North Park union., 1901-03-15
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General A. 8. Daggett, recently ap-
| pointed brigadier general OF the army,
has been. retired.
The Queen regent Of Spain has
signed a decree appointing Rear Ad-
miral Cervera to be vice admiral.
Russia and other. powers have ad-
dressed remonsttances to the Sultnn Of
Turkey against the Macedonian disor-
ders.
The Germans expect to have m elec-
trio railway line between Berlin and
Hamburg with ears running every ten
minutes.
Roslyn Ferrell, the murderer Of Ex-
press Messenger Charles Lane, WAS
"electrocuted" at Columbus, Ohio,
March LIST. se
The fourth annual convention of the
Pacific Northwest Wool Growers As
sociation met at Pendleton, Oregon,
March 9th.
While in Germany, King Edward
VII. visited the sanitarium for con-
sumptives Mt Cronberg and talked with
the patients.
It Is reported from Buenos Ayres
that according to trustworthy data the
export of surplus maize will amount to
1900 900 tons.
An order has been issued by the War
Department placing General James II.
Wilson and General Fitzhugh Lee on
the retired list.
The public library and high school
building ut Grand Haven, Michigan.
has been destroyed by fire, entailing
loss of 100000.
Smallpox is reported from nearly ev-
cry section of the country and radical
measures have been taken in many
places to suppress 1t.
The influenza epidemic In Sweden is
becoming more severe. Prince Berna-
dotte, second son of King Oscar, Is
among the sufferers.
There is n bill before the Arizona
Legislature to put the great United
Verde mine and the camp Of Jerome In
county by themselves.
Alfred Dreyfus has returned to Paris
from Switzerland after having correct
ed the proof OF the book he has COM
pleted, entitled "Five Years of My
Life" dealing with his Imprisonment
on Devils island.
1t IS DelleSCu Ill pay Iucul VI
the first installment on the cruiser Or
dcred by the Turkish government from
the Cramps OF Philadelphia, is caused
solely by present poverty Of the treas
ury, but will shortly be made.
Charles T. Yerkes, the street railway
magnatc, has sold NIL his interests In
the Chicago elevated roads and Is con-
centrating his energies and capital on
the four and one half mile underground
road that he is constructing in London.
On the occasion Of the Inauguration
| ceremonies, Mrs. Mckinley wore Il
white satin gown and Mrs. Roosevelt
wore n white silk gown. Their respcc-
tive husbands were attired In their of
fetal dignity as well as some kind of
clothes.
Fifteen ex-insurgent leaders and 500
followers have taken the oath of allie
glance to the United States ut Concep-
clon. island of Panny. and 200 more
promise soon to swear fcalty. This
extinguishes the rebellion in that dis
uict.
An epidemic of smallpox among the
Cocopah Indians south of iumn, Ari-
zona, is spreading. rapidly. over fifty
Indians are infected and four deaths
HslNt pNio iuit
/ to exterminate the tribe, which is I'LL
thy and degraded.
-Four thousand five hundred insur-
gent prisoners have been held at Ma
nila. The new prison on Grande is
land, in Subig bay, sixty miles west
of Manila, has been completed and
n thousand prisoners We're TO be sent
there from Manila March 18th. +,
The lower house of the Wisconsin
Legislature has passed bill providing
that on petition of ten per cent. of the
voters of any city in that state any
franchise which may have been grant
ed by the City Council shall be sub
mitted to vote Of the people.
The founding of great cooperative
agricultural colony of old soldiers,
which is expected to have member
shin of upwards of 21,OOO and to oc-
cupy n large tract of land in Okla
homa, is the object of an organization
mt Wabash, Indiana, recently lncOrpo-
rated.
By vote of 50 to 3j the lower house
of the Indiana Legislature adopted
the Neal Joint resolution for consti-
tutional amendment providing for
woman suffrage. The friends of the
measure say that they have made n
canvass of the Senate and are sure of
its adoption there.
The memorial to Queen Victoria sug-
gestcd by the committee Of ministers
and former ministers and approved by
King Edward, Is to be n monument,
the most prominent feature OF which
will be a statue of the Queen, to be
erected near Westminster Abbey or
Buckingham palace.
A Phoenix dispatch says the first
trains have gone over the Morenci
Southern railroad narrow gauge
winding about the mountains from the
great Morenci copper mines to Guth-
rie on the Arizona and New Mexico
line. The Morenci Southern Is n mar
yelous piece of engineering work.
All the Spanish military officers in
the Philippine Islands have been or
dered, through the Spanish consul gen.
eral at Manila to return to Spain. There
are probably seventy of these officers
who, on account of business were per-
mitted to remain in the islands after
the Spanish troops We're sent home.
Roobenau, the Berlin electrical ex-
pert, who Is studying the applicability
of electric traction to the Trans-Slber
ian railroad. declares that within ten
years we will be able to go around the
world in twenty-five days.