The Globe-republican., 1901-01-24
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

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Admiral Dewey has been min to
his home with grip
President Mckinley has had a seige
of grip but is improving.
The big Texas gusher has caused a
decline of , and 3 cents in Ohio oil
fields.
The Colorado senate has passed a
bill to put an end to prize fighting in
that state.
The provisions in the army bill
a~bolishing post canteens do not apply
to soldiers, homes.
There is some prospect of the United
States owning the Danish West Ind es
prior to March 4.
store in Memphis, Tenn, is burned at
a loss of 500, 600.
Senator Shelby McCullom goes back
to the United States senate another
term from Illinois,
The death rate in Berlin in 1000
increased 4 per cent, and the birth
rate only 20 per cent
One might easily fill a column of
grip items, by selecting from only a
few of The daily papers
The Colorado legislature has a Joint
committee to investigate the grievances
of striking coal miners.
The Colorado Legislature will choose
Hon Thos- Patterson to succeed Z. S.
Senator Edward O. Wolcott.
The National Live Stock association
met at Salt Lake City on January Is.
There was a very large attendance.
The agricultural interests il Cuba
are asking reciprocity tariff legislation
in their favor on sugar and tobacco
America will stand pat upon every
point of the protocol signed BY the
powers and the Chinese p~lenipoten-
t~iaries.
1t is believed in Washington that
there will be no conclusion reached of
the Chinese negotiations for several
months yet.
Cashier A1vord, who stole 5000, 900
from the First National bank of New
York, has been sentenced to IS years
imprisonment.
The transport Grant took $500, 900 in
gold, cabin passengers recruits and
freight on her way to Manila, leaving
San Francisco January 16.
Frank Crowell, superintendent of
Swift & Cos factory in Chicago, lost
hlo 4A1O WIKI L ing 70 saw lis DAM
book and insurance policy, in a fire in
the factory
The state of the health of Queen
Victoria is such that for the present
she must abstain from transacting
business.
One hundred and fifty students were
arrested at Kief, Russia, and expat
ated to Port Arthur They thought
they were politicians. The same fate
awaits scores of students at St. Peters
burg
Tom L. Johnson. the American street
railway capitalist, has bought the Ba-
ker street and Waterloo underground
railway in London
Mrs. NJ A. McMi11ican, wife of the
editor of the New York Medic Jour
nal, was badly burned in a fire in San
| Francisco jan Il.
There are thirty flag factories in the
United States. most of them in New
York. There is s1e. 900. 900 invested in
the business and $500, 900 is paid in
wages annually
The stoeker and feeder trade Is
large for this time of the year. Ship
ments to the country from Kansas
City last week were $50 cars, of which
which Kansas took 15S cars
About fifty houses and warehouses
at Banes, near Santiago de Cuba, were
destroyed by a recent fire. The Banes
Fruit an American concern
had been employing the people there
and a large quantity OF fruit and to
bacco was in the warehouses
In the Odessa, Russia, snow blockade
drifts hardened to ice, and in one such
a tunnel was cut through a drift 4ot
yards long. and IS feet deep Many
thousands of soldiers We're sent to res
cue the railway passeng ers, a large
number of whom froze to death.