The silver star., 1900-09-21
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rsLgoRApHlc BREviriEs.-
On the 10th there were 1l2 cases OF
bubonic plague In Glasgow.
The trans ort Garonne arrived ~
\ Manila on the 7th instant with eight
troops Of the First cavalry aboard.
During the Austrian military maneu-
vers on the border OF Galicia and Bo-
hemIa, q big gun exploded. killing four
men outright, and fatally wounding
eiahteen others.
Mission boards throughout the coun-
trv are making Ell orts to collect money
with which TO relieve their mission
aries in China whose homes have been
burned by the Boxers.
Rev. Frank Gunsaulus OF Chicago
has presented his resignation as presi-
dent OF the Armour Institute. Dr. Gun
saulus wishes to give his UNDIVIDED
attention to his church work.
The secretary OF the interior has mp.
proved of the following patents OF lana
In the Salt Lake City land district:
10 6as acres for the State Agricultural
College: 1871 acres for the insane
asylum and IA. 223 acres for the reform
school.
The Capetown correspondent OF the
Daily Mail. regarding the refugees.
says: THE distress among them is very
serious. Large numbers. mostly Amer
leans. are living in caves on the sides
of Table mountain. owing to their ina
bility to pay rent
The North American company's
steamer Homer has arrived from the
Pribyloff islands. via Dutch Harbor.
Il, 81. fms x-nltrn1 KYlD
600; eighteen barrels of blue and white
fox skins. valued at $4,000. and from
Dutch Harbor thirty-six barrels Of fur.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany is reported to have closed con-
tracts with the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company and with an Eng
lish steamship line for regular service
between Philadelphia and Bremen and
Philadelphia and London, respectively.
Baroness Won Ketteler arrived at
Tien Tsin September 9th. escorted by
a German naval detachment. Admiral
Kirchoff made all the necessary ar
rangements 10 facilitate the journey of
the baronesA who. after visit to the
United States. will proceed to Ger
many.
The Navy Department, has been in
OI tue VI tnC
Oregon at Woo Sung and Of the arrival
at Shanghai from Chee Foo of the gun
boat Nashville Woo sung is the port
Of Shanghai and here the Oregon will
remain. as her draught will not permit
Of her going to Shanghai.
The second days session of the Sons
Of Veterans nineteenth annual nation
al encampment opened at Syracuse on
t1,n 10Th xx-tth 01n 1uIAOn TO-. In nffnnd-
ance The university location matter
was taken up. The committee in
charge reported In favor Of Mason City
and this report was adopted by vote
Of 142 to 10.
The summer of 1900 has been rec
ord-breaker In several respects, at least
in the East. 1t has been the hottest
summer ever known in New York; the
August which has just closed was the
hottest August ever known In New
York, the average temperature, day
and night, for the entire month being
seventy-seven degrees.
The japanese found Prince Ching,
leader Of the Conservative, pro-for-
eign party, in the western hills. twenty
miles distant, and are holding him
there with view of a conference and
In the hope that he may establish COM
munication with the dOwager empress.
Papers have been found in the en-
peror's room at the palace containing
lists Of the foreigners killed and the
foreigners property destroyed.
General Joseph Wheeler. considered
one OF the most picturesque figures In
the United States army, retired to pri-
vate life on the 10th. having reached
the age limit of sixty-four years.
General Wade will I've temporarily In
charge Of the Department OF the Lakes
until General Otis, appointed to the
place, arrives. General Wheeler will
go to his home in Alabama and follow
ing this he and his daughters will take
a trip abroad.
The new year at West Point began
last week with 4A cadets on the rolls,
the largest number by sixty that was
ever at the academy. The first or SEN
Tor class numbers seventy-fiye the Sec
ond or Junior class sIxty-elght, the third
class 115 and the fourth or freshman
class 176. This increase Ii due to q
law passed by Congress at the close Of
the last session authorizing the Presi-
dent to appoint 100 additional cadets
to meet the demand for trained on
GERS In our enlarged army.
Replying to the tclegraphic message
forwarded TO the Gar. September 4fh,
on the occasion Of the placing Of the
foreign office archives OF the ratificn-
tlons Of the agreements nnd treaties
.esultlng from the peace conference.
his majesty. after expressing his sim
cerc thanks. concludes: God grant
that the labors In which these gen.
tlemen have taken such nctive part
may serve ns the basis for the estab.
llshment. even though In the distant
future, Of universal peace. which In
the goal OF Christian civilization"
The Chinese minister at Washington
has received an imperial eiIct confer
ring on IL Hung Chung extraordinary
power for the complete settlement OF
the Chinese troubles. II gives him au-
th0rity to mike any terms according
| to his own discretion without referring
them to the emperor This Ii unusual