The Meeker herald., 1901-05-04
TRLsoRAPHIc BRkvrrieo.


dscision to enlist Filipino soldiers.
The South African war is now cost
ing Great Britain 81. 1000 weekly.
President Mckinley has accepted tho
Invitation to visit st. Joseph. Missouri.
June 10th.
The Kansas Wholesale Egg Dealers
Association will ship 100 cars OF KAN
sas eggs to Cuba
The smallpox epidemic bids fair to
become general among the Indians OF
southeastern Alaska.
Bubonic plague has broken out In
the Australian insane asylum and At
Brisbane and Perth.
Prince Kropotkin, the Russian an
archist, Is proselyting in Chicago, as
sisted by Mrs. Lucy Parsons.
The Empress of Germany has made
donation OF 1000 marks to the Jew
ish invalid air fund of Berlin.
The Prussian crop report, Just is
sued, shows the worst condition since
these reports have been kept.
The Czar has signed q decree expell-
ing Count Leo Tolstoi from Russia
and the decree has been served.
The New York state tax rate for the
next fiscal year has been fixed at IL
mills, the lowest in forty years.
The annual return of recruiting for
the British army for 1900 shows a to-
tai enlistment of 0S,361 against AZ, 100
IN 1899.
Burglars have broken into the
Chilian museum of fine arts and stolen
ten of the finest paintings, costing
100000.
The continued drouth has produced
4 water famine throughout the 18TH
mus of Panama, especially among the
poorer classes.
The California State Medical Society
recently passed resolutions admitting
the existence Of the bubonic plague In
San Francisco.
The Council of State has decided to
submit to the Storthing a royal pro-
posal for extraordinary grants for the
defense Of Norway.
The consumption of nitrate Of soda
Chill saltpetre) reached a new record
in March, when the whole amount for
the world totaled 100000 quintals.
Thirteen thousand men will be Inn
mediately enlisted by the War Depart
ment to bring the artillery corps up to
Its authorized strength of 5000 men.
A copy of the Nome News Letter Of
January 10Th has been received at
Seattle. The weather at Nome was
mild, with prospectors en- route to the
hills.
Woolen Company, at Oswego, New
York, have been closed. Between 800
and 1900 men and women lose en-
ployment.
The st. Lawrence river Is to be
spanned by third bridge opposite
Montreal. The estimated cost is 3d.
OOO, 900 and the terminals will cost $4,-
100000 more.
A strike by the coal miners Of
France, planned to be general and In
clude all miners in the country, will
occur In June unless terms are agreed
upon before that.
Mexico has signed the convention of
the peace conference. China, Luxetn-
bourg and Turkey are now, the oaly
countries which have not signed the
peace convention. fsa
A New York banking house proposes
to purchase all the iron manufacturing
Industries In Ironton. Ohio, and Ash
land, Kentucky, and the iron railway
for about $3,OOO,O0O.
Alexander Agassiz Of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, has been elected pres
ident Of the National Academy OF Sci
ence. He succeeds DIR. Wolcott Gibbs
of New York, resigned.
A dispatch from Madrid to the Lon
don Daily Express says that the Ca
nary islands have been swept by cy-
clone, killing twelve persons and doing
great damage to property.
John P. Holland, inventor Of the sub
marine torpedo boat Holland, says
that in few years submarine ves-
sells will supplant surface craft for
short journeys on rough water
The Board of Classification Of the
United States General Appraisers at
New York holds the United States gov
ernment justified in imposing a coun-
tervailing duty on Russian sugar.
The Egyptian government, accord
ing to dispatch from Cairo, has
granted concession to an American
company to ply passenger boats be-
tween Khartoum and South Soudan.
Mount Vesuvius Is again In a state
of active eruption, and many people,
scientists, students and the curious,
including American tourists, are leav-
ing Paris by every train for Naples.
The itinerary Of the Presidents tour
Of the Pacific coast is now complete
and no further appeals for changes en-
route or stops will be considered. The
party will spend June I'd at Salt Lake.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
way has announced voluntary In
crease in shopmen's wages from 27 to
81 cents an hour, The working hours
were also Increased from eight to ten.
Frederick p. Fish will become presi.
dent of the American Bell Telephone
Company and Of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company July
1st. His salary will be 100000 a year.
The anti-scalpers' bill has passed
both branches OF the New York Leg. |
islature. 1t makes the buying and