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It ID said that the forthcoming mes
sage of President Roosevelt will be
long and vigorous in tone.
Copenhagen dispatches indicate thai
the purchase of the Danish West m
dies by the United States will soon be
completed
The Colombian government has ac.
cepted the proffered mediation OF chill
to settle the troubles between Colombia
and Venezuela.
Seven troops of the Fifteenth cav
airy, now in the Department OF Call
fornia, will sail for the Philippines
December 10th.
Forty thousand acres of land near
Navajo, Greer county, Oklahoma, were
sold Monday to a colony of Germans
of 1000 families.
An earthquake in Canterbury dis
trict, New Zealand, has devastated the
township OF Cheviot Many people
have been injured.
According to the Petit Bieu of Brus-
sells, the wife and family of former
President Steyn have been deported
from South Africa.
Citizens of Oskaloosa, Iowa, by q
popular subscription, have pledged a
fund for the erection OF $4,000 build
ing for the Y. NJ. G. a.
Spain is having serious trouble with
students in Madrid and other large cit
les. 1t is announced that the govern
ment will adopt severe measures.
During the late fog III England the
driver of London omnibus was found
dead in his box while the vehicle was
still running. He was victim Of cold
fog.
1t is announced at oyster Bay, Long
Island, that President Roosevelt and
family will occupy their country villa
on Sycamore hill at oyster Bay next
summer.
Fire in the canning building Of the
Cudahy packing establishment at Kan
sas City on the 18th instant damaged
the building and stock to the amount
of $15O,OOO.
Rumors are published in Japan that
the governor of North kiang Sinng,
province Of Korea, has given orders
that all foreigners living in the prov.
ince are to be killed.
1.-The Indian government" says dis
patch from Simia, has abolished the
sword for the cavalry, both British and
Indian, and a short rifle will be issued
to all mounted troops"
An advance of twenty per cent in
the prices Of leather betting was agreed
upon by the Leather Betting Manufac-
turers' Association at it's fifteenth an
nual meeting In New York.
For 100000 the American Bridge
Company of Philadelphia has secured
a contract for the construction of
twenty steel bridges along the line Of
the Uganda railroad in East Africa.
Argument was closed November 18th
in the Federal Supreme Court In the
case of the United States VS.. the Rio
Grande Irrigation Company, the Ele-
phant Butte dam controversy, and the
decision was reserved.
The delegation OF the Argentine Re-
public to the Pan-American congress at
Mexico City entertained their United
States and Mexican colleagues at
banquet. The full delegation of the
United States was present.
News from Hardin county. Texas.
confirms the report that well of al
most pure lubricating oil has been
brought In that flows $50 barrels of oil
per day. The new well is about thirty
miles northwest of Beaumont.
Inspection Of the spectrum of flash
Of lightning as shown in n photograph
leads Professor Il. G. Pickering, di-
rector of the Harvard observatory, to
believe that hydrogen Is n compound
element, made up Of ut least three
compOnents.
Captain Berniex Of Quebec is plann-
ming an expedition to the North Pole.
He will take with him large kites fit
ted with cameras. These will enable
him, even II he falls to get to the Pole
to take photographs Of many points
which he cannot reach.
The numerous grievances of Austria
Hungary against Turkey have been
settled by the agreement of the porte
to pay 10000 francs to the Armenian
victims and by adjusting, financially
and otherwise, the wrongs arising from
eight other matters of dispute.
Huntington interests have come to
the front with another big incorpora-
ton. The Kern Power company, with
q capital Of $1,000, 900 fully subscribed,
filed papers Of Incorporation. 1t Is pro-
posed to obtain power on Kern river,
100 miles north of Los Angeles.
Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse,
the widow of Professor Samuel f. b.
Morse, the inventor OF the telegraph,
died In Berlin, Germany, on the 14th
inst She was Professor Morse's sec
ond wife and was married to him In
1S4S. She was born in 1922
The japanese minister at Washing
ton says that his country has enjoyed
one of the most prosperous years in
Its history. The ri0 and silk crops
have been unusually large and there
is a steady Influx Of gold as result
Of the trade. Reports of the existence
of financial panic are unfounded.
William Stone, chairman Of the
OrnithOlogical Society, at its recent
meeting In New York reported that at
the rate Of progress made 1t was safe
to predict that the feather dealers
would soon be driven to the wall, or
at least flnd their business much re-
stricted.
A Berlin dispatch says that the can
Ger Investigations made by Professor
Roswell Park OF the University of Buff
falo have given results in every way
identical with those secured by Profes-
sor Macmillan Schueller of the Berlin
University, although the Investigations
were made independently Of each
other.
It Is said that Booker T. Washington,