The leader., 1897-11-10
LATER NEWS.


commissioners appointed to investigate
the agricultural possibilities of Alaska,
submitted their reports t, Secretary
IF Agriculture Wilson on the 4th. The
reports agree that while compare lively
| title agriculture exists there is pos,
sible that enough of certain crops and
animals may be grown to sustain n
considerable population, provided
proper methods are pursued.
Miss ARIE S. HUNTINGTON, democrat,
daughter of Rt. Rev. Frederick ID.
Huntington, Episcopal bishop of CEN
trail New York, was elected school com
missioner at Syracuse, on the 4th, lead
ing the ticket in her class. She IS a
| leader in ,veral charitable enterprises
and is a woman suffragist. She is the
| first woman to hold elective office in
| Syracuse.
AT "a regular monthly meeting of the
New York chamber of commerce, ON
the 4th, Il resolution was adopted sug-
gesting to the government the advis-
| ability ofincreasi ,g the army by about
1000 artillerymen, SO that the modern
seacoast defenses now under construc-
ton may be properly manned.
The ordnance bureau made test at
Indian Head on the 4th, firing ten
inch armor piercing capped shell at a
Az inch plate. The latter was nickel
steel, Harveyized. The shell went
through the plate and exploded on the
other side. The test was considered
most satisfactory.
The congress of the Association for
the Advancement OF Woman, held in
| Springfield, Mass, closed on the 4th.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, national presi-
dent, presided. The session was pure
of the association will be held in Bos-
ton in Nay, 1898.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY VENDERLIP re-
turned to Washington, on the 4th,
| l'om a brief visit to New York, where
he had arranged for the transfer, by
the reorganization committee, of the
governments share of the purchase
price Of the Union Pacific railroad.
| DR. w. w. SHEFFIELD, a prominent
dentist, died at New London, Conn, on
the 4th, aged 10 years. DIR. Sheffield
was one of the best-known dentists in
the United States, having acquired
considerable prominence by his tooth
browning patents.
The total attendance at the Nash
Vile Centennial exposition was 1857
305. The associations Indebtedness at
the close was $50, 900; with uncollected
accounts amounting TO $50 900, and
| l.
more.
The most important iron ore dis
covery in the Menominee range in Mich
igan in several years has been made
on the bank of the Michigamme river,
one mile south of the Mansfield mine.
The vein is n feet deep and 40 feet
wide. The ore assays so per cent. in
iron and .05l per cent. in phosphate
thus putting Its assay within the Bes
semer limit.
The first annual report OF Commits
sioner of Pensions ii. Clay Evans to
the secretary of the interior was made
public on the 5th. 1t fails to show the
diminution in the number of pensions
anticipated by former commissioners,
but discloses a net gain of 5. 1856, the
total number on June &c. 1897, being
1904.
MARK TwAIN's publishers, at Hart.
ford, Conn.,, have received cablegram
from the author, in which he denies
the report that he recently wrote a
letter to a personal friend in this
country stating that he had made
So. 900 in the last two years and had
paid his debts in full.
PROF. THOMAS WILSON, of the Smith
sonion institute, who represented this
country at the Brussels exposition, has
returned to Washington. He describes
the exposition as entirely of a CONNER
cial character, and says it was not
nearly SO large or varied as the Words
fair at Chicago.
ANappeal from President Mason OF
| the Portland (Ore.) chamber of com.
merce to Secretary Alger, for help in
getting supplies through to the starv.
ing miners in the Klondike region,
was received at the war department on
| the 5th.
Col. HENRY T. RUSSELL, of Chicago,
vice-president and general manager OF
the Union Drop Forge Co., died sud-
denly of heart disease, while at lunch
con on the 5th. Col. Russell was 81
years of age. He leaves widow.
FAILURES throughout the United
States during the week ended the 5th,
as reported by r. G. Dun & Co.. were
276, against $50 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 80 against So last year.
TEMPLE EMANUEL, the Jewish syna-
gogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth
and Curtis streets, Denver. COL. was
totally destroyed by fire on the 5th.
Loss, SIS, 900.
GREAT BRITAIN has declined to take
part IN the Florida fisheries confer
ence though greatly interested in the
objects Of the conference"
ABOUT 1000 head OF cattle arrived in
Havana on the 9Th, from the United