, 1901-06-27
TELEeRAPHIc BREvITiEs.

Generd maCATtHuT eADeCtS ~ ieaNC
Manila July LIST for the United States.
The new regiments organized under
the reorganization law are about COM
pleted.
Paul w. Linebarger of Chicago has
been appointed a United States judge
to act in the Philippines.
A naval board will soon visit Porto
Rico to decide upon the o~dvisaDi1ty
of establishing a naval station there.
The steamer Ophir, with the Duke
and Duchess of Cornwall and York on
board, has arrived at New Zealand.
The Mutual Life insurance Company
of New York will hereafter insure
women on exactly the same terms as
men.
A Philadelphia resident recently con-
tracted for the building of 222 houses.
to cost about $75O,O00. Who says
"slowr'
The Russian government is said to
be contemplating the construction OF
a waterway from the Gulf of Finland
to the White sea.
The Pennsylvania Senate has voted
to appropriate $4,000 for the erection
of n to Andrew d. Curtin,
The War Governor"
A dispatch from BuIuwayo, Rhode
STA, states that contracts a v been
signed for 5OO miles of new railway
radiating from that point.
Louis Stern, former United States
commercial agent at hamburg, Ba-
varia, who committed suicide June 10,
had defrauded many Americans.
June 18th being the anniversary of
the beginning of the siege of Tien
Tsin, the ladies there decorated the
grave of the soldiers of all nationali-
ties.
The bond issue of the railway taken
over by the Stilwell group of Ameri-
can capitalists, aud which they will
extend TO Tampico, Mexico, is $9,OOO,-
600.
A brass tablet in memory of Bishop
Boone, the fourth missionary bishop of
the Episcopal Church in China, has
been placed in st. Paul's Church, Han
Kow.
Over 5000 miles of new steam rail-
way will be constructed in the United
States this year. Oklahoma INT In
dian territory are on the list for 612
miles.
The President has disapproved an act
Of the Cherokee Indian council pro-
viding for a commission to execute a
new agreement with the Dawes COM
mission.
The New York Appellate Court, which
has had the matter of the Sunday clos
ing Of the Pan-American exposition
under consideration, has ordered the
case dropped.
Brigadier General Bates, who recent
ly returned from the Philippines, has
been ordered to command the Depart
ment of the Missouri, with headquar-
tiers at Omaha.
President Wise of the Union Lead
and Oil Company confirms reports that
j. d. Rockefeller and his associates
have secured control of the American
Linseed Oil Company.
The Mark Lane Express says the eff
feet of the past weeks cold on Eng
lish wheat has been decidedly preju-
dicial and agricultural prospects show
general retrogression.
Chairman Hanna has appointed Hon..
b. Lodge of Grand Rapids to the va
cancy on the Republican national CON-
mittee caused by the death of Hon.
William Elliott of Michigan.
William Hereford of Williamsburg,
New York, has committed suicide ow-
ing to dependency over his failure,
after thirty years of labor, to discover
the secret Of perpetual motion.
The Emperor Of Germany has or
dered a schooner-yacht to be designed
and built in the United States by A.
Carey Smith and Henry G. Barley,
naval architects of New York.
The recent census of Australia shows
that while the free trade colony of
New South Wales has largely increased
its population, the colony of Victoria.
which is protectionist, has lost $4,000
souls.
Counterfeiters in England are max
ing new silver DIN of the exact size,
appearance n weight of silver of the
genuine coins, the depreciation of sill
yer enabling them to make 100 per
cent. profit.
In their strike for a ninehour day
the machinists of Chicago have al
ready won their fight in over seventy
plants. OF the 2,30O men who struck
all but LOGO are back at work on the
nine-hour basis.
The auction sale of Craig-y-Nos cas-
tie in Wales by Adelina Patti Bar-
oness Rolf Cedarstrum) proved a fail
ure. and PATHS agent bid it in at
s225, 600, the reserve price having been
fixed at $25O,0OO.
Fifty years ago there were 71,OOO
foreigners resident in Switzerland;
to-day ther are 1856 900, or one-tenth of
the total population. An effort is being
made to change the laws so as to ia
cilitate their naturalization.
The total number of males in Eng
land n Wales as shown in the re-
Gently completed census is 10, 721, 72S;
of females 16,S04,347 men serving
abroad In the army, navy and mer-
chant marine being excluded.
A preliminary census volume Just is
sued gives the population of the five
largest cities of England. exclusive of
London, as follows: Liverpool, esq.,
947; Manchester. 543,9 69; Birmingham,
I zoo 100. I ..I. 400 MOO. cA-.ns No, y