Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-10-04
Otherwise.

Ine locomotive 1lremen reelected
Grand Master Sargent
The British have occupied Komati-
poort without opposition.
The wages of 5000 glass chimney
workers have been advanced.
Normal school graduates win be sent
to the Philippines to teach school.
A heavy snowfall was experienced at
various points in the Rocky mountains.
The California prune crop is selling
at stronger prices than for many yeors
past.
A submarine volcano has been dis
covered at the mouth of the Gulf of
Mexico.
Carl Frederick William Rose of Sag
inaw, Mich, aged ninety. has inherited
big fortune in Germany.
A sample of armor plate for the
cruisers Chattanooga and Cleveland
failed TO stand the test
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
mCk decided in convention at Des
Moines to meet next year at Chatta-
nooga.
Threshers made a record on the farm
of Harris Bros. at Prescott, Wis, by
threshing 443 bushels of fax in five
hours.
The United States flax crop is SO per
cent larger than last year, 712 .000 bush
els of the increase coming from North
Dakota.
The South Pennsylvania Oil company
struck great oil well in Lewis county,
w Va. the capacity Of which is 4,So0
barrels per day.
President Theodore c. Schaffer Of the
Amalgamated Association Of Iron and
Steel Workers, resigned at Youngs-
town. Ohio, because of criticisms.
Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania has ap-
pointed William p. Potter Of Pittsburg
to the supreme court vacancy caused
by the death of the late Justice II.
Green.
Officials of the Western Union Pos
tai Telegraph and the Telegraph and
Telephone Company Of America deny
the report of contemplated consolida-
tion, and say that there is no prospect
of such an event
Owing partly to the scarcity Of Nova
Scotia coal in Halifax an order for
1000 tons Of steam coal has been placed
in Virginia for immediate delivery for
the use of the British warships making
their headquarters in Halifax.
Dispatches from various points in the
Rocky mountains show that there has
been a heavy snowfall. At Red Noun
tain, near Ouray, Colo, snow is re-
ported three feet deep. At Leadville
there is about two inches of snow on
the level.
Miss Viola Allen scored q hit at the
National theater at Washington as
Dona Maria Dolores de Mendoza in
"In the Palace of the King" 1t was
the Opening of Miss Aliens season in
Stoddards dramatization of Marion
Crawford's novel.
Lawrence Urbaniack, an inmate Of
the La Sale Qll.) county almshouse,
has brought suit against the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific railroad COM
pany for $4,000 for the loss of both
legs above the knees In an accident at
Peru some months ago.
George H. Francis of Milwaukee was
appointed secretary of the Wisconsin
grand commandery of the knights
Templar, to succeed the late John w.
Latin. The appointment was made by
L. A. Bishop of Fond du Lac, the head
of the state jurisdiction.
Dr. T.. Benjamin Andrews, formerly
president of Brown university, later at
the head of the Chicago public schools,
was formally inaugurated chancellor
of the University of Nebraska before
a crowd of $500 people. Chancellor
Andrews made an extended address.
The Seventh battalion of marines
now being organized in the East for
service In the Philippines will be COM
manded by Lieut.. Col Goodrell. 1t will
consist of zoo men. who probably viii
be sent to San Francisco in detach-
ments Of 100 each between now and the
18th prox.
The inheritance tax on Coils r.
Huntingtons estate win amount to
more than 500, 900. In an estimate pre-
pared for Controller Coler and submit
ted to State Controller Theo p. Gilman
It appears that transfer charges on
specific bequests alone would amount