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Brigadier General George W. Davis,
Military Governor of Puerto Rico, has
arrived in Washington in response to
the Presidents summons, who desires
to consult him in regard to conditions
and proposed legislation for the ISL
and.
The Ohio Wesleyan University has
received $4,000 for its endowment
fund from a woman in Indiana who
does not want her name known.
Miss Myra Morella, the prima
donna, is in critical condition from
lung affection at Archer, Florida, and
her death is expected
The President has issued an execu-
tive order designating certain land at
Honlulu as military reservations, sub.
ject to outstanding leases and private
rights.
Judge Ludwig, in Milwaukee, has
ordered that the Mayor and the Alder
men who voted for the passage of the
street railway ordnance show cause
before him why they should not be
punished for contempt of court.
The special sessions OF the Michigan
Legislature, which has just adjourned,
has accomplished nothing, majority
of the senators being opposed to the
taxation and other measures urged by
Governor Pingree.
A company has been organized at
Duluth for the erection of a grain ele-
Yator and warehouse there of 4,500, 900
bushels capacity.
Tho oburobas ~ noeto,, opd ,,ioi,,itu
will unite in memorial service to the
late Dwight L. Moody, to be held un-
der the auspices of the Evangelistic
Association Of New England in Ire.
mont Temple
The st. Louis Worlds Fair Com
mittee has decided to ask Congress to
appropriate $5,000,000 in aid of the
undertaking.
Italy has returned favorable an
swer to the recent note of the State
Department respecting the open door"
in China.
Altogether thirteen villages in the
Achalkalak district of Russia have ex.
perienced earthquake shocks. Six of
these places have been completely de-
stroyed and eight hundred bodies have
dlreduy Deen recovered.
Fourteen-year-old Thomas Smith, of
Chicago, has been restored to sight
and hearing through the X.ray used in
conjunction with the surgeons knife
and trephining bit. The boy Is at the
West Side Hospital, and there Is said
to be no doubt of bis recovery from
the operation.
The Brazilian government will i'm.
pose an additional tax of 10 per cent.
on imports from Australia and Portu-
gal, and 80 per cent. on imports from
France and Italy, to take effect
March l.
A Rio de Janerio despatch says that
the bubonic plague has broken out In
the city and the neighborhood Of Sac
Paulo.
The public revenues of Newfound-
land for the six months that ended
December 81 were $1,043 900, which Is
$230,O00 over the figures reached dur
ing the corresponding period of 1898
William Waldorf Astor has contrib.
uted $4,000 to the Prince of Waless
hospital fund.
The Fitchburg railroad has been
leased to the Boston and Maine on a
8 per cent. basis
The Chicago University has voted
to practice phonetic spelling.
The Manila health officers have found
native with all the symptoms of
bubonic plague in a house in the
walled city, where two suspicious
deaths have occurred The patient
has been isolated and every precau-
tion has ben taken to prevent spread
of the disease.
The bubonic plague has reappeared
at Honolulu.
The New York Legislature convened
Jan. 8, but little business was trans
acted other than the formal election
OF officers, and after listening to the
Governors message both houses ad-
journed until Jan. 10.