The state herald., 1901-05-10
TeleoaApH,c sRgvlrlEs.

ton, died at Lewisburg, Kansas, April
9th.
Twenty or more persons are report
ed to have been killed by snowslide
at Sunrise City, Alaska.
Venezuela has apologized for the ar.
rest Of United States Consular Agent
Baix and the incident Is closed.
D. D. Thompson. the new editor of
the Northwestern Christian Advocate
at Chicago. is a layman. He had been
associate editor OF the Advocate for
some time.
The War Department is making ef.
forts to have the reorganized standing
army fully officered and equipped and
enlisted to the strength of $4,000 by
August LIST.
An American concern has secured
the contract for mill locomotives re-
Gently ordered by the Calcutta port
commissioners. despite active Euro
pean competition.
It 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 major and pay
master.
The position of general superintend-
ent Of normal schools for the Philip
pines, at a salary Of $1,000 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 cne time had fortune.
The Abbott woman suffrage bill.
granting women the right to vote in
lower house Of the Illinois Legisla-
ture. the enacting clause being strick-
en- out by 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 $500.
Chicago manufacturers of clothing.
representing an aggregate capital of
from $15,000,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 depth of 110 feet. It may be
a month before the men can be
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. II 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-fve miles
east OF Beaumont. Texas. on the
Southern Pacific railway. The oil is
heavy and black In appearance. and
when 1t broke loose It went to the 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 well knows
that a risk is assumed by SO doing.
does not relieve the employer OF the
responsibility II accidents occur.
The fifth international convention
OF the Epworth League OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church will be held ut
San Francisco July 18th to 2lst.
Bishops Warren and Cranston will be
among the speakers and music will be
provided by q trained chorus OF 1000
voices.
Suit has been instituted against the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company for 1250,000 damages by
forty.four claimants alleged to have
been injured In the wreck ut Depere.
Wisconsin, June 24th last year. All
are residents OF Oshkosh. Mcnasha
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 30th, will amount to about s.000.-
uuu IONS. IN uEuluht ltnH hunh ssvvvsVSv
tons In 1890. 3.772.19. tons In 1895 and
7.lss.6is tons In 1900. These figures
are exceeded only by England and
Germany.
At q meeting held In New York
April 30th an agreement was reached
which will bring the greatest ship.
building concerns OF this country
under one management. II. +. Hunt
inSton is said to be the president. and
I. N. Scott, president OF the Union
Iron Works Mt San Francisco. will be
vice president
Tho California Supreme Court has
declared the trust clause In the will
Of the late James q. Fair invalid. II
left Si5.0o0.00 In trust. the proceeds
TO 10 to his heirs. but the principal TO
bc kept out OF their hands. The estate
will now be divided among Mrs. Her
man Oclrichs. Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt
and Charles Fair.
Professor Elwood Mead. Irrigation
expert OF the Agricultural Depart
ment. has gone TO Harvard University
TO deliver a course OF fifteen lectures
upon irrigation Engineering" Ho
will deliver lectures on tho same rub.
jcct at Columbia University and be.
fore tho annual meeting Of tho Society
for Promotion OF Engineering Expert.
mcnts ut Buffalo.
Mrs. Nations visit TO Kansas City
three weeks ago and her harsh treat.
mcnt nt tho hands OF tho police has