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NEBRASKA,
An Odd Fellows lodze has been or
ganized at Dodge.
The gambling houses at North
Platte have been closed np.
if. The Methodists are having a "very
: Successful revival at Bradshaw.
- The Barr creamery has been com
pleted and is ready for pusinoss.
The mayor of Hastings has irsred
and order abolishing ail slot machines.
| The merchants of South Omaha are
discussing the advisability of selling
for cash only.
The Republican Valley Poultry as
sociation will have a show at Superior
on January 4, 5 and 6.
The merchants of Newport report
more than double the trade this sea
son over the same period to r last
pear.
The Farmers’ Creamery company
lias completed a $6,000 building at
Newman Grove and turned out its
first pound of butter.
While starting a fire at her ichool
house. Miss Ines StJnsen, a teacher in
the Bancroft schools, was badly burn
ed about the face and neck.
United States Marshal Donnella ar
rested Fritz uouger, a farmer living
thirteen miles southwest of Bloom
ington for passing counterfeit money.
A man near North Platte who tried
to beat the hired man out of six
months’ wages was cinched in court
for $90.10, including costs of prosecu
tion.
J. A. Graham, managing editor of
the St. Louis Republic, has promised
to respond to the toast "The Press,” at
the Jacksonian banquet in Omaha
January g.
Seventy-five citizens in the vicinity
of Tobias have cases filed against
them in court to recover from them as
members of a protective elevator as
sociation.
The ladles of Hastings are organiz
ing to take part in the woman’s work
; St the Omaha exposition and to as
sist in forwarding the girls and boys
building project.
There is a noticeable awakening in
many of the towns in the state among
the business men looking toward or
ganized work for the benefit and profit
of their localities.
M. J. Drummond died very suddeniy
St his home in Columbus last week
from heart trouble. Mr. Drummond
was about fifty years of age and had
been ill for about three months.
John Siler a young farmer living
■even miles northwest of Humboldt,
. was shot in the leg by a companion
- with whom he was out hunting, caus
ing a flesh wound which will not
prove serious.
The postofflees at Exeter and Ra
venna, Neb., will be raised from fourth
Class to presidential offices January
I. The salary of the postmaster at
Che former place will be $1,200 and at
the latter $1,000.
Senator Allen introduced a peti
tion from S. M. Benedict of Lincoln
praying for the recognition of the bel
ligerency of Cuba, also papers relat
ing to the application of Sam H. Shlr
. ley for an increase of pension.
A. <J. Holtzman of Chadron, who
lost both his hands on the road a few
months ago, has Just received $1,200
Insurance from the B. & R. T„ of
which he was a member in good
standing at the time of the accident.
Congressman Strode has been in
formed by President John R. Proctor
of the civil service commission that
J. W. Kerns of Lincoln has passed the
clerk copyist examination with a gen
?i oral average of 82.70: that he will
remain on the list until December 11
next, and that there are thirteen per
sons ahead of him on the register from
the state.
Captain Edward Kemys, one of the
most noted sculptors of wild animals
nnd Indians in the United States.,if
Wot In the world, has arrived in Omaha
to confer with the management of the
exposition regarding the placing of
; permanent statuary on the exposition
grounds to remain in the public park
for all future time as memorials of the
great exposition.
The little 2-year-old daughter “of
Rev. E. B. Young of Wayne got hold
of a bottle containing carbolic acid, on
Sunday, and before being noticed had
> drank about & teaspoonful. Mrs.
, Young at once administered melted
lard, causing the child to vomit. Dr.
Blair arrived in less than ten min
utes, and it is now thought the child
will survive, although it was a very
eloM call.
The Hasting* Republican gives this
picture of a revival In progress there:
"Quite a sensation vras created by two
: men that had been associated in sin
•nd for the first time met In the house
of God. In giving their testimony they
recognized each other and then grasp
ed each other by the hand, saying
that the house of God was better than
tile saloon and other places of sin. The
entire congregation was greatly af
fected by the scene.”
