The Boston advance., 1900-02-17
Events of the Week Told In a Few
Words.

to $95,922. Gen. Shafter reports that
he has $1,300 at San Francisco.
The lower house of the Mississippi
Legislature has defeated resolution
endorsing the action of Congress in
refusing to allow Roberts, of Utah, to
take his seat"
Heavy snowstorms prevail through
out France, especially on the north
and west coasts, where numbers of
small wrecks have occurred
Philadelphia has been unable to
raise the hundred thousand dollar
fund guaranteed to the Republican
National Committee in return for the
national convention.
Professor Alfred J. Henry, for twen-
tv years connected with the Weather
Bureau Service at Washington, has
been chosen to fill the vacancy caused
bv the death of Professor Henry A.
HaZen.
A Washington despatch says that
the American shippers whose goods
were on the British ship Beatrice,
seized off the African coast by British
war ships, have had news to the eff
feet that the vessel was released six
weeks ago; that the goods which were
landed at New London have in part
been sold.
All the mechanical departments at
the United States torpedo station
we're shut down on Saturday for an
indefinite period because of the lack
of coal.
The Surgeon General of the Marine
! Hospital Service has shipped to Hon
| Olulu 1900 doses of Kaffkine prophy-
| Tactic. This in addition to 1,500 doses
of this serum that were sent about
| ten days ago.
Frank Haine was taken from a ho-
tel at Fritztown, Berk county, Pa, the
other day, by whitecaps, who f1ogged
him to cure him of alleged laZiness.
f. w. Howe author of "The Story
of a Country Town." will write lay
| sermons on ministers while the Rev.
! Mr.. Sheldon is conducting the Topeka
! Capital.
| Republican leaders in Washington
! are considering the proposal by Con-
| eress of a constitutional amendment
! putting trusts under government con-
| troll as a means of taking the issue out
| of the coming campaign.
Blue laws were enforced in Balti
more last Sunday even drug stores
| being closed. Thousands of names of
cal violation of the laws were taken
for presentation to the Grand Jury.
David MacClure, a wealthy Scotch
man. died in Brooklyn, n Y, Jan. %,
from knockout drops, after having
been robbed.
Pensions for old city employees are
provided for in a bill before the Leg
islature in Albany.
Because DR.. Charles E. Woodwood
refuses to pay the express charges,
the body of his son George, who died
in Denver, Col, is lying uncared for in
the express Office at New Egypt, N. ].
Official notice has been issued by
the Diamond and Goodyear Rubber
Companies of an agreement made
with Theodore A. Dodge, of New
York, owning patents on single tube
bicycle tires, which will, it is be-
! lieved, result in an increase in the
price of tires about so per cent.
The transport Pennsylvania has
!
She carries $1,50O,000 in gold coins
and considerable sum in Treasury
notes for the payment of the soldiers
Two government printers, three men
to assist in putting up a refrigerating
plant at Manila and twenty men of
the hospital service also went along.
A thousand armed men reached
Frankfort Kentucky, Jan. rs. and
stacked their arms in the State House
grounds. A public meeting was held,
and resolutions adopted asserting
their determination to uphold their
rights and liberties. The men all wore
Republican badges, and the movement
is considered as a threat to the Goe-
bel Democrats.
A despatch from Buenos Ayres, ar
gentine Republic, says the buDonlc
plague has broken out at Rosario, and
a rigorous Gordon has been eStaD-
lished
E. J. Phelps, ex-Minister to Eng
land, is i'll with pneumonia at his resi-
dence in New Haven, Connecticut.
At the annual meeting of the Massa-
chusetts Total Abstinnce Society, Sec
retary of the Navy John D. Long was
elected President.
A report of vital statistics OF Ha'
vana for 1899 shows an apparent eX-
cess of deaths over births of about
1000.
The Commissioner of the Internal
Revenue has decided, in effect, that
every malt extract composed OF malt
liquor, combined with drugs, may be
sold by druggists without involving
them in liability as a retail malt liquor
dealer, if they sell it in good faith tor
medicinal use only.
William J. Bryan made journey
into New England Jan. "a, addressing
meetings at Stamford and New Haven
and then hurried back to New York TO
address d public meeting in Jersey
City. Thursday, Jan. rs, he went TO
Harrisburg, Pa.
The official census of Puerto Rico,
just completed, shows that the popu-
lation of the island is 957, 900. san
Juan has $4,000 inhabitants and Ponce
has $4,000
1t is said that the def1nitive notes,
growing out of negotiations for the
open door" to trade in China, have
been received in Washington from all
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