La Junta tribune., 1900-09-29
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h0ha continue To drive adnerents Oi
Dowie from Mansfield. Ohio.
The Great Northern's tunnel near
Spokane was completed on the End
1t Ii two and Il half miles In length
Thirty-ope new cases OF yellow fever
have been officially reported AT Ha-
vnna. making neurly 100 now under
treatment
Queen Victoria has appointed the
Duke OF Marlborough lord lieutenant
OF Ireland, to succeed the Earl Of Cad
ogan. who retires ON account OF Ill
health.
Lightning struck kiln at the Glen
Carbon brick yards In Illinois. demol-
ishinx the kiln and burying nve men
under tons Of brick. -Four were taken
out dead.
Advices from Sknrway tell of new
strike in the Forty Mile district The
md WINS on Rock creek and Is said TO
have been rich, one nugget alone being
taken out that was worth &2Jo.
Lord Roberts reports that General
Ian Hamilton found at the Crocodile
river, near Hector Sprmt thirteen
guns, inclnding several lost by the
British. They were almost destroyed.
General John NJ. Palmer. ex-United
States senator from Illinois. died Tues
day from heart failure. aged eighty
three years. He was an honorary pail
bearer at General McClernand's funer-
al the previous Saturday.
For the first time since April, 1850,
bar silver. on the 2sith. reached ~
pence per ounce In London. which IL
equivalent to ,ss.21 cents in New York,
American money. The actual New
York quotation was 62.s cents.
Leon Bard. former United States
vice consul At Hamburg. has been
sentenced 10 fifteen months impris-
onment for misappropriatirg 23.J00
marks, part of an inheritance which
he received FOR two American women
Secretary Root writes that his con-
ditiOn Is Improving. but gives no indi-
cation OF purpose TO return to wash
ington soon. He Is AT his summer
home at Southampton l. l.. and Is
c0nvnlescing from a severe surgical
operation.
An Sl.J1 gallon water tank on the
Rock Island road collapsed. flooding a
steel wire plant at Joliet. suspending
work and destroying x2.UU worth Of
product. Telegrapliic wires went down
and traffic was delayed. The estimated
damage is 5000.
General Wood. governor OF Cuba. de-
ciares the wreck of the Maine is an OBJ
struction to navigation. He desires to
remove the ship. and now that Secre-
sary Long has no objection. inasmuch
~ the vessel il OF no value. this action
will be taken
Mrs. Elizabeth Van Lew. who during
the war between the states. furnished the
tnv
the Confederate army and aided pris-
oners in escaping from Libby prison.
and Who. after the war. WIS awarded
by General Grant the postmastership
Mt Richmond. died here to-day mt an
advanced age.
In n number of the cities adjacent
to the coal regions. notably Reading.
the coal supply is getting low and
many families have been unable. to
purchase even small quantities. 1t
seems an extraordinary state Of things
for this section OF the country where
ordinarily tons of coal can be picked
up along the railroads.
The board of regents OF the Univer-
sity Of Idaho has selected Professor
j. A. Mclean president OF that insti-
tuition. Professor Mclean now fills
the chair Of philosophy and history In
the University of Colorado He is a
graduate of Columbia college and
comes highly recommended by Presi-
dent Seth Low OF that institution.
At the session of the United Typo
thetae Of America ut Kansas City the
executive committee made its report.
which expressed enmity to the union
label syrtem, and recommended that
1t be fought through the courts. The
committee also recommended that 500
be appropriated to help the employing
printers Of San Francisco carry on
their fight against the union label.
A secret circular has been sent out
by Jonnnicius, the metropolitan OF
Kielf, TO all the Russian archbishops.
virtually communicating Tolstoi. the
Russian novelist and social ref0rmer
1t declares that Tolstoi In an ayowe,l
enemy Of the church. and that. there
fore, unless he recants the holy synod
VIII prohibit the celebration OF ail di-
vine services and expiatory masses in
the event Of his death.
In the course Of It's Investigation OF
the possible origin OF plaques. the sam
itary Commission at Antwerp has de-
cided that rats and mice are the most
dangerous propagatOrs Of disease and
ofreSs premiums for dead rodents. 1t
also recommends similar course to
the authorities in all other ports. It
In suspected that both the recent
plague ut Oporto and that still existent
in GlAhxow took their origin from In
fected rats.
The Mexican government is at pres
ex,t actively engaged In massing troops
In sonora and otherwise extensively
preparing for the winter campaign
against the YaquI Indians occupying
the Haccntete mountains. II n not
Hkely that peace will be made,
- the lfexlcans offer no terms except
uncondttional surrender. and a. many
warriors who were made prisonefS are
reported to have been put 70 death the
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