North Park union., 1901-06-14
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Philippines.
viscount Khtsura of Japan has
formed q new cabinet
Queen Helena Of Italy gave birth
to Q daughter June 1st.
England b arranging to send draft
| Of Boer prisoners to Barbados.
The Forty-ffth infantry was mus
tered out At San Francisco on tho Atn
instant.
Turkey has made the iirst payment
on the cruiser ordered from tne
Cramps.
Tho United Presbyterian General
Asssmbay adjourned to meet In Pitts
burg In 1902.
Tho Forty-sixth infantry. United
States volunteers, has been mustered
out of service.
The Treasury Department will send
three immigrant inspectors to Porto
Rico for permanent duty.
The proposed consolidation of lead
| ing Grand Rapids furniture factories
has practically fallen through.
A combine of eastern and western
shovel makers IL being formed which
will be capitalized at $1O,O00OOO.
The American Shirt aud Collar Com.
pany. capital 100000 600. has absorbed
eight Of the largest plants In the coun-
try.
The Michigan Legislature, after hnv-
1 ing been In continuous session since
January LIST, voted to adjourn June
eth.
The Downger Duchess Of New Cas-
tie, mother of the present duke and
Lord Francis Hope, is about to become
q nun.
The Indian population OF Canada
was 0O.O1O In 1900, according to the
report Of the Department Of Indian
Affairs.
The butchers Of New York have an.
nounced an increase In the price OF
meats, varying from ene-half to three
cents per pound.
p. II. Ashmead of Lehigh, Pennsyl
vania, who recently returned from
Ecuador, advises young Americans tc
go to that country.
The London Mail says King Ed.
ward has declined to reduce his eccle.
slastical establishment from thirty-six
paid chaplains to twelve.
Arbuckle Brothers have advanced
all grades or refined sugar ten points.
hib 70 Buzz hNS RoiAtb uhuSA eAAS paws
Of the American Refining Company.
The Grant Memorial Commission has
issued a pamphlet inviting the compe.
tition of architects for models. The
statue or memorial will cost $24O.OOO.
The American Telegraph and Teie
phone Company, at meeting OF stock.
holders voted to increase its capital
stock from 500, 600, 900 to $l5O,000,OOo.
Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
eighty second birthday at Boston,
May 9th, and by request sang for her
friends her famous Battle Hymn OF
the Republic:
There were 574 lady patentees out
Of $4,000 applicants at the British
patent offices during the past year, and
most successful.
Action has been instituted by Sir
Charles Sutherland to set aside the
purchase Of Skibo castle by Andrew
Carnegie. hTe castle was bought by
Mr.. Carnegie. two years ago.
Germany, in the opinion Of the vos-
aische Zeitung, will need to Import O,-
10000 bushels more wheat and 25,-
OOO,OOO bushels more rye this year
than last, owing to ruined harvests.
Ballipgton Booth and Booth Tucker
deny that there II any prospect OF
General Booth and his son reaching an
agreement and merging the Salvation
Army Into the Volunteers Of America.
Ira Remsen, Ph. D., LII. d., profess
sor Of chemistry In Johns Hopkins
University since 1870, has been elect
ed Hresident Of the University, sue
ceeding DR.. Daniel @. Gilman, re-
signed.
II n said that the British govern
American labor saving machinery,
such ~ pneumatic drilling and rivet.
Ing machines, etc. at the Portsmouth
dock yards.
A New York Herald dispatch from
London says that General g. B. VIII.
liams, who has been in Russia for
some time, emphatically denies the
reports that Russia II on the verge of
| revolution.
Edouard Taylore, . French cycllst,
defeated Frank Caldwell Of Hartford,
| Connecticut, in q race at Philadelphia
! ON May 3Oth. The Frenchman rode
twenty miles In a little less than thir.
| ty-seven minutes.
No proposal has been made to the
State Department by the British gov.
ernment for the reassembling OF the
Joint High Commission to settle ques.
tions in dispute between the United
States and Canada.
The business committee Of the Ma
| tional Suffrage Association will hold a
conference at Buffalo, September 9th
and 10th, at which the leading feature
will be symposium ON some import
| ant nspect OF suffrage.
Texas, which enlisted only 1885 sol
diers in the Union army during the
war, ID now, more than thirty-6ve
years after It's close, the place OF res
idence Of 800 pensiouers and the pen
sion payments there are nearly $1,000,
600.
It Is reported that the revolution IL
Santa Domingo has been completely
crushed at Its inception, and q mum
Der of the prominent rebels shot OF
imprisoned. Among the latter II sot
Of the late President Hereaux, who Il
said to have been the leader of thu
movement.
The Westminster Gazette Of London
In commenting upon the Supreme
Court decision, says the United States
will now take her place with the lead
ing nations OF the world. In uphold
ing tho impcrialistic ideas Of the ad
mlnistration the court has done TIM
which will attract worldwide atten
ton.
Covernor Dnole Of Montana has par