, 1901-02-14
T~ELEGRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

Nhllt VI FiissNOt#bpO III AOFNAh
and only 100000 worth of realty.
Tennessee has passed a very rigid
anti-cigarette bill and 1t is being en-
forced to the entire exclusion of all
kinds of cigarettes.
Richard Croker has paid TO English
officials his income tax of 5000 on
the official estimate that he was in re-
ceipt of 100000 n year.
1t is reported that Lord Kitchener
wishes to send 10000 Boer prisoners
TO India. He proposes 30 locate them
in the state of Nilgira, province of Oris-
sa, Bengal.
The Kaiser, prior to his departure
for Germany, conferred On Lord Rob
erts the order of the Black Eagle, the
highest decoration within the gift of
the Emperor.
The total receipts from customs
sources in Cuba in 1900 amounted to
S~I6,0S4,3T6; for 1899, S14.S54.261 show
ing an increase of 81, ,115, or over
eight per cent
General Funston reports that prac-
tically all the organized in~surrection-
lists in his district have been dispersed,
with the exception of disconnected
bands in the mountains.
Joseph Crockett. n cousin of Davy
Crockett, is lead at his home ut Liber.
ty, Missouri, aged eighty-seven years.
He was n native of Tennessee, IL
went to Missouri in 1920.
1t appears that only a single member
out of the fifteen comprising the
finance committee of the Folkething
opposes the sale of the Danish West In
dies to the United States.
The Queen of Sweden and Norway
is suffering from n dangerous affection
of the throat, says a Copenhagen cor
respondent. Her strength is much re-
duced and her condition serious.
The report of the COMMISSIONS of
patents shows that 27S patents were
granted Colorado citizens during the
year, seventeen to citizens of Wyoming
and nine TO citizens of New Mexico.
The Cuban Constitutional convention
has voted by n large majority to insert
Il clause in the constitution allowing
universal suffrage, and also adopted
the principles of minority representa-
ton.
Mrs. Marion Durham, president of
the Iowa State Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, gives her unqual-
flied approval to the methods adopted
by Mrs. Nation in fighting the unlawful
saloon.
Major General Arthur Macarthur
will be relieved from duty as the com
manding general of the division of the
Philippines in April next IL will be
succeeded by Brigadier General James
+. Wade.
The German War office has received
a dispatch form Count Won Waldersee,
dated Pekin, which announces that
railway communication has been re-
stored between Pekin, Feng Tai and
Pao Ting Flu.
Secretary of the Navy Long has writ
ten to Senator Morgan that he would
like to promote Lieutenant Hobson,
Captain Clark and other naval officers
If the Senate could be induced to act
in The matter.
Astronomer G. ID. Perrine has been
selected by Director w. w. Campbell
of the Lick observatory to head the
University of California expedition 10
Sumatra to observe the eclipse of the
sun on May 18th.
A London special from Cape Town
say that General Dewet, according to
Cape Town reports, intends to annex
various districts of Cape Colony and
then TO commander men and supplies,
dllllbuSh Dt Is INV ulSlhS tht NbibL-
lists not to join him.
The output of United States postage
stamps at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing during January was the
largest in the history OF the govern.
ment, the total number being 507, 10
G55, of which 9,564,S40 were put up in
the little boo form.
1t Is the intention of the War De
partment to have the corps of under
takers now in the Philippines disinter
and ship to the United States during
the present winter, if practicable, the
remains of all officers and soldiers now
buried in those islands.
At n meeting of the Boer sympnthiz-
ers ut Frankfort, kentucky, attended
by some 5000 people, n resolution was
adopted appealing to Great Britain to
stop the war in South Africa. Christian
DeWet, n nephew of the Toe com
mander, was present and was carried
around the hall on The shoulders of the
promoters Of the meeting.
The Dominion government has prac.
ticnlly taken steps TO purchase the tele.
graph systems of Canada, extend them
enormously and operate them in con
nection with the pOstotlice Depart
ment. 1t is also seriously proposed to
follow n similar curse with the tele.
phone, but in the case of the latter mu,
inequalities will be licensed, ms in Brit.
min. to operate the system within their
own areas.
Search is being made for facts and
deeds that will authorize the enroll.
ment of the first native American Ia
be included among the %canonized
saints. The Rev. Z. S. MclIale, G. NJ,
president of the Niagara University,
has received authority to begin the
work preliminary to the Identification
of Mother Elizabeth Seton. who found.
ed the order of Sisters of Charity in the
United States.
BY an explosion of 700 quarts of nj.
troglycerinc at the magazine of the Gas
Belt Torpedo Company. four miles
northeast of Alexandria,. Indiana, Il
few days ago, Percy Fort, n carrier
for the company, with his team of
horses. the wagon M the magazine.
was blown TO atoms. not n vestigc of
them having since been found. A hole