Show THE NE NEWS jars IN BRIEF BRIE fa james jamer A gray of maryland will be McKIn mckinless leys postmaster general the mckinley rite rate will be restored on coal and tobacco in the proposed new tariff senator kyle has been reelected elected re to the united states senate from south dakota congressman elect gunn of idaho will favor a moderate tariff if theowest the west Is recognized the naval aff affairs mrs corn committee cittee of congress has fixed as the limit to be paid for armor plate in the arizona arbona legislature a bill was killed imposing a 2 per cent tax on the bullion products of mines gov bradley has fixed march 20 for the execution of jackson and walling the murderers of 0 pearl bryan the state lind land board of idaho has given delinquent purchasers thirty days to settle or be dispossessed of their lands madame eskas physicians announces that she Is entirely out of danger and that operation will be necessary san francisco high binders have returned to the old method of assassination by using tile the hatchet and knife entirely the president has pardoned thomas sentenced in california to ten months imprisonment for contempt ot of court the new immigration bill just passed by bv congress provides an educational tat immigrants must be able to read and write A prominent smelter asserts upon ad vices from new york that lead will be quoted at per loo pounds by the first of may postmaster general wilson announces that he has accepted the presidency of washington and lee university at lexington va after a long bitter fight in the texas senate that body has passed the fellow servant bill holding railroads responsible for acts of their employed emp loyes mrs leland bt anford hrs firs made a gift ot of her magnificent residence on nob hill with all its rare contents to the university bearing her sons name mrs annie A frates wife of a wealthy niles cala farmer startled her hufhand with a suggestion that he should kill her and then commit suicide casper wyo people are substituting the use of crude oil from their oil fields in the place of rock springs coal and are saving giving 30 per cent by so doing the resolution for a constitutional amendment granting women equal suffrage with men was defeated in the massachusetts house hoise of representatives A dispatch to the london dally mail M all from cape town says that the transvaal republic has demanded indemnity on account of the raid of dr jameson in the philippine Is lards the spaniards hive have captured the insurgent town of si land by assault after bombarding it five hundred insurgents insburg ants were mere killed there Is great rejoicing since the outbreak of the plague cases have been reported in bomba bombay and deaths have been recorded in bombay presidency r cases caser and deaths from the plague have occurred the president has pardoned frank porterfield of tennessee president of ot of the first national bank of nashville sentenced in december 1896 to ten years in the lings county penitentiary for embezzlement of batik bank funds the lower house of arizona has passed a bill removing the territorial prison from yuma to prescott the bill authorized the issuance of io oooo bonds for the construction construct lo n in phoenix ot of a capitol building was also passed the proudest man in idaho is G jeorge eorge butler commissioner Commission tr of elmore county the occasion is the eulogies passed on his supposed untimely end by many friends lends tr who had given up all hope for his rescue from the snow slide which caught him between rocky bar and atlanta A special to the tribune from helena says a great sensation was created by a legislative investigation of the conduct of the state reform school extreme brutality Is charged the senate passed a resolution asking the governor to te ie move the superintendent and board 0 of 1 trustees the laramie boomerang says A fatal disease ib prevailing among the horses in jacksone hole region over so 50 forsea belonging to stock men in that vicinity having died recently the animals affected show a gradual loss of energy e n led with fever the glands af the I 1 throat become inflamed and finally bleeding from the lungs took place followed by death application has been made by the cincinnati canal company for acres or land in wyoming to be watered from fro nathe the shoshone river it proposes to construct a canal twenty five miles long which will irrigate acres of land and will expend upwards of in the work the company will send colonists from ohio indiana and illinois to settle upon the land as ae soon is as it Is prepared for cultivation |