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uylug OF cancer IN LONDON.
Three hundred metal polIshers at San
Francisco struck for shorter hours
April LIST.
Five hundred factory girls went out
on strike Mt st. Joseph, Missouri,
April 1st.
NJ. Waldeck- -Rosseau, French pre-
mier, is suffering from an abcess OF
the thront.
The bubonIc plague continues Its
ravnges Mt Capetown and gives the Of
ficials much concern.
Oxford won the great annual boat
race between Oxford and Cambridge
universities March 36th.
The entire wheat and oat crop Of
northern Texas is threatened with de-
struction by the fly pest.
The United States Rubber Company
has reduced Its prices twenty-eight
per cent from those OF 1900.
The trial of James Callahan for COM
plicity in the abduction of young Cud-
any will begin April 22d at Omaha.
The published statement that Lord
Salisbury has symptoms Of Brights
disease is denied by his private secrc-
tary.
Five hundred and fifty journeymen
painters and decorators at Cincinnati
struck for an eight-hour day on the 1st
of April.
The Jefferson hotel at Richmond. Nir-
ginia, burned on the night of March
2Jtn. Its cost was S1,OOO,OOO and 1t
was insured for $G5O,0OO.
Medical Director William T. Hord
died at Washington April list at the
age of seventy. He had been in the
naval service for forty years.
The capital of the United States Steel
Corporation has been increased to ST.
1Oo,O0O,0OO. The state of New Jersey
received a fee of S220,000 for the filing
of the papers.
Sir Thomas Upton feels confident Of
winning the All Americn's cup this
summer with his new yacht Sham
rock II. He expects to sail for Ameri-
ca about June 18th.
Governor Dietrich of Nebraska. ex-
poets to resign at an early date TO ac-
cept the office of United States senator
for the short term. 10 which he was re-
Gently elected.
Petroleum in large quantities is re-
ported to have been discovered ut
Grcenvillc, Clay county Iowa, and
people are gathering in great num-
bcrs. This is the first oil discovered
in Iowa.
The official Gazette of the City of
Mexico has published denial of the
announcement made in various McNl-
can newspapers that President Diaz
has asked permission 10 go 10 Europe
for the benefit of his health.
The secretary of agriculture has sent
dairy experts to Japan and China for
the purpose of Introducing American
dairy products in the markets of the
China sea. and another 10 the Carib-
bean sea for the same purpose.
Tom l.. johnson, the noted sIngle-tax
advocate who has just been elected
mayor of Cleveland. Ohio, says that he
shall fight. without giving or accept
ing quarter" for municipal ownership
of street railways and Scent fare.
Alfred 7. Patrick is again on trial
in New York charged with causing tile
death of Millionaire Rice last Septem-
ber. Patrick is also alleged to have
forged Il will and other documents pur-
porting to have been signed by Rice.
Harry Adamson Lund. whose
strange disappearance from the steam
ship Eddy in New York two years ago
created a sensation. has turned up In
Nanaimo, British Columbia, where he
has been working in the mines for
some time.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure has an
nounced his retirement from the edl-
torial direction of the Philadelphia
Times. Colonel Mcclure began his
journalistic work over iifty-iive years
ago. as the editor of a weekly paper
in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Il. L.. Pcasc. vice president of the
Exchange National Bank at Atchison.
Kansas. died March 10Th. He was one
of The operators of the Holiday stage
line between Atchison and Salt Lake
in the early days, and later was an
extensive star route contractor.
In North Carolina the attempt to i'm
pcach Chief Justice Fuchs of the Su-
premc Court and Associate Judge
Douglas failed through inability TO Sc
cure Il two-thirds vote for impeach-
mcnt. ncre We're twcnty-seven votes
for conviction and twcnty-three for ac-
quittal.
A fire in the main building of the
Jacob Dodd Packing Company's plant
Mt Kansas City, March Both. DESTROYED
100000 worth of property. The
building was burned in 1899 and I'M
mediatcly rebuilt, and has since been
used for the manufacture of butterlne,
employing seventy-tive men.
The United Mine Workers of the
eastern anthracite region have decided
to attempt to restrict employment en-
tirely to union men. This policy of the
miners, IL successful. will give the un-
ion the power the operators declare
they desire 1t to have-absolute control
Of all the workers, preventing frequent
strikes. 1t Is the proviso upon which
the promise of future recognition of the
union is based.
The Navy Department has sent or
ders to Admiral Remcy, commander-in-
chief of the naval forces on the Asintic
station, to proceed aboard his flagship,
the Brooklyn. to Melbourne, Australia,
in time to take part In the exercises
commemorative of the opening of the
first federal Parliament, from May 9th
to May 9th next. 1t Is possible that
the New York or the Oregon, ell route
TO and from the Asiatic station, also
may be authorized to stop and take
part.
The health of Herbert Spencer re-
mains poor. He recently wrote pa
thetic letter to n friend In which he
says that he canont work, can write
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