, 1900-01-25
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.
General Joe Wheeler has been recall
ed from the Philippines.

Another regiment of troops is to De
sent to Alaska in the spring.
The government of Santo Domingo
has paid the Roismare C~accavelli claim
amounting to 10000 francs (S56,OoO)
to the French Representatives. This
will probably end h trouble.
The Transatlantic steamship lines
have increased their passenger rates
between New York and Europe, owing
to the heavy travel that is expected TO
the Paris exposition. The increase
ranges from ten per cent. upwards.
The government of freeze has arous-
ed the ire of the Sultan by refusal to
extradite n number of young turkish
refugees whom the |Constantinople au-
thorities desire to bring to trial LOT al
legged conspiracy against the present
regime.
Mayor Carter ii. Harrison has for
mally refused the offer of the Demo
cratic nomination for governor. AS Il
result of Mayor Harrison's action
friends of former Vice President Ste
venson are urging him to accept the
nomination.
The statement of the treasurer of
Harvard University. which Will soon
be issued, shows that gifts which were
IlHAlt " lllt III VI RlNN iA'bA
1898, to July 81, 1899, aggregated 81
544,S29. OF this amount 1.3S3, 400 was
to form new funds or increase old ones
md S16l, 36S was available for mmeul
ate use.
Trading in puts and calls" on the
Chicago board of trade was finally ana
absolutely prohibited by the directors
of the board Wednesday,, n the rule
to thai effect passed by the directors
was read from the gallery by Secretary
Stone. At Il meeting of the directors
so-called privilege trading was dehned
as dishonorable conduct.
1t is announced thai $4,000 has beer
pledged by one person, whose name Is
withheld, to the fund which Is being
raised to carry on the work OF Dwight
l.. Moody. Other large sums are eX-
pected by the committee TO whom has
been committed the continuation OF the
educational Institutions founded by the
evangelist.
During the last year %, 2O2,9Ol S
els of grain and 2,19S,513 gallons OF
molasses were used in the manufacture
of liquor in this country, which pro
duced 10T, 61S, 10 gallons of spirits ana
1857, sos gallons of rum, making n 20
tol of 1O9,275,32S, which is about II
gallon ana II nail 10 every uiaH, Nohhah
and child in the country.
Nearly 500 delegates to the national
convention of the United Mine Workers
of America are in session Mt lndianap-
oils. The convention represents lOo,ooO
workmen in twenty-seven states. All
of the delegations come instructed to
demand an advance in he scale, but
there is some difference as 10 how
much will be in demand.
james Welch, plaintiff in a damage
suit against the Northern Pacific rail
way Company, attempted to assassl-
nate Judge William Lochren of the
United States Circuit Court in the
judges chambers nj st. Paul. Court
Messenger James Conway prevented
the shooting, and had u severe encoun-
ter with WEIGH, who was afterwards
arrested.
William A. English. n son of the for
Democratic vice presidential can
didate from Indiana, and Il captain of
volunteers in the war with Spain, has
returned to the treasury II check for
SLIT sent him for services with the
statement that he would not accept pay
for service to his country in the time
of danger. 1t is the only case of the
kind in the Spanish war.
The apparently real meaning of the
new S13,UOO.OOD Pennsylvania railroad
stock issue does not rest in the plan to
abolish grade crossings and the cree
ton of Il new station in Pittsburg, at a
cost of 81, 5OO,OOO together with better
ments elsewhere over the great system,
but in meeting payment for extended
purchases of stock of the Chesapeake
~ Ohio, said to amount TO 100000
shares.
The Criminal Court at Metz has sen
fenced Heinrich Bouchy, an agent do
ing business there, TO three months
Imprisonment and n fine of 1880
marks (S1O,115) for bringing into AL
sace-LOrraine since October, 1895,
American pork on forged certificates.
The pork was brought into the reichs-
land by way of BoulOgne, the certiti-
Gates representing it to be of French
origin.
Governor Stephens and Attorney
General Crow of Missouri have gone to
Washington, where the attorney gen.
eral will file in the United States Su-
preme Court an application for an in
junction TO restrain the trustees of the
Chicago sanitary district from turning
the water from the drainage canal into
Ii MISSISSIPPI river, ON the ground
that the act will endanger the health Of
the people of this state.
The mystery of the theft of thous-
ands of letters sent out for city delivery
from the Chicago ~pOstOtice in the last
three months has been solved by The
arrest of a mail carrier, Fred Lawrence
Buck, 22J6 Wilcox e Inspectors
who watched him for hours discovered
convincing evidences of his guilt and
after he was taken into custody stolen
letters, money orders, checks and cash
were found in his pockets. Then he
confessed to pilfcring for more than
three months.
In II free fight between j. G. Ludlam.
the teacher of the grammar school ut
Cortland, Nebraska, and Fred Young,
II siXteen-year-old boy, the latter was
seriously hurt, and The teacher II sew
eral other pupils considerably bruised.
The boys had resolved that the teacher
should not punish any of their number,
and when he attempted 1t the trouble
broke out. The teacher defended him
self the best he could and finally came