The Globe-republican., 1901-02-28
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

A Wabash meat train piled up in a
heap at Dewitt, Missouri.
Washington's birthday was elabor-
ate1y celebrated in Manila
Ex-U- j. Senator Stephen White died
at his home in Los Angeles, February
%.
Some of the railroads in Russia have
been blockaded by snow for several
days
General Wade will sail from San
Francisco ON March l. for the Philip
pines.
The rate of discount of the Bank of
England has been reduced from = to
per cent.
The collection from licenses in Man
lila said to amount to $500. 900 in
gold n year
London will expend $3.50. 600 in pre-
cautionary measures against the bu-
bonic plague.
A find of $500 worth of gold has
been made in a single pocket about
IT'S miles from Manila
General 5. B. NJ Young is to succeed
General Shafter in command of the
department of California
J. p Morgan has furnished 10000
900 to be used in establishing an cleo
trio railway in the suburbs of London.
Washington's birthday was com
memorated throughout the United
States to a greater extent than usual
There is unusual demand for To-
cemotive engineers and the Santa Fe
has promoted large number of fire.
men,
An Irish member of parliament was
suppressed by the speaker when he
attempted to address the house of com
mons in Irish
John S. Hopkins University, of Balti-
more, held a double anniversary cele-
bration; Washington's birthday and
| the 25th anniversary of its found
| ing.
Eight suits are begun in the u *
| district court in San Francisco. against
| the Union Iron Works, by the
| tary of the local labor council. The
suits are each for 81 900.
| During the past year 3,s93 women
| have been admitted into the Society of
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. The society now assists in the
| support of 500 members.
| Typewriting can now be done in any
| language, by the use of Inexpensive
| attachments which be used on any
| m>chine- y student in New York
| infented the attachment and he is now
| making good pay in filing orders in
| Greek, Hebrew and German
Street railway conductors in Chicago
| are prohibited from carrying an onion
| breath while on duty, with "a penalty
| OF discharge.
| Emperor William has sent titled
| chicken fancier to this country to
| study our fowls. When he returned
he took a UNI Der of American breeds
| of chickens.
q Ian
| ton calling a special session of the
| senate for executive purposes imInt-
diately upon the dissolution OF the
present congress
| George d. Gear has been nominated
by the president second judge of the
circuit court of the First district OF
| Hawaii.
There has been an arrangement with
Turkey whereby farming implements
are imported into Turkey free of duty
This has now been extended for anoth-
er ten years
! 1.-TWO special Frisco trains took
| eighteen coaches full of soldiers across
the country from jefferson barracks
near ST. Louis They will leave tie
Pa@ &c coast for the Orient.
Major o. q. Gum is dead Every
body who lived in Kansas during its
| frst improvement era knew Major
| Gum as he was connected with the
| construction of many railroads as ..
civil engineer
Judge David j. Brewer, in his LEG
ture in the Yale course, in New Haven
said that s.spasmodic virtue is the
| poorest that any one can have. 1t is
| next door to Intentional vice He
fears that the reaction in Kansas viii
result in worse conditions than now
] exist