The Globe-republican., 1900-01-18
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

There is German cruiser at Louren-
Marques
Boston s municipal debt was increased
S., OoO, 900 last year
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Webster Davis is in Cape Town
I Queen Victoria has proclaimed the
opening of parliament for January 80
Boston shipped about 1000 bales of
hay last week to the British army in
South Africa.
Tt is rumored here that the Bank of
Russia has advanced the bank of Eng
GLAND IS, 900, 600.
| Denver expended more than two mill
lion dollars business and public
buildings last year
p. D. Armour, the millionaire packer
is negotiating for permanent home
at Pasadena, California
There thirty-five cases of small
.pox in the Northern Illinois normal
school located at Dixon.
Twenty-six cotton mills have been
built in Mexico during the last year,
and more are being built
A gun stock factory in Frankford,
Indiana, is working an order for 49,
900 gun stocks for the Beers
Explosion OF ac e1yIene gas burned a
| church at Eden, Nebraska, while a
watch meeting was in session
/ A large carriage repository in Port
| land Me, four story brick building is
| burned. with a loss of 800, 900
Rev. J. K. Peck, the oldest minister
| in the Wyoming, Penn, Methodist Con-
ference, fell dead in his pulpit
| According to the financial statement
the net bonded debt of New York City
on January 1, 1900, was $3.50, 676, OBS
1t is estimated that 1000 Firms will
emigrate this year and that practically
| all of them will to the north
west.
/ Two shipping clerks of a WHOLESALERS
| grocery in St. Joseph. Mo-, have been
arrested for systematically robbing
, their employers
Jobbers have tried to get better
: discount from table glassware manu-
: facturers than is given to department
!, | stores and failed to get it.
2 The reciprocity treaty between the
2 United States and France is being held
| up by each party on the ground that it
| is too favorable to the other.
Sir Thomas Upton has again chal-
Ienged for the Americas cup He says
: he VIII build the finest yacht ever CON
:, | structed-
9 The Bird Canning company, which
o has plants at Topeka, ST. Joseph and
e eeveral other points, will put one in at
= D1athe-
< The plan of having mail registered
u by carriers when collected will be put
= in operation January 10 in sixty cities
e The service will be inaugurated else
o. where when considered beneficial,
"a upon application of the local officials
Four members of the Omaha board OF
Education are under arrest for bribery
in connection with a contract for blinds
d for school buildings
a. L. H. Severance, formerly treasurer
e. of the Standard Oil company, has given
SOC, 900 to Oberlin college The money
er will be used to erect and equip a chem
10 ical laboratory Mr. Severance ais
nc donated the ground ON which the build
Sc ing will stand
ne General Joe Wheeler is very nnucl
u put out because he is given no chanc'
to fight the Fi1ipinos-
All labor unions of St. Joseph, Mo-
1g are demanding from Is to 25 per cen
lis increase of wages, and recognition o
slt the eight hour law
us The Missouri State Federation o
M Labor failed to pass resolution favor
ed ing the formation of labor party i
ty opposition to the two old parties
la1 There were over 100 companie
he formally incorporated in the variou
he states during 1899 for the manufactur
50 of automobiles, and their total capita
" ization reached the enormous sum 9
M $500, SOC, 600.