The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-28
NOMINATIONS

Fourth Assistant Postmaster Geheral Bristow, acting director of the posts in Cuba, predicts that there will De u saving of s190, GOO in that service during the fiscal year. which begins next month. There ought to be-
 Some people have very definite Ideas ahout some things. The Governor or Missouri attempts to defend himselr py saving that the disturbances at St' Louis were not serious enough to lus- tify calling out the State militia AL no time was there any real rioting' ne says.
 A. O. Wright of Wisconsin, govern ren+ supervisor of Indian schools makes the assertion that with the pass ing of the present generation there will he practically no Indian problem ana the Indian population of the uni'eo States is on the increase.
 A MT De Forest of St. Louis has made an interesting discovery lie says: "Let those who object to the boss, as such, consider whether our leg islatures would be improved if freed from his restraining influence. He IS a natural product of our system By fur nishing the missing link needed to unite the executive and legislature in harmo- nious and mutually helpful action ne supplies a long-felt want"
 The first section of the great Russian pipe line has been completed. The pipe runs parallel to the Trans-Cau- casion Russian State railroad The sec ton just completed is 145 miles long. The pipe is of wrought iron, lap-welded, and the internal diameter is eight inches. It was made in Russia from native materials. There are three pumping stations with two pumps in each, only one being used regularly, the other being kept as a reserve. It is ex- pected that 416275, 200 gallons of oil will be pumped per annum.
 The business of sending United States coal to foreign ports is increasing. Re- norts from Newport News state that last week cargoes of New River steam coal were shipped to Marseilles, Trieste, Rio ,Ianeiro, and other ports; this week a Spanish steamer leaves with five thou sand tons for Montevideo. In addition the statement is made that the Russian government has just contracted for six hundred thousand tons of this fuel, all of which is to go to it's destination as fast as possible The ports of entry for this immense order will probably be found to be on the Pacific coast. Other large contracts, some of them with for eipn governments, are said to be under negotiation by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
 It is said that Viscount Doneraile, Grand Senior Warden of the English Freemasons is the lineal descendant of the only woman who was ever made a Freemason. His ancestress, the Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, the wife of Colonel Richard Aldworth, and the mother Of +be first Viscount Doneraile who as sunad +he name of St Leger, hid in a recess in a room in Doneralle court County Cork. during the holding in that room of a meeting of Masonic lodge. She was discovered, and immediately initiated into the Masonic mysteries. The room which was the scene of this occurrence, which took place in the middle of the last century, is intact, and always an object of interest to tourists in the south of Ireland.
 According to official reports nearly -four thousand of the men who have gone to South Africa on active service are members of the Army Temperance 
 association. Lord Roberts, in com mentine on this report, added that he had been struck by the returns from India which showed a remarkable diff ference between the convictions record ed in 1898 among the abstainers and non -abstainers. Among the former only 4.12 in 1000 had been court martialed while among the non -abstainers the fig ures were 36.S in 1,000 In 1897 the fig ures were much the same. The admis- sions into hospitals were also largely in excess in the case of non-abstainers. It appeared that during the Tirah war 2.0OO men went through the whole cam paign without taking drop of alcohol