Little Falls herald., 1900-11-30
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Wednesday, Nov. II.

NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Wednesday. Nov. II.
Joseph Ott, the comedian, is dead.
DR.. Romaine Curtiss, a we'll known
physician and scientist, is dead at Jol.
let, Ills.
Prince George of Prussia has written
a drama, which will be performed in
Berlin the coming season.
The Duhe and Duchess of York, ac-
cording to the London Daily Mail, have
definitely decided to visit Canada.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt and M.
Constant Coquelin and their large com.
pany Of actors have arrived at Me-
York.
Captain Peter Everett. who served
under the Confederate flag with Gen.
eral John Morgan, is dead at Lexing.
ton, KY.
The naval board on construction has
decided to adopt a plan to have the
new warships coppered in government
uavyyards after the sheathing has been
completed by the contractors.
Thursday, Nov. 22.
The secretary Of the treasury has is.
sued circular suspending the refund
ing operations to take effect Dec. 81,
1900.
The department of agriculture has
advertised for bids for furnishing seeds
to the department for the usual dis.
tribution.
The collections of internal revenue
for the month Of October aggregated
S27, 464, 495. against $40, 147, 446 for the
same month last year.
The estimates of the department. Of
agriculture for appropriations for the
next fiscal year aggregate 81, 659, ,O50, all
increase of 10 per cent over last year.
During the last fiscal year postal
money orders issued amounted to $780,
go, 228, an increase of almost s3l.000,'
900. Daily receipts are now about
$780,, 200. The number of Offices has
now finally exceeded $4,000.
Friday, Nov. 23.
Captain W. NJ. Meredith of Illinois
has been appointed chief of the bureau
Of engraving and printing.
Ohio's official count shows that
Bryan received exactly the number OF
votes he did four years ago.
Captain Edward T. Strong has been
placed on the retired list of the navy
with the rank of rear admiral, .~-''
The receipts from the war revenue
present fiscal year were $58, ,398,9
Emperor William in the name of the
German empire will present to Paris
Germany's imperial building at the
| exposition.
| It is rumored in political circles in
st. Louis that Colonel R. G. Kerens is
slated for secretary of the interior to
succeed Hitchcock.
The betrothal of Prince Louis Ma.
poleon Bonaparte to Grand Duchess
Helen. daughter of the Grand Duke
Vladimir, is officially announced.
| Saturday, Nov. 24.
The torpedo boat Blakely has been
launched at South Boston.
! Colonel R. L. Meade has been ordered
to command the marine station at the
navy yard in New York.
| The French senate has adopted the
amnesty bill, which had already been
passed by the cham ber Of deputies
A law has just gone into operation in
Norway permitting the conditional dis
charge of convict for good behavior
after he has served two-thirds of hi
| sentence.
Captain MCGOWAN has been ordered
! to Key West, where he will become
commandant of the Key West nava
station, succeeding Captain Impie, who
is transferred to San Francisco.
| United States Ambassador Choate
has made representations to the British
foreign Office on the subject Of the Fill
ipino junta at Hong Kong. The for
| eign office is investigating the matter
Monday, Nov. 26.
The Duke and the Duchess of Man
chester have sailed for the United
| States.
| John Lawson Johnston of Kings
wood, Kent, the noted dietetic expert,
is dead.
The Venezuelan government has re.
ceived from Germany 10000 Mause1
rifles and 5000, 900 cartridges.
Frederick J. Pickard, who built the
Columbu Sandusky and Hooking
Valley railroad, is dead at Columbus, o.
John Lawson johnson Of Kingswood,
Eng, the noted dietetic expert, died at
Cannes, France, of syncope. He was
| born in 1889.
A number of Franciscan Sisters will
leave this country next week for the
leper settlement at Molokai, i'll the
Hawaiian islands.
A bill submitted to the German
reichstag shows that the imperial bud
get for 1901 balances at 2,240, ,947, ,30l
marks, an increase Of 174, 303. 289