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door Of the American consulate at Ha-
vana few days ago.
Chester Westfall has eloped from
Grand Encampment, Wyoming, with
the wife of Samuel Tennnl.
Senator Dubois is said to have be-
come opposed to the annexation Of Ha-
wall since his visit to the islands.
| Professor Ferguson of Sheboygan
has gotten into trouble by trying hyp-
motto experiments on school children.
The members of the lower house of
the Austrian parliament indulge In
slugging match Mt nearly every session.
A terrible storm ragged along the Bng-
llsh coast on the 2Sth, which did great
damage to shipping and towns on the
coast.
The Togo Kissen Kaisha Steamship
Company of Japan will put on line
between Yokohama and San Francisco
next year.
The latest reports of those who came
out from Dawson City are to the effect
that there is certain to be great scar
city Of food there.
Spain has practiced horrible cruel
ties upon $50 Cuban exiles on the
island of Fernando Po, $50 of them
having died as result.
A letter from the Congo states that
two men, who went from Washington
to Join the Belgian army, have been
killed and terribly mutllated by ma
tives.
The Japanese government has for
warded to the Hawaiian government a
claim for damages In the emigrant af-
fair Tho amount claimed In aQi1 in
be about 100000.
The thermometer showed eighteen
degrees below zero at Miles City, Mon
tana, fourteen below at Winnipeg,
Manitoba, and eight below at st. Paul,
Minnesota, on the Goth.
The city of st. Paul has won it's suit
for Mississippi river water for domes-
tic purposes, which was carried to the
United States Supreme Court by the
st. Anthony Water Power Company.
An unofficial estimate places the
wheat yield of New South Wales Mt H.
100000 bushels, and it is anticipated
that the exportable surplus of wheat
from Australia will be 100000 BUSH
els.
Thirty cases of smallpox are reported
at San Marcial, in the Rio Grande val
far but one American is afflicted, and
the mild form of the disease causes no
alarm.
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
has approved the Franco Brazilian ar
bitration treaty, within the terms Of
which will fall the boundary disputes
between France and Brazil, and partic-
ularly the settlement of the Amapa
question.
Great excitement prevails at Silver
City over the outrage and murder Of
Lulu Werney, aged IA, who was out
ragged and murdered Saturday after
noon by Mexican who was herding
goats for her father, twenty miles
south Of that city.
Thanksgiving was celebrated by the
Americans In London by eating a big
dinner and listening to speeches. A
note from the Queen was read, In
which she spoke gratefully Of the
friendship of Americans expressed dur
Ing the recent jubilee.
A special from Fort Duschesne, Utah,
says Special Agent Reynolds has COM
pleted his inquiry Mt Uintah agency re-
garding the recent affair with Indians
and game wardens and left for Colo
RADIO to continue his inquiry. He was
accompanied by an employe of the
agency and went overland, following
the route of f troop to Lily Park.
Judge Sanborn of the United States
Court at st. Paul, Minnesota, has de-
cided in favor of the telegraphers in
suit against the receiver of the Union
Pacific, holding that railroad employees
are entitled to representation on the
Board of Trustees of the railroad hos
pital. The amount of $4,000 in the
hospital fund is ordered paid back pro
rata to employees who contributed 1t and
the property is ordered sold.
G. w. Woods. who was the local
agent of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company at Ration, lost his life in
peculiar way. He was found sixteen
miles west of there on the Catskill
road by some railroad construction
hands. When found he was lying
alongside of the road. and the bed of
his wagon lay over him. and burning
slowly. 1t is evident from the position
he was in that his horse turned sud
denly to one side and upset the wagon,
and his lap robe caught fire from the
lantern. He was burned to death.
Judge Hosmer at Detroit has declined
to interfere with a boycott by en-
ployes of milling firm. A temporary
injunction had been issued restraining
the Railway Teamsters' Uunion and
Council from unlawfully interfering
with the business of Jacob Becker &
Sons. Judge Hosmer stated he would
make the injunction permanent SO far
as violence or disturbances are con-
cerned but could not interfere with
peaceful distribution of boycotting
circulars or other legitimate means en-
ployed by the unions to accomplish
their purposes"
a petition to the senators of the
United States has been issued from the
headquarters of the Irish National AL
lance in New York against the adop-
tion Of the proposed general treaty of
arbitration with England. The petit
tion will be circulated by the various
councils of the alliance throughout this
country, the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans and other Irish-American socie-
ties. The petition says that the advo-
Gates Of the arbitration treaty here are
the modern American tories descend
ants of the men who would have
hanged Washington.
The State Department at Washing
ton has requested United States Am
bassador White to ascertain exactly
/ tho Intentions nf cornnnv xx,ith raopaot