The Globe-republican., 1900-04-12
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The largest business block in Menon-
inee, Mich, is burned at a loss of $780,
600
The Ohio Legislature defeated a bill
requiring specified number of brake
men on freight trains.
Joseph F. Saunders of Logan county,
O. T., has been appointed a 8 200 clerk
in the general land office.
Admiral Dewey never voted in his
his life and never wanted to, vote ex-
cept for Grover Cleveland.
General George BidvveIl the, prohibit
ton candidate for president in 1899,
died last week in California;
An aged col0red woman at Findlay,
Ohio, died while at her organ playing
= m Going Home Tomorrow
Economists estimate that more than
seventeen million dollars is invested
by American farmers in their business.
On the 4th and 5th of April snow fell
all over Colorado. 1t was heavy with
wet and all kinds of wires were broken.
When Gen Otis elects to come home
on the leave of absence that has been
granted to him, he will be succeeded
in the Philippines by General MacAr-
thur
Prof. Seaver, of Yale college, admits
that girls from the East are fatter
chested, f1atter headed, lesser in lung
capacity and bigger footed than the
Western girls. y
The estimate of railroad light
agents is that there will be So 900, 900
worth of sheep shipped from Northern
Colorado this season, requiring 200
cars to move the sheep to market.
Captain Ralph Ingalls, of the sub
sistence department, u S. A., now
stationed at San Francisco, was order
ed to Manila to report for duty. He
will probably sail for the Philippines
April Is.
The Minnesota railroad commission
has issued order compelling the st.
Paul road to change its narrow guage
lines to standard guage- This will
likely result in very interesting cases
in the courts
Consul Furniss, at Bahia, in Eastern
Brazil, reports that the outlook for
trade there in farming implements is
bad, because. spades and hoes are all
the tools used there in farming, and
these are. of the crudest sort.
Judge Pangley of Toledo. has decided
that provision in the Ohio. statute is
unconstitutional which prohibits
! employer from dischargirey a workman
| because the employee is a member of a
| labor union
| TT rs said that Queen Victoria desires
| that the son just born to the Duke and
| Duchess of York shall be christened
Patrick.
J. G. Mckinley, manager of the only
labor union daily paper in the country,
| the Cripple Creek Press, died of pneu-
monia last week
| The three war ships, California,
Nebraska and West Virginia, now
| approaching completion, never have
| been equa1led in fighting power. They
excel in speed and each carry sixty-six
| fixed guns, and have capacity for 400
| tons eff ammunition
The Spanish bonds which Spain
attempted to saddle on Cuba, aggre-
| eating 5000, Oo0, 900, are, of course
| repudiated by Cubans They are most
| ~ held in France, and the United
| States will prevent any man of war
monkeying attempt to force collection.
The entire business portion of Raven
ma, Michigan, except one store, was de-
stroyed by fire in the early morning of
| April 5. It started from an explosion
| of coal gas in a saloon The loss is
| $500, oOo- Several men We're hurt and
| H. H Higgins was killed by the ex-
| plosion of a gas engine.
All that Americans could get of the
recent bond issue was per cent of the
$50, ooo, 900, although ten times that
| amount was applied for. Those bonds
are already at a premium of az per
cent British bonds.