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ragua
The gunboat Helena, which is on her
way to join Admiral Dewey's fleet In
the Philippines, by way of the Mediter-.A
ranean sea and Suez Canal, has arrived
at Funchal, and will continue her long
cruise without unnecessary delays.
This is the second attempt made by
this staunch little warship to join the
Asiatic squadron.
The great race horse, Ben Holiday,
was put up at the horse sale at Lexing-
ton, KY, last week. He was valued at
$4,000 by his owner and consequently
was not sold. Sidney Paget started him
off at $4,000. Lanky Bob brought
$500. Other horses in training sold
cheap. The average Of twenty-eight
horses sold was $780,.
1t has been found impracticable to
occupy Cienfuegos before January 1,
and Major General Wilson has been di.
rected to make the best possible dis
position of the troops that were about
to sail. Beside the 10000 originally
at Cienfuegos, many have been sent
from Havana. No orders have been
issued for embarkation of troops to
Cuba
Philadelphia merchants have paid
out this year to owners Of foreign
shipping over $3,600,000 for freight
charges Territorial expansion will in
crease our trade, but the vast ship
ments should be carried in American
bottoms. Ocean commercial and ship
ping supremacy is quite as important
and vastly more profitable than naval
supremacy.
At Elsberry, Mo-, robbers made an
attempt to rob the Lincoln County
bank. John w. Waters, the aged night
watchman of the town, was found
bound and gagged and nearly frozen.
In the morning the bank officialsfound
the vault doors open, but neither they
nor experts from St. Louis have been
able to open the safe, which is said to
contain 100000
The report of the Attorney General
will contain a review Of the operation
of the national bankruptcy law Of July
1, which permits persons to bec0mal
voluntary bankrupts. One thousand |
seven hundred petitions Of involun-
tary bankruptcy have been filed, butt
as the involuntary features did not be-
come effective until November /, 1t hast
been impossible to obtain data. j
Mayor Van Wyck of New York haS
directed the Board of Public Impr0vef
ments to take prompt action on tho
preliminary work for the constructi0h
Of = h irI hrid khrE EAo
the structure to cost $15,000,000. Tho
Mayor has frequently declared that
next to the erection OF new schools
he regarded the building of bridges
over East River as the most importapt
of public improvements.
The Syracuse Post says: A TenneS-
see man with money in the bank drop
ped into church one night last week
and heard the pastor pray for $500
with which to pay off the church debt
The man went home, drew check i'm
the church's favor for that amount,
signed and stamped 1t properly, and
then blew out his brains. Now the
church is rent over the question, was
it an answer to prayer?
Morton Hudson has just returned Ito
his home in Terra Haute, Ind, after
spending over half year in Mexican
Jail. In February he and friend were
on a prospecting tour near Toduca,
Mex, when they were attacked by
highwaymen, two of whom 1 were
killed in the struggle which followed.
The Americans gave themselves up,
Hudson was thrown into Jail and has
only now gained a trial and release.
A statistician has learned that the
annual aggregate circulation of the pa
pers Of the world is calculated to be
12,000 100000 copies. To grasp any
idea of this magnitude we may state
that it would cover no fewer than 1O,-
$50 square miles of surface; that it is
printed on 7S1,25O tons Of paper; and
further, that if the number, II, ,OO0,OOO,-
900, represented, instead of copies, Sec
onds, it would take over 1888 years for
them to elapse.
News has reached here of tho wreck
of the Norwegian bark Kafir, in mid
Atlantic ocean. The details as brought
by survivors are narrowing The men
tell frightful tale of disaster, which
was attended by awful suffering from
exposure and hunger. The Kafir cap
sized in midocean in gale. The crew
of fifteen men clung to the vessels keel
until heavy sea washed them off,
While they were struggling to regain
the boat five men were drowned and
five others were caught and eaten by
sharks. The five survivors clung to the
wreck and were finally picked up by
a passing vessel
Prof. Taft Hatfield Of the Northwest
ern University Of Chicago, has just
been honored with an appointment on
a committee of one hundred which is
to arrange for the celebration in Stras-
burg on the 150th anniversary of the
birth of Goethe. In connection with
this celebration there will be the dedi-
cation of Goethe monument, repre-
senting the celebrated poet as a boy.
Three Americans have been honored
with membership on the committee in
token of their scholarship in the Ger
man language and literature. These
are Prof. Hatfield, Prof Francke of
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