The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-17
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Numerous beet sugar factories are
being built In the West.
A Russian expedition Will leave this
month for Spitzbergen to take meridian
measurements.
The citizens OF st. Louis have sub
scribed 81 100000 for the Worlds Fair
in that city i'm 1908.
According To the latest news from the
White Nile the Khalifa's men are de-
serting in large numbers.
The city of Bangor Me-, sent 9105, 900
pounds of wood pulp TO foreign ports
during the fiscal year 1s9S-99.
The last dollar of 1owa's obligations
will be paid this month. when she can
begin laying up against rainy day.
At the railway stations i'm Russia
books are kept wherein passengers may
enter any complaint they may wish TO
make.
Negotiations for Bulgarian loan at
Vienna have collapsed. the Bulgarian
minister of finance refusing 10 accept
the terms.
Duffy Rlorson and Martin Dahl died
recently i'm Minnesota from drinking
ginger ale which they had favored with
ltnlou tAAidtAs
The Socialist Labor party cast I'll
votes I'm the city election of New Brit
ain, Conn. They, Carried TWO wards
electing four councilmen and one alder
man.
The French Automobile Club has
printed map on which are noted all
electric stations I'm France at which the
accumulators OF the vehicles can be
loaded.
There is a strong movement In Can
ada toward making Montreal nation
al port. Hitherto the city has had To
bear all the expense OF maintaining and
improving the harbor
France Is assimllatlng Spanish ciylli-
| zation by reviVing the bull-nght. The
| first exhibition OF that sport I'm Havre
| since the people OF that town closed the
arena took place the other day, and
| 5000 spectators were present.
Three thousand miles is about the
limit for successful cable telegraphy.
and the chief reason that there has
been no cable across the Pacific is that
no nation has had the necessary way
stations. The United states now pos
sesses them I'm Hawaii, Wake Island
and Guam.
Ine new lnuuStllcs reported bN tn0
! Tradcsmen during the week ended April
- include. among others. a brewery In
| kentucky: brick and tile works in
| South Carolina and Texas: canning
| factory IN North Carolina. coal mines.
a 800 600 Investment. in West Virginia
a cotton mill In Alabama, and two each
| In Georgia and North Carolina; one
cottonsced OH mill each In Alabama,
| Georgia. North Carolina and South
| Carolina ana two in Texas a 100000
/ desk factory in East Tennessee. a dis
/ tinery in Kentucky. aud electrical com-
1 pany IN Arkansas. two electric light
/ and power companies in Alabama. one
| in Georgia and one I'M Virginia. flour
| ing mills I'M Aiabama. Georgia anl Ala
| hama Georgia and south Carolina and
\ four I'M Tennessee. n furniture factory
and n gold milne n North Carolina. \
grain elevator and iron mines IN Ten
nessee. a land company in Arkansas
two lumber and planning mills I'm Flor
/ ida. two in Georgia one zach n Miss.
issippi. South Carolina. Texas and Nir.
I gInla r. $50 600 machine works in Texas
! a novelty works in South Carolina: a
paper and pulp Mill In Virginia: a 500
ton sugar mill in Louisiana. a teie.
phone system and tobacco stemncfy
in south Ca.ulina; q wagon factory IN
Virginia