, 1901-08-08
~TELEoRAPHic eREvlTIEs.

bination.
Paul Kruger is at The Hague, and 1t
is said he will start for South Africa
in October.
The new battlcship Maine was
launched at Cramps shipyard in Phil
adelphia July 9th.
The 1000 or more Boer prisoners Mt
81. Helena have started the publication
of n weekly newspaper.
Admiral Melville is preparing casks
20 send adrlft in the Arctic ocean to
fnd the currents crossing the pole.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Helen
Terry will make Il twenty-five weeks
tom of this country during the coming
season.
The shoemakers of Vienna ave ask
ed the government to prevent Ameri-
cans from starting shoe factories In
Austria.
The law departments Of the Union
and Southern Pacific are to be CONSOLE
dated, with John NJ. Thurston as CHIEF
counsel.
The government has determined to
make vast Improvements in h forti-
fi~cations around the harbOr Of San
Francisco.
JOUn IL. SOlllns, II SUI vi Nhhiiihl WI
Inns of Civil War fame, plunged four
teen stories to his death in Ii Chica-
20 Masonic temple July oath.
a New York engineer has invented
n new fuel of compressed air and pc.
troleum which he claims will carry
ships to Europe In o days.
The postmaster general has issued
an order formally placing the Ameri-
~ ,Nn9tnl aApNTfp. In (Hhfnn on tho
same basis as before the outbreak.
Great preparations are being made in
Montreal in connection with the visit
Of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York, who are expected there
about September 18th.
Secretary Root has directed the prep
aration Of an order creating a board of
army officers to investigate the whole
subject of changes in the military posts
throughout the country.
Many of the horses in Chicago are
said to be afflicted with the grip, and
the disease n taken such Il severe
form in some localities that it has been
necessary for owners TO stop work
\ forest fire in the province of
Jentland, Sweden, has assumed gi-
gantic proportions. Three thousand
Al''lfH hhNt btNh olNtIth W hFNlHl III
men who are combating the flames.
The Southern Pacific company has
closed timber land deals recently that
promise to pave the way for the later
opening of vast tracts of timber coun.
try in the northern part of California.
a Paris lawyer has just beer beaten
in an attempt in court to stop the play
ing OF a piano in Il boarding school OPP
nnGftn hi AtfrA Tho tRfI1tHnI nfaa
nounced piano playing n social insti
tuition.
Dr. W. c. Gray, for twenty-five years
editor of the Interior, the organ of the
Presbyterian Church, has disposed of
his interest in the paper and resigned.
The paper has been Incorporated with
a capital of 100000.
The Rush Medical College at Chica.
go that cO-educatiOn will be
introduced In the medical school. Here
after women will be admitted to thP
freshman and sophomore classes on an
equal footing with men. ,
John G. Willis, n property owner Of
North Omaha, has submitted to Sena-
tor Willard a plan for the cession of old
Fort Omaha by the government to the
state to be used as an agricultural col
lcge and experiment station.
Ii Hung Chang, Prince Ching and
Kun Yang, resident members of the
regency board, have received from the
throne a long communication, laying
down general injunctions as to reform
II honesty of administration
Rev. Adam Miller. called 1.-THE father
of German Methodism in America"
and said to be the oldest Methodist
minister in the United States, died at
his home in Chicago, July 10Th, of old
age, being n~inety-one years old.
That Jacob $. Rogers, who left al.
most all of his immense estate to tina
Metropolitan Museum of Art of New
York, himself placed the estimate of
his property at $~5,iI3,O0O, has beer
discovered by the appraisers.
President Milburn of the Buffalo
Exposition has issued a statement in
which he says the exposition has been
more than paying its expenses since
the beginning of June and has already
accumulated considerable surplus.
a New Whatcom, Washington. dis,
patch tells of II phenomenal run OF
salmon over all the fishing grounds OF
the lower sound. on July 25th 1t Is
estimated that 10000 cases of fish
were packed of the value of $32J,OOO.
DIR. Fclcpc Caldas, the Brazilian bac
teriOloglst who has n yellow fever ser
um, has sailed for Cuba, accompanied
by DIR. Angel Bellinzaghi, his assistant
To direct experiments with his serum
with n view To stamping out the dis
ease.
Events have already proved that the
tax law drawn up by the legislator,
of Porto Rico Will provide ample
means for the islands requirements
Plantations that went unworked for II
long time are beginning TO show signs
of prosperity.
Lulu Prince Kennedy of Kansas
city. under sentence of ten years fol-
killing her husband, Philip IL. Ken
needy, January 10Th last. has been re,
leased ON bond Of $4,000. pending an
appeal of her case 10 the State Su
premc Court.
In n fight between the Mad NIuIlah
and the British July nth. the former
I was routed, leaving seventy killed
The British casualties were Lleutcn
i'rcdrricks aud twelve men killed
and Lieutenant Dickson and twenty