As an Illustration of what Buffalo
« ■ county farms are worth and are ca
pable of producing, there were ship
ped from Elm Creek, the first station
west of Kearney on the Union Pacific
railroad, during the months of Sep
tember, October and November. 62,
300 bushels of wheat. 20.850 bushels
«f corn. 64,400 bushels of oats. 31,800
Irashels of barley and 13.796 bushels
of rye, and the farmers received $64,
- 804 for the grain at their home mar
ket
The Lincoln street railway property
eras put up at auction and was bid
fa by the reorganization committee for
860,000. Two or three branch lines
& that have not been regularly operat
■ «d were not included in the sale and
.. urlU be abandoned.
The town of Elba, eight miles north
• treat of St Paul, was visited by rob
■ : hers. First they attempted to break
Iff. the safe In the Union Pacific depot
4 Mot succeeding, they broke into the
adore of Jay Smith and secured val
uable goods. Finally they went to the
, etore of J. N. Peters, where they
broke open the safe and took a lot
: M valuable papers.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
ITEMS OFINTEREST GATHERED
HERE AND THERE.
Ularrllaneau New* Note* fathered From
Thl* and Other Coontrie*—Accidental*
Criminal, Political, Social and Other
wl*e—Crisp Condensation* From All
Qaartcr*.
Monnday. Dec. $0.
Steps are being taken to form a nail
combine.
The Lutgcrt Jury Is now complete
at the trial proceeds.
Patrick Lealy and five children were
burned to death at Ottawa, Canada.
Kepresentative Smith of Illinois, by
request, introduced a bill to permit
the naturalization of Americanized
Chinese.
The general offices of the United
States Express company will be re
moved from St. Louis to Cincinnati,
January 1.
Saturday's statement of the condi
tion of the treasury shows: Available
rash balance, $229,020,434; gold re
serve, $139,631,691.
The comptroller of the currency lias
issued a call on national banks for a
statement of their condition at the
close of business on December 16.
The treaty between the United
States and the Seminole nation has
been concluded and sinned by the
Dawes and Seminole commissioners.
Retiring United States Minister
Breckinridge was received by the czar
and tendered letters of recall and pre
sented his successor, E. A. Hitchcock.
A special from Monte Carlo says: j
There Is good authority for stating i
that a further concession of fifty j
years has been granted to the Casino !
company. j
The famous artists' model, Lucie j
Hagerland of Paris, has had her j
beauty destroyed by vitrol thrown at j
her by another model, named Judlcelll, j
In a fit of jealousy.
Albert S. Warner, the Albany, N. Y.,
lawyer, arrested at Riley, Kan.,
charged with complicity In the kid
napping of Young Conway at Albany,
N. Y.’, last August, was brought to '
Kansas City to await until extradition
papers shall arrive from New York.
Tuesday, Deo. 31.
Richmond, Va., felt an earthquake
shock on the 18th.
John Alstot killed his brother Claude
at Danville, Ky„ while drunk.
The Commercial Travelers’ League
met In New York and denounced the
anti-scalpers law.
Revenue Cutter Hugh McCulloch
left Philadelphia to protect seals from
punchers in Bering sea.
The British fleet now In Chinese
waters consists of one Ironclad, nine
cruisers and eighteen smaller men-of
war.
In an explosion aboard the Brttlsh
steamer Southern Cross, which ar
rived at Maderla, several persons were
killed or wounded.
A meeting of the press club of Chi
cago was held to arrange for attending
the funeral of Washington Heslng,
who was president of the elm.
Charles Byrne, president of the
Brooklyn baseball club, Is lying at his
home in Brooklyn In a very critical
condition. Byrne was a resident of
Omaha In the 70’s.
A well dressed lady, elghty-slx years
old, and evidently demented, was
found wandering on the streets 'of
Cleveland, Ohio. She has a daughter
living at Gresham, Nebraska.
At Elk City, Kansas, John Strauss
Is dead, his two sons are dying and Mr.
Heed and his daughter are critically ill
from drinking coffee Into which rat
poison had dropped accidentally.
It Is said that Prince Bismarck, who
braced up for the emperor’s visit, has
relapsed into his former weakness, de
spondency and persistent Insomnia.
Mentally and physically Prince Bis
marck Is rapidly declining.
William Lloyd Garrison, the well
known Boston reformer, addressed the
ethical society of New York on the
life, character and work of Henry
George, whom he characterizes as one
of the greatest men of all time.
