The Delta independent., 1901-06-14
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General Greely Is on MS way 10 tn0
Philippines.
Viscount Katsura of Japan has
formed a new cabinet
Queen Helena of Italy gave birth
to a daughter June 1st
England is arranging to send a draft
of BOer prisoners to Barbados.
The Forty-fifth infantry was mus
tered out at San Francisco on the 4th
instant.
Turkey has made the first payment
on the cruiser ordered from the
Cramps.
The United Presbyterian General
Assembly adjourned to meet In Pitts
burg in 1902.
The Forty-sixth infantry, United
States volunteers, has been mustered
out of service.
The Treasury Department will send
three immigrant inspectors to Porto
Rico for permanent duty.
The proposed consolidation of lead
ing Grand Rapids furniture factories
has practically fallen through.
A combine of eastern and western
shovel makers is being formed which
! will be capitalized at S10,OO0,OOO.
The American Shirt and Collar Com
pany, capital S2O,OOO,OOO. has absorbed
! eight OF the largest plants in the coun-
try.
The Michigan Legislature, after hav-
ing been in continuous session since
January 1st, voted to adjourn June
9Th.
The Dowager Duchess Of New Cas-
tie, mother of the present duke and
Lord Francis Hope, is about to become
| a nun.
| The Indian population Of Canada
was 5000 in 1900 according to the
report of the Department of Indian
Affairs.
| The butchers Of New York have an
nounced an increase in the price OF
meats, varying from one-half to three
cents per pound.
p. II. Ashmead Of Lehigh, Pennsyl-
vania, who recently returned from
Ecuador. advises young Americans 10
| go to that country.
| The London Mail says King Ed
ward has declined to reduce his eccle-
siastical establishment from thirty-six
paid chaplains to twelve.
Arbuckle Brothers have advanced
! all grades or refined sugar ten points
This is still five points under the prices
Of the American Refining Company.
The Grant Memorial Commission has
issued pamphlet inviting the compe-
tition OF architects for models. The
statue or memorial will cost S24O,OOO.
The American Telegraph and Teie-
phona Company, at meeting Of stock
holders voted to increase its capital
stock from $1OO.OOO,OOO to S15OO0O,OOO.
Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
|
May 27th, and by request sang for her
friends her famous Battle Hymn OF
the Republic"
There were 574 lady patentees out
of $4,000 applicants at the British
patent offices during the past year, and
the inventions of these women proved
most successful.
Action has been instituted by Sir
Charles Sutherland TO set aside the
purchase of Skibo castle by Andrew
Carnegie. hTe castle was bought by
Mr.. Carnegie. two years ago.
Germany. in the opinion Of the Vos-
sische Zeitung. will need to import 5O,-
100000 bushels more wheat and 2o,-
OOO,OOO bushels more rye this year
than last, owing to ruined harvests
Ballipgton Booth and Booth-Tucker
deny that there is any prospect OF
General Booth and his son reaching an
agreement and merging the salvation
Army into the Volunteers Of America
Ira Remsen. Phi. D., LII. D., profes-
sor of chemistry in Johns Hopkins
University since 1876, has been elect
ed president Of the University. sue
ceeding DR.. Daniel C. Gilman, re-
signed.
1t Ks said that the British govern
ment has decided 20 introduce new
American labor saving machinery,
such as pneumatic drilling and rivet-
ing machines, etc, at the Portsmouth
dock yards.
Edouard Taylore French cyclist,
defeated Frank Caldwell of Hartford,
Connecticut. in n race at Philadelphia
on May 3Oth The Frenchman rode
twenty miles in little less than thir-
| ty-seven minutes.
No proposal has been made to the
State Department by the British gov
ernment for the reassembling of the
Joint High Commission to settle ques-
tions in dispute between the United
States and Canada.
The business committee Of the Ma
tional Suffrage Association will hold n
conference at Buffalo. September 9th
and 10th. at which the leading feature
will be a symposium on some import
ant aspect Of suffrage.
Texas, which enlisted only 1865 SOL
tiers in the Union army during the
war. is now, more than thirty-five
years after it's close. the place of res
idence of S,1OO pensioners and the pen.
sion payments there are nearly $1,000.
600.
1t is reported that the revolution in
Santa Domingo has been completely
crushed at its inception, and num-
Der of the prominent rebels shot or
imprisoned. Among the latter is a son
| of the late President HereauN. who is
said to have been the leader Of the
| movement.
The Westminster Gazette Of London.