, 1900-02-01
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

lnlue1Ha- lie WIS tlSnly-out SeuiS
old.
Andrew Carnegie has just given S5o,-
o each to York, Pennsylvania, and
East Orange, New Jersey, for pubic
libraries.
There is danger of n strike on the
Wabash road. The trainmen ask for
an increase and the officials ignore
their appeal.
A special grand jury has returned
an eight-count Indictment against
Ellis Glenn. the woman who masdue-
raded as n for forgery.
The governments census of the
island OF Puerto Rico shows it has
95T, 900 inhabitants. The largest city
is Ponce with $4,000. San Juan, the
capital, has $4,000.
The government has issued instruc-
tons TO the Mexican authorities of all
the ports of Mexico not to permit the
entrance of any vessel from Brazilian
n Asiatic ports owing to the danger
of the bubonic plague.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has
handed down an opinion sustaining the
constitutiOnality of the collateral in
heritancc law. passed three years ago.
1t imposes a tax of five per cent. on all
inheritances which 90 to collateral
heirs.
According to dispatches from the
scene of the horror in MalowZensk. Sa-
mara government, where the dome of
the village church collapsed during the
celebration of mass, thirty lives We're
lost in tile disaster and sixty persons
We're injured.
The worst part of the influenza cpl
demic in London appears to be passed.
The number of deaths fell last week,
according to official records, 20 POS, as
against ZIG for the week before. Not
tingham still maintains its death rate
of thirty-two per thousand.
A conference of Irish members of
Parliament from all sections will be
held at Westminster on January Both
to arrange for a reunion of the Irish
parliamentary forces. John Redmond
and his friends will attend this Irish
party meeting for the first time since
the Parncll split.
Hundreds of small cotton mills are
being erected all over Georgia, and
every city, town and village is now try
ing to raise money for such n purpose.
An mount of capital from
New England and other parts Of the
North is being invested in the same
kind of enterprise.
Francis l.. Clark. president of the
Worlds Christian EndcavOr Society,
has sailed from San Francisco for the
Orient OH the steamer China. and will
visit Japan, China, Siberia and all the
countries of Europe. eventually arriv-
ing in London 10 preside over the I'm
deavorer-' convention TO be held there
next July.
As n test OF the first automatic ore
unlOadcr came up to all expectations,
orders nave just been placed for two
more of these giant machines to be
built for h Carnegie docks at Con-
ncaut, n9ar Cleveland. This action is
said to assure their adoption all along
Ii lakes thus displacing thousands of
shovelerS.
The damage wrought by fire Mt the
winter quarters of the Barnum n
Bailey circus nj Bridgeport. Connecti-
cut. was fully Sl25,OOO. The fire is
believed TO have originated from n
lamp IL the car shed. 1t is now
thought that the departure of the
Buffalo Bill show on its spring tour
will be delayed by reason of lack of
ears.
The United States Court of Appeals
has affirmed the decision of Judge
Lacombe. dismissinG the habeas corpus
proceedings in the case of Oberlin NJ.
Carter. convicted by court-martial of
frauds in connection with the govern
ment improvements. Carter is Il
prisoner On Governors island. He has
been sentenced to six years at Fort
Leavenwurth, Kansas.
The lawyers of Sioux City, Iowa,
ave decided upon Il public law library
for the use of the apostles of Black
stone in that vicinity. 1t is TO be n
stock concern, all shareholders 10 be
lawyers, II they are to pay in cash
or law books $50 per share. In add
ton they viii pay dues each month,
thes surplus thus obtained to be used in
procuring new volumes and keeping up
the library.
The released Spanish prisoners who
ave arrived in Barcelona from the
Philippines say that the ultimate vie
tory of the Americans in LuzOn is as
sured. The Filipinos, they declare.
are at the end of their resources. the
fighting men are insutiiciently nour-
ished and the natives are hopelessly dI-
rided by faaiional differences. The
repatriated gisoners. who number
about 1000, ere wOefully anaemic.
Twenty thousand coal miners of Bo-
hernia have gone on strike, and the
dificulty Gems to be only mt its be
ginning. The demand of the work.
men is for higher wages and an eight.
hour day. The mine owners refuse
legal arbitration and the strike is likely
TO extend. The effects of the strike
l"c felt already throughout Bohemia.
The scarcity of Cual amounts almost
10 famine and many factories are idle
for want of fuel.
General Lorenzo Torres engaged the
Iaquis ut Macoyata last week. killing
more than 200 and taking 800 prison.
ers, Father Beltrgn and several sisters
of charity, who have been held ms
prisoners of war by the Naquis for the
last six months, having been captured
when hostillties FIST commenced Iass
summer, We're rescued by the ~victorI.
Gus Mexican troops and are now witSl
General Torres. 1t is expected thai
this last important victory of General
Torres will have The effect of scatter
ing the Haquis ana will break up the
war.
The new railroad to the Grand Canon
nf tho TnI,rul, ,,FII L.. ..I.