North Park union., 1901-08-09
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During the last summer eeAso0 the
ascent of Mont Blanc was made By 14l
tourists.
Tho principal plants making steel
castings are trying to effect . COM
binatiou.
Paul Kruger u at The Hague, and II
u said he will start for South Africa
In October.
The new hattleship Maine was
launched at Cramps shipyard In fhiI-
adelphia July 9th.
The 1000 or more Boer prisoners at
St Helena have started the publication
Of q weekly newspaper.
Admiral Melville is preparing casks
TO send adrift In the Arctic ocean to
md the currents crossing the pole.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Helen
Terry will make twenty-five weeks
tour Of this country during the coming
season.
The shoemakers Of Vienna have 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 consoli.
dated, with John NJ. Thurston as chief
counsel.
The government has determined to
make vast improvements In the f0rti-
fications around the hurbor OF San
Francisco.
John l.. Collins, a son Of Admiral Col
lins of Civil War fame. plunged four
teen stories to his death in the Chica-
go Masonic temple July 24th.
A New York engineer has invented
a new fuel of compressed air and pc
troleum which he claims will carry
ships to Europe In four days.
The postmaster general bas issued
an order formally placing the Ameri-
can postal service In China on the
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
arntiOn of an order creating 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 he afflicted with the grip, and
the disease has taken such severe
form in some localities that II has been
necessary for owners to stop work.
A forest fire In the province Of
Jentland, Sweden, hns assumed gi-
gantic proportions. Three thousand
troops have been ordered to assist the
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 been beaten
In mn attempt In court to stop the play
ing of a piano In a boarding school Ol,-
posite his office. The tribunal pro-
nounced riano playing u social insti-
tuition.
DIR. w. G. 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 $JO.OO0.
The Rush Medical College Mt Chicn-
20 announces that co-educntion will he
introduced In the medical school. Here
after women will he admitted to the
freshman md sophomore classes on nn
equal footing with men.
John q. Willis, a property owner OF
North Omahn, has submitted to Sena-
tor Mlllard a plan for the cessi0n Of old
state to he used as an agricultural col
lege and experiment station.
Ii Hung Chang, Prince Ching and
Kun Yang, resident members Of the
regency board. have received from the
throne long communication, laying
down general injunctiOns as to reform
md honesty Of administration.
Rev. Adam Miller. called "the father
OF German Methodism in America"
and said to be the oldest Methodist
minister In the United States. died Mt
his home in Chicago. July 10th, of old
age, being ninety-One years old.
That Jacob 8. Rogers, who left al.
most all Of his immense estate to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art of New
York, himself placed the estimate OF
his property Mt $5.443OOO, has been
discovered by the appraisers.
President Miiburn OF the Buffalo
Exposition has issued 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 phenomenal run OF
salmon over all the fishing grounds OF
the lower sound. On July 25th 1t IL
estimated that 10000 cases of fsl
were packed Of the value of $325, 600.
DR.. Felepe Caldas, the Brazilian bac
teriOlogist who has II yellow fever ser
um. has sailed for Cuba, accompanied
by DR.. Angel Bellinzaghi, his assistant
to direct experiments with his serum
with a view to stamping out the dis
ease.
Events have already proved that the
tax law drawn up by the Legislators
of Porto Rico will provide ample
means for the islands requirements
Plantations that went unworked for Il
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 II. Ken
nedy. January 10th last. has been re
leased OH bond Of $4,000. pending m
appeal of her case to the State Su
preme Court.
In fight between the Mad Mullal,
and the British July 18th. the former
was routed, leaving seventy killed
The British casualties were Lieuten.
ant Fredericks and twelve men killed
and Lieutenant Dickson and twenty