, 1901-03-21
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FRANCISCO, May l4tI, lJtn inc iotn.
The Texas senate has passed n bill
making kidnapping n capital offense.
Count Lee Tolstoi has been excom-
municatcd by the orthodox church of
Russia.
The Democrats of Chicago have nom
mated Carter II. Harrison for mayor
for the third time.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Nation
at Wichita, Kansas, failed to agree,
and were discharged.
The government of India is prepar-
ing for the possible arrival of 5000
Boer prisoners at Calcutta.
The Dominion government has de
cided TO reduce the royalty on gold
from ten TO five per cent.
The Republican nominees in Topeka
for city officers are all pledged to fully
enforce the prohibition law.
1t is found that agricultural machin-
cry is not affected by the recent appli-
cation of the Russian tariff law.
Nelson Morris, the millionaire pack
er, is planning the erection of n So
10000 packing house at Honolulu.
There was n severe rain and hail
storm in Kansas on the 9th instant,
covering nearly all parts of the state.
Exceptionally cold Weather is report
ed in the Klondike, and there have
been Il number of deaths by freezing.
The Thirtieth U. S. volunteer infan-
try arrived Mt San Francisco, on its
way home from Manila, March 10Th.
The building of the Shamrock II.
at Glasgow Is advancing so rapidly
that her launching Is Professionally fix
ed for April Goth.
The Terre Haute, Indiana, Gazette
has adopted n plan under which all
regular employees can obtain an inter
est in the business.
The estate of Sir Francis Cook, the
husband of Tennessee Claflin. who
died in London, February 18th, was
sworn at $S,OOO,OOO.
The House of Representatives of
Missouri has adopted a resolution IA
voring the election of United States
senators by the people.
Mrs. Nation has again given bonds,
and was released from the Topeka
jail. Her bondsmen are ]. b. Moore,
who is her brother, and j. Il. Elroy.
1t is reported that Joaquin Miller,
the poet, has just bought 700 acres of
farm land in Neuces county, Texas,
and will make his future home there.
Advices from Algeria state that the
Moroccan tribes in proximity to French
territory are in full revolt, and rein
forcements hav been sent forward.
John L. Dubois, n wealthy lumber
man and mine owner of Dubois, Penn
s%ylvania. has given $ 100000 to the
Durham Medical Institute at Chicago.
a bill prohibiting the use of artificial
sweetening, such as s"accharine, except
when used for reasons of health, has
been submitted by the federal council
in Berlin.
Emperor William has pretty nearly
recovered from the injury Occasioned
by the piece of iron thrown at him by
an insane man, but he was hurt much
worse than was at first supposed.
In a letter of just six lines Andrew
Carnegie gives Davenport, Iowa, STJ,-
o for a public library building. The
city is required to max an appropria-
ton of $500 a year for its support.
Rear Admiral Schley has been order
ed home from the South Atlantic sta
ton. He will be succeeded by Rear Adj
miral b. j. Cromwell. Schley's new
assignment has not been announced.
In a test case County Judge Gregory
of Louisville. kentucky, held that the
Pullman Palace Car Company is not n
railroad and hat its rolling stock can
not be taxed as railroad property is
taxed.
In 1900 the total output of lumber in
Michigan-pinc. hemlock and hard
wood-was 2,2o3,o51, 9lS feet. The
highest production ever reached was
in 1883, when the output was 3,292,-
1S9,9l4 feet.
In February the New York custom
house made appraisement of importa-
tons of precious stone and pearls TO
the value of 81, TTG,OT3. Rich people
are devotinG an increasing amount of
money to personal adornment.
At the Yale observatory It Is reported
that the new star recently discovered
in the constellation Perseus has dimin-
ished in brilIiancy to the third magnl-
tude. one observer thinks the star is
slightly rcdder in color than hereto
fore.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$4,000 for Il public library building for
Vancouver, Il. c., the only condition
being that the city furnish a suitable
site and agree to contribute 5000 IN
nually for the maintenance of the Ii
brary.
Andrew Carnegie has given the fol.
lowing sums 10 Indiana towns for
libraries: Muncic, $4,000; Wabash,
$4,000; Peru, $4,000; Elkhart, $780,
600. In each ease the city must pro
vide a site and sufficient sun for main
tenance.
y. L. Stillwell. president of the pro.
jected Kansas City, Mexico q Orient
railway and of the United States and
Mexican Trust Company, is going to
Europe mt once, 1t is said, to place sew.
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