, 1901-03-14
T~ELEoRAPHGc BREvIrIEs.

has been retired.
The Queen regent of Spain has
signed IL decree appointing Rear Adj
miral Cervera TO be u vice admiral.
Russia and other powers have ad-
dressed remonstrances to the Sultan of
Turkey against the Macedonian disor-
ders.
The Germans expect to nave an cleo
trio railway line between Berlin and
Hamburg with cars running every ten
minutes.
Roslyn Terrell, the murderer of Ex-
press Messenger Charles Lane, was
"el~ectrocuted" at Columbus, Ohio,
March LIST.
The fourth annual convention of the
Pacific Northwest Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION met at Pendleton, Oregon,
March 9Th.
While in Germany, King Edward
VII. visited the sanitarium for con-
sumptives at Cronberg and talked with
the patients.
1t is reported from Buenos Ayres
that according TO trustworthy data The
export of surplus maize will amount to
100000 tons.
An order has been issued by the War
Department placing General James H.
Wilson and General FitZhugh Lee on
the retired list.
The public library and high school
building at Grand Haven, Michigan,
has been destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of 100000.
Smallpox is reported from nearly ev-
rf,,v ,=AatF1t. ne t1A IN fV.fr and rnItnnl
measures have been taken in many
places to suppress 1t.
The influenza epidemic in Sweden is
becoming more severe. Prince Berna-
dotte, second sol of King Oscar, is
among the sufferers.
There is a bill before the Arizona
Legislature to put the great United
Verde mine and the camp OF jerome i'll
a county by themselves.
Alfred Drcyfus has returned to Paris
from Switzerland after having correct
ed the proof of the book he has COM
pleted, entitled Five Years of My
Life" dealing with his Imprisonment
on Devils island.
1T is believed the delay in payment of
the first installment on the cruiser or
dered by the Turkish government from
the Cramps of Philadelphia, is caused
solely by present poverty of the treas
ury, but will shortly be made.
Charles II. Yerkes, the street railway
magnate. has sold all his interests III
the Chicago elevated roads and is con-
centrating his energies and capital on
the four and one-half mile underground
road that he is constructing in London.
On the occasion of the Inauguration
ceremonies, Mrs. Mckinley wore Il
white satin gown and Mrs. Roosevelt
wore n white silk gown. Their respec-
tive husbands We're attired in their of
fetal dignity as well as some kind of
clothes.
Fifteen eX-insurgcnt leaders IL 800
followers have taken the oath of ale
glance to the United States ut COncep-
cion, island of Panay, and 200 more
promise soon to swear fealty. This
extinguishes the rebellion in that dis
trict.
An epidemic of smallpox among the
COcopah Indians south of Yuma, Ari-
IONA, is spreading rapidly. Over fifty
Indians are infected and four deaths
have occurred. The disease bids fair
to exterminate the tribe, which is fill
thy II degraded.
iOuT llOuSIIu I'VE HulluTtu llSuI-
gent prisoners have been held Mt Ma
Mia. The new prison on Grande is
land, in Subig bay, sixty miles west
of Manila, has been completed and
n thousand prisoners We're to be sent
there from Manila March eth.
The lower house of the Wisconsin
Legislature has passed Il bill providing
that on petition of ten per cent. of the
,ratn,.a .F nt,Nr atttT Tn tInt gtntA mn
franchise which may have been grant
ed by the City Council shall be sub
mitted to n vote of the people.
The founding of a great cooperative
agricultural colony of old soldiers,
which is expected to have Il member
ship of upwards of 21 900 and to oc-
cupy a large tract of land in Okla
homa, is the object of an organization
Mt Wabash, Indiana, recently incorpo-
rated.
BY n vote of 50 to 30 the lower house
of the Indiana Legislature adopted
the Neal joint resolution for n consti-
tutional amendment providing for
woman suffrage. The friends of the
measure say that they have made n
canvass of the Senate and are sure of
its adoption there.
The memorial to Queen Victoria sug-
gested by the committee of ministers
and former ministers and approved by
King Edward, is to be n monument,
the most prominent feature of which
will be n statue of the Queen, to be
erected neal Westminster Abbey or
Buckingham palace,
\ Phoenix dispatch says the first
trains have gone over the Morenci
Southern railroad, Il narrow gauge
winding about the mountains from the
great Morenci copper mines to Guth-
rie on the Arizona and New Mexico
line. The Morenci Southern is n mar
velous piece of engineering work.
All the Spanish military officers in
the Philippine islands have been or
deTcd, through the Spanish consul gen
eral mt Manila 20 return TO Spain. There
are probably seventy of these officers
who. ON account of business were per
mItted TO remain in the islands after
the Spanish troops were sent home.
Roobennu. the Berlin electrical cX-
pert. who is studying the applicability
go