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two yeQrs old.
Tho nopulatIon of Berlin, Germany,
,rcinding the suburbs. is 2.469.6Io' as
comnareei with 2O76,946 In 1879.
The electric trolley system is rapiu.y NY
dlsplacing the storage system on .ne
busiest streets of Berlin, Herlha'S'
CLYDE sbipbuflders recently placed OF
dars for 10000 tons of plates III ~ .he
United States at a saving OF Szoo'Voo.
The Klondike is strictly up to date.
s,x on,omobiIes have reached DaW-
.,an and will be used on run to tne
creeks.
ST Petersburg has been having
terrible siege of influenza, the oeu.ns %
for tho week before Christmas peins
the highest for a decade.
Tho keel of the new cup defender
hns been completed Mt the Hereshons
shons In Bristol. Rhode Island. Inc
casting weighs more than ninety tons.
The Frnnkfurter Zeitung says tne
Car, in his reply to MT. Nruse.
Marseilles telegram. announcing his 80, ~
rival in France, addressed 1t 10 Mr.
Kruger"
The Fourth district Republican leg
islators of Minnesota have ehdorseu
General Noses E. Clnpp for the sena.
torinl vacancy caused by the death Oh
Senator c. X. Davis.
The Legislative Council OF victoria
has. for the sixth time, re)ecteu the
woman's suffrage bill. 1t has also re-
tected proposal to submit the ques-
ton to referendum
Senator Jones of Arkansas, chair-
man Of the Democratic natlohal COM
mittee. says there is no foundation ZOE
the report that he contemplates resign
ing the Craftsmanship.
The Dowager Lady Churchill, SEN
ior lady of the bedchamber and an
intimate friend of Queen Victoria, was
found dead In her bedroom at U.s.
borne Christmas morning.
A Huntington, West Virginia, dis-
patch says that the Independent gass
combine recently, organized VIII on oii
January LIST advance the price on all
window glass fifteen per cent.
The Canadian Pacific will open
school In Winnipeg for the teaching
of shorthand and telegraph to its
Junior employees to enable them to
qualify for more important positions.
According to the figures Of the New
York assessor the heirs Of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt will pay $685.
600 in personal property taxes next
year. the property being valued ut
| Sf6,OOO,0OO.
Lord I.andsdowne, secretary OF state
for foreign affairs, has concluded ne
rotIations by which Russia will, on
January list. give Great Britain entire
control OF the railway from Pekln to
Shanghai Kwan.
Recorder Goff of New York sentenced
Henry Zeimer. one of the heads of a
fraudulent divorce bureau, TO ten years
in prison, and James Holden, alias
Frank Wilson. professional CORE
spondent, to three years.
Governor Allen Of Porto Rico cele-
brated the holiday season by extend
ing executive clemency to twenty-four
prisoners in Porto Rican jails. He
pardoned seventeen murderers and
homicities and seven thieves.
Germany can punish very rich man.
Sternberg, the millionaire banker, was
found guilty, mt Berlin, of unnameable
immoralities and sentenced to two and
one-half years imprisonment with loss
of citizenship for five years.
Richard A. Wise, congressman from
the South Virginia district, died sud
denly at Williamsburg December 21st
He had long been Il sufferer from
Bright's disease. He wns son Of the
late Governor Henry A. Wise.
The French senate adopted the
amendment to the amnesty bill by d
vote Of 81 to IL after nn eXhortatior
by the premier, NJ WnldeckR Rousseau
to vote the measure and deliver the
country from the nightmare of the
Dreyfus affair"
The Fox Pressed Steel Car Works
one OF the largest Industries In Joliet
Illinois, was nearly destroyed by fire
on December oath. 1t is thought nj
the costly machinery valued at 800.
600 Is ruined. The burned building
can be replaced for about $4,000.
Celestino Perza. formerly the secre
tary general of President Castro OF
Venezuela has revolted against the
Venezuelan government near Lozema
$500 Venezuelan troops under Gener
nj Arlstides Fandeo has been sem
against PerZa.
In pursuance OF a resolution passed
by the common council. the city clerI
Of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has sen
the following telegram to President
Kruger: 1--WE extend greetings ant
most urgently request you to visit oul
city and meet more than 10000 OF
your countrymen."
John d. Driscoll. better known a.
Dynamite" Driscoll, died Mt Boston
December "a, of cancer of the tongue
aged seventy years. He was a frient
| OF John Mitchell O'DOnoyan Rossa
Charles s. Parnell. Michael Davit
and all the prominent Irish patriot.
During the civil war he served In tn,
Ninth Massachusetts, volunteers.
We're Foster. who has been engaged
for the last fifty years in assisting tn.
emigration of nearly 25,OOO young
women from the congested districts Of
the west of Ireland, and in the build
ing or furnishing of over 2.2OO nationa
schools In every part of Ireland, diet
at Belfast. December 21st. He wa,
born in Copenhagen In 1919.
The State Department has requested
the Navy Department to have M
American vessel remain for time IL
Venezuelan waters to give support te
any representations that United State.
Minister Loomis may have to make the
Venezuelan government in respect t.
the conflicting asphalt concessions IL
that country.
Fifty thousand dollars in gold was
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