The silver star., 1900-11-09
rELEoRAPHIc sREv,riEs.

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; to October 25th were 81, 14O.36S.
The transport Idaho. with the home.
coming Canadian soldiers from South
Africa, was welcomed at Halifax with
roaring cannon.
Fully 5000 people attended the Chi
cago horse show in one night, which ID
the most successful affair OF the kind
ever held in the city.
The French cruisers La Sielle and La
Souchet, the former the flagship Of Ad-
miral Richard, are in Baltimore harbor
and will stay week.
Major Henry j. Hearsay. editor of
the Daily States at New Orleans, and
one Of the strongest newspaper writ
ers in the South. is dead, aged sixty.
William st. John Lyme. premier OF
New South Wales says the Australian
people would like TO see Queen Victoria
asuume the title of Queen of Australia.
From the Santa Fe general offices in
Chicago $500 kilograms We're recently
sent out in one day. which ought to
have kept both the wires and the oper-
ators hot.
Norman Brokaw, one of the most
prominent paper manufacturers in the
country. died at Kankawna. Wisconsin,
October Both, after a lingering illness
resulting from appendicitis.
Mary Voelker. n waitress at the Man
haitian hotel Wichita. Kansas. has fall
en- heir to a property of $4,000. She is
descended from the Bekkers Of Hol-
land The estate is in India.
The Rev. Henry Russell-Pritchard,
the oldest minister of the Christian
l. H. -. ...l
denly Mt Chesterfield. Indiana, Octo-
Der 2sth. aged eighty-one years.
A Cleveland dispatch says the price
of steel plates has been advanced from
IL to 1.25 cents, by agreement among
the manaufaefurers. who have recent
ly been comforting upon the subject.
Edward Dewey. brother of Admiral
| Dewey, died at Montpelier. Vermont.
October 2Sth, at the age of seventy -one
years. He served In the Civil War as
Quartermaster of the Eighth Vermont
regiment.
In the Court of Appeals at Frankfort,
Kentucky. the Judgment of the lower
court in the contests over the minor
state officers was affirmed, thus estab-
fishing the title of the Democratic in
cumbents.
NJ. Millerand. the French minister of
commerce. has Obtained President Lou
bets signature to decree prolonging
the Exposition until November 18th.
and fixing November 9TH as free day
for the poor.
w. :. Robson. one OF the most exten-
sive cotton planters of Texas. has
gathered statistics from the Brazos
and Colorado valleys ana declares that
the boil weavil has destroyed S6.OOO,-
go worth of this years cotton crop.
At Boston u few days aimee Harry
E1ks broke all bicycle records from
twelve 10 twenty-five miles. inclusive.
his time for twenty-five miles being
81 :02 80. which beats the previous rec
ord made 10y Stinson by IL l-J sec
onds.
A dispatch received at the War De-
partment announces the arrival at Ma
Mia OF the transport Hancock with
three companies of the Fourth and four
of the Twenty infantry and three
officers and 100 men of the marine
corps.
\ band OF American confidence men
has successfully done Berlin and other
German cities. passing Confederate SO
bills, which have been readily accept
ed at forty marks .?.52l each. The po-
lice have received reports of scores of
victims
Avondale. the estate of the late
Charles Stewart Parnell. was sold at
auction October 3lst. by the land
judges court. The purchaser was MIR.
Boyland. a friend of John Howard Par
nell, brother OF the famous Irish
statesman.
Any attempt on the part Of Germany
TO establish u coaling station In terri
tory of Venezuela VIII he opposed by
the United States. says a Washington
special 10 the New York Herald. Such
: action would be in violation of the prin.
ciples of the Monroe doctrine.
According to n correspondent OF the
London Daily Mail. the Beers have L..
90 men In the field. nearly half OF
whom are In Orange River Colony
These are divided into commanders OF
some 300 men each. but are capable OF
, combination for large operations.
, Experimental excavations ut various
points along the route OF the Charinr
Cross. Euston X Hampstead railway
IN London. whose franchise was re.
Gently acquired 10y Charles 4. Ycrkes
: have been commenced and the worl;
; VIII be- continued without nterr,lp.
. tlon.
The London Sportsman announces
that the Prince OF Wales has cancelled
; his retainer to Tod Sloan for 1901. Tn,
, announcement is ns follows: ''rhe ar
rnngement by which Sloan was to b.
, the first Jockey to the Prince of
Wales next season will not be- carried
out"
The Chicago X Grand Trunk railroad
, was sold nj Port Huron. Michigan. Oc
tober 3lsi. under first mortgage pro
ceedings. General Manager Charles NJ
Hays and II. W. Meredith OF Detroit
: representing the stockholders OF tn.
road. bought, the rond being sold Il
4 them for S5.1OS. .TO1.
In the earthquake at Caracas. Snr
r Cnslmiro. Gun and Charnllnno were en-
0 tlrcly destroyed. An islct at the moutl
of the Ncvcri river bns disappeared. A
r Tncnrigun, Brochico and Curiepc IN,
a damage done was considerable. Ther.
nrc many dpnd and injured Rilron,