The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-31
M NOMINATION s

REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
 FOR PRESIDENT,
 WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Ohio.
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, of Nev
 York.
 A Syracuse (New YorO woman brought suit against her sister becaus she would not go home after her si7 weeks visit was up.
 & The new electric locomotives for tht Steepest part of the Jungfrau mountain railroad will be the most powerful cleo tric rack-wheel locomotives ever con structed. The two motors will eacf { have 125-horse power and will make 800 revolutions per minute driving the toothed wheels.
 The fiddler must be paid. The New Orleans city council has borrowed $30, GOO from three national banks of the city to meet the expenses of the anti. negro riot last month. The money bor- vowed will be more than sufficient to cover all the expenses incurred. It will be paid out of next years revenue, SC as not to interfere with this years bud get.
 Ice has proved successful as an in- eulator on Mont Blanc A double line of ordinary galvanized iron wire was laid on the ground between the Grands Mulets at the top of the mountain and the Petits Mulets at the base. Each line was $500 feet long. Messages were sent without trouble and the loss of electricity, as measured by the instru- ments, was very slight.
 An ingenious plan to rob express com panies. The plan is to send a package on which the sender places a high value say s1O,O00-to distant point, getting a receipt for 1t. Then he goes to the ( receiving point and claims it. It never arrives, because, according to the story, it is filled with a chemical which de- stroys it en route, reducing even the wrappings and twine to an impalpable powder. This Is so ingenious that there may be no truth in the story of it.
 In the Forum Edwin l.. Johnson gives some striking figures as to the growing economic importance of the cotton seed. Although a mere by-product, it yields 14.9 bushels to the acre. against 13.43 of wheat, and while the total wheat crop of 1897 was 539OOOOOO bushels, the pro- duction of cotton-seed in the same year amounted to over 363,O00,OO0 bushels MT Johnson estimates that the food value of a given weight of cotton-seed is 39 per cent. greater than that Of the same weight of wheat.
 Expansion. R. Dorndorfs shoe fac tory at BresIau has engaged an Amer ican and his wife to take charge of and reform the works The factory, the largest in Germany, employs four hundred and fifty hands, and is entirely equipped with American machinery. The American is engaged for one year at salary of s90 a month: his wife receives $36 a month, and travelling ex- penses to and from the United States are paid. The wages paid in the fac tory to the different hands vary from $42S to $5g5 a week. Booker T. Washington has accepted the position offered him by the directors of the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition as chief of the negro department It has been sug gested that designs for the negro build ing be invited from colored architects throughout the United States, it being ! the intention of the managers and of { MT. Washington that the department shall be entirely the work of the colored man 1n order to make the eXnlD1t repre- t sent the achievements and possibilities Of the race, not in South Carolina alone, ! but of every other country in which it . has made a place for itself. American coal has been tried on the i Bavarian state railroads. It was found | superior to German coal, hu- thiS is off set by it's high price. T. COSTS per ;tn delivered at Munich 26 marks ($G.19), while the Ruhr coal can be had for IS marks ($4.2S) per ton. There is also to be considered the fact that the Ameri- can coal, during it's four weeks journey and repeated transshipments, loses a percentage. At th4 mines it is loaded on cars, at the seaport it IS put on shipboard, at Hamburg ur Rre- men it is again loaded into cars-by all of which it is broken and suffers con-