Last Sunday Mr. Bryan attended
divine service In the Evangelical
church In the City of Mexico and was
also the guest of President Diaz at the
distribution of prizes to the Mexican
exhibitors at the Chicago and Atlanta
expositions.
The republican members of the
house, who are framing a bill to re
form the civil service law have not yet
got together to draft their measure.
Chairman Hepburn of the special com
mittee says he expects the bill to be
matured soon after the holiday recess,
closes.
Wednesday, Dee. 99.
The Pope of Rome 18 reported la ex
cellent health.
A curfew ordinance has been en
acted In Indianapolis.
More Czech-German riots are re
ported from Bohemia.
The United States supreme court
has adjourned for holidays.
Dolls of all nations will be display
ed at the Omaha exposition.
The Auditorium theater at Kansas
City burned. Loss, $225,000.
A number of microscoplst appoint
ments for South Omaha are announc
ed from Washington.
N. F. Snyder, a millionaire of Pitts
burg, gaa man, was arrested on a war
rant sworn out by his son charging
him with the abduction of the latter's
infant son.
The American Federation of Labor
at Nashville adopted resolutions en
dorsing the bill pending In congress
for the establishment of postal sav
ings banks with the clause relative to
National banks stricken out. .
The state of Nebraska, by the at
torney general, has filed civil suit
against ex-Treasurer Bartley and his
bondsmen for $335 0<S>. This is the
amount which Bartley Is charged with
embezzling from the public treasury.
Secretary Alger has cabled to Wil
liam Akellmann. tha chief govern
ment reindeer hunter who is now In
Alton, Norway, to Interm the war de
pari.ment immediately now soon €00
reindeer can be shipped to this conn*
try.
Thirty pounds of Alaskan and
Washington gold nuggets have been
shipped over the Great Northern rail
road by the bureau of Information
of the Seatttle Chamber of Commerce.
The gold is to be exhibited in all the
leading eastern cities.
Tbarsday, Dec. 23.
Tfcie wife of Prince Hohcnlohe, the
Imperial chancellor of Germany, ' Is
dead.
The shops of Tripoli are closed ancl
the Arab agitation against the gov
ernment is increasing.
Among the seriously 111 in New York
are James K. Sackett. the actor, and
Mrs. Ballington Booth.
Charles Depue, who has been on
trial at St. Louis for killed Morris
Pietsch, an aged grocer, was acquitted.
Notices have been posted at the
Fiskdale (Mass.) cotton mills that
January 3, the wage scale will be low
ered. ,
Vessels for Australian trade are
almost unobtainable. There are now
three cargoes awaiting shipment from
San Francisco to Sydney, Meblourne
and Adelaide.
Arnold Luetgert, son of Chicago’s
alleged wife murderer, admits that he
forged notes amounting to $4,000,
given to Attorney Vincent.
Judge Lochren has decided that the
Minnesota “pink law,” providing that
all oleomargerine or butterlne offered
for sale in that state must be colored
a bright pink, Is constitutional.
The Manufacturers’ club at Philadel
phia has passed resolutions favoring
the establishment of a commerce and
manufacturing portfolio in the cab
inet.
Bert Alward, one of tho most prom
inent college athletes in the country,
and widely known as a foot ball
player, is dead.
Mrs. George M. Pullman has decid
ed to accept her dower interest In her
late husband's estate, which gives her
$3,000,000 in personal property and
one-third interest for life in the real
estate.
A snug fortune awaits Edward Rut
ledge of Huron, S. D., at his old home
In Pennsylvania. Some time ago
Rutledge’s grandmother died, leaving
an estate of over $3,000,000, lo be di
vided among forty-two heirs. Rutledge
will get an even $100,000.
Friday, December 84.
anti-scalping bill now before con
gress.
Mrs. Ballington Booth is dangerous
ly ill in New York.
David S. R. Lambert, wounded by
masked burglars, at his home at Wil
ton, Conn., is dead.
At a meeting of the Iowa Whilesale
Grocers’ association at Cedar Rapids,
resolutions wero adopted favoring the
George Bitner, wholesale poultry
dealer at Bristol, Tenn., assigned,
catching numerous creditors for $25,
000.
