, 1901-01-31
rELEoRAPHlc BREvITIEs.

The French council of state has re
jected Count Esterhazy's appeal
against the decree cashiering him
from the army.
Kansas has elected j. II. Burton
Senator to succeed Lucien Baker.
Senator w. j. Sewell of New Jer-
sey, has been reelected.
The first grandson of President DIaz
of Mexico was born IN the seven
tenth inst. The father is Captain
Diaz of the Mexican army.
President Gruger is said to have no
intention of coming TO America mt pres
ent, though pressed with invitations.
He may consider the subject later.
Terrific snow storms have been rag
ing on the South Alaskan coast, and
the White Pass " Yukon railway has
been blockaded for several days.
The bill to amend the constitution
of Nevada to permit the licensing of
a lottery company has been defeated
by the Legislature at Carson City.
The state entry of Queen Wilhelmina
and the future prince consort, Duke
Henry of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. into
Amsterdam, has been liked for March
9th.
TIT oil from the big Texas well re-
Gently sunk at Beaumont, will be
piped to Port Arthur and stored there
in tanks. Thence 1t will be shipped
in tank steamers.
Recent sales of real estate in Gal
weston show that current property
values are held at only about one-half
the hgurcs prevailing prior to the
storm.
A cable dispatch from Constantin-
ople, announces the death on January
nth of Rev. DIR. Elias Riggs, the old
est missionary of the board, aged
ninety.
Hon. +. NJ. Simmons, chairman of
the state democratic committee, has
been elected United States Senator
for North Carolina TO succeed Marion
Butler.
The jury in the Jennie Bosschieter
murder case at Paterson, New Jersey.
returned IL verdict of murder in the
secon degree. This means life impris-
onment.
A party of siXty-five Portuguese ar
rived mt Il Francisco from Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island and sailed.
on the Xealandia for Honolulu, n few
days ago.
Minnesota has reelected Knute Mel
Sol to the United States enate for
the full term II Moses f.. Clapp to
succeed Cushman X. Davis for the
short term.
y royal commission, under the presi-
dency of Lord Kelvin, has been ap-
pointed in England to investigate the
recent widespread outbreak of arsen-
ical beer poisoning,
At Montreal G.. +. Little undertook
TO throw Louis Cyr, the Canadian
strong man, GraccO-tO.nan style in
twenty minutes. He accomplished
the task in our minutes. Cyr weighed
$40 and Little 100.
Dispatches from various cities in the
South tell of the general observance
of General Robert Il. Lees birthday,
January 18th, by closing of state and
city offices, banks and stores, parades
and public meetings.
y Brussels paper has received in
formation that bubOnic plague is rag
ing among the British troops at Cape
Colony, II many deaths that are at
tributed to enteric fever and dysen-
terry are really due to plague.
Samuel H.. Warwick. aged seventy,
inventor Oh ii oot peel' NV Mnose
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tho hosni,oI ntt,chol 90 tha aims ho,sa
in pbiIadcInhia 81 faw DAYS ago
Some of the students of the Stanford
University are as bigoted as the man
agement. They seized C.. ID. Montgom-
cry, n Junior from Kansas, VINO hhd
srI.lclsea me ncLo h ot tesiueh' u
uah' anu 'hie" MN in'o i"N''
Andrew Cornepie has notified the
manogers of thn Goshen Ind library
ossori,tion th,+ ho viii donate S15.
600 toward tho buiIding of n library
hni,dinr i'm that CITY Goshen is the
smallest CITY he has ever assisted.
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