Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-06-01
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SEvENTY-ElGHT new labor organiza-
in 1895.
THE Federal Steel Co. is to build two
modern blast furnaces at South Chi.
cago, III.
THE Roane Iron Co., of Chattanooga,
Tenn, is to build new blast furnace
at lockwood, Tenn.
The immigration laws Of the United
States have been extended to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
LoNDoN's record of deaths by violence
was s,5l4 last year, being 1874 above the
average of the preceding 10 years.
Work began the other day on the
foundation for the new buildings for
the naval academy, Annapolis, Md.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered Sir John
Lubbock's 100 best books. They were
sent by special messenger to Osborne.
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION bottles of cham
payne are drunk annually in the world.
A Rheims dealer keeps 5000, 900 in re-
serve.
A LIVE lizard was found comfortably
settled in cash register which had
been shipped from the United States to
London.
FRAU EMBDEN HE1NE, sister of the
poet, was some time ago offered $1,000
for one of her brothers unpublished
manuscripts.
MARY DICKENS; granddaughter Of
the great novelist, will shortly pro-
duce new book, which will deal with
theatrical life.
CLOTH is now being made successfully
from wood, and is said to be as flexible,
soft, durable and susceptible to dyes
as other fabrics.
HAVANA municipal taxes are to here
after be collected in American currency
or its legal equivalent in Spanish or
foreign gold coin.
A SYNDICATE, headed by Warner
Miller, has obtained an option at ST.
900, 900 on the famous Candelarra mine
at San Dimas, Mex
The fierce crusade against tobacco
cigarettes in London has developed the
tea cigarette, which is particularly pat
ronized by woman.
FIRM OF glass dealers at Cincinnati
brought suit under the antitrust law
against the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
for $50, 900 damages.
NINE tons of pennies are taken from
the London slot machines each week,
the firm which runs the ''mutoscope"
averaging So, 500 alone.
PARITo, believed to be the last Yaqui
Indian in California, is dead. He was
10s years of age, according to the rec
ord kept in pioneer days.
Col. FUSION, who recently distin-
guished himself with the 18th Kansas,
is one of the lightest men in the army.
He weighs but SO pounds.
OLIVER P. HUBBARD, of New York,
who has celebrated his Goth birthday,
graduated at Yale in 1928, and is the
sole survivor of his class.
SENATOR BUTLER, of North Carolina,
is to enter the law school of the North
Carolina university. He was graduted
from the university in 1884
RI. ADM. john c. WATSON mas made
. formal application for command of
the Asiatic squadron in case Adm.
Dewey decides to return home.
REIA KITTRIDGE, of Belfast, Me-,
holds the worlds record for fine writ
ing, having succeeded in placing $4,000
words on an ordinary postal card.
The United States Worsted Co., with
a capital of $40, 200, 900. has incorporate
ed at Trenton, N. J. Will seek to COM
bine all the New England interests.
The heart of vegetarian beats, on
an average, SO to the minute; that of
the meat eater Y. This represents .
difference Of 90, 900 beats in "a hours.
U. s. GRANT. JR., of California, re-
sembles, his famous father not only in
face and figure. but in voice and in a
thousand little mannerisms and traits
Rio DE JASEIRo is. next to Buenos
Ayres, the largest city of South Amer
lea. 1t has 100000 inhabitants, and
Brenos Ayres claims about 100, 900
more.
SENATOR HANNA is said to employ
five stenographers merely to answer
the letters of persons who think they
ought to have an Office and that he
ought to get it for them.
If man is as timid as a hare, he ought
to die game.-Chicago Daily News
A bad player and bad piano make bad