The comptroller of tho currency has
received information of the failure of
tho First National bank of Beinbina,
N. C.
The German warships, Deutschland
and Goleon, under command of Princo
Henry of Prussia, have started for Gib
raltar.
Dr. Noah Fields Drake, a graduate
student in geology of Stanford uni
versity, has accepted a position in the
Tien Tsin university, China.
Private John W. H Davis of the
Fourth cavalry wa3 frozen to death
while carrying mail between Lake
hotel and Thumb station in National
Park. (
Assistant Secretary Howell has ren
dered a decision in a customs case in
which he holds that common goat hair
is entitled to free entry under the new
tariff law.
Mr. Bryan called on all the cabinet
ministers of Mexico, and, with Mrs.
Bryan was entertained at dinner by
President and Mrs. Diaz at their city
residence.
At the annual meeting of the New
York Base Ball clubadividend of 4 per
cent was declared, the president, how
ever, being empowered to increase it
if he saw fit.
The auction sale of the St. Carlo
yearlings, bred at the McDonough
farm, California, was a great success,
eleven youngsters bringing an average
of $1,000 each.
Saturday* Decomber 85,
China has granted Russia permis
slon to winter her squadron at Port
Arthur.
At the commencement of 1898 the
United States will have 184,464 miles
of completed railway.
General Weyler in an interview is
quoted as saying he has no hope of
the success of autonomy.
The orange and lemon crops of
Southern California have been injured
by frost during the succession of cold
nights.
A riot occurred In the court house
at McArthur, Ohio, during a trial.
Two men were seriously and probably
fatally wounded.
Mrs. Jane Forrest, 69 years of age,
committed suicide at Chicago by
throwing herself headforemost from
a third story window.
The American window Glass com
pany, which controls the output of the
window glass plants of the country,
will advance prices January 1.
Sam Drown of Shelbvville, Ky.,
sold to Ed H. Tipton of Lexington
Lady Reel, the dam of the 2-year-old
Hamburg, for $15,000 cash.
President Samuel Sloan, of the Del
aware, Lackawanna & v» estern rail
road, was presented with a $16,000
gold table service by the officers and
employes of the company.
Impressive luneral services were
held over the remains of Miss Leila
Herbert, daughter of ex-Secretarv
Herbert, whose tragic death shocked
both the capital and the country.
Attorneys for Durrant have filed
notice that they will ask for a change
of venue from the recent order of
sentence by Judge Bahrs on the
ground that the court was prejudiced.
The postmaster general has decid
ed to order a postage stamp to com
memorate the Trans-Mississippi ex
position at Omaha the coming year.
They will be of the denomination of
1, 2, 5 and 10 cents and $1.
DEAL SOON AT END.
WHEAT MANIPULATORS MUST
SHOW THEIR HANDS.
Friday is the Day Upon Which Deliveries
Are to Be Made—Making the Heller
Dictator of Frice—Removal of Central
Market From Liverpool to Chicago.
The Wheat Deals.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Friday, which
will witness the close of the great
trade, bid3 fair to prove a memorable
day in the trade. No great excitement
Is expected in the wheat pit, but In
oats a squeeze of shorts may occur.
•‘The wheat deal of my son has
brought to the farmers of the United
States 10 or 15 cents more for their
wheat than if he had not gone into it,”
L. Z. Lelter said today, in talking of
the great battle between Joseph Letter
on the one side and the elevator com
panies on the other. “My son has been
the benefactor of the agricultural in
dustries of the country to that ex
tent. The seller is now dictating the
prices of his product, not the pur
chaser. Chicago make3 the market
price of wheat, not Liverpool. And
the local influences which have been so
long for constantly lower prices have
ceased to control Chicago markets.”
The first purchase of wheat by Jo
seph Loiter was made in July last at
64 cents. ' The price for real wheat,
such as the farmer sells, has been 99
cents and $1 for several days. This
makes a total advance since July of
about 35 cents. Lciter, sr., gives the
ordinary course of the markets credit
for between 20 and 25 cents of the
rise. The remainder he attributes to
the substantial support given to prices
by Letter, jr., during the last six
months.
