, 1900-12-27
TELEoRApHrc eREvlrlEs.

Helen Keller, the celebrated dear,
blind and heretofore dumb student, IS
learning to speak.
Richard Croker. the Tammany politi-
clan, has bought a fine residence near
Vantage in England.
The Fowler Bicycle and Carriage
works at Chicago We're burned on the
18th instant. Loss, $4,000.
A seat on the New York Stock EN-
change was sold n few days ago LOT
$4,000, the highest price on record.
The annual football game between
Oxford and Cambridge was won this
year by oxford by two goals TO a soal
and n try.
A sneak thief put his hand into one
of the stamp windows at the Chicago
postofice, grabbed $1,000 worth OF
stamps and disappeared in the crowd.
A bill has been prepared for submis-
sion to the next Minnesota Legislature
releasing the Younger brothers from
the p~enitentiary of that state on parole
The American Forestry Association,
in session at Washington, adopted n
resolution favoring purchase of "A re-
serve containing the California big
trees.
Selma Schnapka, he woman who at
tempted to kill Emperor William No
vember 18th, by throwing a Ratchet at
him, has been placed in an insane asy-
lum.
The corporation of Limerick has CON
ferred the freedom of the city upon
Mr.. Kruger. The two members who
opposed the proposal were howled
down.
Fire on the 18th instant almost COM
pletely destroyed the Stewart Pump
and Plow works at Carnegie, Pennsyl-
vania. Loss, $4,000. The plant will
be rebuilt.
The Senate of the United States has
agreed to give its adhesion to the ON
vention TO regulate the importation of
intoxicating liquors into certain re-
gions of Africa.
The Koktcik viaduct. on the Shan
hills, in British Burmah, the highest
railroad bridge in the world, has been
successfully completed by the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company.
A dispatch to the London Daily Ex-
press from Vienna reports recent Mos
lem excuses against the Christian pop
ulation in the central provinces of Tur-
htA. htlt -vO ,IllSlldLS navy bNNh
killed.
In the House of Commons Mr..
Chamberlain said Great Britain pro-
posed to establish cheaper postage
with the United States, but Washing
ton was not prepared to entertain the
matter.
An earthquake shock lasting nearly
n minute occurred at 1:45 OH the morn
ing of December 18th at Joplin, Mis-
souri,. The motion was from north to
south and of n %quivering nature. No
damage is reported.
The work of purifying Paris, to
which the police are giving special at
t%ention, in view of the abnormal crimi-
nal conditions following the close of
the exposition, continues and there
have been 4SO new arrests.
Commencing January LIST, the Calu-
ment & Hecla Mining Company will in
rease the wages of its 1900 employees
two and one-half per cent. Last
March the company raised the wages
of its employees ten per cent.
In the House of Commons, Powell
Williams, former financial secretary u
the war office, said 1S2,4GO horses and
mules had been landed in South Africa
during the war. He ignored the ques-
ton as to how many asses had been
sent there.
Hon. W. ]. Bryan, who will be the
principal speaker at the annual ban
quet at the Jacksonian Club. in Omaha,
Monday evening, January eth, has an
nounced that he will on this occasion
talk about the future policy of the
Democratic party.
The official report of the finances of
the Paris Exposition shows a loss of
100000 francs. The total of expendi-
lures is 11G,500.OOO francs. The receipts
amounted to 114,500,O0O francs. The
loss is less than in the case of either of
the preceding eXpositions.
Private letters from China received
in Berlin assert that the reason the
Empress hates Emperor Kwang Su is
that the latter has actually become n
Christian, having been converted by
British and American missionary books
that came under his eye.
The Oregon Historical Society at its
recent annual meeting adopted resolu-
ton recommending that u northwest
ern Industrial exposition be held at
Portland in 1905 to commemorate the
centennial anniversary of the Lewis
and Clark expedition TO the Pacific
coast.
The vice president of the Federal
Council, Ernest Bremen of Bale, has
been elected president of Switzerland
for 1901 in succession to Walter Haus-
er of Zurich. DR.. j. Temp of Lucerne.
who was chief of the department of
posts and railroads, was elected vice
president.
Micael G. Mulhall, the statistician.
is dead. lie was born in 1886, and
founded in 1861 the BuenOs Ayres
Standard, the first English daily paper
printed in South America. His prin-
cipal works We're the Dictionary of
Statistics" the Progress of the
World" and the Industries and
Wealth of Nations"
The New York Board of Trade and
Transportation has adopted resolu-
tons asking Congress TO make the vol
ume of currency more responsive TO
the requirements of traffic to ensure the
%perpetuity of the gold standard. The
board also took strong ground in favor
of Ii Ray bill, amending the national
bankrupt act of 1898.