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Show SEWS SUMMARY I Archibald Macdonald has arrived at Modder river and assumed commando) the Highlanders. A bill to repeal the war revenue stamp tax has been introduced in the senate by Senator Clay. Kimberley is again being heavily bombarded. (General Methuen and General French report unimportant movements. August O. Hyde, ex-superintendent of poor of Calhoun county. Mich., has been arrested charged with embezzlement embezzle-ment of S.".. 000. The South African company h;ri placed large orders for rilles and saddles sad-dles for use i-n South Africa, to be delivered de-livered immediately. James li. Montgomery, a well-known, capitalist and road contractor, is dead at his home in Portland, Hit., after an illness of one year and a half. The Hongkong correspondent of the London Times says he has received a dispatch intimating the dethronement and death of Emperor Kwang Su. Diamonds valued at 80,000 were stolen from the safe in the office of Joseph K. Davidson & Son, manufacturing manufac-turing jewelers, Philadelphia, Pa. National Tiank Examiner Graham has been examining the Canajoharie, N. Y,, National bank this week, and as a result, thebank closed its doors. Word has been received of the tragic death in South Africa of Ervin Hopkins, Hop-kins, Jr., son of Ervin Hopkins, a veteran vet-eran member of the Chicago Board of Trade, lie was bitten by a poisonous reptile. In the metal markets this week there is a slightly more confident tone. The zinc smelters have peen having conferences con-ferences iu the West, and some scheme of co-operation is likely to be put through. Senator Butler, chairman of the national executive committee of the People's party has issued a call for a meeting of that committee to be held in Lincon Xeb., Monday, the 10th of February. On the evening of February 7th Mr. Bryan willspealcat Carneg'ie hall, New York city, for the charity fund of a Grand Army post. In the afternoon of the same day he will deliver an address at Plain-field, Plain-field, N. J. Most of the regiments at Modder river, according to letters received, are full of young boys for officers, and the men don't care about them. Some of them at Modder river fight like a lot of school boys. A statement has been made by authority to the effect that the government gov-ernment has engaged in no exchanges with foreign governments respecting the Nicaragua canal since the beginning begin-ning of the present congress.- A favorable report has been made by the senate committee on pensions on Senator McBride's bill extending the provisions of the act of 1802, giving pensions to the survivors of the Black-Hawk Black-Hawk war, to the survivors of the early Indian wars of Oregon, California, Cali-fornia, Texas and Florida and other states. At the cabinet meeting Friday, Postmaster-General Smith brought up the subject of light-weight Spanish coins that were being received in the insular service. The matter was turned over to the postmrtster-general and the secretary of the interior for further investigation. Suit has been filed in the United States court at Columbus, ()., by the Michigan Salt company against W. A. Wason of Columbus for over S.'S2,000, the suit being a test of the Ohio trust laws. Wason was agent of the concern. con-cern. Secretary Hay lias sent to Speaker Henderson for submission to the house copies of complaints of the German government presented by its embassador embas-sador here, Dr. Von Holleben, against the existing customs regulations of the United States applicable to merchandise merchan-dise imported from Germany. The Central Trust company of New York has filed a bill to foreclose a mortgage mort-gage on the St. Louis, Peoria & Northern North-ern railroad and the Madison, 111., Coal company's property. The mortgage mort-gage and interest aggregate S1.S08, 000. A petition was forwarded by telegram tele-gram from Shanghai to Pekin a few days ago, signed by 1,209 representatives representa-tives of local Chinese merchants and gentry, begging the princess and ministers min-isters of the Tsung Li Yamen to urge the emperor to reconsider his abdica, tion and to revoke the edict. Dr. Leyds is blamed for the entanglements entan-glements of the British over the seizure of German vessels, and he is said to have caused false information as to' the seized vessels' cargoes to be given the British authorities. It is rumored in various quarters thai the United States Flour Milling com-pany com-pany is in imminent danger of disintegration. disinteg-ration. As at present organized tha United States Flour Milling company has under its control twenty-four mills in seven cities. The question of establishing a rie. partment of the government to be known as the department of commerce, com-merce, with a cabinet otlicer at its head, has been discussed at considerable consider-able length by the senate committee I on commerce. I |
