North Park union., 1900-10-19
rE,sosAp.,c sRevrrtEs.


increase OF 1,7Os, or 4.74 per cent.
The population Of the District OF
Columbia just announced. is 2Ie,Ile' aA
against $50, ,302 ten years ago: an In
crease Of 1896, or 200 per cent.
Butte. Montana. is having a smallpox
scare. In eight days twenty-eight VIC
tins were sent to the pesthouse Com
pulsory vaccination will be enforced.
Minister Wu's salary hns not been
cut since the Chinese troubles Degan'
and the business of the legation mas
been running with perfect smoothhess'
The census bureau announces the
population OF the state OF Delawhre n NJ
1874, 735 In 1900, against 16S.493 In lsSo'
This Is an Increase Of 1922, or 96 per
cent
The strike ut the Buckingham X
Hecht shoe factory In San Francisco IL
ended. The strikers won every point
contended for. Over 800 workmen were
involved.
1t Is officially announced by the cen
sus bureau that the population OF Ne"
Hampshire is I11.5SS. In 1880 the pop
ulation was 376.330, the increase being
35,O5s, or $50 per cent.
In the English Parliamentary elec'
tions the ministerialists and the opposi-
tion have now gained twenty-seven
seats each. The former now hold 3o'
seats and the latter 205
The twenty-eIghth convention OF the
American Travelling Passenger Agehts
closed at Old Point Comfort October
9th. The next meeting will be at Los
Angeles, California, In October. 1901.
The twenty plants OF the American
Tin company have resumed operations.
The mills. which employ 1000 men,
were closed for more than three months
pending II settlement Of the wage scale.
Since Its inception five months ago,
the Speycr, Germany. automobile stage
line has carried 10000 passengers.
Each coach carries twenty-eight pas
sengers and the route IL ten miles long.
A st. Johns. Newfoundland. dispatch
says that seventeen fishing vessels op-
Grating on the Grand Ranks during the
gale OF September 18th are still miss
ing, with crews nggregatinI over 2oo
men.
Eminent Judges have selected the
names of Emerson. Longfellow, Haw-
thorne and Irving to represent authors
In the names Of famous Americans for
the New York University Temple OF
Fame.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn,
L. $. n. has been awarded n diploma
and gold medal for the Franklin life
buoy. Hichborn turrct and models OF
war vessels exhibited at the Paris ex-
position for 1900.
mn
When 1t comes to counting noses Uncle
cities Memphis is now the first city of
Tennessee and Nashville Is In mourn
ing. and demands Il recount.
A. 7. Deer. an acronaut of Chicago.
fell to his death at Gays Mills. Wis
consin. from balloon. in which he
nsccnded to n height OF 100 feet. The
ascension was made ut a fair and was
witnessed by 5000 persons.
Mr.. Krugers grandson. Elofr. sailed
from Lorenzo Marques October 10th
to prepare Il residence in BRUSSELS for
the former president of the Transvaal.
The latter will sail on the Dutch
cruiser Gelderland II few days later.
The Anti-Horse Thief Association.
covering Kansas and Indian territory,
met In Wichita on the 10th instant.
with 300 delegates. Last year the or
ganization recovered sixteen or eigh-
teen horses stolen from its members.
Major Edward Goldberg. United
States Indian agent. died at Senaca.
Missouri. on the Sth instant. of mush-
room poisoning. after an Illness of lit
tie more than one day. Mrs. Goldberg
L., ,1s
The Treasury Department has given
notice of the discovery OF II new coun.
terfeit $40 silver certificate. series OF
1891. with portrait OF Hendricks. The
counterfeit is described as Il photo
graphic print. without the silk fibre,
and OF Inferior workmanship.
Isaiah Il. Montgomery. who was In
youth slave to jefferson Davis, found
ed after the war n colony of negroes in
,he YaZoo river valley. in Mississippi
He is now mayor of the town of Mount
Bayou. the center of the colony. where
the negroes own 12.OOO acres.
Richard j. Carroll. for number OF
years chief money order clerk in branch
postotlice +, New York city. has been
arrested for forging and raising money
biheIS. he VI thV alSStu Iol
geries Is not yet known. but is believed
to be large. Carroll was efficient and
had been employed in the postotfice
sixteen years.
A contract has been made which will
give Denver another railway connec-
ton with FL Paso, Texas. The FL Paso
Il Northern will build to Texline, New
Mexico. The Choctaw. Oklahoma 4
Gulf will build to the same place from
Weathcrfortl. via Amarillo. Texas.
Both Amarillo and TcXline are on the
Denver & Fort Worth.
Colonel Sampos SALES, brother of the
president OF Brazil, has been assassin.
ated in Sac Pnulo by an Italian farmer
named Angel Sungeretti. President
SALES will not postpone his visit to
Buenos Ayres on account OF the be-
reavement. He will arrive in Buenos
Ayres on October oath and will remain
there until October 3Oth.
Commissioner General Peck cables
from Paris that the United States gov
crnment received 2.4T5 awards, Ger.
many 1896. Great Britain 1,T2T and
Russia 1.403 Mt the exposition. The
United States leads not only In the
grand total. but also In all grades of
awards. from grand prizes to merely
honorable mention.
Arthur Kelley. aged II. who mur.
dercd his father at Pendleton, Oregon
has been sentenced to the reform
school. The grand jury returned true
bill against the boy. but recommended
that he be sent to the reform school