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with 1,6I7, ,304 in 1898.
The Duke and Duchess of York will
visit the United States on their return
journey from Australia via Canada
Topeka has begun n crusade against
vice by subscribing $4,000 as a fund
for the prosecution of saloonkeepers.
Many wealthy Americans, among
them w. Ii. Vanderbilt, have gone over
to England to spend the Christmas hol-
idays.
Hog packing in Chicago since No
vember LIST aggregates 1,O1S,000 head,
against 100000 last year, an increase
of 10000 head.
Professor William C. Campbell, act
ing director of the Lick Observatory,
is to succeed the late Professor James
Keeler as director.
The proposed bull fight at Phoenix,
Arizona, awakened so much opposition
that the management compromised on
a wild beast show.
In the House of Commons Henry
Labouchere expressed the opinion that
the present guerilla warfare in South
Africa may last for two years.
Henry Russell, composer of over 500
songs, including "A Life On the Ocean
Wave" and Cheer Boys, Cheer" died
in London, December 9TH, aged eighty
seven years.
Finley Peter Dunno, author of the
"Dooley" papers, who has been seri-
ously ill with typhoid fever, is pro-
crossing favorably toward recovery ut
st. Luke's hospital in Chicago.
The Lorain Steel Company, of Lo-
rain, Ohio. resumed work a few days
ago at its blooming, converting, finish
ing and shape mills. with more than
5000 men employed in the entire
plant.
Major Henry Sweeney. U. S. A, re-
tired. is dead, aged siXty-nine. He en-
tered the army in New York in 1854.
Last year he was chancellor of the
California commandery of the Loyal
Legion.
General Russell A. Alger's residence,
Detroit, Michigan, was burglarized
December 10Th. The general grappled
with the burglar and was thrown vio-
lently. Some $500 worth of silverware
was taken.
Nicaragua and Costa Rica have an
nounced their willingness to grant n
lease to the United States for period
of 200 years of the territory necessary
for the construction of the projected
Nicaragua canal.
The Nansen fund, which was started
in Norway after the return of DR.. Nan
sen from the Arctic to promote scien-
tific explorations, now amounts to L.
100000 kroner, and no further collec-
tions will be made.
1n Sal
of concerns which own ore properties
in the Lake Superior district, will fix
the price of ore for next years deliver
les January 25th, when a meeting will
be held at Cleveland.
President Mckinley is again consid-
ering n proposition to visit the Pacific
slope in April on the occasion of the
launching of the battleship Ohio. If
he goes he will make the often prom
ised visit to Denver.
A question put to the British govern
ment in the House of Commons elic-
tied the statement that there have been
15,625 cases of typhoid fever among
the British troops in South Africa, and
that of this number 3,642 proved fatal.
1t is proposed to erect statue in
Nuremburg to Peter Henelein. or Hele.
who is said to have invented the
watch toward the close of the fifteenth
century. His pocket timepieces We're
oval and were known as Nuremburg
eggs.
Governor Roosevelt has appointed as
delegates at large to represent the
state of New York at the National
Live Stock Association to be held in
Salt Lake City January 18th to 18th,
Isaac V. Baker, Jr., John Dwight and
Carl S. Burr, Sr
Another serious landslide has oc-
cured in Heligoland. Thirty houses
have been engulfed and considerable
part of the island has been under
water. Thus far it has been impossi-
bic to send relief and the losses have
not yet been determined.
Inc British war office announces that
n gratuity will be paid TO every officer
and man who has served in South At
rica since October TO- 1899. The least
amount will be $50. 1t is roughly es-
..mated that it will take S5,000,0 900 to
complete the payment.
The presidents of the railroads in
cluded in the trunk line associations,
and the central, western and south
western traffic associations, have de-
cided to postpone further consideration
of the proposition to do away with free
transportation until next year.
A dinner was given at the Yildiz
palace at Constantinople in honor of
the officers of the United States battle
ship Kentucky, now ct Smyrna, pre-
vious to which the United States
charge d'affaires, Lloyd G. Griscom,
introduced the officers to the Sultan.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
Duke of Westminster is engaged to
marry Miss Shelagh West, daughter
&C Colonel CORVALLIS West. By the
marriage the duke will become the