, 1901-06-20
r~ELEoRAPHpc BREvlrlEs.

Admiral Remey will visit New Zea-
land before returning TO his station
at Manila.
General Macarthur cables that all
the volunteers have left the Philip
pines en- route for the United States.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has
decided that all street railway frah-
chises in the state are taxable as real
estate.
Judge Waterman of the Illinois Cir
cult Court has decided that the black
listing OF girls by stock yards firms
was legal.
The Railway Porters' Association
will soon establish a private hospitai
at Chicago for colored men in the rail-
way service.
The Kansas crop report shows the
condition of wheat in the state TO be
S2.S, as compared with an average OF
99.s for May.
More than twenty hotels, including
several of the largest size, are gong
up in New York city at an
cost of $4,000.
On the 9TH inst. Governor Heber M.
Wells, of Utah, was married to Miss
Emily Eatz, formerly society editor
of the Salt Lake Herald.
Milan, in Italy, will soon have a
"Rowton house in which 600 persons
can get clean beds in well-ventilated
rooms for z cents a night. =
Edwin v. Morgan of the United
States Korean legation declares the
American gold mines are the most pros
porous enterprises in Korea.
The San Francisco labor council VIII
ask aid from all labor organizations
to help sustain the striking iron work
ers. About $4,000 is needed.
The selection of Count Won Valdez
sees successor as commander of the
international forces in China will be
left to II commanders now there.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago, hat the Uni
versity has begun to establish afili-
ated preparatory schools in different
parts of Europe.
"A general boycott of American
goods will be started in Switzerland"
says the correspondent of the London
Daily Mail, IF the threatened watch
trust is to be formed"
The Texas quarantine which has
been maintained for several months
against San Francisco OIL account of
the bubonlc plague, has been raised
by Governor Sayres.
Manila's population is found to be
pa, 1872, which gives it place next be-
low that of Newark, New Jersey, or
seventeenth from the top in he list of
cities of the United States.
At Pekin recently lightning struck
n building inside the gate of the Amer
lean end of the Forbidden City, caus-
ing n fire. Three buildings containing
valuable documents were burned.
One of the features of the twentieth
interna ,ional convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor organization, to be held
in Cincinnati July 9th to 10th, will
be n choir of 1900 trained voices.
San Francisco's largest suburb, Oak
innd, obtains its electric force from a
stream $50 miles away. Experience
proves that long distance transmission
of electric power is a success in every
way.
Chemical analysis having shown that
Father Il. $. Phillips of Hazelton,
Pennsylvania, did not die of poison,
DIR. Stanley, who was suspected of
numbering the priest, has been re-
leased.
Elder, Demster & Co., of London,
offer to pay he travelling expenses
of the official delegates of any British
trades unions willing to 60 to the
United States to study American trade
methods.
Joseph Brucker of the Chicago
Stats Ieitung has gone to Berlin to
establish a weekly trade journal which
will be devoted exclusively to the pro-
motion of American-German CONNER
cial relations.
Captain Howard Blackburn left
Gloucester, Massachusetts on the 9th
inst. in his twenty-fve-foot sloop the
Great Republic 10 sail to Lisbon,
Spain, which port he hopes to make in
forty-fiye days.
In the fiscal year 1900 and in the
nine months of the fiscal year 1901 the
exports from New Orleans were S122,-
234 669, making that city rank second
in the list Of Americas export cities
instead of Boston.
Articles of incorporation for the Peo-
pies Church Of America nave been
granted at Springfield, Illinois, this ac-
ton being taken 10 extend the scope
of the Peoples church of Chicago into
Il national organization.
The incoming Junior and senior
classes of the Wesleyan University,
at Salina, Kansas, still declare they
will leave the institution if DR.. Frank
d. Tubbs, recently dismissed for al
legged heresy t. not reinstated.
A special meeting of the London Dis
trict railway has sanctioned Charles Z.
Yerkes' plan for the introduction of
electricity as the motive power of the
road. j. S. Forbes, the president, said
the work would occupy two years.
Principal Booker 4. Washington of
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute, has been notified by John
ID. Rockefeller that he will be glad TO
provide the money for the erection of
One Of the much needed dormitories
for boys at the institution.
Emperor William of Germany gave
n personal reception to Baroness Won
Ketteler, widow of the murdered Ger
man minister to Pekin. AT the EN-
peror's request the empress pinned the
insignia of the highest class of the
Louise order on the widows breast.
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