, 1901-08-29
TELEoRAPHIc eREviTIEs.

The Navy Department
that the European squadron of Ameri-
can war vessels will rendezvous NJ
Genoa, Italy.
Lieutenant Colonel Marchand of Fa-
shoda fame. has been promoted to the
chief command of Il brigade of French
troops in China.
A new trolley line between New
York and Connecticut promises n regu-
lar run of sixty miles an hOur outside
of the city limits.
President Linbrom of the Chicago
Civil Service Commission,
that the entire police force of the city
is to be investigated.
Colonel G. w. Breckenridge of San
Antonio. Texas. has given $4,000 for
the building of "A school for the col
ored children of that city.
Advices from Liverpool state that an
alliance Is contemplated between the
Lcyland, the Atlantic Transport and
the American steamship lines.
The entire town of Landersville, In
diana, was burned August 10Th. There
vas no fire protection whatever. The
town had II population of 300.
Plans for a combination of the but
ton manufactures of the United States,
liNluE III III Nv lhIl'i'hit >"
the country, are being perfected.
The Glucose company has increased
the price of glucose 10 cents per 100
pounds, making "A total increase of 40
cents since the advance in corn set in.
The War Department has been in
formed that the damages to the bat
teries at Fort Morgan. below Mobile,
from the storm last week, are very eX-
tensive.
Phoenix. Arizona. once a sage brush
desert, has 25.OOO inhabitants and an
assessed valuation of S~1o,OOO.OOO. all
due to irrigation canals brought from
distant mountains.
The second of the new submarine
boats for the navy was launched mt
Elizabeth. New Jersey, August 2Oth,
and was named the Moccasin by Miss
Grace Day of Virginia.
A commercial traveller who had n
route covering 1900 miles in northern
Ohio, performed half the journey on
the trolley roads connecting many of
the towns in that region.
Among the passengers who arrived
IN New York recently, per steamer
Lain, from Bremen and Southampton,
were General Fred u. Grant, his wife
and son Ulysses S. Grant.
There are now 1.l42 different sub
marine cables. with "A total length of
1850 miles. owned by governments,
and 31S cables, altogether 1lG.OOO miles
long, in the hands Of companies.
According to william Redmond. who
recently had an interview with presi-
lent Kruger in Holland, o Paul's
appearance bellies the idea thai he is
breaking W either mentally or plysi-
cally.
II is estimated that 10000 negroes
have been graduated from colleges and
Industrial schools in the South, at "A
cost of S1OO.OOO.GOO. Most of this
money has been contributed by north
erners.
The Board of Health of Montclair.
New Jersey, has given the authorities
power To purchase oil to begin the
work of discriminating mosquitoes.
The stagnant pools and swamp land
will be attacked first.
G. NJ. Schwab of the United States
Steel corporation will in a few days
AXE charge of the Bethlehem Steel
Company. 1t Is denied that the con
cern will be merged in the CramIe
Nickers-MInNim deal.
The Pacific Packing and Navigation
Company. the new cOmbin of the
Northwest cnnneries, has opened for
business at Seattle. The company is
capitalized at S25,O0O,OO and embraces
about thirty canneries.
The work of the appraisers OF the
estate of the late Jacob s. Rogers of
Paterson, New Jersey, has been COM
plcted. The estimate made by Mr..
Rogers of II little over s. 100000 is
close to the actual figures.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
81 900 10 the fund being raised in New
Haven for the erection of n memorial
monument to Cornelius S. Bushnell,
who advanced the money for the build
ing of Ericsson's monitor.
1t is stated that 39,ST2 persons per-
ishCd ut the hands of hOmicides in the
United States during the five years
ending with 1900. The figures of pun-
ishment for the crime are not made up,
but are known to be ~startlingly small.
Frank \. Mexican, ex-mayor of
Nashua, New Hampshire, and former
cashier of the Indian Head National
Bank of that city, is dead in Para
quay. Mexican He'd from Nashua in
1893 because of n shortage of about
100000.
In an interview with a Journal of
Commerce reporter of New York,
President Baker of the Atlantic Trans
port line announced that plans have
been completed for providing new
docking facilities in London at "A cost
of SlO,OOO,Ooo.
In round numbers S2O,oOO.O 600 has
been disburscd M San Francisco in the
maintenance of the government trans
port service. The estimated cost OF
transporting n soldier from san
Francisco TO Manila is Sl3G; cabin
passenger, 1886.
Colonel Fred Grant. just arrived
from Europe, says the general feeling
of the people of the middle and upper
classes of Russia is favorable to the
United States. The Russians regard
the United States more as u country to
buy from than to sell TO.
"'rwu Americans, Messrs. Anchor
and Friars. made n daring ascent of
the Great st. Bernard from Martigny.
In AN automobile, to the ama2ement Of
| the monks says Il dispatch from &c
ucVH. Switzerland. "Such Il feat never
has been attempted before