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hereafter to appoint clerks without the department's approval Senators Stewart, Frye and Morgan made speeches in favor of annexation of Hawaii. The nomination of McKenna to be supreme justice was reported favorably. Li Hung Chang asked the President to appoint Colonel Fred Grant minister to China. The request came too late, as Conger had been nominated. Faulkner, Cockrell, Murphy Mitchell, White, Rawlins, Smith, Pasco and Jones of Arkansas were selected as the Senate's members of the Demoeratic Congressional committee. "Mad Archer," slayer of Actor Terriss, was found guilty, but declared irresponsible. The President has nominated Charles Page Bryan of Illinois as minister to Brazil and E. H. Conger of Iowa as minister to China. It is reported that Japanese transport steamer Nara, foundered, 80 persons being lost The St. Louis and New Orleans Anchor steamship line has assigned to Archibald Woods of St. Louis. Mrs. Christopher Wollert killed her 13-year-old stepdaughter, Louise, at Algonquin, III. Joaquin Miller lost a toe and an ear and had both cheeks frozen in going from Cirele City to Dawson, Alaska The Rothschilds will build a railroad into the Yukon country over the Dalton trail, to cost $8,000,000 and be 400 miles long. of coffee has cut and consumers can now ten again The price been get pounds for a dollar, all because of the war by the sugar trust. A tin can trust is the latest. Striking English engineers are weakening. Shoe Inventor Tripp is dead at Lynn, Mass., agek 72. Thomas A. Edison thinks he has discovered a new metal. Mrs. Nack, the New York murderess, gets off with a 15 year sentence. thousand dogs Five have shipped been to bought in Chicago and Klondike. Parties are going to try the use of monkeys at manual labor in the Klondike. The drouth in Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas was generally broken. Fred Funston is home from Cuba to stay, having been wounded and captured but released. Turkey refuses to pay for American mission property destroyed during the Armenian outbreak. The French court-martial acquitted Count Esterhazy of treason in connection with the Dreyfus case. Wine and women caused Fred Jentges to embezzle $5,700 from the Moon Bros. Carriage Co., St. Louis. Cotton mill operators in New Eng land refuse to accept a 10 reduction in wages and will strike. Judge A. W. Newman of the Wisconsin supreme court was fatally injured by a fall on an icy sidewalk. W. E Sterne has been confirmed as United States marshal for Kansas, to succeed Dr. Neely of Leavenworth. Senator Chandler says President McKinley proposes to renew negotiations for world's bimetallism as soon as possible. In a naval contest Uncle Sam would be out of powder in half an hour after the men-of-war had fired what they have on board. President Patrick N. Largey, of the State Savings bank. Butte, Mont,, was murdered by Tom J. Riley, a man he had befriended. At a Democratic conference held in Chicago it was decided to continue free silver as the issue. Bryan, who expects to be the nominee in 1900, declared for fusion. Senator Vest has introduced a bil in Congress for a $50 pension for General Stevenson's widow. General Mrs. the of Boonville the day Stevenson capture protected Vest her at baby was born. In the case of A. P. S. Stewart, a stockholder in the failed Capital Na tional bank of Lincoln, Neb., the United States supreme court decided that Stewart could not free himself of by after he knew the stock, responsibility transferring bank was his going to fail. The fusion free silver forces of Oregon will all hold their conventions at Portland, March 23. A block tin trust is being formed. There are 100 deaths to every birth in Cuba. Furniture prices will be higher in the spring. The Ness City, Kan., State bank has quit business. Bradstreets says the new year opens favorably for business. The Katy road has built a coach es. for carrying pecially prisoners. killed by S. W. Wickham was a thresher.explosion near Williamsburg.
