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increase Of 1,708, or 4.74 per cent.
The population Of the District Of
Columbia Just announced, ID 278,718, a.
against 2SO,302 ten years ago: an in
crease Of 4S.826. or 20.9 per cent.
Butte, Montana, is having a smallpox
scare. In eight days twenty-eight vic
TINS were sent to the pesthouse. Com
pulsory vaccination Will be enforced.
Minister Wu's salary has not been
cut since the Chinese troubles began,
and the business OF the legation has
been running with perfect smoothness.
The census bureau announces the
population Of the state of Delaware a.
l64,7S5 In 1900, against 1875, ,498 In 1890.
This is an Increase Of 1922, or 0.8 per
cent.
The strike at the Buckingham b
Hecht shoe factory In San Francisco II
ended. The strikers won every point
eontended for. Over 500 workmen were
involved.
1t is officially announced by the CEN
sus bureau that the population Of New
Hampshire Is Ali, ,5S8. In 1890 the pop
ulatlon was 376, $50, the increase being
B5,O5S, or 0.3O per cent.
In the English Parliamentary cleo
lions the ministerialists and the opposi-
tion have now gained twenty-seven
seats each. The former now hold 857
seats and the latter 205.
The twenty-eighth convention Of the
American Travelling Passenger Agents
closed at Old Point Comfort October
pth. The next meeting will be at Los
Angeles, California. in October, 1901.
The twenty plants of the American
Tin company have resumed operations.
The mills, which employ $4,000 men,
were closed for more than three months
pending a settlement Of the wage scale.
Since Its inception five months ago,
the Speyer, Germany, automobile st0ge
line has carried 10000 passengers.
Each coach carries twenty-eight pas
sengers and the route Is ten miles long.
A st. Johns, Newfoundland, dispatch
says that seventeen iisning vessels op-
Grating on the Grand Banks during the
gale Of September 18th are still MISS
Ing, with crews aggregating over 200
men.
Eminent judges have selected the
names of Emerson, LongfellOw, Haw-
thorne and Irving to represent authors
In the names Of famous Americans for
the New York University Temple of
Fame.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn,
U. s. NJ, has been awarded diploma
md gold medal for the Franklin life
buoy, Hichborn turret and models of
wal vessels exhibited Mt the Paris ex-
position for 1900.
The census makes many changes.
When 1t comes to counting noses Uncle
Sam Is no respecter of persons or of
cities. Memphis is now the first city of
Tennessee and Nashville is In mourn
Ing, and demands recount.
A. p. Deer, nm aerOnaut of Chicago,
fell to his death at Gays Mills, Wis
c0nsin, from a balloon, in which he
ascended to height Of 200 feet. The
ascension was made at fair and was
witnessed by 5000 persons.
Mr.. Krugers grandson, Eloff, sailed
from Lorenzo Marques October 10th
to prepare n residence In Brussels for
the former president Of the Transvaal.
The latter will sail on the Dutch
cruiser Gelderland n few days later.
The Anti-Horse Thief Association.
covering Kansas and Indian territory,
AltCt ia w iGlnNA Ou tuC 4Otn ll6tuuts
with 800 delegates. Last year the or
ganizatiOn recovered sixteen or eigh-
teen horses stolen from Its members.
Major Edward Goldberg, United
States Indian agent. died Mt Senaca,
Missouri. ON the Sth instant, Of mush-
room poisoning, after an Illness of lit
tie more than one day. Mrs. Goldberg
is also very III from the same cause.
The Treasury Department has given
notice Of the discovery Of a new c0un-
terfeit $40 silver certificate, series of
1901, with portrait Of Hendricks. The
counterfeit is described as photo
graphic print, without the silk fbre,
and of Inferior wOrkmanship.
Isaiah 4. Montgomery. who was in
youth slave to Jefferson Davis, found.
ed after the war a colony Of negroes In
The Yazo0 river valley, In Mississippi.
He Is now mayor Of the town Of Mount
Bayou, the center OF the colony, where
the negroes own 1000 acres.
Richard ]. Carroll, for n number OF
years chief money order clerk In branch
p0stoficc Il, New York city, bns been
arrested for forging and raising money
orders. The amount of the alleged for
keIIeb 10 uOt yct huOWhp uut W UCbiCvCu
to be large. Carroll was efficient and
Ind been employed In the postoffice
sixteen years.
A contract has been made which will
give Denver another railway connec-
tion with FL Pnsc, Texas. The I'll Paso
4 Northern will build to TexlIne. New
Mexico. The Choctaw. Oklahoma &
Gulf will build to the same place from
Weatherford, via Amarillo. Texas.
Both Amarillo and Tcxline are on the
Denver & Fort Worth.
Colonel Snmpos Sallcs, brother Of tho
president Of Brazil. has been assassin
ated In Sac Paulo by an Italian farmer
named Angel Sungeretti. President
Sallcs will not postpone his visit to
Bucnos Ayrcs on account Of the be-
reavement. He will arrive In Buenos
Ayres on October oath and will remain
there until October 30th.
Commissioner General Peck cables
from Paris that the United States gov.
ernment received 2.47b awards, Ger.
many 1890. Great Britain 1,727 and
Russia 1903 at the exposition. The
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