, 1901-11-28
eREvITIEs.

and Venezuela.
Seven troops Of the Fifteenth cav
airy, now in he Department of
fornia. will sail for the Philippines
December 10th.
Forty thousand acres of land near
Navajo, Greer county, Oklahoma, were
sold Monday to n colony of Germans
of 1000 families.
An earthquake in Cantonbury dis
trict, New Zealand, has devastated the
township of CheyiOt. 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 n
popular subscription, have pledged n
fund for the erection of n 10000 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.
Iuring the late fog in England the
driver of n London omnibus was found
dead in his box while the vehicle was
still running. He was a 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.
in the canning building of the
ny packing establishment at Kan
hds .ty on the 18th instant damaged
th .iilding and stock to the amount
o 10000.
] ines J.. Jeffries, worlds champion
prize fighter. defeated Gus Rubin at
San Francisco on the 18th instant. The
match only lasted five rounds, when
Ruhlin's manager threw up the sponge.
Rumors are published in Japan that
the governor of North Kiang Slang,
province Of Korea, has given orders
that all foreigners living in the prov.
ince are TO be killed.
1.-THE Indian government" says n dis.
patch from Simla. has abolished the
sword for the cavalry, both British and
Indian, and a short rifle will be issued
to all mounted troops"
For 81, 900 the American Bridge
Company OF Philadelphia has secured
n contract for the construction OF
twenty steel bridges along the line OF
the Uganda railroad in East Africa.
The negotiations between the govern.
ments of the United States and Den
mark relative to the ccssion to the
United States of the Danish West
Indies have beer transferred to Wash
ington.
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 Tan-American congress at
Mexico City entertained their United
States and Mexican colleagues at Il
banquet. The full delegation of the
United States was present.
News from Hardin county. Texas,
confirms the report that II 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 n flash
of lightning as shown in n photograph
leads Professor L. C. Pickering. d.
rector of the Harvard observatory. to
believe that hydrogen is n compound
element, made up of at least three
compOnents.
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
nipht nthnr nations nf ,lI,,-t
Huntington interests have come to
the front with another big incOrpora-
ton. The Kern Power company, with
a capital of S5,oOO,OOO fully subscribed,
filed papers of Incorporation. 1t is pro
posed to obtain power on Kern river,
$50 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
1SiS. 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 rice and silk crops
have been unusually large and there
is Il stendy influx of gold as n result
OF the trade. Reports of the existence
Of Il financial panic are unfounded.
William Stone, chairman of the
pathological Society, at its recent
meeting in New York reported that Mt
the rate of progress made it was safe
10 predict that the feather dealers
would soon he driven to the wall, or
Mt least find 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 PROBES.
sor Macmillan Schucller of the Berlin
University, although the Investigations
were made Independently of each
other.
1t is said that Booker II. Washington,
when he visited Windsor castle during
Il trip to Europe, was entertained at
tea by Queen Victoria and while In
Paris attended n banquet which was
presided over by United States Ambas.
sador Porter, the late ex-Presldent
Harrison and Archbishop Ireland be-