Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26

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An estimate of what the news costs q
big newspaper and how it travels may he
derived from the telcgraphic tolls charged
for transmission. The expense of tele-
graphing war news from Manila is at the
rate of $2.35 u word. From Manila to
New York the cable route is: Manila to
Hong Kong, thence to Saigon in Anam,
Singapore, the Straits of Settlements and
Penang. on the Malay peninsula, to Mad
ras. India; thence by Eastern Telegraph
cable to Alden in Arabia, to Port Said and
Alexandria in Egypt: Malta, Gibraltar,
Lisbon and Plymouth, England; from
Plymouth by Commercial cable to Wat
e%rvillc, ireland, and Canso, Nova Scotia,
to New York.
News comes that during the last winter
the submergence Of Sable Island by the
ocean has proceeded rapidly. Sable ISL
and, which lies e%ighty-tive miles east of
Nova Scotia and in the track Of ocean
steamers, is the most notorious spot in the
world for shipwrecks. In the last ninety
years more than $50 ships have been
wrecked on it's treacherous shoals. md
w lighthouses placed on the island by
the Canadian Government have been
washed away by the ocean. During all
these years it has been gradually sinking
under the water, until now the island is
not much more than one-third as large as
it was at the beginning of the century.
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During the month of April there was a
remarkable falling off in the exports of
agricultural products, provisions, includ-
ing cattle and hogs, showing a reduction
of $1,5O7 1913 and breadstuffs ST., 97,517
as compared with the same month last
year. Cotton exports dropped SG,327,4
thus making a total %shrinkage for the
month in products from field and farm of
;$24,052 425. The exports of breadstuffs
for April were smaller than for any month
since July, 1897.
The payment of IL dividend Of one-ffth
of 1 per cent to the creditors of the Iron
Hall winds up a failure which involved
GO. 900 members scattered through more
than twenty States. When a receiver was
appointed it was found that the liabilities
of the order were So, 100000. Altogether
g., OOO,OO has been collected and paid to
creditors. leaving a permanent deficit Of
So, 100000.
For the maintenance of the l%ife-saving
service the people Of this country pay
about $1,5OO,OOO u year. OF 3,9S7 lives
imperiled in coast shipwrecks last year,
only % were lost; of the So, 10S 800 worth
of property imperiled, the life-saving ser.
vice rescued $G,42O,5 $50 worth.
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Rear Admiral Watson, who succeeds
Dewey in the Philippines, was a lieuten-
ant OH Farragut's flagship at the battle of
Mobile bay. and assisted in flashing the
admiral to the rigging of the Hartford be-
fore he went to do or die.
So
NJ. +. Hastings writes from Weather
ford, Ok, that he has plowed up on the
bottoms of the Cimmaron river an old
army musket, with the inscription. IL.
b. Howard, Co. A, Gath Ill. U. v. l." He
would like to hear from some one who has
u claim to the old weapon.
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1t is believed that the largest audience
ever gathered to witness a sporting event
was present ut the windup Of the football
season in London, England. An accu.
rate count showed that $4,000 people were
! present.