It is believed that Mr. Lelter has
been taring a trick on the trade in
oats while’ everybody has been watch
ing wheat. For weeks the oats pit has
been practically deserted. Last week
there was a disagreeable surprise to
the men who had sold 6,000,000 bush
els of oats for December delivery
when they learned that no oats were
Iwlng delivered. Then they awoke to
the fact that In all the Chicago ele
vators oats measured but 950,000 bush
els of the contract grades. It was
Wednesday when the discovery was
made. The price of December oats was
then 20% cents. On Friday the mar
ket closed at 22% cents. A cent ad
vance in oats is as good as 4 or 5
cents in wheat. It is too late to rush
In a supply to meet the calls which
will be made for the grain at the close
of business on Friday. Thosr* who
have not delivered the grain accord
ing to contract will be called upon to
settle at the closing prices. The sit
uation has all the elements of a
squeeze.
THE INDIAN EXHIBIT.
Senator Allen Calls Upon Ills Brethren to
Help.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Senator
Allen has addressed the fololwing let
ter to all members of the upper branch
of congress in relation to his bill ask
ing an appropriation of $50,000 for a
congress of Indian tribes at the Omaha
exposition next year:
"My Dear Senator: I take the lib
erty of calling your attention to the
bill introduced be me (S. 2,503) to
provide for the holding of a congress
of the Indian tribes of the United at
the ctiy of Omaha, in the state rf Ne
braska, in the year, A. D. 1898, and
for other purposes. You will greatly
oblidge me if you will read the bill and
the report accompanying it, and if you
can, consistently with your sense of
public duty, do so, I would be pleased
to have you support the measure. I
beg to sugest. if the bill ihcul become
a law.# this will be the first and prob
aby tT(e last general exhibition of the
savage tribes of America, and will be
a source of great interest to many
people who have never had an opor
tunity of observinb our Indian tribes,
their habits and customs. No doubt
the educational features will be'of
great advantage to thousands. Omaha
is geographically well situated to hold
such a congress at a minimum expense
to the government. I believe the
money will he well expended in au
thorizing this congress.
The auditor for the treasury depart
ment, William E. Andrews, has "ap
proved the requisition for the issuance
of a warant to George A. Bartlett, dis
bursing agent of the treasury depart
ment, for $25,000, to be used in r'on
struction of the government building
at the Transmississippi exposition.
This is the first money to be drawn on
behalf of the government board and is
understood to be for preliminary work
in conjunction with pushing the build
ing to an early completion.
Sot t'<o Secretary.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The
American Asphalt company of Colo
rado has brought suit aga'ngf. Corne
lius N. Bliss, secretary of the interior,
and William A. Jones, commissioner
of Indian affairs, to enjoin them from
declaring void a lease to certain min
ing lands in the Uintah Indian reser
vation and in Interfering with the
necessary operations of the company
on their property.
8pa!u Should Have Navy.
MADRID, Dec. 27.—Todav Impar
tial urses that in view of the char
acter of the reply of United States
Minister Woodford to the note of the
Spanish government in answer to the
first communication of the American
government through him, it is neces
sary to increase tha Spanish fleet as
against the eventuality- of r, conflict
with the United States.
French Statesman Dead.
PARIS, Dec. 27.—Comte Anatoie
Le>mercier, member of the chamber
•sf deputies, is dead.
Comte Lemercier was born June 25,
1825. He was one of the seven depu
ties from Chariente Inferieure, per
sonally representing the first divis
ion of Saintes. He was a descendant
of the Lemercier who figured in
France during the revolution. His
father was for many years a member
of the chamber. He received the dec
oration of the Legion of Honor and
published several volumes.
EXPOSITION STAMPS
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Asks for Designs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Third As
sistant Postmaster General Merritt,
who will have charge of the selection
of subjects for the series of Trans
Mississippi exposition stamps, which
the postmaster general has officially
announced will be issued to commem
orate the exposition, has written a
number of letters to leading artists of
the country asking for suggestion?
relative to designs. Three divisions
are suggested in the letter:
First—That they should contain
portraits of distinguished people iden
tified with the country.
