The Globe-republican., 1901-12-26
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.


stroyed by fire.
Chile and Argentine are now quar-
reling and raising armies.
Spring City, Tennessee, is one of the
towns which suffered much from fresh
cts.
The Cheviot district of New Zealand
has suffered great loss from earth
quake.
The Rock Island will deliver all its
southern California traffic to the South
ern Pacific at Ell Paso.
A cali is out for a report of the con
dition of national banks at the close of
business on Deeember 10.
A state of seige is proclaimed in a
number of Russian towns on account Of
students and strikers. riots
The people of The Hague welcomed
their queen and her dislil1ed husband
and sang the national hymn
The government of India will expend
e7, 900, 900 on rail roads and e7oO. 900 for
irrigation works during 1902
Wn Ting Fang was the principal
speaker at commercial club banque.
in Kansas City on December 10
All obstacles to the treaty of cession
of the Danish West Indies to the Uni
ted States are said to be overcome.
The country about Fort Worth,
Texas is covered by snow and cattle
not in prime condition suffer terribly.
The estimates of the New South
Wales wheat crop are 10, ,OO0, 900 bush
els, average of IL. 8 bushels per acre.
The upper Arkansas valley repor ts
the co1dest weather ever known there
The divide country is also snow bound.
The Berlin authorities have been
compelled to institute relief works,
which give relief to nearly 5000 of the
hungry.
Richard j. Hinton, the co-worl<er
with John Brown, and later s'a jour
nalist, is dead in london where ne
wax born IN 1880.
1t is Secretary Cages intention to re-
hnquish the treasury portfolio as soon
as President Roosevelt can find a suit
able successor and he has so informed
the president Mr. Gage would like to
be relieved before spring.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty
against both Theodore and Laura Jack
son Ann Odelia Diss De Bar, charged
with immoral practice and fraud in
London The judge sentenced Jackson
to fifteen years and Mrs. Jackson to
seaen years penal servitude.
London papers as a whole express
satisfaction with the ratification of the
canal treaty by the American senate.
yet there are those which get a whine
nto their references to it.
The London Daily Chronicle remarks
anent the new treaty that it may aid in
continuing good relations with the
United States but it may prove to be
expensive
The Mexican government will soon
issue orders that all railroad employees
who come in contact with passengers
must be able to speak Spanish
The battleships Alabama and Massa-
chu~ztts were received at Havana with
expensive preparations to entertain the
officers while they remain.
The customs revenues in the Philip
pines for the months ending Septem-
Der 30, 1901, were Sc, ,a75. .ae5 an increase
of nearly three millions over the same
period in 1899
Twenty women Will be thrown ont of
wor3< at the packing houses in Kansas
City, Kas-, by the decision to abolish
micrci@eopic inspection of hog livers-
They have been receiving $50 a month
A s3, 900. 900 illuminating oil company
has been chartered in New Jersey by a
company which is authorized to pur-
chase and operate the interests held in
the Usage reservation by the Phoenix
Oil %. and the Usage Oil Co
Americans have taken a $3.50, 900 con-
tract for the electrical equipment of an
electric traction system in Toxic.
Japan
Experts representing big American
firms are in Siberia to build factories
and exploit the agricultural and min
eral wealth of the country.