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The ministers at Pekin have reached
an agreement.
The new war revenue bill will reduce
taxation $40, 900, ,348.
The pension roll for the comir year
will call for $l42, 900. 900.
The governor of Shanghai publicly
executed 80 Boxer leaders.
Secretary Cages estimate for govern.
ment expense is 1925, TAI. 1852.
George Won L. Meyer. of Boston, will
be appointed ambassador to Italy.
Charles A. Towne accepted the ap-
pointment of senator from Minnesota.
Mccall made sensational speech in
the house against holding the Philip
pines.
A small American force routed a
band of rebels at Santo Domingo,
Luzon.
Contract for erection of Salem, Or, /,
postoffice has. been awarded to Chi
cago firm.
In street duel in a West Virginia
town minister was killed by prom
inent lawyer.
1t is estimated that taxable valuation
OF Oregon for 1900 will be about ST.
900, 900 less than in 1899.
Fire in the Cam bridge, Ohio, works
Of tho American Tinplate Company,
caused loss on finished tin alone of
between $175,000 and 5000, 900.
John Luke Hely- Hutchinson, fifth
earl OF Donoghmore, ct one time assist
ant commissioner in Eastern Rou-
mania, died of paralysis, in London.
Robbers raided the Office OF the Vest
ern Lumber Company in Portland, Or,
just before the employees vera ready to
receive their November wages in coin,
and secured $4,700.
At New York. the Fasig- Upton Com
pany closed the most successful auction
sale of trotting and pacing horses in its
history. The proceeds of the sale were
1852, 1870 for 702 horses, an average OF
about $500 head.
A serious cave-in occurred at the
Ray Aug. mine, near Dunore, Pa.
Fifty.one men were entombed. The
rescuing party, after nearly three hours
hard work, succeeded in digging into
the chamber in which the men were
entombed ALI were rescued, not one
being seriously injured.
Consul-Ge Stowe says the Boer
war is nearly ended.
Kruger's mission to Europe was frus-
trated by the Kaiser.
Nine men we're killed in train
wreck near Sulsun, Cal.
The Isthmian canal commission
recommends the Nicaragua route.
Senator Fairbanks, OF Indiana, in
troduced bill to admit Oklahoma as a
state, with two repf esentatiyes.
A report comes from Queen Charlotte
island that the Indians there are short
OF food. Their wants will be attended
to.
1t is reasserted in Tien Tsin that the
Germans lost 20 killed and many
wounded west of Pao Ting Fu, where
they were attacked by 2.5OO Boxers.
Congressman briggs introduced q
resolution in the house requiring the
secretary of war to investigate the
practice OF s'hazingo at West Point.
Senator Pettigrew introduced reso-
luton in the senate calling upon the
postmaster general to send to the senate
any information he may have in his
possession concerning postal frauds in
Cuba.
Tang Wang Huang, author OF the
outraSes upon the Pao Ting Flu mission
aries, was paraded through the streets
of Tien Tsin in a cart under a strong
German guard, previous to being hand
cd over to the provisional goyernmeunt
tor decapitation.
Frank Hawley, an American electric
promoter, is now in London in the in
terest of an American syndicate. Mr.
Hawley says the capitalists be repre-
sents are ready to spend no less thar
GA, 900, 900 in the construction OF cleo
tric surface roads in London and to tbs
suburbs to radius of 30 miles. Not
a penny OF British capital will b'
asked. He expresses himself as conf
dent that the undertaking will be
financial success.
Major Wood, commanding the Cana
dian mounted police in the Yukon ter
ritory, who collects the royalties OF
gold. reports the collections this yea
on the Klondike output as amounting
to nearly $900.000 about $780, O0l
more than was received last year. Tel
per cent OF the gold mined is supposed
to be paid to the government, whicl
would indicate the Klondike output 10
the season TO have been only $4,000,
600, but the general estimate has places
| it at nearly $50, 900. 900.
A correspondence Santiago de Cub
saws the natives there are becomin
adopts in the American game OF base
bali. Havana may yet bid for plac
In the National league
A celebrated Enlgish physician say
thss he has found that warts can 0
cured BY reyaccinaton. He regacci
mated a girl of Is who had 81 warts o.
| one hand, and seven weeks after tn
operation the warts had all disappear
ed. Many other remedies had beel
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