North Park union., 1901-06-07
TELecRAPHic sREvlTiEs.

put down.
| 1t Is reported tina, King Edward
| VII. has become greatly Interested III
Christian Science.
1t is estimated that the new Nus-
sian loan will be subscribed for as
/ least seven times.
Arab Pasha, the famous Egyptian
! rebel. who WAS bapished to Ceylon Al
1882. has been pardoned.
| New York il the only state in the
| Union that has greater popuiatioh
than the city of London.
French agriculturists intend to fight
frost and grasshoppers. as well MS nah-
| storms, with cannon and smoke
Smallpox on the transport Indiana.
at Taku, will delay the departure OF
the Ninth infantry for Manila.
The Iowa Prohibitionists have 1omi,
| mated A, n, Coates for governor anu
A. Wray for lieutenant governor.
Bresci. the assassin of King Hum
bert. committed suicide Few uaSs
since i'll his cell in the San Steiano
prison.
The graduating class Of the Chicago
| high school this year numbers over
LOO. less than thirty per cent oA
| whom are boys.
The new census returns gives me
| popuation of lAustralasia at 4.oJ,Ool.
| This Is nm increase of 40, since the
| last enumeration.
The Michigan House by unanimous
vote passed bill taxing the fuiiihhu
Palace Car Company three per cent.
on gross earnings.
The annual produce OF currants IN
| Greece is about 2OOUO tons, but last
wear. owing to the downy mildew, 1t
| fell to 1900 tons.
The Aragon Bessemer ore mine nj
| Norway. Michigan. has been pur-
| chased by the United States steer cor
porntion for $2,5OO,OOO.
| In response to the protest OF the for-
eign embassies the Turkish order pro-
hibiting the entry of typewrlters INTO
| Turkey has been rescinded.
Promoters of the Charleston EXPOSE
| ton say they have ample resources
and that the display will be ready for
the opening in December.
Paul du Chaillu. the famous eXplor-
er, hunter and writer, is planning
| thrce-years' tour of Russia to gather
material for new work on that coun-
try.
Major General Henry c. Corbin. ad.
| iutnnt general of the army, will sail
| for the Philippines June 25th. to make
| n general inspection of military con-
| ditions.
The volcano of Keloet. Java, Is in
eruption. the lava consuming many
native villages. endangering the city
of Blita and running large coffee plan
tations.
| Movements are said to be on foot
to organize coal trusts in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois and the prospects
are that n gigantic combination OF all
three will be formed.
In the Irish championship games at
Dublin last month L. O'Connor of
Waterford covered twenty-four feet
nine Inches in the long jump, beating
all previous records.
A bill has been passed by the leg
islative bodies of Norway providing
for universal communal suffrage for
men and giving the suffrage to women
| paying Il certain amount Of taxes.
The southern synod of the Presby-
terian church in Kentucky Will COM
municnte with the northern synod to
formulate II plan to endow Snyre col
lcge with Sl,OOo,OOO. This is college
for women.
Peter Postell of Hopkinsville. Ken
lucky. probably the richest colored
man i'll the South, died recently, leay-
ing fortune estimated at $5O0,OOO,
which he had accumulated In the gro
Gerry business.
Pnsteboard armor is the lntest form
of defense. Experiments ut Copen-
hagen show that millboard three inch
es thick WIS impenetrable TO carbine
bullets which pierced tive-inch wooded
planks.
Rev. Henry Warman, Methodist
Clergyman at Glendine, Montana. has
sued the members of Il lodge Of the
knights of the MaccaDees for SJO,OOO
damages because they initiated him too
roughly.
The Edison Storage Battery Com
pany has been Incorporated ut Tren-
ton, New Jersey with S1,OOO.OOO cap
ital to manufacture storage batteries
under the new patent of Thomas A.
Edison.
AT their next meeting the directors
of the Pullman Sleeping Car Company
will be asked TO pass upon plans for
pensioning the 12,OOO or 1900 en-
ployes of the company when retired
from service.
Excited citizens of Jefferson and ST.
Charles parishes, opposite New Or
leans. have burned all the buildings
. that the State Leper Board had erect
ed in Jefferson parish, in fultillment of
the boards plans to establish there Il
lnzorettO.
DIR. Bryan of the University Of In
diana has accepted the presidency of
the Central Normal and Trade school
! Of Manila. and expects TO take thither
with him twenty teachers, mostly
graduates of the University Of Indi-
! ana.
Mnrthinus Vessels Pretorius, the
first president of the Dutch African
Republic. the lillc of which was
changed In 1858 to the South African
Republic. died May 18th. at Potchef-
stroom, Transvaal colony, after two
days illness.
Senator NJ. a. Hanna was mustered
into Memorial Post. q. A. r., of Cleve-
land, n few nights since. He was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. and
made brief speech in answer ~ the
congratulations upon the new honor
conferred upon him.
Il The monument erected by the state
of South Carolina on the battlefield
of Chickamauga was dedicated May
9th. Governor McSweeney made an