Chicago, Nov. 28. lndictments
against several ticket scalpers have been
secure! b a / fair officials who hope
to push the cases to a more sue. -.-Jul
issue than the last ones Persistent efforts
will be made to drive Chicago brokers out
of business before the optming of the ex
position, in which event the railroad com
panies have promised to make lower
rates.
A n Election Fight.
Buenos Ayres, Nov. 28.—'i he munici
pal election were held today in the cities
of the various provincesand disturbances
are reported from several places. The
most serious occurred at Bolivar where
the police and a mob had an encounter in
which it is reportid several policemen
were shot
A Hard I v Effected Arrest
Chattanooga, Nov. 28 — News from
Piedmont, Ala., says the three notorious
Conner brothers were arrested yesterday
n ar there alter a desperate fight in which
a woman took part, pouring scalding
w?ter over tlw? attacking partv, while the
men fired \\ inchest* rs and six shooters.
Tliev f’Hid More Dntv.
San Francisco, Nov. 28.—Judge Me
Kenne *4 the Unite*] States circuit court
decided the case of Licbes Bros., tobacco
importers, today. The result is that over
S4O 000 have been advanced by the firm
as duties on tobacco as fillers instead of
wrappers
A New Commercial Treatv.
Washington, Nov. 28 —The transit
ory commercial arrangement between the
United States and Salvador has bet n
superseded by a definite irrangement. It
- believed at th** department of state tl e
irrangement will tend to greatly promote
• rade.
Eighty .Machinists Strike.
Troy, N. Y., Nov. 28 —About eighty
of the machinists employed in the gun
shops at Watervliet arsenal struck today
• •wing to the differences concerning the
work assigned them.
Blaine Recovering.
