The true northerner., 1900-10-26


has received the crown order second
class.
Lord Wolsley on retiring from the
post of commander-in-chief of the
British army, will take an extended
tour in Canada.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
town of Hawick, Roxborough county,
Scotland, with the sum of 10000 for
a public library.
Rev. Father John Paul Mccarthy,
pastor of the Immaculate Conception
church of Toledo, died Sunday after a
lingering illness.
Mr.. Bellamy Storey, United States
minister to Spain, arrived Friday in
Barcelona from Switzerland, on his
way to Madrid.
A surgical operation was performed
in New York on Thursday on Roland
Reed, the actor. Ii is said that Mr..
Reed is doing well.
The municipal council of Berlin Fri
day adopted a resolution to build mu-
nicipal railways after the expiration
of the present charters.
The night turn at the Rockdale plant
of the American Steel & Wire Co, at
Joliet, ILL.,, has been laid off indefinite
ly. About 400 men are affected.
The Venezuelan government an
nounces that Venezuela will not make
an exhibit at the Pan-American expo
sition to be held in Buffalo in 1901
John Demlin, treasurer of the Gal
weston relief fund, has given out a
statement showing that the total con-
tributions to date are S1,095,202.
Joseph A. Conry of East Boston was
nominated for congress Thursday aft
ernoon by the Democrats of the 9th
congressional district of Massachus-
etts.
Mr. Jno. j. Clancy has given notice
that he will move at the next meeting
of corporation that the freedom of the
city of Dublin be conferred upon ex-
President Kruger.
The British admiralty, according to
the London Daily Mail, is about to or
ganiZe an lditional reserve squadron
under Rear Admiral Sir Gerard Henry
Noel for home waters.
The abbattoire of the West Philadel-
phia stock yards was partially de-
stroyed by fire of unknown origin
Sunday causing a loss of about $4,000,
fully covered by insurance.
f. w. Vaille, director of posts in the
Philippines, has notified the postoffice
department that he has opened a night
school for native employees at Samol-
poe, where they may study English.
Advices received at Kingston Sun
day from Hayti assert that the revolu
tion in Santo Domingo is not ended
and that fighting is proceeding in the
interior although the revolutionists are
weak.
Three Brazilian warships left Rio
Janeiro Friday with President Campos
Sales, bound for Buenos Ayres, to re-
turn the visit of Gen. Roca, the presi-
dent of Argentina, who visited Rio
Janeiro in 1899.
Prof. Pickering OF Harvard has ar
rived at Kingston, Jamaica, to estab-
lish an astronomical observatory at
Vaudeville Immediately. He says the
surroundings there are favorable for
special researches.
Senior Carbajal, former minister of
marine, left Lima. Peru, for Europe.
Saturday, going by way of Panama
and the United States, to purchase a
gunboat for ne Peruvian government
| together with war material
A Brussels dispatch says: A train
was derailed at lie Crosse station and
three carriages filled with passengers
were precipitated over an embank-
ment 1S metres high. Thirty persons
were injured, one seriously.
The Barkentine Morning Star ar
rived at San Francisco Monday, %
days from St Michaels. Besides her S5
passengers the steam barkentine car
ried 81 ,0J0.000 worth of gold dust from
the mines of Dawson.
The new British minister to China,
Sir Ernest Mason Satow, has arrived
in Pekin, and Sir Claude M. MacDon-
aid, the retiring minister, who has
been appointed British minister to
Japan, will leave next Tuesday.
According to the st. Petersburg cor
respondent of The Daily Express, so
persons were killed and many others
terribly scalded by boiler explosion
on board the steamer Eugenia, run
ming between Tomsk and Barnaul.
At London Friday, the Imperial lib
eral council adopted resolution in IA
vor of reorganiZing the liberal party
upon the basis of social reform at
home and of the consolidation and ul-
| innate federation of the united king
| dom with the colonies.
The reunion of the Second Michigan
! Infantry closed in Flint with the cleo
tion of the following officers: Presi.
Sent, N. M. Richardson, of Caro-; vice
president, J. II. Brown, of Vassar; Sec
Jetary and treasurer, Albert Dunham,
of Jackson: next reunion at Caro-.
Rear Admiral Silas Casey, at pres
ent commandant of the League Island
navy yard. Pa, has been selected to
succeed Rear Admiral Kautz as COM
mander of the Pacific station, upon the
latter's retirement in the near future.
Sato, hitherto first secretary of the
Japanese legation in Berlin. has been
appointed Japanese minister to Mex
leo. He was formerly attached to the
Japanese legation in Washington. He
will leave for Mexico about the end
of the month going by way OF the
United States.
There was some talk at Washington
Thursday night of ex-Vice President
Levi p. Morton as the third member
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