North Park union., 1901-12-13
T1IEoRApHIc sREvirlEs.

England December bru.
The socialist position against the
German tariff bill has received nearly
100000 signatures.
A battalion of the Second regiment OF
cavalry will be brought from Cuba
about January 18th.
The number of students in the 1l9
regular medical schools Of the United
States in 1900 was 1.O70 females and
21,673 males.
The decline In the value of British
securities since the beginning of the
Boer war is estimated at more than
a billion dollars.
The German minister to Venezuela
recommends to his government that
eight warships be sent there to collect
the German claims.
The Cape to Cairo line Of the African
Transcontinental Telegraph Company
has been constructed us far as Bis
marckburg, Togoland.
The ferry boats. San Rafael and
Sansalito collided in the bay ut San
Francisco on the night Of November
Goth, and twenty lives were lost.
The big battleship Illinois, sent to
test the New Orleans 1onting dock,
passed safely and easily through the
jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi.
A London dispatch says the report
cabled to the United States TINT Flor
ence Nightingale was near death was
unfounded. Florence Nightingale is
well.
Announcement is made that the SEN
tence of communication against
Father Jeremiah ]. Crowley Of Chi
m m rvn,,I1 Iro rocoIInd within n few
days.
]. 8. Andrews, who pre-empted
claim within the present limits of
sas, December 3rd, aged eighty-fOur
years.
Maria Luisa, a negress. 160 years old,
died last month at Rio Janelro, Brazil.
She was the last representative Of the
slaves who were imported directly
from Africa.
Edward John Eyre, who was gov
ernor of Jamaica and its dependencies.
1S62-66, and who put down the mutiny
of the negroes there, Is dead. He was
born in 1915.
Sousa and his band played by royal
command on the night Of December
1st at Sandringham before their majes-
ties, King Edward and Queen Alexan-
dria and the royal family.
Purdue College of Lafayette, Indi-
ana, received as n Thanksgiving pres
ent 10000 from Mrs. Eliza Fowler, to
be expended for the erection and
equipment of m assembly hall.
Kansas Is experiencing Its second
water famine for this year. Water
works companies say that the situa-
ton, as far as the water supply is con-
cerned, Is as serious as last summer
Latest reports Indicate that probably
only three lives were lost In the ferry
boat collision at San Francisco. De
cember 1st. 1t was Mt first thought
that as many MS twenty were drowned.
1t is officially stated at the Hague
that the story reproduced In the Lon
don News from the Vaamsche Ga
zette about Queen Wllhelmina quar-
reling with the prince consort Is un.
true.
The Peruvian minister. Senor Osman,
and the Bolivian minister of foreign
affairs have signed protocol submit
ting to arbitration the pending ques-
tions between their respective coun-
tries.
For the first time a Russian univer-
sity has this time placed Tolstoi's
works In its curriculum. A special
seminary for the study Of his writ
ings and teachings has been opened at
Kieff.
The statistician Of the Department Of
Agriculture reports 9,674.OOO bales as
the probable cotton production of the
United States in 19O1-O2. This was
about 100000 bales less than trade
estimates.
William Alexander Selkirk, n Cali
fornia pioneer Of 1850. and for nearly
half century prominent figure In
the newspaper and political world of
the Pacific coast, died at Seattle, De-
cember LIST.
An important archaeological discov-
cry Is announced from VologOda,
where a skeleton, declared to be hui
man, has been found with the unpre-
cedented length Of 4.70 arshines, or
over eleven feet.
John Heinrich, who pleaded guilty
to the charge Of picking the pockets Of
members Of the late President McKin-
ley's party during their visit to Los
Angeles last May. was given three
years In San Quentin prison.
In n recent fast run to make up time
between Chicago and Cleveland, the
Lake Shore train carrying the Aus
tralian mail made eighty miles m hour
for part of the distance and averaged
fifty-five miles including stops.
The German Colonial Council has
decided that while the emancipation of
the children of slaves might be prac-
ticable In Togoland and the Camerons,
the time had not arrived to declare
them free in German East Africa.
The estimates for Germany's expen-
ditures In China for 1902 are $9SOO,-
600, as against $3OO0O,OOO expended in
1901. Pensions for widows and or
phans resulting from the China expe-
dition amount to $122,O annually.
The Illinois Appellate Court has re-
versed the decree entered n year ago
by which the Chicago Board Of Trade
was enjoined from interfering with the
service of the Central Stock and Grain
Exchange in receiving market reports.
There was to have been an open
meeting of anarchists In London to
celebrate the fourteenth anniversary
of the execution of the Chicago an
archists, but the police ordered the
owner of the hall to cancel the con-
tract.
1t is expected that Parliament will