Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-04
CURRENT NOTES.

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should grow stronger.
Congress has passed the bill appro-
priating over $500, 900 for the remov-
al of Shag Rock in San Froncisco bay.
The bark Levi G Burgess arrived at
San Francisco on the I'd after round
trip to Tacoma. Wash. of nineteen
bays.
Three men were killed and six injur-
ed by a snowslidee on the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad near Glenwood
Springs, Colo, on the I'd.
Peter w Neu, one of the contractors
for the San Pedro breakwater, was
killed by being thrown from buggy
on Catalina Island on the 4th.
The Italian ship Cavalina Ciampa
has been chartered at San Francisco
to carry scrap iron from that port to
Genoa. Italy. The charter price is
27s Cd.
1t is reported that the Premiers of
the respective Australian colonies
have agreed upon plan which pract-
ically assures the success oil the FEEDER
alton movement.
Prince Albert of Sake Coburg, Only
son of the Duke of Edinburgh. and
grandson of Queen Victoria, died of
brain disease at Martinsbreen, Austria
on the 9Th, aged rs years.
The naptha-launc,1 William D, which
was sunk in San Francisco bay three
weeks ago by the ferry boat Oakland,
was raised on the ed in a compare
lively utlinjurcd condition.
The steamer Centennial will sail
from San Francisco for Manila during
this week with supplies for the United
States forces. She will be followed
shortly by the steamers Connemaugh,
Justin and Celtic.
A dispatch to the Paris Patrie from
Cayenne, capital of French Guila,
SAYS that orders have been received
there for the return of Dreyfus to
to France, with the statement that
a vessel has been sent to bring him.
The O. & O. liner Coptic has again
broken the record between Yokohama
Japan, and Honolulu. She arrived at
the latter port on the 26th ult, 9days
9 hours and 5 minutes from Yoko-
hama, beating her own record by
forty minutes.
A disturbance arising out of racial
differences between the CzechS and
Germans occurred in the lower house
of the Austrian Reichsrati. on the 9TH
ult. A namber ofhand to-hard hgits-
beteen Deputies took place Geiore-
order was restored
The North German Lloyd liner K ais
er Wilhelm ii, from Genoa, Naples and
Gibraltar, arrived at New York on
the 2Sth ult, with her propeller dam
aged. Captain Hogeman reports
having experienced very severe wealth
er during the voyage.
The Inspectors of Steam Vessels at
San Francisco have suspended Captain
Daniels for one year on the ground of
negligence and unskilfulness in the
navigation of the Steam-Schooner
NoyO when she ran on Duxburg Rect,
near San Francisco. on January 1Tth.
Two San Francisco firms have
sum.tted bids for the transportation
to Spain Of the Spanish troops now
at Manila. The work will probably
be given to the Bordeaux Steamship
Company, which rendered a bid from
New York. Its figures are much the
lowest.
The Schuylkill (Pa.) Coal Exchange
has fixed the rate of wages to be paid
the miners in that region for the last
half of January and the first half of
February at 3 per cent. below the
50 so basis. This is the lowest rate
of wages paid anthracite miners for
years.
A British court has decided against
the United States in suit brought hy
the latter against n firm of shipping
brokers to recover So, 300, being the
amount of commission paid by the
United States on TIE purchase of two
vessels which were not delivered owing
to the neutrality laws.
The United States Commissioner of
Internal Revenue has ruled that to-
bacco may be sold in such sized pack
ages as the demands of trade may
require. 1t is belived that this ruling
practiclly resciuds the recent obnox.
ious order prohibiting the sale OF to-
bacco from broken packages.