The true northerner., 1900-10-19
BRIEF DISPATCHES.

now amounts to $l.650 American gold.
A Cape Town dispatch says Sir AL
fred Miner. British high commission
er. has gone to Bloemfontein.
II is asserted at Rome that Arch
bishop Martinelli will be raised TO the
cardinalate at the next consistory.
Typhus fever is raging in the 6Sth
German infantry at Coblentz and also
iD the garrisons at Brunswick and
6aarbruecken.
King Oscar of Sweden is confined to
his bed with bronchial catarrh. com.
plicated by an accretion OF phlegm In
the right lung.
Gen Wood sailed for the United
States from Havana Monday by the
Ward liner Yucatan. returning via
Tampa Oct %.
Lieut.. Commander VIM. III Beehler
naval attachee of the United States
embassy at Berlin. is suffering severe
ly from pneumonia.
Another discovery was made Friday
at the Elizabethport bank. which in.
creases the stealings of defaulter
Schneider TO $l09.710.
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.
The Sultan of Turkey has leased to
Germany. for thirty years, the Island
OF Uroan in the Red Sea 40 miles
north OF Kamaran for a coaling sta.
ton
The residents OF Cuba will have an
exhibit at the Pan-American exposi.
tion at Buffalo. the matter having
been taken up by the mercantile guild
of Havana.
DR. Jas. Carlisle, nephew OF Thos.
Carlisle, the great author, and himself
one of the best known educators OF
Ontario. has died at Toronto OF bron.
chial asthma.
The full returns as to the wine har.
vest throughout Germany for the year
show that it is more abundant and of
more excellent quality than for several
years previous
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York last week on the steamer
Minnehaha were Mr.. S. l.. Clemens.
MARK Twain. Mrs. Clemens and the
Misses Clemens
The archbishops Of the Roman Cath
olic church held their annual meeting
at the Catholic University in Wash
ington Thursday Ecclesiastical mat
ters principally were considered.
A Melbourne dispatch says: The
legislative council of Victoria has re
jected the bill recently passed by the
legislative assembly providing for a
referendum on the question OF woman
suffrage
Gen. Edwin S. Bragg, a lifelong
Democrat, in a largely-attended meet.
ing at Milwaukee. Thursday night re.
nounced Organism and declared for
Mckinley and Roosevelt. He is gold
Democrat.
Kid Lavigne, former lightweight
champion. has decided to challenge
Terry McGovern, to fight at 1870
pounds in hicago. McGovern has ex.
pressed the wish to meet Lavigne in
the ring.
The Carlisle Indians defeated the
university of Maryland in a football
game at Baltimore Monday 27 to o.
The Indians were invincible. while on
the other hand the Baltimores played
in bad form.
At the National Sporting club. Lon
don. Monday evening Charlie McKeev-
er. welterweight OF Philadelphia. de-
feated Dido Plumb OF London in the
18th round McKeever was declared a
winner on points
Wm. Lle3lef, wen kUOWH anu
wealthy citizen of New York, has an
nounced tnat he would purchase two
vessels. fully equip and man them and
send them in quest OF the north pole
during the summer of 1901.
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.
80 1,
latter's retirement in the near future
A Portsmouth. Va, dispatch says:
The Seaboard Air Line railway has
purchased 10000 tons of S5.pound steel
rails. Sparrows Point delivery. The
terms of purchase call for the delivery
/ of the entire lot during the month OF
/ October
The treasury department has given
! notice of the discovery Of new $40
/ silver certificate. series OF 1891. with
portrait of Hendricks The counterfeit
| is described as a Photographic print
without the silk fibre and OF inferior
workmanship.
Mrs Daniel Manning while leaving
her Paris hotel after dining Saturday
lost a diamond sunburst valued at
/ 81 500 AS a strange coincidence both
lady commissioners Of the Uniaed
States at the Paris exposition sustain
/ ed a loss OF iewles.
The United States, according to o
special dispatch from Tangier. have
renewed their. demand upon the gov
ernment of Morocco for $4,000 as in
: demnity to the family OF Marcus Az
zagui. naturaliZed American citizen
who was murdered by mob at Fez
last June
The report of the Bank OF Spain for
the week ended Saturday shows the
following: Gold in hand. no change
silver in hand. decrease 956000 pese
tas: notes in circulation increase
4,671 900 pesetas. The gold quotation
Saturday was 30.67