Second — Appropriate historical
events should be represented as illus
trated by existing paintings or en
gravings.
Third—Unique pictures of national
scenery or of other things associated
with the progress of the Trans-Mis
slssippi region.
General Merritt said that it would
be his aim to give the exposition-a
series of stamps that would be artis
tic in character and would appeal to
all classes of people and especially
typical of the greater west. Incidental
ly he suggested that possibly one of
the stamps might contain the repro
duction of the celebrated etching
■known as “Fremont Hoisting the
Flag on the Rocky Mountains." The
well known statue of Thomas H. Ben
ton at St. Louis contains upon one
side of the base a quotation from one
of Mr. Benton’s celebrated speeches,
wherein he outlines the possibilities
of the country beyond the Mississippi,
and it has been thought that the Ben
ton statue would be an appropriate
design for one of the stamps. The
complex picture which hangs in tne
west corridor of the capitol. known as
“Westward ho!” emblematical of the
hardships attendant upon the pioneer
and suggested by Bishop Berkley^
quotation “Westward the course of
empire takes its way,” was also men
tioned by General Merritt. There is
a picture in the rotunda of
the capitol—De Soto’s discovery of t'ae
Mississippi river—which might also be
used upon one of the denominations.
General Merritt said the department
would endeavor to select subjects that
had been painted or engraved and
would not call upon artists to draw
new scenes, which would necessitate
a great amount of time, but on the
contrary, would endeavor to get pho
tographs, reproductions of famous
paintings and personages, so that the
engraving of dyes might be quickly
done.
The stamps will b° so^ewhs* of
the same shape as the Columbian
stamp, twice the size of the present
postage stamp. They will be sought,
after by collectors, and as there are
nearly half a million of these peonle
the government, instead of being
of philanthropic, expects to realize
handsomely upon the issue. Colum
bian stamps today are selling at prices
many times higher than was once paid
for them and they are growing more
valuable each year. It is the same way
with the Centennial stamp, and it will
also be true of the Trans-Mississippi
stamp. Suggestions of scene oh stamps
are invited by the potofflee department
as it is General Merritt’s desire to
give the exposition the handsomest
set of stamps ever issued to commem
orate an exposition.
Klondike Kin^n Christman.
NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—James I.
Clements, the "Eldorado king of the
Klondike,” who is at the Lafayette
hotel, displayed one of the costliest
if not the costliest Christmas treo
which will be seen the world around.
On this richly laden three were 750
$20 gold pieces and nuggats and pres
ents worth $5,000. which brought the
total up to $50,000. Last year the
man who fixed up the Christmas tree
dined on Christmas day in the Klon
dike off a piece of cariboo meat, with
the top of a tin lard bucket for a
plate and his fingers serving the pur
poses of knife and fork. The tree
occupies space In the Hotel Lafay
ette, and those fortunate or unfortu
nate enough to be allowed to feast
their eyes upon this prodigal display
of wealth were granted permission
by its owner to sift the $20 gold
pieces through their fingers, to lift
double handfuls of gold nuggets, and
gu,ess how much they were worth,
and every visitor carried away a lit
tle nugget whether “the Eldorado
king” had ever seen them before or
not.
Demand for Indemnity.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Secretary
Shertaan was seen tonight regarding
a story cabled him from Madrid to the
effect that the United States had de
manded of Spain $8,000,000 indemnity
for American traders for damages sus
tained through the rebellion in Cuba.
The secretary stated that if any such
demand had been made he had not
heard of it.
Judge Day, assistant secretary of
state, said: “So far as I know there
is absolutely nothing in the st'*ry.
Some one may have attempted to foot
up all the individual claims that have
been filed, but even on that supposi
tion I should not attempt to say their
estimate was correct.”
At the Spanish legation it was said
that no information had been re
ceived of any such action. The lega
tion had heretofore been notified of
all individual claims, but it was
thought improbable that any claim in
bulk would be made.
A pension has been granted to the
widow of Knud Knudsen, a soldier in
the late war, the back pay of which
aggregates over $4,000.
Blown Oat of Hlg Cab.
