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1CONDENSED NEWS. y aThere is activity all along the naval lines. e The loss of cattle in Idaho is very of heavy. it Minister Montt will not talk on the e Chilian affair. Rockafeller, of Standard Oil fame, is t getting better. The fourteen rice mills of New Orleans d have combined. f t The house committee will investigate e all about the World's fair. Fort Sheridan is to be made the largest garrisoned post in the country. John Bock, 12 years. Oakland, Neb. Brother dead; unloaded shotgun. Lumbermen are excited over the Democratic proposition to remove the duty. A bitter contest is expected over the will of Calvin Bronson, Toledo, Ohio; $1,000,000. Senator Wolcott will speak before the Marquette Club, Auditorium, Chicago, February 20. Dr. J. L. Bauer has been expelled from the faculty of the college of physicians and surgeons, St. Louis. Ex-Governor Albert G. Porter, minister to Rome, is going to make the gubernatorial race in Indiana again. A list of sane persons who have been imprisoned in New York insane asylums, numbering seventy-five, has been published. Judge Botkin, Kansas, asserts that the wife of Col. Sam Woods, the murdered man, was implicated in the plot to kill his honor. Adam Gerhart, a wealthy Chicago German, died at the residence of Mrs. Frances Meyers. He had no relatives; arsenical poisoning. Not one quarter of the creditors of S A. Kean & Co., defunct bankers, Chicago, have received a cent. Conspiracy is charged by the receiver, Ed. A. Filkins. Gen. Schofield received a telegram from Gen. Stanley, commanding the department of Texas, in which he expressed the opinion that the Garza insurrectionary movement is at an end. R. D. Mohur, of the District of Columbia, has been appointed by the president to be commercial agent of the United States to Congo, to succeed ex-Lieut. Emory H. Taunt. The pay is $5,000 per year. Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, niece of President Buchanan, has given $10,000 toward the purchase of "Wheatland," Buchanan's home, to be used as a park for Lancaster, Pa. The court of appeals, by a unanimous opinion of the judges of the first division, decided that no property holder can recover damages against the elevated railroads of New York City, as his property has been increased in value by the building of the road.
