
to complete orders on time, placed a
portion OF their orders in America.
The citizens OF Oklahoma and Indian
territory want single statehood for the
two territories. and the formation OF
leagues to promote this end has com
menCed. The first league was organ
lied at Wagner, I. r. Determined ef.
forts In this direction are being made
hy the leading people OF those terri
tories.
An American lady. Mrs. Marguerite
Foulks, was found dead at the Champ
de Mars railway station In the grounds
OF the exposition. at Paris, few days
since. She was apparently about sixty
years Of age, well dressed and had
plenty Of money ON her person. togcth-
er with rich Jewelry. Her body was
tnken TO the morguc.
Patrick Rice. formerly one OF the
most famous OF American race horse
trainers, recently committed suicide
near san Rafael, California. by taking
lnndnnum. Dospondcncy Il the sup.
posed causc, Rice was the trainer OF
the celebrated horso Ten Brock. He
also had the care OF several other IN.
nous thoroughbrcds, and was one OF
the first h0rsemcn 10 go 10 England
with nm American racing stable.
A san Francisco dispatch says thnt
ut military headquarters In that city
II II stntcd TINT the first Instnlimcnt
of the volunteer army now In the
Philippines viii leave Manila Novcm-
bcr lsi From that time until next
June the transports win bring home
about 2a,ooo men NJ the rate ~ from
1000 TO 1900 n month. The sick will,
II possible, be shipped on earlier trans.