, 1901-11-21
@TgLgeRAPHrc eREvITIEs.

ApIh .iA'h re-
women to membership.
The Cuban Democratic party has
adopted General Bartolome Masso as
its candidate for the presidency OF
Cuba.
1t has been decided to hold a carnival
in Sydney. Nova Scotia, next summer
to include aquatic sports, rowing anu
yacht racing.
st. John Dix. who wrecked -four
banks in the state of Washington last
year, has been arrested in London ana
will be eXtradited.
King Edward has decided to have
the celebrated KOh-I-Noor diamond
mounted in the crown of Queen Alex
andra for the coronation.
Laying the keel blocks for the CON
structiOn of n new fighting cruiser FOR
the Turkish government has been ne
gun at Cramps %shipyard.
President Roosevelt, who has been
looking for n new team, is opposed TO
docking the tails of horses and will not
consider any offers of bangtailed ami
mails.
All the German naval officers are re-
cciving instructions in wireless teleg'
raphy. and all ships of the German
navy will be equipped with wireless
apparatus.
Six thousand dollars has been given
Charles o. Baird of Philadelphia, the
income of which is to be used toward
prizes for OratOry in the senior class at
Princeton.
A ConstantinOple dispatch says that
n severe earthquake occurred on the
9th instant at Erzeroum. Many houses
were destroyed and the inhabitants
sought safety in the open.
The Commercial Pacific Gable Com
pany. recently Incorporated to operate
n cable line between this country ana
the Philippines, has Increased its cap
ital from 100000 to S3,O0O,OtO.
Mother Bickcrdyke of army fame
died at Bunker Hill, Kansas, Novem-
Der Sth, at the age of eighty-four years.
Her work among the Union soldiers
during the war is well known.
A dispatch to the Herald from Paris
says: The municipal council of st.
Cloud has decided to give the name of
Suntos-Dumont TO a street leading TO
the balloon park in ST. Cloud.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to pro-
vide a $4,000 building for the Wood
llDIHTN OF 'iluIludlSu h' .NtN iOlh' bh
condition that the municipality shall
guarantee $1,000 annually for its sup
port.
A deal is about to be contaminated
by which all the leading fruit canning
establishments of California outside of
the California Fruit Gamers Associa-
ton will pass into the hands of an
eastern syndicate.
The entire system of the Market
Street Railway Company ut San Fran
cisco has practically been sold to Il
Baltimore syndicate, which has for
several months been negotiating for its
purchase, for S2G,oOO,OOO.
Resolutions strongly protesting
against the ratification of the reciprOc-
ity treaties which will come before
Congress mt its approaching session,
have been adopted by the Southern
California Fruit Exchange.
There is now n bill pending in the
French chamber of deputies providing
for II graduated tax upon unmarried
persons, increasing rapidly in amoun
upon both women and men between
twcnty-one and forty years of age.
Berlin advices state that ground was
broken for the new American church
ph Allt DlI inst ~ lilEt tIONu VI
Americans We're present. The United
States ambassador, Andrew ID. White,
will lay the corner stone Thanksgiving
Day.
Paul Revere. vice president and gen.
eral of the Sons of the American Rev
olution, died ON the 10th instant at
Morrlstown. New Jersey, aged 10 years.
He was n son of General Joseph War
rem Revere. who fought in the Semi
mole and Civil wars, and Il great grand
son of Paul Revere Of Revolutionary
fame.
Andrew Carnegie has given twenty
three employees of the Edgar Thomson
steel works at the Braddock plant of
the Carnegie company enough five per
cent. bonds of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany to mnke the interest just equal
their salaries. The total amount of
bonds distributed is said to he about
81, 100.
AT n reception of British pilgrims re
Gently. the Pope forbade the reading
of their address publicly. because IT eX-
pressed "A hope for the restoration of
the temporal power of the pOntiff. and
his holiness did not desire II renewal of
the trouble caused by the Duke of Nor
folk ON the occasion of the previous pill
grimage.
The National Prison Association at
its recent meeting in Kansas City
passed resolutions urging upon Con-
Gress the adoption of II general parole
law and an indeterminate sentence
law for the benefit of fedora prison.
ers. The next meeting of the ~associa-
tiun will be held ut Philadelphia in Oc-
tUbcT, 1902.
Charles Miller and Mrs. y. c. Collins,
alias Grace Arnold, alias Grace ALI
son, formerly of Cleveland, st. Louis
and san Francisco, convicted of hav-
ing used the mails to defraud in con-
Quoting a matrimonial bureau. have
been sentenced to II year and II day in
prison by the United States Court at
Kansas city.
Taual n-.N