The Meeker herald., 1900-12-01
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Rear Admiral Robert Stembl, ~
tired, died on the Goth in the Fifth Ave
nue. hotel, New York, aged ninety.
The population of Minnesota is 1,751.-
1894, as against 1902 ,S26 in 1880. This
Is an Increase of 44S5GS, or 34.5 per
cent.
Postmaster General Smith has given
an unqualified denial TO Il published re-
port that he intended to resign next
month.
The council OF the city of London has
decided to take steps to institute ser
vice of electric cars throughput the me-
tropolis.
The population of Pennsylvania III
$780,, 115, as against 5,25S,O14 in 1850.
This Is an increase of LOLA, 1O1, or 1o.S
per cent.
Tie population of New York state
is 7,2GS,012. as against 5,W7 ,SJ3 III
1880. an Increase Of 1920, 159, or I'll
per cent.
Martin Irons, once leader of the union
labor organizations and who directed
the great Missouri Pacific strike in the
SOS, died recently.
Only tifty-six cases of yellow fever
are now under treatment in Havana
Among these are two Americans. The
disease is abating.
Governor Allen ID. Chandler of Geor-
gia has issued Il call for II National
Maritime Congress at Brunswick,
Georgia, January 30th next.
The population of Hawaii, as an
nOunced by the census bureau, is 154,-
OO1. as against 10000 in 1896. This Is
an Increase of 44,9S1, or 41.2 per cent.
At the womans sutfragists' bazaar In
New York next month will he offered
for sale n quilt made by Susan b. An
thOny when she was fourteen yearo
old.
The population of Louisiana, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is l.
3S1 .625, as against 1.11S.5S1 In 1870.
This Is an increase of BOSS, or 30
per cent.
A New York dispatch says that the
will of Ambrose McGregor, the Stand
ard Oil millionaire, disposes of an es-
tate valued at $5,4OO,OOO, all going to
relatives.
The population of the state of Ken
lucky as announced by THE census bu-
reau is 2.147, ia, as against 1855, 635 In
1880. This il an increase of 2SS $50, or
15.5 per cent.
In the cotton convention ut Macon
Hon. Hoke Smith stated that within
twenty five years he expected to see the
worlds consumption of cotton raised to
3O,OOO,OOO bales.
Yale will educate free of charge five
Filipinos, provided young men of ex-
ceptionnl fitness and high character be
selected by Judge Taft of the Philip
pine Commission.
According to Commissioner Of 1mmi-
grafton Fitchie at New York, immi-
grants have arrievd in this country mt
the rate of 1000 per day from all cOun-
tries since Jnly LIST.
The population of Iowa, as an
nounced officially by the census
bureau, is 2,231 1853, as against 1,811,.
806 in 1880. This Is an increase of
319,95S, or 1871 per cent.
The population OF the state of Mich
igan as announced officially by the
census bureau recently is 2,420,9S2, as
against 2,O93.SS in 1890. This is an
increase of 327,O93, or 1876 per cent.
The present population of the Ha-
waiian Islands Ia 154.OOO. This Is an
increase of a little over seventy-one per
cent. within the past ten years. The
city OF Honolulu has a population of
1890.
General Fitzhugh Lee will stay in
New York for three or four days. AT
ter reporting at Washington he will go
to Omaha and take command of the
Department of Missouri, to which he
has been assigned.
Rrup,ha,,nh cfOnor nf
education for Porto Rico, says the
school system now in operation there
includes 800 teachers and $4,000 pupils.
This Is only a beginning. as there are
100000 children Of school age without
school facilities.
Edward l.. Sway. who fed from
Kansas City four months ago after OBJ
tanning a large sum of money from
banks throughout the country by
means of duplicate chattel mortgages,
is being followed closely by detectives
In South America.
The State Department Mt Washington
has forwarded gold watch and chain
to be presented to Captain A. w. Rich
ardson of the British steamship Orange
Prince in recognition of his services In
rescuing two American fishermen who
had drifted to sea.
In a cane rush of the Institute of
Technology students at Boston, Hugh
G. Moore. freshman from Rochester,
New York, was either suffocated or
died from heart failure, his body being
at the bottom of the heap Of excited
and struggling boys.
Ambassador Choate has made repre-
sensations to the British foreign office
on the subject Of the Filipino junta at
Hong Kong. The foreign office is in
vestigating the matter and will reply
as soon as the reports of the authori-
ties at Hong Kong are received.
Lieutenant +. w. Alstetter, United
States engineer corps has been liber-
ated by the Philippine insurgents and
will start for his home in Gallon, Ohio,