, 1901-02-21

ing. There have been over 100 deaths
in Canton from the cold.
Holland dispatches say that President
Kruger is suffering from heart trouble
and general debility and it is feared
that he cannot live long.
The Austrian census shows the pres
ent population of Vienna to he 1885,
647, or an Increase of 293, 10 over the
census taken ten years ago.
The authorities of Stockholm in Swe-
den, rs n ~precaution against the
plague, offer n bounty of 10 ore about
212 cents) for each rat killed.
The approval of New York city off,
Gals has been given to Battery park as
a site for a laval arch to commemorate
the deeds of valor by the United States
sailors.
Baroness Van Ketteler, widow of the
murdered German minister 20 China,
has started for Germany. Since last
fall she has been at her fathers home
in Detroit, Michigan.
The weather bureau Mt Washington
is perfecting n new system of wireless
telegraphy, different from that of Mar
conf, and has already used it success
fully more than sixty miles.
At a recent auction in Londan a col
lection of autograph letters and docu-
ments of William Penn. including his
Will, written by himself in 1905, were
sold at auction for 355 g%uineas.
Former Lieutenant Governor Bates
of Vermont has been offered the posi-
ton of judge in the Philippine islands
and he will accept the appointment.
The salary will be $500 per year.
Major E. II. Copser, United States
minister to China, has cabled to an
Iowa friend that he will accept the
Republican nomination for governor
of Iowa, but will not make n fight for
it.
Destructive bush fires throughout
Victoria, Australia, have done great
damage to property and stock. The
heat is excessive and there have been
violent dust storms in and around Mel
bourne.
The American forces in the Phillip
pines have captured since September
18th, eighteen cannon, 1,SOO rifles, thou
sands of bolos and 10000 cartridges.
Besides this 700 rifles have been sur
rendered.
The Legislature of Virginia has ac-
cepted from Tennessee the cession of
one-half of Main street in Bristol as
the boundary line between the two
states. The matter has been in litiga-
ton many years.
WI, 49, 49, nnoau 80
ro5notjon 90 tbair tnS apsassmart on
the ground thai the American campeti.
ton is causing an extraordinary de-
preston in the trade.
Speculation is rife in Londan as to
the date of King Edwards coronation,
some maintaining that 1t will occur as
early as September. But probably the
year of court mourning will be strictly
observed. the coronation not occurring
until February, or later, in 1902.
A San Diego dispatch says ex-AIayor
William II. Carlson of that city has re-
signed the position of government COM
missioner Of railroads in Cuba and will
return nome win sunlcient oaeklng 20
Dullu u rallroau from San Dleeo 10
huma' Arlzoha-
Rev. Thomas w. Nanscoy, president
of the wesleyan University or Helena,
Montana, died on the 1lth instant. He
was ffty-three years old, a native of
Indiana II had served IN the One
nntaors dmr,na ,ho Civil War vi
A Springfield. Illinois, dispatch of the
9th instant says: General James NJ.
Ruggles. n OF the founders of the Re
publican party, died to-day at Tipping
sanitarium, Havana, aged eiShty-one.
He drafted the first platform on which
the Republican party was organized.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
the Oceanic company's steamer Yea
landla will take on her next trip to
Honolulu 900 Porto Ricans for the
sugar plantations of Hawaii. The en-
barkation Of these contract laborers
will be made from Port Los Angeles.
Tho ,rortorpostor ,onoroi 20 g.,
formal tbat fortyeeigbt Of Tho TO-
bodies of soldiers and marines hrouabt
to IA Francisco from the Philippines
on the transport Warren ave been ap-
piled for by relatives for private inter
ment in different parts of the country.
Iopdon dispotcb sovs that oyar
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