, 1901-12-12
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about January 18th.
The number Of students in the 40
regular medical schools of the United
States in 1900 was 1,07a females and
81, 673 males.
The decline in the value of British
securities since the beginning of the
Boer war is estimated at more than
a billion dollars.
The German minister to Venezuela
recommends to his government that
eight warships be sent there to collect
the German claims.
The Cape to Cairo line of the African
Transcontinental Telegraph Company
has been constructed as far as Bis
~marckburg, Togoland.
The ferry boats. San Rafael and
SansalitO collided in the bay at San
Francisco on the night of November
10Th, and twenty lives were lost.
The big battleship Illinois, sent to
test the New Orleans floating dock.
passed safely and easily through the
1etties at the mouth of the Mississippi.
A London dispatch says the report
cabled to the United States that Flor
ence Nightingale was neal death was
u~nfounded. Florence Nightingale is
well.
Announcement is made that the SEN
tence of accommodation against
Father Jeremiah j. Crowley of Chi
cago would be recalled within a few
days.
j. S. Andrews, who pre-empted n
claim within the present limits of
Chicago in 1914, died mt Wichita, Kan
sas, December Bird, aged eighty-four
years.
Maria Tulsa, n negress. 100 years old,
died last month at Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
h was h last representative of the
slaves who We're imported directly
from Africa.
Edward John Eyre, who was gov
rno of Jamaica and its dependencies,
1S62-66, and who put down the mutiny
of the negroes there, is dead He vas
born in 1915.
Sousa and his band played by royal
command on the night of December
list at Sandringham before their majes-
ties, King Edward and Queen AleXan-
dria and the royal family.
Purdue College of Lafayette, Indi-
ana, received as n Thanksgiving pres
ent 100000 from Mrs. Eliza Fowler, to
be expended for the erection and
equipment of an assembly hall.
Kansas is experiencing its second
water famine for this veal Water
works companies say that The situa-
ton, as far as the water supply is con-
cerned, is as serious as last summer.
Latest reports indicate that probably
only three lives We're lost in the ferry
boat collision at San Francisco, De-
cember LIST. 1t was at first thought
that as many as twenty were drowned.
1t is officially stated at the Hague
that the story reproduced In the Lon
don News from the Vaamsche Ga
Zette about Queen Wilhelmina quar-
reling with the prince consort is I'M
true.
The Peruvian minister, Senior Osman,
II the Bolivian minister of foreign
affairs have signed n protocol submit
ting to arbitration the pending Ques-
tons between their respective coun-
tries.
For the first time n Russian univer-
sity has this time placed Tolstoi's
works in its curriculum A special
seminary for the study of his writ
ings and teachings has been opened at
Kieff.
The statistician of the Department OF
Agriculture reports 9,6I4,O0O bales as
INT DIbDuult COTTON DTOtUtIlDn OF IHt
United States in 19Ol-02. This was
about 2,OOO,OOO bales less than trade
estimates.
William Alexander Selkirk. n Cali
fornia pioneer of 1850. and for nearly
half n century a prominent figure in
the newspaper and political world of
the Pacific coast, died at Seattle, De
cember LIST.
An ~ taARtnY n1A-..tAl--f., If..-.v
cry is announced from Nologodn,
where n skeleton, declared to be hu.
man, has been found with the UMPIRE
cedented length of 40 arshines, or
over eleven feet.
John Heinrich, who pleaded guilty
to the charge of picking the pockets OF
members of the late President McKin-
ley's party during their visit to Los
Angeles last May, was given three
years in san Quentin prison.
In n recent fast run to make up time
between Chicago and Cleveland, the
Lake Shore train carrying the Aus
tralian mail made eighty miles an hour
for n part of the distance and averaged
fifty-fiye miles including stops.
The German Colonial Council has
decided that while the emancipation of
the children of slaves might be prac-
ticable In Togoland and the Camerons,
the time had not arrived to declare
them free in German East Africa.
The estimates for Germany's expen-
ditures in China for 1902 are S0,SOO,-
900, as against $30.O00,OOO expended in
1901. Pensions for widows and or.
phans resulting from the China expe-
dition amount to $4,000 annually.
The Illinois Appellate Court has re-
versed the decree entered n year ago
by which the Chicago Board of Trade
was enjoined from interfering with the
service of the Central Stock and Grain
Exchange in receiving market reports.
There was to have been an open
meeting of anarchists In London to
celebrate the fourteenth anniversary
Of the execution of the Chicago an
archists, but the police ordered the
owner of the hall to cancel the CON
tract.
1t is expected that Parliament will
be opened on January 10th by the
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