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any more troops AT Capet0wn until tne
bubonic plague subsidies
The President has appointed Fred
erich E. Coyne, now collector at Chi
cago, postmaster of that city.
The Pennsylvania Salt Company is
contemplating the erection Of $1,000.
600 plant ut Wynndotte, Michigan.
A Hague dispatch says that Henri
Rochefort Is organizing a big lottery
throughout Europe in aid Of the Beers.
The military authorities at Capetown
have approved the invention of a Max
i'm gun mounted OF motor car for
Immediate service.
The Maine House OF Representatives,
has refused to re-submit to the people
the prohibitory amendment TO the con-
| stituiion.
Memphis, Indiana, was almost total
ly destroyed by fire March 18th. Only
ten houses remained and scores OF
families are homeless. Loss, S2OO.OOo
Andrew Carnegie has offered S5o,OO<
to Kewanee, Illinois. for library
building. site to be furnished and
! 5000 a year for maintenance guaran-
teed.
Professor Frank A. Fetter of the
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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 a three-year contract to the Ha-
wallan Commercial and Sugar Com
pany.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Ii
brary funds as follows, subject 30 the
usual terms: Montclair New Jersey,
$4,000; Charlotte, North Carolina,
10000.
The House of the Texas Legislature
has adopted n 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. at Paterson, New Jersey. with
his wife and children, and entertained
many callers.
L. L. 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
$1,000. OF which $4,000 was expend-
ed in the housing and entertainment of
foreign guests.
Among Andrew Carnegie's recent L.
brary fund donations are the follow
ing: Hempsted, Long Island, $4,000;
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 600 Mace
domains by Turkish soldiers.
| The governor of Idaho has appointed
ex-State Treasurer L. G. Rice as COM
missioner to the Pan-American Expo
sition at Buffalo. Idaho's appropria-
ton for an exhibit is $4,000.
| Emperor William made formal de-
position in the Schloss before repre-
sentative of Bremen criminal court
regarding the recent attack upon him
In Bremen bysDietrich Woland.
| United States Ambassador Choatc
and the other ambassadors and minis
tiers 10 Great Britain presented their
credentials TO King Edward at Marl-
borough house on the 18th Instant
Mr. Carnegie has given an additional
10000 to the Atlanta library bearing
his name. This makes Mr.. Carnegie's
total appropriation $l4J.0OO The IL
brary Will be dedicated early In May.
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ragged and murdered Mrs. Younger Mt
COrslcana. Texas. was burned at the
stake on the 18th instant In the pres
ence OF 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 mt 100000. upon which
TO build houses for the working
classes.
The Cattle Raisers' Association Of
Texas adopted Il resolution earnestly
recommending that Congress- provide
an assistant to the secretary OF ngri.
culture 10 have charge OF the livestock
interests OF the country.
Nothing since the Worlds Fair NJ
Chicago in 1893 has elected the wIde-
| spread interest thnt IN manifest In the
Pan-American Exposition. which is to
be held in Buffalo, from May / to No
vember /, 1901.
The famous Algodoncs land grant,
embracing $1,000 acres OF rich land,
nenr Tucson. Arizona. was thrown
open to settlement March 18th. There
was considerable crowd In line mt tho
land office and several hundred loca.
ti0ns were mnde.
The bill approprIntIng $1,000, 900 for
the Louisiana purchase worlds fair nj
st. Louis. with Senate amendments In.
cooperating nm emergency ciausc mnk.
Ing the money available nt once, pnssed
both houses OF the Missouri Legisla.
ture,
Herren Licbkrnn and Book, socinl
lists, were recently elected president
and vice president respectively OF the
united diet Of SAKE -C0burg and Gotha
the first German parliament to choose
both presiding officers from the Social.
Lat party.
Doctors Robin md Blnet of pnris
| claim IN I'm a. m II rsA A..