North Park union., 1900-11-16
rELEoRAp4,c sRev,r,Es.

11.219, or 3.3 per cent.
The population Of Florida is 52S, $40,
as against 391 ,422 In 1880, an increase
of 137, ,120, or 35 per cent
The Russian government will place
orders during the coming year for i've
battleships with American shipbuild-
ers.
The population of Indiana. us official-
ly announced by the census bureau. Is
| 2.o18, ,4G2 as against 2.1O2 ,4O4 in 1880.
This is nn increase of 324, ,O5S, or 14.7
| per cent.
Frank Frooman of Cutler, Minn.,
WIS buried under thirty feet OF earth
while cleaning well. After thirteen
hours confinement lie was rescued and
will live.
Horace Lee Washington. at present
consul at Valencia, Spain, has been mp
pointed consul ut Geneva, Switzerland.
| exchanging place with Richard NJ.
Bartleman.
| The census shows that the City of
Mexico has over 100000 population.
/ The population Of the federal district,
including the capital city, is In excess
OF half million.
Official reports show the grain has
been completely burned up In the
drouth in portions of Siberia. The
| fields have not been harvested and are
| used for pasturage.
The result of tile election to the Aus
tralian legislature assembly of Victoria
| is the return of forty-tive Ministerial
| lists, forty-eight members of the oppo-
sition and two Independents.
The October customs receipts at Ma
| Mia We're $1.SSS.0OO Mexican, an in
crease over the previous month of
$150.000. The total revenue was ST.
| 100000. which breaks all records.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Company has ordered more than 1000
tens of structural iron from the United
States for its work shops and foundry,
rs against Westphalan competition.
Don Carlos. the Spanish pretender.
is said to have declared that the pres
ent rising in Spain Is contrary to his
orders and will rctard. instead of pro-
mote his efforts to secure his rights.
Frank Williams of .Tohnstown, Penn
sylvanin, has beluenthed his fortune of
100000 to Lchigh university. where he
had been a student. The income of
the fund is to be loaned to poor ana
| deserving students.
The elections TO the Icelandic althing
have resulted in great majority for
| the proposition of Professor Gudmund-
son TO create n special Icelandic min
istry and give Iceland. virtually, an au-
| tonomous government.
Amid considerable excitement the
lord mayor, at n meeting of the Dublin
corporation. ruled out of order Il resolu-
| tion to confer the freedom of the city
on former President Kruger of the
South African republic.
The Paris exposition authorities have
closed the Transvaal pavilion, because
Mr.. Pierson. the Transvaal emissary
general. refused to remove the inscrip-
tions insulting to England, with which
the walls We're covered.
The Naval Department has directed
Admiral Rcmcy mt Cavite TO convene Il
court of inquiry TO inquire into the
charge of cowardice against Captain
Hall. United States marines. preferred
by Minister Conger at Pekin.
The poor farm of Marion county,
Kansas. is more than self supporting.
Last year the institution realized
enough on Its crops to pay for the
maintenance of its ten inmates and
leave n balance of 5000 clear profit.
| At Bow Street Police court. London.
Julian II. Il. Arnold. son of Sir Edwin
California. was rcmanded on the
charge of misapproprinting f14.00O OF
trust funds. He denied the charges.
A Bremen cable says: "The indus
trial and agricultural protectionists
have combined now To urge higher Ger
man grain duties and have appeared
before the committee drafting n new
tariff in favor of such an advance
William +. Seward and his wife. Of
Scranton township. near Urbana. ILL.,.
have given their 60O-acrc farm. valued
mt $4,000. for the founding of an nsti-
tuition devoted to the education of col
ored people In the "blnck belt of the
south.
The funeral of Professor Max Muller.
who died at oxford. October 2S. WAS
largely attended. those present includ-
ing representatives of Queen Victoria,
and Emperor William Of Germany. The
latter sent wreath inscribed $50 My
Dear Friend"
Lord Roberts has cnbled to the war
office that Former President Steyn. in
dispatch to Delnrys Burghers. Octo-
Der %. said Mr.. Kruger had gone to
Europe to get interviewed" and that
If he failed. "the Transvaal will be
auctioned off to the highest bidder"
Under the firm name of the Buffalo
Union Furnace Company three of the
largest iron smelling plants in South
Buffalo have been consolidated. The
capital stock is S1.2OO,OOO. The
plants in the consolidation are: The
Buffalo Furnace Company. the Union
Iron Works and the Buffalo Charcoal
Iron Company.
The American Rice Growers Distri-
button Company. Limited. has been in
corporated with a capital of $4,000
600. half of which is paid. The officers
are: William X. Vanderbilt of New
York. president; William G. Duson Of
Crowley. vice president and general
manager: Alexander w. Halberg of
New York. secretary. Its headquarters
is Crowley, La.
A new canal to he built by Russia
will connect the Baltic and White seas
| running from st. Petersburg along the
Finnish gulf TO st Catharine. the new
! naval harbor on the Murmnn coast
| The Importance OF these plans from
the military point of view is that 1t will
enable the Russian Baltic fleet to es-
cape should n blockade ever be at
tempted on that side of the empire.
Admiral S.blay yx-ritac n fhn EniubtS