, 1901-05-09
.TELEeRAPHIc sRevITlEs.

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consul general at Pretoria.
Charles Moore. a well-known stock
man and brother of Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton. died at Lewisburg, Kansas. April
9th.
Twenty or more persons are report
ed to have been killed by a snowslide
at Sunrise City. Alaska.
Venezuela has apologized for the ar
rest of United States Consular Agent
Baiz and the incident is closed.
d. d. Thompson, the new editor of
the Northwestern Christian Advocate
at Chicago, is a layman. lie had been
associate editor OF the Advocate for
some time.
The Wal Department is making eff
forts to ave the ~reorganiZed standing
army fully Differed and equipped n
enlisted to the strength of $4,000 by
August LIST.
An American concern has secured
the contract for mill locomotives re-
Gently ordered by the Calcutta port
commissioners, despite active Euro
pean competition.
1t is reported that an immense vol
ume of counterfeit silver dollars has
been circulated among the boomers
on the border of the Kiowa and Co.
manche country, in Oklahoma.
One of the last acts of the President
before leaving the White House on his
tour was the signing of the commits
sion of Mr.. Pruden, II of his assist
n secretaries, as a major n pay
master.
The position of general superintend-
ent of normal schools for the Philip
pines, at a salary of $4,000 a year, has
been offered to Elmer Burnett Bryan,
professor of philosophy and pedagogy
at Indiana.
Carrie Henderson, 103 years old,
who went to Montana with the first
rush for gold, is dying at Helena. She
worked as a slave with Fred Douglass
IN the South before the Civil War and
at n time had a fortune.
The Abbott woman suffrage bill,
granting m the right to vote in
township elections. was killed in the
lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture, the enacting clause being strick-
en- out by a viv voce vote.
Stephen A.. Weltmer and Joseph H.
Kelly, former president II secretary
of the Weltmer Institute of Magnetic
Healing at Nevada. Missouri, who
pleaded guilty to using the mails to
defraud, were each fined $1,000.
Chicago manufacturers of clothing,
representing an aggregate capital of
from SIS, 0O0. Ouv to $4,000. 900. met
April 25th and decided to form an as
ISOLATION which will combine with
similar bodies throughout the United
States.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mis-
souri,, caved in Friday and buried five
men at a depth of 10 feet. 1t may be
n month before the men can be
reached. They are Grant and VIII.
Shane, Elmer Bigler, John Gillian and
Feester.
The new comet observed at the
Yerkes observatory April 9th is aid
by the astronomers to be the bright
est thai has appeared for nineteen
years. 1t was discovered at Queens
town, April 23rd, and observed at
Cape of Good Hope April 25th.
An oil gusher was struck April Both
at Sulphur, Louisiana, forty-five miles
east of Beaumont, Texas, on the
Southern Pacific railway. The oil is
heavy and black in appearance, and
when it broke loose it went to the top
of the derrick. sixty feet high.
The United States Court of Appeals
at st. Louis has decided that the fact
that an employee remains in the en-
ploy of a company when he well knows
that a risk is assumed by so doing,
does not relieve the employer OF the
responsibility if accidents occur.
The fifth international convention
of the Epworth League of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church will be held at
San Francisco July 18th to 21st.
Bishops Warren and Cranston will be
among the speakers and music Will be
provided by a trained chorus OF 1000
voices.
Suit has been instituted against the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company for $25O,0OO damages by
forty-four claimants alleged to have
peer injured in the wreck at Depere.
wisconsin, June oath last year. All
are residents of Oshkosh, Menasha
and For du Lac.
The figures of the treasury bureau
OF statistics indicate that the coa eX-
ports of the fiscal year, which ends
June goth, will amount to abou S,O00,-
600 tons, as against less h 1000. 900
tons in 1890, 3,772.l 1872 tons in 1895 and
7,lSS,6i tons in 1900. These figures
are exceeded only by England and
Germany.
At a meeting held in New York
April goth an agreement vas reached
which will bring the greatest ship
building concerns of this country
under one management. H. E. Hunt
ington is said to be III president, and
/. NJ. Scott. president of the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco, will be
vice president.
The California Supreme Court has
declared the trust clause in the will
OF the late James G. Fair invalid. 1t
left SIS, 600. 900 in trust, the proceeds
to go to his heirs, but the principal to
be kept out of their hands. The estate
will now be divided among Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs, Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt
and Charles Fair.
Professor Elwood Mead, irrigation
expert of the Agricultural Depart
ment, has gone to Harvard University
to deliver a course of fifteen lectures
upon Irrigation Engineering" He
will deliver lpClurpS on the same sub