The Republican journal., 1897-07-29

IN BRIEF. nder the will of her hus-
band, John Biddulph Martin, the well
known London banker, who died of pneu-
monia at Las Palmas. Grand Canary, last
March, Mrs Victoria Clat1in Woodruff
Martin will receive the entire estate,
which Is pTObated at E141. 000....... Lizzie
CLAW, the German champion bicyclist,
has made new outdoor world record
for women riders. In one hour at the
casino track i'll Toledo she rode u miles
and II laps, II laps to the mile -. Dur
ing the month of June there We're l., S37
visitors to the top of the Washington
monument OF whom 10, 1870 made the as
cent in the elevator, and >, 701 bv the
stairway, making l. 100, so persons who
have visited the top since the shaft was
opened to the public Oct. 9. 1883. SAYS
the Washington Star.... Mr. Brice, United
States consul at Matanzas, Cuba, has
armed the consulate in consequence of
threats Of demonstration against Ameri-
cans made by some of the ultra Conserva-
tlves in that place. .... The dedication of
st. Gaudens' monument of Gen. John A.
Logan July 22d at Chicago was made the
occasion of notable demonstration in
the hero S honor. 1t is well that so not
able memorial to the brave Illinoisan
should be set up in the great metropolis
OF the middle west. 1t is estimated that
the population of Kansas City, Mo-, is
now l69, ,2l0, and OF Kansas City, Kas.,
6S5 for Greater Kansas City. During the
last year the population of the two cities
has increased at the rate of l, 900 month.
1.-THE latest report current in Chicago
is that ex-Gov. Altgeld does not want to
60 to Congress after all, and accepting it
as true, the Chicago Tribune notes an un-
precedented unanimty there respecting
him, as certainly nobody else wants him
to Co.. Canada is likely to have the big
gest wheat crop in the history of the
country. Estimates of the yield run up
to forty bushels per acre. Different dis
trlcts IN Manitoba report an increase in
the wheat acreage of from fifteen to forty
per cent. over last year, and the indica-
tions are that Canada will have 10, OOO 900
more bushels of wheat for export than
last year..... From 100, 900 to 200, 600 bush
els of peaches are usually shipped every
year from Maryland and Delaware to
New York and Boston. This year, how
ever, they are scarce, and the supply will
fall off lamentably.. All the various pc
titions which have been SO widely signed
in Portsmouth, n. H., and York county,
Maine in relation to the retention of the
frigate Constitution at the Portsmouth
navy yard, have been collected in one
large roll and forwarded to Speaker Reed.
A copy of these petitions has also been
sent to each member of the Maine and
New Hampshire delegations in Congress
and urges each member to do all in his
power to have the Constitution rebuilt at
Portsmouth. Now that President An
ri Of Tp;y
on account of his disagreement with the
corporation on the financial question, we
may expect to see him enrolled BY the
Bryanites as martyr in the cause of the
sacred white dollar. A despatch from
Copenhagen says that the report of the
capture of carrier pigeon in the vicinity
of Tromsoe lsland near the north point
OF Norway, stamped with the words and
figures, ''North Pole passed 49, is not
true.... Philadelphia has 3,349 teachers
employed in the public schools, and it
takes over 81, 900, 600 to pay them a years
salary. despatch from Singapore
says that the steamer Srihongann, bound
from Singapore for Malacca with 100 pas
sengers, was wrecked in squall off Ma
laca on June 10Th. One hundred and
twenty persons, including the captain of
the steamer, were drowned. The remain
der of the ships company were rescued by
passing steamer. Both Dun & Co. and
Bradstreet report greater confidence in
business circles since the end of uncer-
tainties regarding duties on imports.
Both because of the season and because
of pending action on the tariff, industrial
operations are waiting, and yet with an
improvement which under such circum-
stances is significant. go. The ambassadors
of
agreed upon the frontier clause in the
peace treaty. The reports that the Turk
ish forces have begun to evacuate Thes-
sally are confirmed. .... The British Gov
ernment has again declined to interfere in