, 1901-05-16
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Dullu n DeeL sugar laCtoTy Ut IuOeIiA,
Arizona.
New Workers have organized a S.
100000 company 10 supply the City of
Mexico with gas.
All grades of refined sugar were adj
vanced 10 cents Il hundred in the New
York market n few days ago.
The eight leading music publishers
of this country are forming n combine
to be capitalized at S~5,OO0,000.
Heavy speculation in silver has run
the London market up and down in
fitful fashion during the past week or
two.
A dispatch from Rome. Italy, says it
is stated that 10000 Italian emigrants
are booked to leave for the United
States this month.
A resolution providing for the call
ing of n constitutional convention 10
revise the Illinois constitution was lost
in the Legislature.
The United Steamship Company of
Copenhagen has ordered six new
steamers of 1900 tons each for the
United States trade.
Nearly one hundred mothers with
their babies were drowned at Katch-
karvovka, Russia, April 26th, by the
sinking of a ferry boat.
The Pope has confirmed the appoint
ment of Father O'Connell, rector of
the American College at Rome, as
bishop Of Portland, Maine.
Governor Odell of New York has
signed the anti-scalping bill and also
the bill appropriating 100000 for the
purchase of the Palisades.
Cardinal Martinelll took the oath of
his new office and subscribed to the
profession of faith at the papal lega-
ton at Washington May 2nd.
The grand stand, pavilion and office
of the National League baseball park
at st. Louis We're burned to the ground
May 4th, entailing n loss of $4,000.
An Illinois association has been in
c~orporated TO build II 100000 memoir
ial temple in Chicago, in which to per-
petuate the teachings of the late II. G.
Ingersoll.
Admission of a citizen of San Juan
to the bar of the Supreme Court is
looked upon as n possible Indication of
the expected decision as to the status
Of Porto Ricans.
The American Cigar Company, a
branch of the American Tobacco Com
pany. will absorb the Havana-Ameri-
can Cigar Company, which is capital
lied at ~$1O,OOO,OO0.
At Lima, Ohio, May 18th, another
reduction was made in the price of
crude oil, local oil l cent and eastern
. cents. This makes the fifth reduc-
ton within two weeks.
DIR. Joseph Eisen, the California sci
enlist who discovered the canoe germ,
became |inoculated with the cancer mi
crobe in his experiments and had to
be operated on recently.
A former tax collector of Jackson
vile, Florida, estimates the loss by the
fire at $1O,5G5.O 900. At one time near
ly COCO people We're being cared for
by the relief association.
Admiral Remey, on the flagship
Brooklyn, recently arrived at Mel
bourne to represent the United States
at the opening of the first session of
the Australian Parliament.
Richard Rcdhead, who wrote the
tune to which Rock of Ages" is usu-
ally sung, died May 4th. He was or
ganist of st. Mary's Church in Pad
dington, n suburb of Londo
Government statisticians think that
all the coffee consumed in the United
States can be grown in the islands
which have been acquired since the
outbreak of the Spanish War.
The international games between the
Oxford and Cambridge universities in
England and Harvard and Yale in
America will be held September DIST
on the Berkeley oval, New York.
A scheme is on foot to combine the
straw hat manufacturing establish
ments of New York and Baltimore in
the American Straw Ha Manufacture
ing Company, capital $l2,Ooo,O00.
Thousands of people are pouring
int southwestern Oklahoma and
camping in and about the KiOwa, Co
manchc and Apache and Wichita In
dian reservations, for Ii opening
scheduled for some time in August.
ID. W. Minshall Of Terre Haute, In
diana, has made n third gift to De
paw University, comprising altogeth-
er $4,000. The money will be used
for the construction of the new science
hall.
Right Rev. James Il. Quigley, bishop
of the Roman Catholic diocese of
western New York, expects that with
in twenty-five years there will be Mt
least half n dozen more cardinals in
the United States.
Ho Vow, Chinese consul general at
a Francisco. estimates that there
are about 10000 Chinese in California;
III san IliitIHtb, ibtNN'. u ttl III
laundry business in California, G,OOO;
in San Francisco. 1000.
Starvation and typhus are said to be
increasing among the village popula-
ton of Bcssarabia, Russia. Seventy
per cent. of the farmers of that district
have lost all their horses and have no
seed for the spring sowing.
The Standard oil Company of New
Jersey has declared a dividend of SIP
per share, payable June 18th. In
March $50 was paid. Last years four
dividends We're $50 in March, so in
June, SIS in September and $40 in De
Ccmbcr.
In the British House of Commons.
May 9th, the government measur to
AK exports Of coal II shilling TO the ton
MAS adopted by n vote of 333 to 22T.
This is intended to conserve the coal
supply and help to postpone the time
OF its final exhaustion.
The panSulg hupnun bug ynupJ tb,