The true northerner., 1900-12-14
BRIEF DISPATCHES.

the City Of London college Friday.
formerly professor OF logic and meta
phyics i'm Kings College London, is
dead He was born March %. 1913
dispatch received from raku says
that the outer harbOr there IL frozen
and :nat fifty vessels are locked IL the
ice.
The senate Thursday confirmed
Otto Fl. Tittman, OF Missouri 70 be su
perintendent of the coast and geodetic
survey.
The Austro-H Hungarian export society
will hold special exhibitions Of Aus
trian products next summer in Copen-
hagen and Stockholm.
dispatch from johannesburg says
the town has been fenced round with
barbed wire 10 prevent the inhabitants
getting food TO the Beers.
President and Mrs. Mckinley gave a
reception Thursday afternoon to the
1900 delegates TO the w. G. T. u con.
vention now in Washington.
The health OF the pope is excellent
Friday he received at st. Peters cathe-
dral 1000 pilgrims. including a number
of marines from the u. s. training ship
Dixie.
Senator Hanna, chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, has ap
pointed John Joy Edison chairman OF
the inaugural committee and he has
accepted
The semi-annual dividend of $3.50 per
share on the preferred "a stock has
been declared by the board Of directors
of the Chicago Great Western. 1t is
payable Jan. 81, 1901.
The entire Iowa delegation in con-
gress. including Speaker Henderson.
united in n petition to the secretary of
the navy To name one of the new gun
boats the Dubuque.
Dr. Leyds has informed a CORE
spondent of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger
that there is no truth in the report
that Mr. Kruger will endeavor again
to see the kaiser.
Mr.. James G.. Stowe, l.. s. consul
general at Cape Town, sailed from
London for New York Sunday on board
the Red Star line steamer Naderland
from southampton.
Among the passengers on the steam
er Deutschland which arrived at New
York Thursday night, were the Ameri.
can jockeys Danny Maher, G. Jenkins
and the Reiff brothers.
Thomas O'Hara, an old time jockey
wcll known both in this country and in
England, was adjudged insane Thurs
day and was committed to the county
hospital at Dunning, Ill.
The efforts to find Jno. A. Chanler
who escaped from Bioomingdale asyl-
um where he had been for three years,
Il. L..
as yet been come upon.
John C. Weidman, head of the Weld
man company. wholesale grocers and
liquor dealers. died ut Cleveland Sun
day after short illness, of heart dis
ease He was - years old.
The Westminster Gazette says Lient
Gen. Sir Charles Warren. at one time
commissioner of the metropolitan pO-
lice. has been nominated commander OF
the British troops in Canada.
Representative Kitchen, of North
a resolution for constitutional
amendment TO repeal the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution.
The crew Of the Union Castle line
steamer Harlech Castle Capt. Findlay,
having mutined. a police guard has
been placed on board the vessel. which
Is detained at HObert Tasmania.
Ii is announced that the national
meeting of the Young Peoples Union,
United Presbyterian church. has Sc
lected Winona. Ind. as the next meet
ing place in 1901 to be held the second
week in August.
According to dispatch to the
Frankfort Viz sische Ieitung from
Bucharest the Roumanan government
has broken off the negotiations with
OF the petroleum fields.
The total vote of the state of South
Dakota is shown by the official can
vass to be; Mckinley, 54.530; Bryan,
1884; Woolley, 1,542; Barker, 339
Debs, $16S On governor the vote is:
Herreid, 5$,907; Lien, 40,091
The servint girls of Minneapolis are
being orgaiized into a union by the
Trades and Labor Council. Already a
large number Of the women have
agreed to betome members and it is be-
lieved that nParly all will join.
The German squadron commanded
by Prince Henry, of Prussia. has ar
rived at LaurNg, Norway. rom Laur-
Wig it will go u Kiel and later to Hol-
land. where Prince Henry will attend
the wedding ofQueen Wilhelmina.
Gov Roosevelt Monday appointed as
delegates at laige to represent the
state of New York at the meeting OF
the National Livestock Association to
be held in Salt Lake City Jan. Il TO IS.
Isaac V. Baker. j.. Jno. Dwight and
Carl s Burr. Sr.
Miss Helen Bairl, formerly deading
lady Of The Man From Mexico" Com
pany, is not eXpectel to live more than
a few hours at st. luke's hospital. st.
Paul. Miss Baird was taken to the
hospital nearly thret weeks ago suf.
fering from typhoid pneumonia.
1--WE believe" says ihe London Daily
/ News, chat the government will pro-
pose in the house Of commons TO 90
into committee of ways and means for
raising money for war arpurposes. This
may lead to considerable discussion"
Mr.. Kruger attended religious serv-
Ice at The Hague Sundly morning AZ
the cathedral and the congregation
sang the Boer anthem as he withdrew.
After the service he colferred with