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Dull0 Deet sugar factory at PnOenlx,
Arizona.
New Workers have organized a $5,-
100000 company to supply the City Of
Mexico with gas.
All grades Of refined sugar were ad-
vanced 10 cents n hun3Sed in the New
York market few days ago.
The eight leading music publishers
of this country are forming a combine
to be capitalized at $5.OOO,OOO.
Heavy speculation in silver has run
the London market up and down in
fitful fashion during the past week or
two.
A dispatch from Rome. Italy. says 1t
| is stated that 10000 Italian cmigrants
! are booked to leave for the United
States this month.
A resolution providing for the call
ing of constitutional convention to
revise the Illinois constitution was lost
in the Legislature.
The United Steamship Company of
| Copenhagen has ordered six new
steamers Of 1900 tons each for the
United States trade.
Nearly one hundred mothers with
their babies were drowned Mt Katch-
karvovka, Russia, April Goth, by the
sinking Of ferry boat.
The Pope has confirmed the appoint
ment Of Father O'Connell, rector of
the American College ut Rome, US
bishop Of Portland, Maine.
Governor Odell of New York has
signed the anti-scalping bill and also
the bill appropriating 100000 for the
purchase of the Palisades.
Cardinal Martinclli took the oath of
his new office and subscribed to the
profession of faith at the papal Legal
tion at Washington May 2nd.
The grand stand, pavilion and office
of the National League baseball park
at st. Louis We're burned to. the ground
May 4th. cntailing a loss of $4,000.
| An Illinois association has been in
corporated to build II 100000 memoir
ial temple in Chicago, in which to per-
| petuatc the teachings of the late X. &.
Ingersoll.
| Admission Of citizen of San Juan
| to the bar of the Supreme Court is
looked upon as possible indication of
the expected decision as to the status
OF Porto Iticans.
| The American Cigar Company, Il
! branch of the American Tobacco Com
pany, will absorb the Havana-Ameri-
can Cigar Company. which is capital
i lied at S1o,OoO.OOO.
At Lima. Ohio, May Tth. another
| reduction was made in the price of
crude oil, local oil cent and eastern
/ 2 cents. This makes the fifth reduc-
tion within two weeks.
DIR. Joseph Eisen. the California sci
! enlist who discovered the cancer germ.
became inoculated with the cancer mi
crobe in his experiments and had 10
be operated on recently.
! A former tax collector of Jackson
Vile, Florida. estimates the loss by the
fire at S1OJG5,OOO. At one time near
! ly 6o00 people We're being cared for
! by the relief association.
Admiral Remcy. on the flagship
! Brooklyn, recently arrived mt Mel
bourne TO represent the United States
ut the opening of the first session of
the Australian Parliament.
Richard Redhead. who wrote the
tune to which Rock of Ages Is usu-
ally sung. died May 18th. He was or
| ganist of st. Mary's Church in Pad
dington, suburb of London.
! Government statisticians think that
! all the coffee consumed In the United
States can be grown in the Islands
I winch nave Dttll slltt lHe
outbreak of the Spanish War.
The International games between the
oxford and Cambridge universities in
England and Harvard and Yale in
| America will be held September 2lst
Oh the Berkley oval. New York.
A scheme is on foot to combine the
straw hat manufacturing establish
ments of New York and Baltimore In
| the American Straw Hat Manufacture
ing Company, capital S12,Ooo,Ooo
Thousands OF people are pouring
into southwestern oklahoma and
camping in and about the Kiowa, Co.
manche and Apache and Wichita In
| dian reservations. for the opening
scheduled for some time In August.
| d. W. Minshall of Terre Haute, In
diana. has made third gift TO De-
pauw University, comprising altogeth-
er $4,000. The money will be used
for the construction of the new science
hall.
Right Rev james T.. Quigley. bishop
OF the Roman Catholic diocese of
western New York. expects that with
in twenty-five years there will be Mt
least half n dozen more cardinals In
the United States.
Ho Vow. Chinese consul general at
San Francisco. estimates that there
nrc about $4,000 Chinese in California;
in San Francisco, 1000; employed i'll
laundry business in California, G,OOO;
in San Francisco, 1000.
Starvation and typhus are said to be
increasing among the village popula-
ton of Bessarabia, Russia. Seventy
per cent of the farmers of that district
have lost all their horses and have no
seed for the spring sowing.
The Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey has declared a dividend of SD
per share. payable June 18th. In
March 500 was paid. Last years four
dividends were $50 in March. $40 in
June, IS in September and $40 In De-
cember
In the British House of Commons.
May 9th, the government measure to
tax exports of coal a shilling to the ton
was adopted by vote of S33 to o2I.
This is intended to conserve the coal
supply and help to postpone the time
of its final exhaustion.
The census bureau has found the
center of population to be Il point six
miles southeast of the village Of Co
lumbus. Bartholomew county. In south