North Park union., 1901-03-29

to Kewanee, Illinois, for q library
building, site to be furnished and
5000 a year for maintenance guaran-
teed.
Professor Frank A. Fetter of the
economic department Of Stanford Uni
versity, has resigned. He was not in
sympathy with the removal Of DR..
Ross.
A colony of 100 negroes recently left
Knoxville, Tennessee, for Hawaii un-
der three-year contract to the Ha-
waiinn Commercial and Sugar Com
pany.
Andrew Carnegie has offered IL
brary funds as follows, subject TO the
usual terms: Montclair, New Jersey.
$4,000; Charlotte. North Carolina,
$4,000.
The House of the Texas Legislature
has adopted resolution inviting
President Mckinley to visit Austin
and addres the Legislature on his
southern tour.
Ex-President Cleveland celebrated
his sixty-fOurth birthday on the 18th
instant. Mt Paterson, New Jersey, with
his wife and children, and entertained
many callers.
h. r. Johnson, secretary of the law
department Of the University Of Mich
igan, will accept the judgeship In the
Philippines recently rendered him by
the President.
The expense in connection with
Queen Victoria's funeral amounted to
$4,000, Of which $5T 900 was eXpend-
ed in the housing and entertainment of
foreign guests.
Among Andrew Carnegie's recent H.
brary fund donations are the follow
ing: Hempstcd, Long Island, S25,UOO:
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, $4,000;
Canton, Ohio, $4,000.
On the night of March 18th, fire de-
stroyed all OF the buildings In the
block bounded by Fifth and Sixth ave
nues In the Armourdale district of
Kansas City, Kansas.
Nothing is known In any quarter OF
Constantinople OF the report, circulated
in the United States by news agency,
OF the alleged massacre of GOO Mace
domains by Turkish soldiers.
Mr.. Carnegie has given an additional
So 900 to the Atlanta library bearing
his name. This makes Mr.. Carnegie's 's
total appropriation S145,OOO. The IL
brary will be dedicated early In May.
John Henderson, the negro who Nit-
ragged and murdered Mrs. Younger at
Corslcnna, Texas. was burned Mt the
stake OH the 18th instant, In the pres
ence of n mob of more than 5000 per-
, sons.
George Cadbury. the chocolate manu-
facturer, has presented to the city of
Birmingham. England. an estate of 41G
acres. valued at 100000, upon which
to build houses for the working
classes.
The Cattle R:Nsers' Association of
Texas adopted n resolution earpcstlH
recommending that Congress proyide
an assistant to the secretary of Sgri-
culture TO have charge of the livestock
interests of the country.
Nothing since tho Worlds Fair at
Chicago In 1893 has elected the wide
spread interest that is manifest In the
American Exposition, which Is to
he held In Buffalo, from May l to No
vember I, 1901.
The famous Algodones land grant,
embracing $4,000 ncres OF rich land,
near Tucson, Arizona, was thrown
open to settlement March 18th. There
was a considerable crowd In line at the
land office and several hundred loca-
tons were made.
The bill appropriatlng $1,000 900 for
the Louisiana purchase worlds fair at
st. Louis, with Senate amendments in
cooperating an emergency clause max
ing the money available at once. passed
both houses of the Missouri Legisla-
ture.
Herren Liebkran and Book, Social
lists, were recently elected president
and vice president respectively of the
united diet of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
the first German parliament to choose
both presiding officers from the Social
ist party.
Doctors Robin and Binet of Paris
claim to have discovered that the COM
bustion of oxygen is much more ac-
tive In persons with tendency to
tuberculosis than in healthy persons.
They can, therefore, foresee n coming
attack and take measures to prevent
1t.
Three proofreaders were burned to
death on the 18th instant In a fire that
occurred in the seven-story granite
building of the Boston Daily Adver-
tIser .eld Record. They were James
Richardson Of Boston, Judson Craft Of
Cambridge and Walter Luscombe Of
Salem.
President D. s. Jordan and DR.. o.
P. jenkins Of the physiology depart
ment of Stanford University have
been deputed by the government to Gs
to Hawaii and superintend n years Ill
vestigation Of the fishes and fish laws
of the islands. They will be accom-
panied by ]. X. Overman of Stanford
nnd by several eastern scientists.
The announcement is made by the
officers of the New York district OF the
International Association of Alachin-
lists that meetings of machinists will be
held in all the eastern cities to prepare
for the nlne-hour demand of the ma
chinists which goes into effect In May.
A feature of the demand, which will
affect 100000 machinists, is the fact
that 1t is made in behalf of the nom
union as well as the union machinists.
Governor Odell of New York has
signed the bills passed by the Legisla-
ture imposing a tax on insurance conf
panies and savings banks of one per
cent. on their suplus earnings. The
insurance tax is of one per cent. on the
gross amount of premiums received
during the preceding calendar year
by domestic companies. A tax Of Ave-
tenths Of one per cent. is imposed on
foreign fire and marine companies.
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