, 1900-09-20
r~ELEoRAPHrc BREviTiEs.


During the Austrian military
vers on the border of Galicia and Bo-
hemia, a big gun exploded. killing -four
men outright, and fatally wounding
eighteen others.
Mission boards throughout the
try are making efforts to collect money
with which to relieve their mission
aries in China whose homes have been
burned by the Boxers
Rev. Frank Gunsaulus of Chicago
has presented his resignation ms presi-
dent of the Armour Institute. DR.. Gun
saulus wishes to give his undivided
attention to his church work.
The wedding of Miss Mabel McKin-
ley. only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Abner
Mckinley, and DIR. Hermanus l.. Baer
took place on the 18th, and was made
notable by the presence of President
Mckinley, uncle of the bride.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved of the following patents of land
In the Salt Lake City land district:
1906 acres for the State Agricultural
College; 12,971 acres for the insane
asylum and II, DOB acres for the reform
school.
The Capetown correspondent of the
Daily Mail, regarding the refugees,
says: "The distress among them is very
serious. Large numbers, mostly Amer
leans, are living in caves on the sides
of Table mountain, owing to thei ina
bility to pay rent"
The, North American company's
steamer Homer has arrived from the
Pribyloff islands. via Dutch Harbor,
with 22.4TO seal skins, valued at $500
900; eighteen barrels of blue ard white
fox skins. valued at $4,000, and from
Dutch Harbor thirty-siN barrels of fur.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany is reported to have closed con
tracts with the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company and with an Eng
fish steamship line for regular service
between Philadelphia and Bremen and
Philadelphia and London, respectively.
Baroness Won Eetteler arrived at
Tien 1'sin September 9TH. escorted by
II German naval detachment. Admiral
klrchoff made all the necessary ar
rangements To facilitate the journey of
the baroness, who. after II visit to the
United States, will proceed to Ger
many.
The Navy Department has been in
formed of the arrival of the battlcShip
Oregon at Woo Sung and of the arrival
at Shanghai from Chez Foo OF the gun
boat Nashville. Woo Sung is the mort
of Shanghai and here the Oregon VIII
remain, as her draught will not permit
OF her going to shanghai.
Tho second d,v,s snssLnu of the Sans
of Veterans nineteenth annual nation
nj encampment opened ut Syracuse on
Tho 1otb with Oh dnIapoteS In attend
once Tho university Iocotion matter
was taken mn The committee in
charge renorted i'm favor of Mason CITY
and this report vos odonted by n vote
of l42 to 10.
II ,s now nrobobIn that tho recent
temnpr,ncn crus,dn ot Tonekn win re-
snIt in rho ,nnnintmont of Rnv
Charles NJ SboiInn who odited Tho
Tonakn ConitnI ns Christinn daily
as chief of nnIir. of Inc civ II is the
saving. ON nverv cItIzen's Inns TINT thr
rrfnrmor will ..rrm Toneka Ms .iesus
would"
me summer OF 100" mas heeh n rec
in tho East II has heen thr hottest
summer over knnvn I'm Now York. fine
August which has inst closed was the
hottest August eyer known in New
York tho average temperoturo duv
and nipbt for the entire moutb heiur
scyentv-seyen degrees
me JalnneSe iouhd irllce 'hlhG'
leader OF me Conservative proctor
eign party. III the western mus, twenty
mics Instant ana are holding MN
mere WIN n view OF IL conference ana
munication with the dowager empress.