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VOL. I. NO. 10.
ELKIN, N. C., TPIURSDA Y, FEBRUARY 10,1898.
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IN NEWS,
IN CIRCULATION,
IN ADVERTISING,
IN LIVE ISSUES,
: HSf UP-TO-DATE
PRICE 2 CENTJ?. I JOURNALISM.
SITUATION,
|^upt«d in tlie
^ States,
report for
Irt: “Severe
||d by high
bas been a
Jible influ-
fd distribu-
rorthern and
Thave felt the
^severely. In
I of business a
iie season is re-
^with special ac-
I and steel trades
* In the bast the d?3-
Jfoods and wool has
fnd the movement of
^interfered with, but the
fton goods situation is, if
ythe .l\fiddlo
1
War Department Has Been Peti'
tioned for Troops in Klondike.
THREE HUNDRED ASKED FOR.
Two and Fifty Tliousand
People Stalked for the Gold Fields
During the Present Yeai:.
Skaguay, AJaska, via Seattle, AVash.,
(Special).—A petition has been circula
ted here and at Dyea, asking the War
Department t^ se^i^^ilO troops here,
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Vrocccdin-vR of Both th© Senate and
House DayUy Day.
THE SENATE.
30th Day.—The SenAlo passed two’of
the general approwifttion biUs—ihat
for the army carrying §28,148,492, and
that for'the legislative, judicial and ex
ecutive departments carrying ^31,.058,-
520—were i^assed, the latter consistiug
of 121 pages, occupyini^ the attention of
the Senate during the greater part of
the session, Tillman prt^F.ented the cre
dentials of John M. McLajrin, as a Sen
ator from South Carolina to fill the uu-
expired term of the late Senator Eai'ie,
the term ending 4, 1903. The
oath of office was administered to Me-
Laurin by the Vice }'rcf»ident.
8lsr Day.—In tho {^enat-a Senator
Platt, of Connect^f<v^ ^e^'od the de
bate for the and
SNAPSHOTS AT THE NEWS.
’I'l»e Soiitlu
The Charlotte (X. C.) News says it is
estimated by competent authorities that
the recent smallpox scare has cost the
city at least So0,000.
Josejjh P. Smith, director of the Bu
reau of American Republics, died at
Miami, Fla.
North Carojina has chartered the
Wascassett Mills Company, of Stanly
county, capital $500,000. The mills
■will spin and weave cotton and wool.
E. L. Patton, Jr., of Columbia, S.C.,
committed suicide in Savannah, Ga.,
by taking laudanum. He named his
pall-bearers and wrote a note to his
mother bel'oro coinmitticg tho rash act
denying that it Avas a coward’a last re
sort.
Eov. Dr. James M. Ixav.lia
[Pi il.
Reported .With an Amendment by
Senator Tillman Regarding
ISSUANCE OF FREE PASSES.
All Free Pas«es Issued by Railroad
Corporations Shall Be Signed by
Some Officer of tho Corporat'^on.
Washington,—(Special.) —The Sen
ate committee on inter-State commerce
on the 8d authorized a favorable report
IDg bill, with a:neud-
Southern Haiiway
iriB^SX AND SECOND DIVISIONS-
lu eifeot Haj.-S, 1897.
This CondeDsed Soliedala publlBhe^ M'
tnfurmatloa ouly and Is subject to
YitlKmt uotioe to the publlo.
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