North Park union., 1901-05-10
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| TElEoRApHic 0RgvlTiE&
rhs National Congress of Mothers
will naest in Columbus. Ohio. Nay zlst
10 34th.
| Adelbert Hay. son Of the secretary
Of state, has resigned as United States
consul general at Pretoria.
Charles Moore, q well-known stock
man and brother of Mrs. Carrie Ma
tion, died at LewisburG. Kansas. April
9th.
Twenty or more persons are report
cd to have been killed by snowslide
at Sunrise City. Alaska.
Venezuela has apologized for the ar
rest of United States Consular Agent
Baiz and the incident is closed.
D. ID. Thompson, the new editor of
at Chicago, Is layman. He had been
associate editor OF the Advocate for
I some time.
| The War Department is making ef-
forts to have the reorganixed standing
army fully ofdcered and equipped and
enlisted to the strength Of $4,000 by
August 1st.
An American concern has secured
the contract for mill locomotives re-
Gently ordered by the Calcutta port
pean competition.
1t is reported that an immense vol
ume Of counterfeit silver dollars has
been circulated among the boomers
on the border of the Kiowa and Co
manche country, in Oklahoma.
One of the last acts of the President
before leaving the White House on his
tour was the signing Of the commits
sion of Mr.. Pruden. one Of his assist
ant secretaries as a major and pay
master.
The position OF general superintend-
ent of normal schools for the Philip
pines, at a salary OF $4,000 a year. has
been offered to Elmer Burrett Bryan.
professor Of philosophy and pedagogy
at Indiana.
Carrie Henderson, 103 years old.
who went to Montana with the first
rush for gold, is dying at Helena. She
worked as slave with Fred Douglass
in the South before the Civil War and
at one time had fortune.
The Abbott woman suffrage bill.
granting women the right to vote in
township elections, was killed in the
lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture. the enacting clause being strick-
en- out by a viva voce vote.
Stephen A. Weltmer and Joseph H.
Kelly, former president and secretary
of the Weltmer Institute of Magnetic
Healing at Nevada, Missouri, who
pleaded guilty to using the mails to
defraud, were each fined $1,000.
Chicago manufacturers of clothing.
representing an aggregate capital OF
from $15,OOO,OvU to $20.000.000, met
April 25th and decided to form an as
ISOLATION which will combine with
similar bodies throughout the United
States.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora. Mis-
souri,, caved in Friday and buried five
men at a depth of ITO feet. 1t may be
a month before the men can be
reached. They are Grant and VIII.
Shane. Elmer Bigler. John Gillian and
Feester.
The new comet observed at the
Yerkes observatory April eth is said
by the astronomers to be the bright
est that has appeared for nineteen
years. 1t was discovered at Queens
town, April 23rd. and observed at
| Cape of Good Hope April 25th.
An oil gusher was struck April 30th
at Sulphur, Louisiana, forty-five miles
east of Beaumont. Texas. on the
, Southern Pacific railway. The oil ia
heavy and black in appearance. and
when 1t broke loose 1t went to tho top
OF the derrick, sixty feet high.
The United States Court of Appeals
at st. Louis has decided that the fact
that an employe remains in the en-
ploy of company when he we'll knows
that a risk is assumed by SO doing.
does not relieve the employer OF the
responsibility II accidents occur.
The NTH International convention
Of the Epwkrth League Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church will be held at
| San Francisco July 18th to 2lst
Bishops Warren and Cranston will be
among the speakers and music will be
! provided by a trained chorus Of 1000
voices.
Suit has been instituted against the
| Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company for $25O,0O0 damages by
! forty-four claimants alleged to have
been injured In the wreck at Depere.
| Wisconsin, June gath last year. All
are residents of Oshkosh, Menasha
and Fon du Lac.
The figures OF the treasury bureau
of statistics indicate that the coal ex-
ports of the fiscal year. which ends
June goth. will amount to about S,000,-
900 tons, as against less than 100000
tons In 1890, 3.772.192 tons In 1895 and
7188,648 tons in 1900. These figures
are exceeded only by England and
Germany.
At a meeting held in New York
April 3Oth an agreement was reached
which will bring the greatest ship
building concerns Of this country
under one management. H. E. Hunt
ington is said to be the president. and
l. NJ. Scott, president of the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco. will be
vice president.
The California Supreme Court has
declared the trust clause in the will
Of the late James G. Fair invalid. 1t
left SIS 100000 In trust, the proceeds
to go to his heirs, but the principal to
be kept out of their hands. The estate
I will now be divided among Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs, Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt
/ and Charles Fair.
Professor Elwood Mead, irrigation
expert of the Agricultural Depart
ment. has gone to Harvard University
NJ.