The daily sentinel., 1900-04-19
NEWS NOTES

railroad, and less than 10000 miles Of
good wagon roads.
Twin boys born in New York on the
day the tunnel was started have been
named Robert Rapid Transit and Viii
liam Transit.
Breaking into her home, Charles Scott
killed his wife, who had left him, at
Owosso, Mich, seriously injured her
mother, and then blew out his brains.
A Philadelphia man who has just TAX
en- the pledge explains this act by saying
that when he was drunk recently he com
mitted the folly of paying his debts.
Allen Fuller, colored, when hanged at
Macon, Ga, for the murder Of Mrs. e.
Il. Pottle, declared two white men had
offered him $3.50 to commit the crime.
The Republic of Mexico has agreed to
participate IN another Pan American
congress-, and it is believed all the repub-
lies OF the three Americas will send
delegates.
In spite of plague, famine and other
tTOuDlc5, lut AuduGldl COudlbiOu VI lHdln
as shown by the latest official figures, is
far more favorable than was expected.
Thomas Cahill, OF Brookline, Mass,
who has just celebrated his S9th birth
day, is the oldest living member of the
OF the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
company of Boston.
A tyifh at thppn n tipp1 mind
recently announced that in programme
of twenty waltzss, four polkas and two
quadrilles, a dancer covers nearly twelve
miles
The street ear charges at Cape Town
are high, &c being the regular rate for
distance OF from two to three miles.
Eight miles, the extent OF the longest
line, costs 39c.
A thousand packets of shamrock seed.
the gift Of resident OF Cork to the
Duke of York, have been sent to South
Africa. Their contents will be sown up
on the graves of the Irish soldiers.
In New England the Abandoned farms
are being planted with nut trees, and the
worked-out ground is found to furnish
nourishment enough to cause the wal
nut, butternut to flourish abundantly
The genuine maple sugar makers are
organizing exchanges for self protection
To these they send their syrup and sugar
for grading, weighing and stamping,
thus guaranteeing the genuineness OF the
product.
Cat fanciers in Lincoln county, Ore.
have obtained the consent of the Post
Office Department to the christening of
their post office by the name of Angora.
The first postmaster an Angora bears
the surname OF Tom.
Statistics OF consumptive sanitariums
in Germany show that 80 1-3 per cent
of tho inmates were able to work the
first year after the cure, 60 per cent af
ter two years, 45 per cent after three
and 30 per cent after four years.
With reference to the foot and mouth
disease in Egypt, it has been found that
animals placed out in the open air under
slight shelter recovered quicker than
tn Sc in stables, the microbes being ap-
parently killed by exposure to the sun.
No cases were traced to human beings.
More than 200 charters have already
been applied for for banks of $25,OO0
capital in towns of 5000 population, and
Comptroller Dawes thinks the total will
go up to 500 before the end of the month.
The applications come mostly from agri-
cultural towns in the middle west. Iowa
leading
The great Glenn ranch Of $4,000 acres,
in the heart of the Sacramento valley,
Cal. is to be subdivded into small
farms and sold. Before the recent deve-
lopmenI Of bonanza wheat farms in the
Dakotas this Glenn ranch WAS the larg-
est wheat producing establishment in
the country.
A man rummaging around in an old
Philadelphia oook store few days ago
discovered couple of first Of the CEN
tury exploration books. They were by
Mackenzie and told of his two journeys
to the northwest. He carried them
away for 7Oc He found that the mar
ket value of the books is $35.