BRIDGEPORT, N J.. Dec. 27.—
James Bower*.. an engineer on the
West Jersey railroad, was blown out
of his cab late last ni~ht between
Husted and Palatine. The wind was
blowing a gale, when a sudden gust
caught him and whirled him to the
roadside. The fireman backed the
train and found him some distance
off. He was painfully but not badly
hurt.
Mrs. Falk, of Omaha, died from
burns inflicted by a lamp explosion.
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.
The United States gunboat New
port, with the members of the Nicara
guan canal commission on board, has
arrived at Greytown, Nicaragua. All
the members are well and reported
that the voyage had been pleasant
and enjoyable.
The Paris correspondent of the Ga
zette telegraphed his paper a week
ago that in spite of the protests of the
Chinese, the British ship Daphne en
tered the inner harbor at Port Arthur,
apparently uncertain to ascertain if
there were Russian ships there.
Jimmy Barry, of Chicago, the ban
tam weight champion, who wa3 ar
rested in London in connection with
the fight of December 6, which re
sulted in the death of his antagonist,
Croot, was released from custody, the
public prosecutor refusing to take up
the case.
Charles Helmbold, son of the late
Dr. Helmbold, of New York city, the
well known patent medicine proprie
tor, has been locked up in London
and is awaiting trial at Brow street
police station on a charge of threat
ening to kill United States Consul
General Osborne.
A special dispatch from Brest says
the French cruiser Jean Bart has been
ordered to proceed immediately to
China. The Jean Bert is rated as f.
second-class cruiser. It mounts four
six-inch quiclt-flring guns, six five
inch guns, fourteen two and five
tenths-inch guns and has nine guns of
smaller caliber. Its crew numbers 332.
men.
Several thousand Arabs who have
been making a demontration outside
the gates of Tripoli have been sur
rounded by Turkish troops. The shops
of the city are closed and the Arab
agitation against the government is
increasing. There were disturbances
on December 17 at Armus, near here.
All the houses inhabited by Hebrews
were pillaged. Thirty of the rioters
were arrested by the troops.
II Sorriere Della Isolla tells a
shocking story of ill treatment of
Princess D1 Carini, who is separated
from her husband. It appears that,
with her blind daughter she has been
shut up for the past five years by her
trustee and has only just succeeded in
sending a letter to the police, reveal
ing the fact of her imprisonment. The
police have liberated the princess anti
the trustee has been arrested.
The Cubans in New York say of the
battle at Yacta Ford that the Cuban
loss was 106 killed and about 300
wounded. General Rabis men found
200 Spanish dead, and General Aidave
said his wounded numbered 200. The
Cubans believe they inflicted much
more damage; that the Spanish
troops carried away many of t heir
dead and minimized the number of
wounded, reporting only one-fourth.
The funeral of William Terries, the
actor who was stabbed to death in
London by a super named Prince, took,
place at Brompton cemetery, an im
mense crowd of people being present.
The principal mourners were the two
sons of the deceased. Mr. and Mrs.
Seymour Hicks (the latter Eleine Ter
riss, daughter of the murdered man).
Messrs. Gatti, Henry Irving, Charles
Wyndham and George Grossmith. The
floral tributes were very numerous.
According to a special dispatch
from Shanghai the British squadron
will make a demonstration at Chee
Foo, on the north coast of the Chan
Tung promontory, as a warning, it is
supposed, that Great Britain intends
to oppose the division of China with
out being consulted. It is reported'
there that Russia has offered China a
loan to pay off the indemnity of the
war with Japan, and it is believed, says
the dispatch, that Japan and England
are acting in concert to preserve
China from disintegration, favoring
the idea of a protectorate over Central
China, with a capital at Nan King.
A German-Chinese commission has
been arranged, according to a dis
patch from Shanghai to the Daily
Mail, to settle the boundaries of the
occupied district at Kiao Chau, and it
is evident, therefore, that the occupa
tion will be permanent. The same
dispatch says it is rumored in Shang
hai that the British intend to occupy
Tallen, south of Port Arthur. The
Dally Mail’s correspondent at Tokio
says there is no excitement there over
the news from Port Arthur. The press
is calm and the public indifferent. It
is rumored, also, the dispatch alleges,
that a large Rusisan military force Is
coming over from Siberia.
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