The Globe-republican., 1900-10-04
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Four brick business buildings in
Sheldon, Ill, are burned
A great fire in Hamburg DESTROYED
several warehouses and timber yard
Colorado is covered with snow, but
yet railroads are not badly block
AIDED.
The Lake Shore railway company is
preparing pension system for its en-
ployes-
Leading London actors are giving
performances for the benefit of Calves
ton sufferers.
Robbers dynamited the vault of a
away with $4,000
Do people realize that there are an
even dozen of presidential tickets in
the field, asking for votes:
Charles Sloan, deputy sheriff, was
killed at Lake Charles, La. while de-
tending negro from mob.
The state inheritance tax on the
estate left by Coils p. Huntington will
amount to more than $500, 900.
New York City has contributed ST.
$50, 600 for Galveston's relief. Phila-
delphia has sent total of SO, 80.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
opium has been seized in Havana. 1t
was struggled in cans labeled sausage.
Virginia coal is ordered in large
quantities for use of British war ships
making their headquarters at Halifax.
Mexican was convicted of murder
at Ration, N NJ. He had killed an old
woman because he believed she had
bewitched him.
Leon Bard a former L. S consul at
Hamburg, is in prison for misappro-
priating part of an inheritance of two
American women.
''Oh. Dear. 1t makes me tired, will
now be heard all over this great coun-
try, for chocolates and caramels are to
be advanced in price.
Al Americ an combin alton is about
to esta blish $50 1aundries in London
run by American employees and with
American machinery.
Frank z. Sargent was reelected
grand master of the brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and his salary
raised to s., 900 year
The Australian colonies are threat
ening to make reprisals upon American
shipping for the cutting off their vessels
from trade with Hawaii American
shipping laws prohibit vessels from
doing business between American
ports.
St. Joseph, Mo-, has closed the ac-
count kept in the commercial Climb,
which shows that So, 925. 35 has been
sent to Galveston
The Chinese minister in London has
said that America is the only country
strong enough to have taken such an
initiative she did when she stood
against the German proposition
1t is said that the British govern
Tnent has already been offered for un-
foreground mining rights N the Trans
vaal enough to go long ways toward
meeting the cost of the war
The total crop of fax seed of the
United States is placed at e3,413, 900
bushels compared with 20, os6 600 bush
els year ago
The loss by the storms in various
sections of Texas is estimated at a mill
lion dollars, exclusive of Galveston
Island
Fort Worth. Texas, had flood last
week with rise of 30 feet in Trinity
river The Cotton Belt railroad track
was carried away and the water was
four feet deep about it's station. All
business had to stop
The United Typothetse of America
opened it's Fourteenth annual session
in Kansas City on September %. Dele
gates We're present from many cities
Associate Justice David J. Brewer.
of Kansas, will deliver a course of lee
lures annually at Yale college. JUS
tice Brewer graduated from Yale in
1856.
The United States tranport port
Albert has sailed from Seattle to the
philippines with 500 cavalry horses
and cargo of forage and commissarv
supplies