The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-01-26
VIEWS OF THE WORLD.

commission in the army.
James Norman, aged III, died
asst week at Augusta. Tex
The work of taking the ensus of
Puerto Rico has been completed.
Two Chinese students have been
admitted to Vanderbilt university.
Lord Beresford says England de-
sires to remain at peace with France.
The difficulty between France and
San Domingo has been satisfactorily
arranged.
Opie Read, the novelist, has en-
tered upon a stage career, appearing
in vaudeville.
Friends of the Nicaraguan canal
will push action in the matter by
the present congress.
The Transatlantic steamship lines
have increased their passenger rates
from New York to Europe rs per
cent.
The British press and populace
bitterly criticise the manner in which
the South African war has been con-
Quoted.
The total receipt of customs at
the port Of Havana, Cuba, for the
month of December last were ST.
los, 100.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate increasing Gen. John NJ.
Palmer's pension from $50 to 500
per month.
The Kansas state board Of health
has quarantined against Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory on account
Of smallpox.
The superintendent of immigra-
ton reports that 1900 Americans
became residents of Canada during
the year 1899.
The transport Pekin is en- route
from Manila to San Francisco with
the bodies of 1876 soldiers who died
in the Philippines.
The house committee on the case
of Mormon Roberts voted unani-
meusly against his being allowed to
retain his seat in congress.
Statistics as to pig iron shipments
from Alabama and Tennessee last
year show an increase of 21S, 900
tons ~ the previous year.
Gen. Wood has appointed a COM
mittee of three to study and report
upon the problem of taxation
throughout the Cuban island.
The British losses in killed,
wounded and captured up to Janu-
arv 18th in the South African war
is given a5 1887 officers and men.
The Russian government has es-
tabIished a state department Of
trade, art, and commerce. with the
view of promoting national produc-
ton.
A dispatch of the goth says the
British troops to relieve L~adysmith
were within a few miles Of the town
and hat the Beers were resisting
desperately.
An unknown negro, afflicted with
smallpox, was shot and killed at
Eaunsdale, Ala, by the town mar
shall because he refused to remain in
confinement.
The American Beet Sugar Asso-
citation has sent a representative to
Washington to protest against the
admission free of duty of sugar from
Puerto Rico.
Gen. Otis has given the Philip
pinOs assurances that the individual
liberty guaranteed all citizens by the
American constitution will not be
denied them.
Chairman Hanns says the repub-
lican platform will declares: First,
the national issues will be he pros
perity of the working people; and,
second, the retention of the Philip
pines.
F. G. Bonfls and H. H. Tam
men, editors of the Denver Evening
Post, were both shot in their office
by W. W. Anderson, a prominent
attorney. Anderson objected to an
article published in the paper reflect
ing on him.
Attorney General Griggs has filed
an answer in the supreme court in
the proceedings for prize money for
captures at Manila by Dewey's fleet.
The attorney general asks that the
cause be referred to a commission.
The agricultural products exported
from the United States during the
fiscal five years, ending June 80,
1899, had an average annual value
of 1868, 536.2O1, about 60 per cent
going to the United Kingdom and
its dependencies.
Milton Tootle, receiver of the
Central Savings Bank, of St. Joseph.
Mo, which failed about a veal ago,