, 1901-06-13

shovel makers is being formed which
will be capitalized at S10,Ooo,OO0.
The American Shirt aud Collar Com
pany, capital $%2O,OO0,OOO, has absorbed
eight of the largest plants in the coun-
try.
The Michigan Legislature, after hay
ing been in continuous session since
January LIST, voted to adjourn jun
9th.
The Dowager Duchess of New Cas-
tie, mother of the present duke and
Lord Francis Hope, Is about to become
n nun.
The Indian population of Canada
was 5000 in 1900, according to the
report of the Department of Indian
Affairs.
The butchers of New York have an
nounced an increase in the price of
meats, varying from one-half to three
cents per pound.
p. ii. Ashmead of Lehigh, Pennsyl-
vania, who recently returned from
Ecuador, advises young Americans TO
go to that country.
The London Mail says King Ed
ward has declined to reduce his eccle-
siastical establishment from t~hirty-siX
paid ehaplains to twelve.
Arbuckle Brothers have advanced
all grades or refined sugar ten points.
This is still five points under the prices
of the American Refining Company.
The Grant Memorial Commission has
issued a pamphlet inviting the compe-
tition of architects for models. The
statue or memorial will cost $4,000.
The American Telegraph and Teie.
phone Company, at n meeting of stock
aAI1nR AtA 10 So 20 nptNA
stock from S10O,OOO,0O0 to $15O.OO0, 600.
Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
eighty-second birthday at Boston,
May 9th, and by request sang for her
friends her famous Battle Hymn of
the Republic"
There We're 5T4 lady p%atentees out
of 10000 applicants at the British
patent offices during the past year, and
the inventions of these women proved
most successful.
Action has been instituted by Sir
Charles Sutherland to set aside the
purchase of Skibo castle by Andrew
Carnegie. hTe castle was bought by
MIR. Carnegie, two years ago.
Germany, in the opinion of the Vos-
sischc Zeitung, will need to import co.
100000 bushels more wheat and 3D.
100000 bushels more rye this year
than last, owing to ruined harvests.
Ballipgton Booth and Booth-Tucker
deny that there is any prospect of
General Booth and his son reaching an
agreement and merging the Salvation
Army into the Volunteers of America.
Ira Remsen, PHI. D., Ii. D., profess
sor of chemistry in Johns Hopkins
University since 1876, has been elect
ed president of the University, sue
ceeding DIR. Daniel c. Gilman, re-
signed.
1t rs said that the British govern
ment has decided 10 introduce new
American labor saving machinery,
such as pneumatic drilling and -lvet-
ing machines, etc, at the Portsmouth
dock yards.
A New York Herald dispatch from
London says that General G. b. VIII
liams, who has been in Russia for
some time, emphatically denies the
reports that Russia is on the verge of
revolution.
EdOuard TaylOre, n French cyclist,
defeated Frank Caldwell of Hartford,
Connecticut, in n race at Philadelphia
on May Both. The Frenchman rode
twenty miles in Il little less than thir-
ty-seven minutes.
No proposal has been made TO the
State Department by the British gov
ernmCnt for the reassembling of the
Joint High Commission to settle ques-
tions i'll dispute between the United
States and Canada.
The business committee of the Ma
tional Suffrage Association will hold n
conference ut Buffalo, September 9th
and 10th, at which the leading feature
will be n symposium on some import
ant aspect of suffrage.
Texas, which enlisted only 1,965 sol
diers in the Union army during the
war, is now, more than thirty-five
years after it's close, the place of res
idencc of 500 pensioners II the pen
sion payments there are nearly S1,OOO,-
600.
II is reported that the revolution in
Santa Domingo has been completely
crushed ut its inception, II n mum
Der of the prominent rebels shot or
imprisoned. Among the latter is n son
of the late President HereauN, who is
said to have been the leader of the
movement.
The Westminster Gazette of London,
in commenting upon the Supreme
Court decision, says the United States
will now take her place with the lead
ing nations OF the world. In uphold
ing the imperialistic ideas OF the ad-
ministratiou the court has lone that
which will attract worldwide atten-
ton.
Governor Toolc Of Montana has par
doned Little Whirlwind, Il North Chey-
enne Indian who was serving n life
sentence in the pcnitentiary for COM
plicity in the murder of John II. HOov-
er, II shepherd in Custer county. five
years The asserted innocence of
this prisoner has created much inter
est In his fate.
MaXimitc. the new explosive Invent
ed by Hudson Maxim. has been
adopted by this country. after n series
of successful tests. 1t is said to be
more deadly In its character than lyd-
ditc, yet so safely can IL be handled
that the danger attached to its use IL
Less than that incurred in transporting
ordinary black powder.
Having conferred with many Of the
mos eminent Psychologists in tl,s
country rs TO the best methods of set
ting ON foot an original scientific re-.