The Globe-republican., 1900-03-22
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

TIE LHi ESI NEWS IN 6RfEFs
Ohio's senate defeated a local option
bill by vote of I6 to I5
The bubonic plague has made it's
appearance at Buenos Ayres.
Governor Tanner of I11ineis is in
Florida. He is said to be quite sick.
The Omaha Tent and Rubber COM
pany has lost it's $50, 900 stock by fire.
The Transvaa1 appealed to Germany
for mediation and Germany declined to
interfere
George Gould and G. P Huntington
are to meet in Texas to talk ever rail-
road matters in the southwest
Worlzmen on military road in Puerto
Rico have been paid 40 cents a day
They have struck for so cents.
Ex-Chief Justice OF Kansas Albert Ri.
Horton is dangerously sick with pneu-
monia at his home in Topeka.
Among the great amount of ann
munition captured from the Beers were
several boxes of explosive bullets
Four thousand men are added to the
$4,000 idle men in Chicago, by the
closing of door and blind factories.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany is about to issue $40, 600, 900 AZ
per cent, fifty year, refunding bonds
American insurance applying for adj
mission to Japan, did not follow Japan
red tape and must amend their papers
Professor Dean c. Worcester of Mich
igan University, has resigned He is a
member of the new Philippine COM
mission.
The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher and
Mrs Foote Beecher Perkins, brother
and sister of Henry Ward Beecher.
died on the same day last week
The Santa Fe management informs
shippers that an average speed of 20
miles an hour between division ter
minals will be made by all stock trains
this year.
Dealers in drugs have been making
a great noise about the action of the
department of agriculture in distrib-
uting free vaccine matter for the cure
blaclz1eg in cattle.
F. o. Popenoe- the principal owner
of the Topeka Capital has announced
that the Capital would continue as a
Christian daily indefinitely, but would
resume the publication of all general
news and matters of general interest
to the people.
The American building at Paris is
finished.
President Kruger's tears did not
prevent his Boer soldiers from running
away from Lord Roberts
The new British war loan of $780,
GOO, 900, was subscribed for on the first
day of its being offered, twenty times
over.
The internal revenue bureau has
ordered the law enforced which pro
hibits enclosing any prizes premiums
in packages of tobacco cigarettes.
The Russian and French cable and
telegraph systems, in Siberia. China
and Indo-China, are to be connected
General John L. Ewell, a hero of the
civil war, died of old age, at Cleveland,
Ohio.
The window glass workers of the
whole country are planning to start
cooperative Plants, in competition
with the Trust.
| In Michigan the line was generally
| drawn on the temperance question in
| the village elections this month The
| s.wets'' had trif1e the better of it.
The amount of national bank stock
held by women in America is estima-
| ted at $3.50, 900, 900, and the amount of
private and state bank stock at S137,
| 600, 900.
t Fire at Redfeld. Ia. completely
| wiped out all the business houses ON
the south side of Main street The
| loss is estimated at $40. OO0-
| A gusher was struck at Tiffin, Ohio.
which sent q stream six inches in
diameter $50 feet high The wind
sprinlxled the country with oil for
| tb----E<a1.rths Of a mile