Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-28

of fulfillment aggregate in value some thing like s10,000,OC0, says the Rail- way and Engineering Review. The total number of pressed steel cars that have been produced or are ordered up to the present time is 26, 4l2. To make these some 100000 tons of steel has been, or is being used, and this has cost, as raw maternal, market charges considered, about Sl5, 1000, 900,
 That's peculiar suggestion of Mrs.
 Theodore Roosevelt, that the SS,000 salary attached to the vice presidency, together with the SS,000 income from her husbands private fortune, would be altogether inadequate to enable him to maintain the dignity of the vice residential office. That may or nay
 not be true. IL all depends on the oc- cupant, There have been more vice presidents who have managed to get along with good deal less than with more than that income, says the Bos- ton Herald.
 The age of the automobile is upon St. Louis. Anticipating the world $ fair and spurred to early action by the street.car strike, an automobile com pany, with headquarters in New York, is arranging to place 300 horseless ve- hicles in the St. Louis streets as soon as the cars, which are being built, ar rive in the city. '''Hhe capacity of these cars for they are essentially cars" said Charles Decker, agent of the company, twill be thirty passen- gers"
 Germany has decided to build an immense navy. The new fleet will consist of fifty-seven battleships and fifteen large and sixteen small cruisers. This addition to the German navy will bring it up in effectiveness and armament to that of any other navy in the world, excepting always, the sea establishment of Great Britain. It is said that the hips will cost nearly 1000, 900, GOO marks, and that the build ing will consume period of sixteen years.
 Chicago may have a recount. Rob- ert C. Givins, president of the Two Million club, and Stephen Griffin, su- perintendent of the school census, as- sert that in the event of an official an- nouncement that the population of this city is but 1,s50,OO0 efforts will be made to obtain federal sanction for new census. Rumors are current to the effect that the final figures will show a population of less than l,75O, GOO and those who have been interesting themselves in the city's growth for the last ten years assert that the fig ures are incorrect and that they will take means to have them verified.
 Half of the business section of Bloom ington, H., including five squares of the finest business blocks of the city and the court house, erected at a cost of Si00,O00, were destroyed June l9. The loss is variously estimated at from one and half to two million dollars. One death also resulted from the fire. Robert Schmitt, l9-year-Old boy, died from the shock occlSioned by the noise of the explosion of dynamite which was used by the fremen in blowing up buildings to stay the progress of the flames. The fire de- partment was badly handicapped by an almost total failure of the water supply.
 July will witness a Pan-African conference in London with the object of securing increased recognition of the rights of Great Britain's colored subjects. The idea originated with Mir. II. $. Williams, native of Trini- dad, whose appeal met with an en- thusiastic response, and Southwest Al rica, the West Indies, Abyssinia, and, it is said, the United States, will send representatives with the view of look ing after the general interests of the colored race. The demands will include a thorough system of educa- tion and representation and peasant proprietorship, with especial reference to South Africa and the West Indies.
 The pivotal states continue to get about all the plums in the political pudding. Without taking any account of the scattering votes of unimportant nominations, New York has had nine candidates for the vice presidency, eight of whom were elected. For. al- though Aaron Burr was voted for as a candidate for president, yet it was in- evitlble that, if he failed to receive a majority of the presidential electoral votes, he would certainly be chosen vice president. New York would have had, also, two other candidates for vice president but for their declina- ton of the office, and each of them would have been elected. and one of them would have become president.