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Religious NEWS.

Any Spaniard over the age Of ~ q Liable
70 be called into military service fOr three
years. by the payment 81 1900 pcsesas
5000 he can escape military duty.
The pope Is reported TO Be greatly de-
jected BY the destruction Of Ceryern,s
fleet at Santiago.
4 regiment Of troops viii be sent nm
mediately from San Francisco to Homo
luln to garrison the forts.
The Hawaiian islands became ours when
President Mckinley signed the annexa.
tion bill Wednesday night
In the event Of nm uprising Of the pop
nlaee in Spain there Is grave danger of !
mutiny in the army.
Chill has sent an nltimatum 10 Argen-
tina giving her until August IS to set
lie the boundary dispute.
Assessment of real and personal prop
erty Of Philadelphia shows an increase IL
5000 600 this year over 1897.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has re.
stored the wages Of all it, employees To the
rates before the reduction Of 1894.
One Of the conspirators who placed q
bomb in the palace Of the queen regent OF
spain has been arrested and executed.
Havana Is still in communications with
Madrid by cable.
Spain has now only two fighting ships
Aorthy Of consideration, the battie-ahip
Pelayo and the armored cruiser Carlos v.
Only regular United States postal rates
are required on mails for the Philippines,
Gheffler addressed TO military men or civ
Iians.
he price Of manila rope has doubled,
going from SIC to lIic pound, since the
blockade Of the Philippines by Admiral
dewey.
Governor LOwndes Of Maryland has an
nounoed that the state VIII present
sword Of honor to Commodore Schley, who
Is a native Of Frederick county.
The Spanish government i looking fnr
preteNt 20 put General Weyier safely
behind the bars on account Of his intIignes
&ith revolutionary elements
The second session Of the Fifty-iifth
ongress, just closed. was filed with more
stirring events and appropriated more
money than any since 1861.
Governor Sanginez Of Lower California
manifested his friendliness for the United
skates by having his military band give
concert on the Fourth Of July, in which
American national airs were the most
prominent.
Owing 10 the extreme drought placer
mining in the northern counties Of Cali
fOrnia has been suspended. II is thought
that operations will not be resumed until
next spring.
In LiyermoEe valley. California, the
dry season has so far affected the vine
yards that it is thought the yield will
not be more than one-third that Of last
year. In many localities there will be
no crop whatever.
Congress, on the eve Of adjournment,
appropriated $4,000 to defray the ex.
Penses of transportation to their homes
of the remains Of officers and soldiers Who
are killed OF die outside the United StateA
The navy department has sent TO Cuba
a large number Of lighl draught gunboats
to run down and capture the hundreds Of
mall Spanish war-caft hiGing in the shal.
low bays and inlets of the island.
The wheat crop Of Cass county, Illinois,
is failure, due mostly to ehinch bugs
and rust Oats and corn will also be
poor. The heavy rains and hail this
spring wrought havoc with apples. Peach
IS and pears will be plentiful.
Col. +. NJ. Stuart, for many years a
resident of the Philippines, says the OPP
portunities for enterprising Americans TO
make vast fortunes in those islands dur
ing the next twenty years are boundless.
The outside walls Of many Of the houses
in Mexico are from three TO six feet thick,
to withstand earthquake shocks.
The Topeka lKan.l city council has
passed an ordinance imposing yearly tax
of 5000 upon premium stamp companies
and upon business firms making use of
the premium stamps. The stamp com.
panies will contest the collection of the
tax in the courts
An immense sun dial, certainly the
largest in the world, it at Haydn HoroO, a
large prOmontoFy extending 5000 feet
above the Aegean sea. As the sun swings
around the shadow Of this mountain II
touches, one by one, n circle of islands,
which act as hour marks.
Twenty thousand ex-ConfedeFate sol.
diers will hold a reunion at Atlanta, Ca,
from July 20 to %. inclusive.
The eight public bath ho1sese in Phil.
adelphia were patronized last week by
2S0, SOS men, women and children.
Experiments made in the irrigated
parts of California and Arizona show that
good dates can be raised there.
At Dawson City, klondike, the price Of
dOur has fallen from $50 to - a sack
and gold dust is selling for els an ounce
Omaha union printers who 20 to wal
will have their dues RENTED, and, Il
married, - a week viii be given to Their
families.
Considerable damage has been done "a
mountain towns on the Isthums Of Te,
hauntePec by a serie' Of earthquake
shocks.
The New York Coon Exchange pro
poses 10 suspend orykers who perpetrats
wash sales by means Of fictitious quo
tations
Six members Of a family Of the nams
Of Won zOstrow, Of Sherburne. n. Y, have
died Of triehinoais from eating nav pork
Orders have been received at the navy
yard. Charlestown, Mass, 10 expend So,
600 in repairs upon the old Irigate Min
nesota.
The phosphate camp 81 Ponpon. s. @.
4 wildly excited over the finding nf 80.
600 IN gold BY two negro disgena. vhs