, 1901-03-28
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the age of ninety.
The British government will not land
any more troops at Capetown unul the
bubonic plague subsidies.
The President has appointed Fred
erich II. Coyne, now collector at Chi-
cago, postmaster of that city.
The Pennsylvania Salt Company Is
contemplating the erection of a S9,ooo,-
600 plant at Wyandotte, Michigan.
A Hague dispatch says that Henri
Rochefort is organizing a big lottery
throughout Europe in aid of the Beers.
The military authorities at Capetown
have approved the invention of a Max
i'm gun mounted on n motor car Tor
immediate service.
The Maine House of Representatives
has refused to re-submit to the people
the prohibitory amendment TO the con-
stitution.
Memphis, Indiana, was almost total
ly destroyed by fire March 18th. Only
ten houses remained and scores OF
families are homeless. Loss, 100000.
Andrew Carnegie has offered $4,000
to Kewanee, Illinois, for n library
building, a site>to be furnished and
$1,000 a year for maintenance guaran-
teed.
Professor Frank A. Fetter of the
economic department of Stanford uni
versity, has resigned. He was not In
sympathy with the removal OF Dr.
Ross.
A colony of 100 negroes recently left
Knoxville, Tennessee, for Hawaii I'M
der a three-year contract to the Ha-
waiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany.
Andrew Carnegie has offered IL
brary funds as follows, subject TO the
usual terms: Montclair, New Jersey,
$4,000; Charlotte. North Carolina,
$4,000.
The House of the Texas Legislature
has adopted n resolution inviting
President Mckinley to visit Austin
and address the Legislature on his
southern tour.
Ex-President Cleveland celebrated
his siNty-fourth birthday on the 18th
instant, at Paterson, New Jersey, with
his wife and children, and entertained
many callers.
+. E. johnson, secretary of the law
department of tie University of Mich
igan, will accept the ~judgeship in the
Philippines recently rendered him by
the President.
The expense in connection with
Queen Victoria's funeral amounted to
$4,000, of which S51 600 was eXpend-
ed in the housing and entertainment Of
foreign guests.
Among Andrew Carnegie's recent IL
brary fund donations are the follow
ing: Hempsted, Long Island, $4,000;
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, $4,000;
Canton, Ohio, $4,000.
On the night of March 18th, fire de-
stroyed all of the buildings in the
block bounded by Fifth and Sixth ave-
nues in the Armourdale district of
Kansas City, Kansas.
Nothing is known in any quarter of
C~onstantinople of the report, circulated
in h United States by a news agency,
of the alleged massacre Of o Mace
domains by Turkish soldiers.
Mr.. Carnegie has given an additional
10000 to the Atlanta library bearing
his name. This makes Mr.. Carnegie's
total appropriation S145 900. The IL
brary will be dedicated early in May.
John Henderson, the negro who out
ragged and murdered Mrs. Younger at
Corsicana, Texas, was burned at the
stake on the 18th instant, in the pres
VIM vi q" hlSb VI wi Ia oruVO DNl-
sons.
George Cadbury, the chocolate manu-
facturer, has presented to the city of
Birmingham. England, an estate Of 410
acres, valued at 100000, upon which
to build houses for the working
classes.
The Cattle Raisers' Association of
Texas adopted a resolution earnestly
recommending that Congress provide
an assistant to the secretary of agri-
culture 10 have charge of the livestock
interests of the country.
Nothing since the Worlds Isnir at
Chicago in 1898 has elected the wide
spread interest that is manifest in the
Pan-Americhn Exposition, which is to
be held in Buffalo, from May l to No
yember !, 1901.
The famous Algodones and grant,
embracing $4,000 acres of rich land,
near Tucson, Arizona, was thrown
open to settlement March 18th. There
was a considerable crowd in line mt the
land office and several hundred loca-
tons were made.
The bill appropriatlng $ 100000 for
the Louisiana purchase worlds fair at
st. Louis, with Senate amendments In
cooperating an emergency clause max
ing the money available at once, passed
both houses of the Missouri Legisla-
ture.
Herren Liebkran and Book, Social
lists, were recently elected president
and vice president respectively of the
united diet of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
the first German parliament to choose
both presiding officers from the Social
list party.
Doctors Robin and Binet of Paris
claim to have discovered that the COM
bustion of oxygen is much more ac-
tive in persons with a tendency to
tuberculosis tina in healthy persons.
They can, therefore, foresee a coming
attack and take measures to prevent
it.
Three p~roofreaders were burned to
death on the 18th instant in a fire that
occurred in the seven-story granite
building of the Boston Daily Adver-