The Globe-republican., 1900-11-01
TIE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


The 18th u 5. infantry has left
Pekin.
The population of California is l.
4s5. .o53.
Cholera prevails in Japan to an
alarming extent.
Single tube tires are 20 be higher in
price before Spring
John Sherman was in the 18th year
of his age. He was born May 90, 1872
An electric railway is talked about.
to be built from Leayenworth to S.
Joseph
A local trust combine Of undertal1ers
of Louisville, Ky. is indicted for con-
spiracy-
Berlin celebrated the Tooth birthday
of Field Marshal Won Afoltke on Octo-
Der &c.
The British have Iease ed winter quar-
tiers for troops in Tien Tsin for $40. 900
month.
Mayor Jones, of GalY eston has
Congress
Forty of the 100 students of Miami
university, at Oxford, Ohio, have ty-
phoid fever.
Massachusetts, has 90 towns having
p, 900 or more people, a larger number
than any other state
In 1890 Seattle. Spokane and Tacoma
had a com bined population of %. T6s
the present census gives them 155, 293-
There is i'm preston n Washington
that seven million dollars. the price
asked for the Danish West Indies. is
far too large.
The 5ooth anniversary of the death
of Cha ucer was commemorated by the
unveiling of IA memorial window in a
London church.
The first instailment of the volun-
teer army will leave Manila November
1. The sick Will be sent among the
first shipments
A vessel having on board 100 passen-
gers was boarded by pirates near
Canton, China, and several thousand
pounds in specie taken.
The woman's board of missions of
the Evangelical churches, in session in
Chicago, appropriated $4,000 for mis-
sions in Asia and Europe.
A thousand shoemakers; employed in
thirty factories in Quebec, went on
strike becusea one union man refused
to work for weekly wages instead of
| piece work. non-union man took
his place.
| The synodica1 conference of the Pres
| byterians of Missouri begin their an
nua1 conference at Maryville October
/ %.
The widow of the murdered German
| ambassador to China has reached the
| home of her father, Henry B. Ledya ard.
| in Detroit.
| The cities of the greatest population
/ rank in this order: New York Chica-
| go, Philadelphia, ST. Louis, Boston and
| Baltimore. After these come cieve-
land, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincin-
| natl and Pittsburg.
| q gold nugget from British Colu1rl-
| bia has been received in New York
| which weighed fraction over 753
pounds, valued at si54, 900
| The registration shows total of
| 4oe, $50 voters. Only about 500 WON
| en- registered for the privilege of voting
| for school commissioners, against G, ,o34
! in 1896.
The percentage of population en-
| rolled in elementary secondary and
common schools in Kansas is 27s7:
Oklahoma, p. 10; New York I6. 94;~ Mis-
souri, 21.1s; Massachusetts,, I7.2I
There have been IS. 900 claims fled
for pensions for Spanish war soldiers.
of which 4,237 have been already al
lowed, most of those settled have been
claims for widows and in cases OF
severe disabilities OF soldiers
There are 159 cities in the United
States with more than $4,000 inhabi.
tants- Their combined population Is
| I9, 694, ,625-
There are 10 cities which according
to the census have 2oo,oo aud over. oi
population, with a total population oi
| 1875. .so9-