North Park union., 1901-06-28
TaLsaaApH,c saEvIrlEe.


General Macarthur expects to leave
Manila July LIST for the United States.
The new regiments organised under
the reorganization Inv are about COM
pleted.
Paul w. IInebarger Of Chicago has
been appointed a United States Judge
to act In the Philippines.
J A naval board will soon visit Porto
Rico to decide upon the advisabiiity
Of establishing naval station there.
The steamer Ophir, with the Duke
and Duchess Of Cornwall and York on
board, has arrived. at New Zealand.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
Of New York will hereafter insure
women on exactly the same terms as
men.
A Philadelphia resident recently con-
tracted for the building Of 222 houses.
to cost aboRt $750,O0O. Who says
"slow!'
The Russian government is said to
be contemplating the construction OF
a waterway from the Gulf Of Finland
to the White sea
The Pennsylvania Senate has voted
to appropriate $4,000 for the erection
of n monument to Andrew d. Curtin,
1.-The War Governor"
A dispatch from Buluwayo, Rhode
sia, states that contracts have been
signed for 600 miles of new railway
radiating from that point.
Louis Stern, former United States
commercial agent at Bamburg, Ba-
varia, who committed suicide June H.
had defrauded many Americana.
June 18th being the anniversary Of
the beginning OF the siege OF Tien
Tsln, the Indies there decorated the
graves of the soldiers of all natonali-
ties.
The bond issue of the railway taken
over by the Stilwell group of Atnerl.
can capitalists, aud which they Will
extend 10 Tampico, Mexico, Is $1,000.
600.
A brass tablet In memory of Bishop
Boone, the fourth missionary bishop OF
the Episcopal Church in China, has
been placed In st. Pauls Church, Han
Kow.
Over 5000 miles of new steam rail-
way will be constructed in the United
States this year. Oklahoma and In.
dian territory are on the list for G12
miles.
The President has disapproved an net
of the Cherokee Indian council pro-
vIding for n commission to execute
new agreement with the Dawes COM
mission.
The New York Appellate Court, which
has had the matter of the Sunday clos
ing of the Pan-American exposition
under consideration, has ordered the
case dropped.
Brigadier General Bates, who recent
ly returned from the Philippines, has
been ordered to command the Depart
ment of the Missouri, with headqunr-
ters at Omaha.
President Wise of the Union Lead
and OIL Company confirms reports that
]. d. Rockefeller and his associates
have secured control Of the American
Linseed OIL Company.
The Mark Lane Express says the ef-
feet of the past weeks cold on Eng
lish wheat has been decidedly preju.
dicial and agricultural prospects show
general retrogression.
Chairman Hanna has appointed Hon.
B. Lodge of Grand Rapids to the va
cancy on the Republican national com.
mittee caused by the death Of Hon.
William Elliott OF Michigan.
william Hereford of Williamsburg.
New York, has committed suicide Ow-
Ing to despOndency over his failure,
after, thirty years Of labor. to discover
the secret of perpetual motion.
The Emperor of Germany has or
dered n scllooner-yacht to be designed
and built In the United States by A.
Carey Smith and Henry q. Barley,
naval architects Of New York.
The recent census of Australia shows
thnt while the free trade colony Of
New South Wales has largely increased
Its population, the colony Of Victoria.
which Ii protec Zionist, has lost 10000
souls.
Counterfeiters in England are max
Ing new silver coins Of the exact size,
appearance and weight OF silver of the
genuine coins. the depreciation of sill
yer enabling them to make 100 per
cent. profit.
In their strike for nlne-hour day
the mnchinists of Chicago have al-
ready won their fight In over seventy
plants. OF the 2,3OO men who struck
nil hut 1000 are back ut work on the
nine hour basis.
The auction sale of Craig-y-Nos cas-
tie In Wales by Adelinn Patti (RHr-
oness Rolf Cedarstrum) proved fall
ure. and PATHS agent bid It in ut
$.,25 600, the reserve price having been
fixed at $2JO,OOO.
Fifty years ago there were 1000
foreigners resident in Switzerland;
to-day ther nre 1856 600. or one-tenth of
the total population. An effort Is being
made to change the laws SO as to fa-
cilitate their disqualification.
The total number Of males in Eng
land and Wales as shown In the re-
Gently completed census Is Is, 721 ,72S;
of females 16.sO4,34I, men serving
abroad In the army, navy and mer-
chant marine being excluded.
A preliminary census volume Just is-
sued gives the population of the five
largest cities of England. exclusive of
London, as follows: Liverpool, 6S4,.
O47; Manchester, 543.9 $50; Birmingham,
522, 1872; Leeds, 42S,053; Sheffield, $780,
III.
In England and Wales according to
the late census, seventy-seven per cent.
nf tho tOtn1 nopulntiOn Ia in tho ritips